• Farid F. Abraham
  Farid F. Abraham
  Farid F. Abraham is an American scientist.Abraham earned his Bachelor of Science and Ph.D from the University of Arizona in 1959 and 1962, respectively. By pioneering new methods of using computer modelling in research, he has made seminal contributions to science in the fields of fracture...
  
  
• Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)
  Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)
  Thomas Adams , was a 19th-century American scientist and inventor who is regarded as a founder of the chewing gum industry. He eventually joined with well-known chewing gum maker William Wrigley, Jr.....
  
  
• Peter Agre
  Peter Agre
  Peter Agre is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane...
  
  
• Dan Alderson
  Dan Alderson
  Daniel John "Dan" Alderson was a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. He came from a middle class family and had diabetes...
  
  
• Paul Alivisatos
  Paul Alivisatos
  Armand Paul Alivisatos is an American scientist of Greek descent, researching the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of nanocrystals...
  
  
• Warder Clyde Allee
  Warder Clyde Allee
  Warder Clyde Allee was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect.-University career:...
  
  
• John P. Allen
  John P. Allen
  John Polk Allen is a systems ecologist and engineer, metallurgist, adventurer and writer. He is best known as the inventor and Director of Research of Biosphere 2, the world's largest laboratory of global ecology, and was the founder of Synergia Ranch...
  
  
• Braden Allenby
  Braden Allenby
  Braden R. Allenby is an American environmental scientist, environmental attorney and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University.- Biography :...
  
  
• Bradley Alpert
  Bradley Alpert
  Bradley K. Alpert is a computational scientist at NIST. He is probably best known for co-developing fast spherical filters. His fast spherical filters were critical in the construction of the most efficient three-dimensional fast multipole methods for solving the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell's...
  
  
• John Alroy
  John Alroy
  John Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney.-Area of expertise:Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, connecting regional and local diversity, taxonomic...
  
  
• David Alter
  David Alter
  David Alter was a prominent American inventor and scientist of the 19th century. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Reformed Medical School in New York City. He had German and Swiss ancestry.-Inventions:Dr...
  
  
• Roy Amara
  Roy Amara
  Roy Amara was a researcher, scientist and past president of the Institute for the Future. Born in Boston 1925, he has also worked at Stanford Research Institute....
  
  
• Henry James Anderson
  Henry James Anderson
  Henry James Anderson was an American scientist and educator. He was born in New York City, and graduated from Columbia College in 1818 he subsequently studied medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He did not practice medicine for long however, instead...
  
  
• Walter Truett Anderson
  Walter Truett Anderson
  Walter Truett Anderson is a political scientist, social psychologist, and author of numerous nonfiction books and articles in newspapers and magazines....
  
  
• Martin Apple
  Martin Apple
  Martin A. Apple is president of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents , an organization of presidents of some sixty scientific federations and societies whose combined membership reportedly totals over 1.4 million scientists and science educators...
  
  
• Jerome Apt
  Jerome Apt
  Jerome III "Jay" Apt, Ph.D. is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from...
  
  
• David Archer (scientist)
  David Archer (scientist)
  David Archer is a computational ocean chemist, and has been a Professor at the Department of The Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago since 1993. He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor...
  
  
• Frances Arnold
  Frances Arnold
  Frances Hamilton Arnold is an internationally recognized American scientist and engineer. She pioneered methods of directed evolution to create useful biological systems, including enzymes, metabolic pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and organisms...
  
  
• Joseph Brant Arseneau
  Joseph Brant Arseneau
  Joseph Brant Arseneau is generally known in finance and technology for first formally defining finance techniques for third world housing by describing the securitization of excess cash flow from renewable energy with the use of Renewable Energy Derivatives.The technique was first based on...
  
  
• Aseem Shukla
  Aseem Shukla
  Dr. Aseem Shukla is an associate professor in urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is also a co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation. He also writes a weblog for The Washington Post on Hinduism-related topics...
  
  
• Anthony Atala
  Anthony Atala
  Anthony Atala, M.D., is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina...
  
  
• James E. Atwater
  James E. Atwater
  James E. Atwater is a retired North American multidisciplinary physical scientist with training in geophysics, chemistry and biological science. He was awarded the Wright Brothers Medal for his work on microwave powered methods for microbial stabilization and water recovery from solid waste...
  
  
• Oscar Auerbach
  Oscar Auerbach
  Dr. Oscar Auerbach was a pathologist famous for being one of the first to link cigarette smoking with cancer.- Early life :...
  
  
• Avi Ben-Abraham
  Avi Ben-Abraham
  Dr Avi Ben-Abraham is an American scientist who was involved in research work in the fields of low temperature medicine, cryogenics, and human and stem cell cloning.Dr...
  
  
• Addison Bain
  Addison Bain
  Addison Bain is a retired NASA scientist and founding member of the National Hydrogen Association who is credited with postulating the Incendiary-Paint Theory , which posits that the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the electrical ignition of lacquer- and metal-based paints used on the outer hull...
  
  
• Ira Baldwin
  Ira Baldwin
  Ira L. Baldwin was the founder and director emeritus of the Wisconsin Academy Foundation. He began teaching bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he had done his doctoral work, in 1927, and a few years later moved into what became a long career in administration...
  
  
• Siva S. Banda
  Siva S. Banda
  Siva Subrahmanyam Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and senior scientist for Control Theory for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base...
  
  
• Utpal Banerjee
  Utpal Banerjee
  Utpal Banerjee is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtained his Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from the...
  
  
• George Frederick Barker
  George Frederick Barker
  George Frederick Barker was an American physician and scientist. He graduated at the Yale Scientific School in 1858. He was successively chemical assistant in Harvard Medical School in 1858-59 and 1860–61, professor of chemistry and geology in Wheaton College...
  
  
• Kathy Barker
  Kathy Barker
  Kathy Barker is a scientist/writer who focuses on science management and on communicating science to society. She authored At the Bench which teaches laboratory practice to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences, and At the Helm which educates new principal...
  
  
• Charles Bartley
  Charles Bartley
  Charles E. Bartley was an American scientist, known for developing the first elastomeric solid propellant at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California in the late 1940s....
  
  
• Hans D. Baumann
  Hans D. Baumann
  Hans D. Baumann is a German-American inventor and engineer. He has registered over 200 patents and produced 105 publications. He is known internationally as a valve specialist and is an expert on aerodynamic noise of gases.-Life:...
  
  
• Robert Nason Beck
  Robert Nason Beck
  Robert Nason Beck was an American scientist and a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine...
  
