New Jersey city named for its most famous former resident (6)

I believe the answer is:

edison

(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "Science master" , "inventive sort" , "The inventor is strangely onside" , "US inventor of phonograph, electric light etc." , "scientist" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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