  
• Robert O. Becker
  Robert O. Becker
  Robert O. Becker was a U.S. orthopedic surgeon and researcher in electrophysiology/electromedicine. He worked mainly as professor at Upstate Medical Center in State University of New York, Syracuse, and as Director of Orthopedic Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Syracuse, New...
  
  
• Charles Emerson Beecher
  Charles Emerson Beecher
  Charles Emerson Beecher was an American Paleontologist most famous for the thorough excavation, preparation and study of trilobite ventral anatomy from specimens collected at Beecher's Trilobite Bed...
  
  
• James F. Bell, III
  James F. Bell, III
  James F. Bell III is a Professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, specializing in the study of planetary geology, geochemistry and mineralogy using data obtained from telescopes and from various spacecraft missions. Dr...
  
  
• Arden L. Bement, Jr.
• Joseph Young Bergen
  Joseph Young Bergen
  Joseph Young Bergen was an American botanist.-Career:Bergen was born in Red Beach, Maine. He graduated in 1872 from Antioch College, and was for a time successively a member of the Ohio Geological Survey and professor of natural sciences at Lombard College...
  
  
• Helen M. Berman
  Helen M. Berman
  Helen M. Berman is the director of the – one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank and a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. A structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes,...
  
  
• Harvey Bialy
  Harvey Bialy
  Harvey Bialy is an American molecular biologist and AIDS denialist. He was one of the signatories to a letter to the editor by a group of AIDS denialists calling themselves the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis...
  
  
• John Bidwell
  John Bidwell
  John Bidwell was known throughout California and across the nation as an important pioneer, farmer, soldier, statesman, politician, prohibitionist and philanthropist...
  
  
• Rene J. Bienvenu
  Rene J. Bienvenu
  Rene Joseph Bienvenu, Jr. was an American scientist and academic who wound up his career from 1977-1982 as the president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana....
  
  
• Amasa Stone Bishop
  Amasa Stone Bishop
  Amasa Stone Bishop was an American nuclear physicist specializing in fusion physics. He received his B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1943...
  
  
• Victor Gustav Bloede (chemist)
  Victor Gustav Bloede (chemist)
  Victor Gustav Bloede , was a chemist and manufacturer of chemicals, president of the Victor G. Bloede Company, and businessman.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• James Bloodworth, Jr.
  James Bloodworth, Jr.
  James Morgan Bartow Bloodworth, Jr., M.D., F.C.A.P., was an American physician, pathologist, and researcher on diabetes mellitus. He was born in Atlanta on February 21, 1925, to James Bloodworth, Sr.—an attorney—and Elizabeth Bloodworth. Dr...
  
  
• Hendrik Wade Bode
  Hendrik Wade Bode
  Hendrik Wade Bode , was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist], of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.He made important contributions...
  
  
• Mark Boslough
  Mark Boslough
  Mark Boslough is a physicist most famous for his April Fools' Day 1998 joke involving Pi. To poke fun at New Mexico's legislature for attempting to require schools to teach creationism, he wrote an article claiming that Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical...
  
  
• Karel Bossart
  Karel Bossart
  Karel Jan Bossart was a pioneering rocket designer and creator of the Atlas ICBM...
  
  
• William C. Boyd
  William C. Boyd
  William Clouser Boyd was an American immunochemist, who with his wife Lyle, during the 1930s, made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types. Born in Dearborn, Missouri, he discovered that blood groups are inherited and not influenced by environment...
  
  
• Herbert Boyer
  Herbert Boyer
  Herbert W. Boyer is a recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He served as Vice President of Genentech from 1976 through his retirement in 1991....
  
  
• Robert S. Boyer
  Robert S. Boyer
  Robert Stephen Boyer, aka Bob Boyer, is a retired professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore...
  
  
• John Brashear
  John Brashear
  Dr. John Alfred Brashear was an American astronomer and instrument builder.- Life and work :Brashear was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, a town 35 miles south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. His father, Basil Brown Brashear, was a saddler, and his mother, Julia Smith Brashear, was a...
  
  
• Charles Brenner
  Charles Brenner
  Charles Brenner born October 30, 1961 is the Roy J. Carver Chair and head of Biochemistry and a director of the at the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a veteran of biotechnology companies, having worked at Chiron Corporation and DNAX Research Institute, prior to...
  
  
• David M. Brienza
  David M. Brienza
  David M. Brienza is a professor of rehabilitation science at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with additional professorial appointments in bioengineering and electrical engineering....
  
  
• Lyman James Briggs
  Lyman James Briggs
  Lyman James Briggs was an American engineer, physicist and administrator. He was a distinguished director of the National Bureau of Standards during the Great Depression and chairman of the Uranium Committee before America entered the Second World War...
  
  
• Robert William Briggs
• David Britz
  David Britz
  David Alexander Britz is an American scientist and engineer who is best known for his contributions to the field of materials science and nanotechnology....
  
  
• Samuel Broder
  Samuel Broder
  Samuel Broder is an American oncologist and medical researcher. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995....
  
  
• Lester R. Brown
  Lester R. Brown
  Lester Russel Brown is a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C...
  
  
• Robert Brownlee (chemist)
  Robert Brownlee (chemist)
  Robert Gregg Brownlee was an American chemist.-Biography:Robert Brownlee was born October 21, 1942 in South Dakota. He founded Brownlee Labs in the 70s, in the San Francisco Bay area, a manufacturer of columns and pumps for high performance liquid chromatography systems.Bob Brownlee took the...
  
  
• Clifford E. Brubaker
  Clifford E. Brubaker
  Clifford E. Brubaker is Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Brubaker is also a Professor at that institution and an Adjunct Professor at both Xian Jiaotong University and Carnegie Mellon University....
  
  
• Frank W. Bubb, Sr.
• Bernard Budiansky
  Bernard Budiansky
  Bernard Budiansky was a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He was a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal.-Biography:...
  
  
• Willy Burgdorfer
  Willy Burgdorfer
  Willy Burgdorfer, an American scientist born and educated in Basel, Switzerland, is an international leader in the field of medical entomology. He is famous for his discovery of the bacterial pathogen that causes Lyme disease, a spirochete named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor.-Background:Dr....
  
  
• Harold Saxton Burr
  Harold Saxton Burr
  Harold Saxton Burr was E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine. His early years were spent in Springfield, Massachusetts, while most of his later life was spent in New Haven. In 1908 he was admitted to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and received his Ph.B. in...
  
  
• Robert W. Bussard
  Robert W. Bussard
  Robert W. Bussard was an American physicist who worked primarily in nuclear fusion energy research. He was the recipient of the Schreiber-Spence Achievement Award for STAIF-2004. He was also a fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics and held a Ph.D...
  
  
• William H. Cade
  William H. Cade
  Dr. William H. "Bill" Cade is a biologist and a former president of the University of Lethbridge. He researches the role of acoustic signals in field cricket mating behaviour.-Education:...
  
  
• John W. Cahn
  John W. Cahn
  John Werner Cahn is an American scientist and winner of the 1998 National Medal of Science. He was a professor in the department of Materials Science at MIT from 1964-1978. Since 1977, he has held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology . Dr...
  
  
• John B. Calhoun
  John B. Calhoun
  John B. Calhoun was an American ecologist and research psychologist noted for his studies of population density and its effects on behavior. He claimed that the bleak effects of overpopulation on rodents were a grim model for the future of the human race...
  
  
• David Callaway
• James Edward Campbell
  James Edward Campbell
  Dr. James Edward Campbell recently retired as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is now serving as a consultant to Sandia. He is one of the developers of the statistical technique known as Latin hypercube sampling.Prior...
  
  
• Neil Campbell (scientist)
  Neil Campbell (scientist)
  Neil A. Campbell was an American scientist known best for his textbook Biology. First published in 1987, the text is currently in its 9th edition and co-authored by Jane Reece...
  
  
• Rebecca Campbell-Howe
  Rebecca Campbell-Howe
  Rebecca Campbell-Howe is an American solar-energy editor and non-profit-organization administrator....
  
  
• Ann Z. Caracristi
  Ann Z. Caracristi
  Ann Z. Caracristi is an American cryptanalyst, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, where she served at various positions over a 40-year career. She served as a member of the Secretary of Defense Joint Security Commission and President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board...
  
  
• Shawn Carlson
  Shawn Carlson
  Shawn Carlson is an American science educator who founded the Society for Amateur Scientists in 1994, which is dedicated to "Helping ordinary people do extraordinary science." In 2010, he founded the LabRats Science Education Program, to inspire students aged 11 to 18 to "love learning about...
  
  
• George Robert Carruthers
• Carlos Castillo-Chavez
  Carlos Castillo-Chavez
  Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a Regents Professor, and Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University and the executive director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute and Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science as well...
  
  
• Don Catlin
  Don Catlin
  Don H. Catlin, M.D. is an anti-doping scientist and one of the founders of modern drug-testing in sport. -Career:Catlin has overseen testing for performance-enhancing drugs at the three most recent Olympics held in the United States since the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, as well as testing...
  
  
• Anthony Cerami
  Anthony Cerami
  -Biography:Anthony Cerami is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Warren Pharmaceuticals, and the founder and chairman of the Board and CEO of Araim Pharmaceuticals. He received a Ph.D...
  
  
• Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian
  Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian
  Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian was a published scientist, as well as the father of American composer Alan Hovhaness.-Family/Early background:...
  
  
• Martin Chalfie
  Martin Chalfie
  Martin Chalfie is an American scientist. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the department of biological sciences. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the...
  
  
• Thomas C. Chalmers
  Thomas C. Chalmers
  Thomas Clark Chalmers, MD, FACP was famous for his role in the development of the randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis in medical research....
  
  
• Dean Roden Chapman
  Dean Roden Chapman
  Dean Roden Chapman was a mechanical engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and at Stanford University.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles B. Hensley
  Charles B. Hensley
  Charles B. Hensley is an American entrepreneur and Chairman of Hensley Group, Inc., an umbrella organization that controls a diverse set of corporate entities involved in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, music, television and film....
  
  
• Jia Chen
  Jia Chen
  Dr. Jia Chen is currently Director of Technical Sales & Innovation for IBM’s Growth Market Units, based in Shanghai, China. Dr. Chen has leadership for technical sales team across all IBM's sectors for Greater China Group, ASEAN, Australia/New Zealand, Korea, India, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle...
  
  
• James Chin
  James Chin
  James Chin is a public health epidemiologist. He works in public health surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases, particularly AIDS.-Career:...
  
  
• Charles L. Christ
  Charles L. Christ
  Charles L. Christ was an American scientist, geochemist and mineralogist. He received his Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, completing his Ph.D. in 1940. After receiving his degree, he worked for the General Electric Company as a research chemist in...
  
  
• Christian Pike
  Christian Pike
  Christian Pike is an Associate Professor at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a member of the USC Neuroscience Program. His ongoing work focuses on Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. His laboratory studies the role of neuronal apoptosis in neural diseases...
  
  
• Carol Christian
  Carol Christian
  Carol Christian is an American astronomer, educator, and Information Technologist. Her astronomical work is focussed on stellar populations. She has worked extensively in studying the use of emerging technologies for science education....
  
  
• Chu Ching-wu
  Chu Ching-wu
  Paul Chu is an Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a Professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston...
  
  
• William C. Clark
  William C. Clark
  William C. Clark is an American ecologist and environmental policy analyst, and Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F...
  
  
• Marjorie Clarke
  Marjorie Clarke
  Marjorie J. Clarke, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist who specializes in recycling participation, waste prevention methods, waste-to-energy/incinerator emissions controls, environmental impacts of the World Trade Center fires and collapse, and community botanical gardening; her experience also...
  
  
• Steven Clarke
  Steven Clarke
  Steven G. Clarke, an American biochemist, is a director of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA biochemistry department. Clarke heads a laboratory at UCLA's department of chemistry and biochemistry...
  
  
• Janice E. Clements
  Janice E. Clements
  Janice Ellen Clements is Vice Dean for Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Faculty Affairs. She is a professor in the departments of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Neurology, and Pathology, and has a joint appointment in Molecular...
  
  
• Manfred Clynes
  Manfred Clynes
  Manfred Clynes is a scientist, inventor, and musician. He is best known for his innovations and discoveries in the interpretation of music, and for his contributions to the study of biological systems and neurophysiology.-Overview:...
  
  
• Edwin Joseph Cohn
  Edwin Joseph Cohn
  Edwin Joseph Cohn was an early protein scientist. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover [1911], and the University of Chicago [1914, PhD 1917], he made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was responsible for the blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives...
  
  
• Ellen Cohn
  Ellen Cohn
  Ellen R. Cohn is an Associate Dean and associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with a secondary faculty appointment at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy...
  
  
• L. Stephen Coles
  L. Stephen Coles
  L. Stephen Coles is the co-founder and the Executive Director of the Gerontology Research Group,; a Visiting Scholar in the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States.; and an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery, at the UCLA David Geffen...
  
  
• James Bryant Conant
  James Bryant Conant
  James Bryant Conant was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As thePresident of Harvard University he reformed it as a research institution.-Biography :...
  
  
• Albert Coons
  Albert Coons
  Albert Hewett Coons, M.D. was an American physician, pathologist, and immunologist. He was the first person to conceptualize and develop immunofluorescent techniques for labeling antibodies in the early 1940s....
  
  
• Franklin Seaney Cooper
• Alfred L. Copley
  Alfred L. Copley
  Alfred Lewin Copley was a German-American medical scientist and an artist at the New York School in the 1950s. As an artist he worked under the name L. Alcopley. He is best known as an artist for his abstract expressionist paintings, and as a scientist for his work in the field of hemorheology...
  
  
• Robert Corell
  Robert Corell
  Robert W. Corell is an American global climate scientist, Principal for the , an Ambassador for ClimateWorks, Professor II at the University of the Arctic’s new Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry and a Professor II at the University of Tromso...
  
  
• Eugene E. Covert
  Eugene E. Covert
  Eugene Edzards Covert was an aeronautics specialist born in Rapid City, South Dakota credited with the world's first practical wind tunnel magnetic suspension system, and was a member of the Rogers Commission...
  
  
• Jerry Coyne
  Jerry Coyne
  -Online articles:* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* ", The New Republic * -Online articles:* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* ", The New Republic (Review of Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution)* -Online articles:* , The New Republic* , The...
  
  
• Dwight Crandell
  Dwight Crandell
  Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell was an American volcanologist who alongside Donal R. Mullineaux correctly predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century....
  
  
• Robert K. Crane
  Robert K. Crane
  Robert Kellogg Crane is an American biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium-glucose cotransport.-Biography:...
  
  
• Harriet Creighton
  Harriet Creighton
  Harriet Baldwin Creighton was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.Born in Delavan, Illinois, Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933...
  
  
• John Culliney
  John Culliney
  John L. Culliney is a graduate of Yale and Duke universities and holds a doctorate in zoology. He has taught biology and marine science in Hawai‘i since 1978 and has authored four books on subjects ranging from the North American continental shelf to the horticulture of native Hawaiian plants...
  
  
• Harold Cummins
  Harold Cummins
  Harold Cummins M.D. was a dermatoglyphics specialist, considered to be the father of dermatoglyphics. -References:...
  
  
• Joseph Augustine Cushman
  Joseph Augustine Cushman
  Joseph Augustine Cushman was an American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist.He was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and was educated at Bridgewater State College. He was the captain and catcher for the baseball team along with fullback and manager for the football team. He...
  
  
• Clarence Madison Dally
  Clarence Madison Dally
  Clarence Madison Dally was an American glassblower, noted as an assistant to Thomas Edison in his work on X-rays and as an early victim of radiation dermatitis and its complications.- Early life and education :...
  
  
• Walter Dandy
  Walter Dandy
  Walter Edward Dandy, M.D. was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing...
  
  
• Wilbur Davenport
  Wilbur Davenport
  Wilbur B. Davenport Jr. was an American engineer and scientist, known for his work on communications systems.He received his S.M. and Ph.D. from M.I.T. where he became assistant professor and professor . From 1951 he worked with Lincoln Lab as leader of the research group on communications...
  
  
• Kelvin Davies
  Kelvin Davies
  Kelvin J. A. Davies is the James E. Birren Chair of Gerontology at the University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Educated at the University of London, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at Berkeley, he was previously a faculty member at...
  
  
• James Henry Deese
  James Henry Deese
  James Henry Deese was a NASA manager.-Career:He was Chief of Facilities Design Branch, Kennedy Space Center from 1960 to 1964; Chief of the Advanced Studies Office of NASA Launch Operations Center from 1964 to 1966; Senior Research Administrator for the Future Studies Office at Kennedy Space...
  
  
• Edmund B. Delabarre
  Edmund B. Delabarre
  Edmund Burke Delabarre , was a researcher and professor of psychology at Brown University. He graduated from Amherst College in 1886. Professor Delabarre was a pioneer in the field of shape perception and on the interaction between mental processes and the involuntary movements of the body...
  
  
• David Deming
  David Deming
  David Deming , an American geologist and geophysicist, is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1972. He graduated from Indiana University in 1983 with a BS degree in geology, and...
  
  
• Harry Demopoulos
  Harry Demopoulos
  Harry B. Demopoulos, MD is an pioneer in the medical aspects of free radicals, especially in the areas of ischaemic injury, the toxicity of anticancer drugs, and in spinal cord injury...
  
  
• Victor Denenberg
• Chester Dewey
  Chester Dewey
  Chester Dewey was an American botanist, clergyman and educator.- Early life :Dewey was born in Sheffield, Mass. October 25, 1784, and studied for the ministry at Williams College, graduating in 1806. He officiated at Tryingham, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Michael Dirr
  Michael Dirr
  Michael A. Dirr, Ph.D is a horticulturist and a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on woody plants.-Education and Experience:...
  
  
• Paul M. Doty
  Paul M. Doty
  Paul Mead Doty is an emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry who specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules and has been strongly involved in peace and security policy issues....
  
  
• Hugh Latimer Dryden
  Hugh Latimer Dryden
  Hugh Latimer Dryden was an aeronautical scientist and civil servant. He served as NASA Deputy Administrator from August 19, 1958 until his death.-Biography:...
  
  
• Peter Duesberg
  Peter Duesberg
  Peter H. Duesberg is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  
• Louis Dunn
  Louis Dunn
  Louis G. Dunn was a South African-born engineer who played a key role in the development of early American missiles and launch vehicles.- Caltech :...
  
  
• Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.
  Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.
  Wendell Earl Dunn, Jr. was a chemical engineer, metallurgist, and inventor. His technologies for high temperature chlorination, gold extraction, tantalum and titanium extraction are still widely used.-Early years:Dunn was the first son of educator Wendell E...
  
  
• Nguyet Anh Duong
  Nguyet Anh Duong
  Nguyet Anh Duong is a Vietnamese American scientist responsible for the creation of the Thermobaric weapon.She is noted as the "Scientist who developed the bomb that ended the war with Afghanistan" by the Vietnamese American National Gala.-Biography:...
  
  
• Samuel T. Durrance
  Samuel T. Durrance
  Samuel Thornton Durrance is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.-Background:Durrance was born September 17, 1943, in Tallahassee, Florida, but considers Tampa, Florida his hometown...
  
  
• John Durrant
  John Durrant
  John Durrant is an audiologist and a Professor in the Departments of Communication Science and Disorders, Otolaryngology, and University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He is also Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Science at the Ohio State University...
  
  
• August Dvorak
  August Dvorak
  August Dvorak was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout...
  
  
• Roger L. Easton
  Roger L. Easton
  Roger L. Easton is an American scientist. He is the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System . In 1955, Easton co-wrote the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard proposal for a U.S. satellite program in competition with two other proposals, including a proposal from...
  
  
• Thomas Edison
  Thomas Edison
  Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
  
  
• Ron Eglash
  Ron Eglash
  Ron Eglash is an American cyberneticist, university professor, and author widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics, which aims to study the diverse relationships between math and culture...
  
  
• Albert Ellis (psychologist)
• Paul Hugh Emmett
• John Franklin Enders
  John Franklin Enders
  John Franklin Enders was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders had been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."-Life:...
  
  
• Terry Erwin
  Terry Erwin
  Terry L. Erwin is an entomologist with the Smithsonian Institution.Erwin is notable for his controversial estimate of 30 million as the total number of species....
  
  
• Hiram Bond Everest
  Hiram Bond Everest
  Hiram Bond Everest was a professor of science, businessman, investor and inventor.-Biography:Everest was born in Pike, New York and moved to Wisconsin around age 18 to work as a teacher of science until 1853, when he moved to Rochester, N.Y.. There he established a grocery business...
  
  
• James Ewing (pathologist)
• David J. Farber
  David J. Farber
  David J. "Dave" Farber is a professor of Computer Science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. He is currently Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science, Heinz College, and Department of...
  
  
• Harrison Farber
  Harrison Farber
  Harrison Farber is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston University.He attended undergraduate at Duke University before moving to Belgium and became a member of the Belgium cycling team. He then went on to attend medical school at George...
  
  
• Christopher Field
  Christopher Field
  Dr. Christopher Field is a scientist and researcher, who has contributed to the field of climate change. The author of more than 200 scientific publications, Field’s research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale...
  
  
• Caleb Finch
  Caleb Finch
  Caleb 'Tuck' Finch is a professor at the University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology who studies aging in humans, with expertise in cell biology and Alzheimer's disease....
  
  
• Mark Fishman
  Mark Fishman
  Mark Fishman is a noted researcher and clinician in cardiology and the current President of the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research , the main research arm of Novartis Pharmaceuticals with over 5,000 employees and a 2008 budget of $5.7B....
  
  
• John Adam Fleming
  John Adam Fleming
  John Adam Fleming, was an American physicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity....
  
  
• Paul Flory
  Paul Flory
  Paul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules...
  
  
• Rousseau H. Flower
  Rousseau H. Flower
  Rousseau Hayner Flower was an extremely prolific 20th century paleontologist, known for his eccentric personality.- Career :Although trained as an entomologist, and a specialist in dragonflies and orthopterans, Flower began studying paleontology in the middle of the 1930s...
  
  
• Francis B. Foley
  Francis B. Foley
  Francis B. Foley , was an American ferrous metallurgist.-Biography:Foley was born July 7, 1887 in Philadelphia. His father, Dennis Foley, died in 1889 in Dakota Territory, leaving a wife, daughter, and three sons...
  
  
• Michael Fossel
  Michael Fossel
  Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University and editor of the Journal Of Anti-Ageing Medicine who is best known for his views on telomerase therapy as a possible treatment for cellular senescence...
  
  
• Dian Fossey
  Dian Fossey
  Dian Fossey was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous anthropologist Louis Leakey...
  
  
• Carol Fowler
  Carol Fowler
  Carol A. Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was a former President and Director of Research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut from 1992 to 2008. She is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and...
  
  
• Samuel Fowler (1779–1844)
• Benjamin Franklin
  Benjamin Franklin
  Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
  
  
• David Franklin (scientist)
• Childs Frick
  Childs Frick
  Childs Frick was an American vertebrate paleontologist.He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory...
  
  
• Jeffrey M. Friedman
  Jeffrey M. Friedman
  Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity.-Biography:...
  
  
• Carl Frosch
  Carl Frosch
  Carl Frosch was a Bell Labs researcher who discovered that silicon could be protectively coated with silicon dioxide by the right exposure to oxygen when hot. Such protective coating overcame a problem of surface states found in active silicon circuit elements...
  
  
• Elmer L. Gaden
  Elmer L. Gaden
  Elmer L. Gaden Jr. has been described as the “father of biochemical engineering." A graduate of Columbia University, he wrote a groundbreaking dissertation that quantified the amount of oxygen necessary to fuel the fermentation process used to produce penicillin. Dr. Gaden established Columbia's...
  
  
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
  Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
  Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious....
  
  
• Jay Gan
  Jay Gan
  Jay Jianying Gan , is an American agricultural and environmental scientist. Gan is current Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at University of California, Riverside.-Biography:...
  
  
• Merrill Garnett
  Merrill Garnett
  Merrill Garnett is a biochemist and cancer researcher, and the founder and director of Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc. Holding a D.D.S. from New York University, and graduate study in chemistry and biochemistry from New York University and Brooklyn College, Dr...
  
  
• Ralph W. Gerard
  Ralph W. Gerard
  Ralph Waldo Gerard was an American neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological basis of schizophrenia.-Biography:...
  
  
• Eloise Gerry
  Eloise Gerry
  Eloise Gerry was an influential research scientist whose early 20th century work contributed greatly to the study of southern pine trees and turpentine production. Gerry was the first woman appointed to the professional staff of the U.S...
  
  
• Albert Ghiorso
  Albert Ghiorso
  Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned five decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Barrie Gilbert
  Barrie Gilbert
  Barrie Gilbert was born in 1937 in Bournemouth, England. He is well-known for his invention of numerous analog circuit concepts, holding over 100 patents worldwide, and for the discovery of the Translinear Principle and a class of related topologies loosely referred to as the Gilbert cell, one of...
  
  
• Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth
  Lillian Moller Gilbreth
  Lillian Moller Gilbreth was an American psychologist and industrial engineer. One of the first working female engineers holding a Ph.D., she is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr...
  
  
• Robert Gilman
  Robert Gilman
  Robert C. Gilman is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages. The Gilmans’ work was important in giving definition to the ecovillage movement and shaping the direction of the Global Ecovillage Network...
  
  
• Stanton Glantz
  Stanton Glantz
  Stanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine , American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and Director of the at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Glantz's research focuses on the health effects of tobacco smoking...
  
  
• Peter Glaser
  Peter Glaser
  Peter Edward Glaser is an American scientist and aerospace engineer. He served as Vice President, Advanced Technology , was employed at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA ; subsequently he served as a consultant to the company . He was president of Power from Space Consultants...
  
  
• Peter Gleick
  Peter Gleick
  Dr. Peter H. Gleick is a scientist working on issues related to the environment, economic development, and international security, with a focus on global freshwater challenges. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur...
  
  
• George H. Goble
  George H. Goble
  George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner.Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s...
  
  
• Calvin Goddard (ballistics)
  Calvin Goddard (Ballistics)
  Colonel Calvin Hooker Goddard was a forensic scientist, army officer, academic, researcher and a pioneer in forensic ballistics. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
  
  
• Alan H Goldstein
• Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
  Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
  Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at University of California, San Diego and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and the California Institute for...
  
  
• John B. Goodenough
  John B. Goodenough
  John Bannister Goodenough is an American professor and prominent solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin...
  
  
• John Gorrie
  John Gorrie
  John Gorrie , physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian, is considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning. He was born on the Island of Nevis to Scottish parents on October 3, 1802, and spent his childhood in South Carolina...
  
  
• John Stanton Gould
  John Stanton Gould
  John Stanton Gould was a 19th-century Quaker scientist and philanthropist of the United States.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ralph Grayson
  Ralph Grayson
  Ralph Lawrence Grayson was a scientist, engineer, pilot, attorney, soldier, father and husband. He was born into poverty, the son of an Arkansas sharecropper...
  
  
• Michael Graziano
  Michael Graziano
  Michael Steven Anthony Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on how the cerebral cortex monitors the space around the body and controls movement within that space...
  
  
• Cecil Howard Green
  Cecil Howard Green
  Cecil Howard Green was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
  
  
• Richard J. Green
• Kevin Greenaugh
  Kevin Greenaugh
  Kevin Greenaugh, PhD is an American nuclear engineer and senior manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington, DC, USA....
  
  
• Michael E. Greenberg
  Michael E. Greenberg
  Michael Greenberg is an American neuroscientist who specializes in neurobiology at the molecular level.- Biography :...
  
  
• Lewis Joel Greene
  Lewis Joel Greene
  Lewis Joel Greene is an American Brazilian biochemist, scientist, university professor and editor of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research....
  
  
• Alan Grodzinsky
  Alan Grodzinsky
  Alan J. Grodzinsky is an American scientist and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT....
  
  
• Stephen Grossberg
  Stephen Grossberg
  Stephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, mathematician, and neuromorphic technologist. He is the Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.Grossberg's work...
  
  
• Ernst Guillemin
  Ernst Guillemin
  Ernst Adolph Guillemin was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network analysis and synthesis.-Biography:Guillemin was born in 1898, in Milwaukee, and received his B.S. and...
  
  
• Gregor S. Gustafson
  Gregor S. Gustafson
  Gregor S. Gustafson is a U.S. scientist and human bioenergy researcher. Mr. Gustafson has developed a bio-electric recording instrument to discover and measure frequency patterns existing in physiological, emotional and consciousness-based conditions and diseases. Mr...
  
  
• Charles Claude Guthrie
  Charles Claude Guthrie
  Charles Claude Guthrie was an American physiologist. He was born at Gilmore, St. Charles Co., Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1901 and from the University of Chicago in 1908; taught physiology while engaged in advanced studies, and was professor of physiology and...
  
  
• Nelson Hairston
  Nelson Hairston
  Nelson Hairston Sr. was a preeminent ecologist of the 20th century. Hairston is well-known for his work in ecology and human disease. In the field of ecology he is famous for championing the idea of the trophic cascade, on which he published the provocative “Green World Hypothesis” with colleagues...
  
  
• Thomas Callister Hales
  Thomas Callister Hales
  Thomas Callister Hales is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1998 computer-aided proof of the Kepler conjecture, a centuries-old problem in discrete geometry which states that the most space-efficient way to pack spheres is in a pyramid shape...
  
  
• John D. Hamaker
  John D. Hamaker
  John D. Hamaker , was an American mechanical engineer, ecologist, agronomist and science writer in the fields of soil remineralization, rock dusting, mineral cycles, climate cycles and glaciology.-Biography:Background...
  
  
• Debora Hammond
  Debora Hammond
  Debora Hammond is an American historian of science, Provost and Professor Interdisciplinary Studies of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at the Sonoma State University...
  
  
• Henry Paul Hansen
  Henry Paul Hansen
  Henry Paul Hansen was an American palynologist known largely for his pioneering work on the vegetation history of the North American Pacific Northwest and for his time as the dean of Graduate Studies at Oregon State University from 1949 - 1972.-Early life:Henry Hansen was born on the April 28,...
  
  
• Mary Styles Harris
  Mary Styles Harris
  Mary Styles Harris, Ph.D. is an American geneticist.- Early life :Harris was born in Nashville, Tennessee, June 26, 1949 to George and Margaret Styles. George was a doctor, and it was his career that sparked Harris' early interest in science. George died when Harris was 9 years old...
  
  
• Edwin B. Hart
  Edwin B. Hart
  Edwin B. Hart was an American biochemist.A native of Ohio, Hart studied physiological chemistry under Albrecht Kossel in Germany, and also studied at the University of Marzburg and University of Heidelberg...
  
  
• William M. Hartmann
  William M. Hartmann
  William M. Hartmann is a noted physicist, psychoacoustician, author, and former president of the Acoustical Society of America. His major contributions in psychoacoustics are in pitch perception, binaural hearing, and sound localization...
  
  
• Leland H. Hartwell
  Leland H. Hartwell
  Leland Harrison Hartwell is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and R...
  
  
• Stephen Harvey
  Stephen Harvey
  Stephen C. Harvey is a structural biologist with research interest in nucleic acids, the ribosome, virus structure and high density lipoprotein. He is currently professor and Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar in the at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia...
  
  
• Caryl Parker Haskins
  Caryl Parker Haskins
  Caryl Parker Haskins was a scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology . In the 1930s he was inspired by Alfred Lee Loomis to establish his own research facility. Along with Franklin S. Cooper, he founded the Haskins...
  
  
• Michael Hasselmo
  Michael Hasselmo
  Michael Hasselmo is a neuroscientist at Boston University.He is known for his work on neuromodulators, particularly acetylcholine, and for his computational modelling work on the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, especially regarding the functional role of theta rhythm.He is on the editorial board...
  
  
• Brian Hayes (scientist)
  Brian Hayes (scientist)
  Brian Hayes is an American scientist, columnist and author.He is a senior writer and regular columnist for the magazine American Scientist, and was editor in chief for the magazine from 1990 to 1992. He has also edited and written columns for Scientific American, as well as writing for Computer...
  
  
• Eric J. Heller
  Eric J. Heller
  Eric J. "Rick" Heller is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University...
  
  
• Karl Gordon Henize
  Karl Gordon Henize
  Karl Gordon Henize[p], Ph.D. was an astronomer, NASA astronaut, space scientist, and professor at Northwestern University. He was stationed at several observatories around the world, including McCormick Observatory, Lamont-Hussey Observatory , Mount Wilson Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical...
  
  
• Alfred Hershey
  Alfred Hershey
  Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist.He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University in 1930 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1934, taking a position shortly thereafter at the Department of Bacteriology...
  
  
• John Heuser
  John Heuser
  John E. Heuser is a Professor of Biophysics in the department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine as well as a Professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Matieral Sciences at Kyoto University...
  
  
• Craig L. Hill
  Craig L. Hill
  Craig L. Hill is an American scientist . He is working now with his research group at the Emory University.- Academic career :...
  
  
• Ronald K. Hoeflin
  Ronald K. Hoeflin
  Ronald K. Hoeflin is a philosopher by trade, creator of the Mega and Titan intelligence tests. In 1988 Hoeflin won the American Philosophical Association's Rockefeller Prize for his article, "Theories of Truth: A Comprehensive Synthesis." His article argues for the interrelated nature of seven...
  
  
• Dean Hoge
  Dean Hoge
  Dean R. Hoge was an American sociologist, who spent decades studying American Catholics, especially empirical surveys on the priesthood....
  
  
• Theo Holm
  Theo Holm
  Herman Theodor "Theo" Holm was a Danish-American systematic botanist. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming and graduated 1880. He participated in the Danish Dijmphna expedition to the territory between Russia and the North Pole during the First...
  
  
• Erna Schneider Hoover
  Erna Schneider Hoover
  Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover is an American mathematician famous for inventing a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at Bell Laboratories....
  
  
• Grace Hopper
  Grace Hopper
  Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language...
  
  
• Jay Hosler
  Jay Hosler
  Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, and Optical Allusions. Clan Apis follows the life of a honey bee named Nyuki; the story conveys factual information about honey bees in a humorous fashion...
  
  
• Mike Hudak
  Mike Hudak
  Michael John Hudak is an environmental researcher and author, Sierra Club activist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker concerned with the environmental damage that ranching inflicts on US public land . He is an author of and its companion series of web-based videos...
  
  
• Gordon Ferrie Hull
  Gordon Ferrie Hull
  Gordon Ferrie Hull was a Canadian / American teacher, mathematician and physicist, especially known for the experimental detection of the radiation pressure exerted by light which he achieved in 1903....
  
  
• Fazle Hussain
  Fazle Hussain
  A. K. M. Fazle Hussain is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the director of the at the University of Houston and a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.-Education:He did his BS in...
  
  
• Shinya Inoué
  Shinya Inoué
  is a biophysicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research field is the visualization of dynamic processes within living cells using the light microscope. Currently he is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory....
  
  
• Eastman Jacobs
  Eastman Jacobs
  Eastman Nixon Jacobs was a leading aerodynamicist who worked for NACA's Langley Research Center from the 1920s to the 1940s. He was responsible for advancing many fields in aerodynamics, dealing particularly with wind tunnels, airfoils, turbulence, boundary layers, and Schlieren...
  
  
• Robert M. Jacobson
  Robert M. Jacobson
  Robert Martin Jacobson is the former chair of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and a full professor of pediatrics at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He still regularly sees young patients as a member of the Division of Community Pediatric and...
  
  
• Rakesh Jain
  Rakesh Jain
  Rakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jain primarily researches tumor pathophysiology...
  
  
• Ramesh Jain
  Ramesh Jain
  Ramesh Chandra Jain is a scientist and entrepreneur whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems...
  
  
• Bruce Jakosky
  Bruce Jakosky
  Bruce Martin Jakosky has been involved with the Viking, Solar Mesosphere Explorer, Clementine, Mars Observer, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Science Laboratory and MAVEN spacecraft missions, and is involved in planning future spacecraft missions.-Career:Jakosky heads up the University of...
  
  
• John T. James
  John T. James
  Dr. John T. James is the Chief Toxicologist for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. Dr. James leads the Space Toxicology Office located at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.- Education :...
  
  
• William Jeffrey (NIST)
• Mae Jemison
  Mae Jemison
  Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.-Early years:...
  
  
• Alejandro Jenkins
  Alejandro Jenkins
  Alejandro Jenkins is a post-doctorate researcher of high energy physics at Florida State University. Dr. Jenkins is a native of Costa Rica. He received degrees from Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology....
  
  
• Jim Mullins
  Jim Mullins
  James I. Mullins is an American scientist. Jim currently is a Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. -References:...
  
  
• Joaquin Fuster
  Joaquin Fuster
  Joaquin M. Fuster is a neuroscientist whose research has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behavior. His several books and hundreds of papers, particularly on memory and the prefrontal cortex, are widely cited.Born in Barcelona,...
  
  
• J. Leonard Johnson
  J. Leonard Johnson
  James Leonard Vincent "Len" Johnson was an American scientist."Len" Johnson was an American engineer, designer, and scientist in the mid-twentieth century in the field of metallurgy and nuclear technology...
  
  
• Herrick L. Johnston
• Kalidas Shetty
  Kalidas Shetty
  Kalidas Shetty is a noted food scientist, an associate professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts, and a recipient of the Jefferson science fellowship. He is the author of a significant number of books on food science...
  
  
• William T. Kane
  William T. Kane
  William T. Kane was a physicist for Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, Inc., in Corning, New York, who held patents in crystallography and heat-sensing technology—developments which contributed to the early processing and manufacture of fiber optics...
  
  
• Charles K. Kao
  Charles K. Kao
  The Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications...
  
  
• Edward Kasner
  Edward Kasner
  Edward Kasner who studied under Cassius Jackson Keyser, was a prominent American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department...
  
  
• Jerome Kavka
  Jerome Kavka
  Jerome Kavka is an emeritus supervising and training analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Beginning in the early 1990s, he also served as archivist for the Institute....
  
  
• Yoshihiro Kawaoka
  Yoshihiro Kawaoka
  is a leading scientist in the field of influenza and other infectious diseases. He is currently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo....
  
  
• Donald Keck
  Donald Keck
  Dr. Donald B. Keck is an American research physicist and engineer most noted for his involvement in developing low-loss optical fiber. Keck grew up in Lansing, Michigan and attended Michigan State University, after which he joined Corning Incorporated’s research department. As a senior research...
  
  
• Charles David Keeling
  Charles David Keeling
  Charles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming...
  
  
• Klaus Keil
  Klaus Keil
  Klaus Keil is a professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the former Director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. He is also the former director of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics. Klaus...
  
  
• Edwin D. Kilbourne
  Edwin D. Kilbourne
  Edwin Dennis Kilbourne was an American research scientist. Born in Buffalo, New York, he received his AB and MD degrees from Cornell University. After completion of service in the Medical Corps of the Army of the United States at the end of World War II, he trained in virus research at The...
  
  
• James Rhyne Killian
  James Rhyne Killian
  Dr. James Rhyne Killian, Jr. was the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959.-Career:...
  
  
• Kim Sung-Hou
  Kim Sung-Hou
  Kim Sung-Hou PhD is a Korean-born American structural biologist and biophysicist. Dr. Kim reported the first 3D structure of tRNA with A. Rich in 1973. He also published many papers on the structures of protein molecules including human Ras, human cyclin dependent kinase 2 and small heat shock...
  
  
• J. Peter Kincaid
  J. Peter Kincaid
  J. Peter Kincaid is a scientist and educator who is the founding director of the Modeling and Simulation Ph.D. program at the University of Central Florida. Trained as a human factors psychologist at the Ohio State University, Kincaid has split his career between higher education and working as a...
  
  
• Ebenezer Kinnersley
• Harry Kloor
  Harry Kloor
  Harry 'Doc' Kloor Ph.D Ph.D is, as of 1994, the first person in world history to earn two PhDs simultaneously in any discipline. He holds PhDs in Physics and in Chemistry.-Background:...
  
  
• J. Val Klump
  J. Val Klump
  Jeffrey Val Klump is an American limnologist. He was the first person to reach the deepest spot in Lake Superior, a depth of 1333 feet , which is also the lowest point in the United States, on July 30, 1985 while aboard the R/V Seward Johnson with the Johnson-SeaLink-II submersible...
  
  
• Brian Kobilka
  Brian Kobilka
  Brian K. Kobilka, M.D., is a professor in the departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in the United States. He is also the co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G-protein coupled receptors...
  
  
• Rudolf Kompfner
  Rudolf Kompfner
  Rudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube .Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents...
  
  
• Daniel Kopans
  Daniel Kopans
  Daniel B. Kopans, MD, FACR is a radiologist specializing in mammography and other forms of breast imaging.Dr. Daniel Kopans is a leading experts in breast cancer detection and diagnosis. He is the founder of the Breast Imaging Division in the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General...
  
  
• David E. Kuhl
  David E. Kuhl
  David Edmund Kuhl isan American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine.He is well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. Dr...
  
  
• Thomas Kuhn
  Thomas Kuhn
  Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was deeply influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift," which has since become an English-language staple.Kuhn...
  
  
• Stephanie Kwolek
  Stephanie Kwolek
  Stephanie Louise Kwolek is a Polish-American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek has won numerous awards for her work in polymer chemistry.- Early life and education :Kwolek was...
  
  
• Paul Eston Lacy
  Paul Eston Lacy
  Paul Eston Lacy, M.D., Ph.D. was an anatomist & experimentalist and one of the world’s leading diabetes mellitus researchers. He is often credited as the originator of islet transplantation.- Education :...
  
  
• Jeffrey Laitman
  Jeffrey Laitman
  Jeffrey Todd Laitman, Ph.D. is an American anatomist and physical anthropologist whose science has combined experimental, comparative, and paleontological studies to understand the development and evolution of the human upper respiratory and vocal tract regions...
  
  
• Edwin H. Land
  Edwin H. Land
  Edwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision...
  
  
• David A. Lane (scientist)
  David A. Lane (scientist)
  David A. Lane is an American economist, who developed the theory of artifact innovation. At the Santa Fe Institute he has been defining the notion of economic complexity and the Santa Fe approach...
  
  
• Samuel Pierpont Langley
  Samuel Pierpont Langley
  Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...
  
  
• Irving Langmuir
  Irving Langmuir
  Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his...
  
  
• Murder of Annie Le
  Murder of Annie Le
  Le was born in Placerville, California, to a Vietnamese American family. She spent her childhood with her aunt and uncle. Le was valedictorian of her graduating class at Union Mine High School, and voted one of two students to be "the next Einstein." After earning approximately $160,000 in...
  
  
• Robert Ledley
• Zachary Lemnios
  Zachary Lemnios
  Zachary J. Lemnios is an American scientist who currently holds the post of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering , formerly known as Director, Defense Research and Engineering , in the United States Government.He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 19, 2009,...
  
  
• Allenna Leonard
  Allenna Leonard
  Allenna Leonard is an American cyberneticist, consultant and Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Canada, internationally, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration.- Biography :...
  
  
• Norman N. Li
  Norman N. Li
  Norman N. Li , born December 28, 1932 in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese American engineer and scientist famous for his inventions and development of liquid membrane technologies.-Biography:Li graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1954...
  
  
• Sidney H. Liebson
  Sidney H. Liebson
  Sidney H. Liebson received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1947. His thesis was on the discharge mechanism of Geiger Muller counters...
  
  
• Eli Lilly
  Eli Lilly
  Eli Lilly was the founder of Eli Lilly and Company.Eli Lilly may also refer to:* Eli Lilly and Company, a global pharmaceutical company...
  
  
• Paul J. Lioy
  Paul J. Lioy
  Paul J. Lioy, Ph. D. is an American working in the field of Environmental Health and specializing in Exposure Science. He is one of the world’s leading experts in personal exposure to toxins....
  
  
• John T. Lis
  John T. Lis
  John T. Lis is the Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dr. Lis was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for his research on protein templating in the propagation of gene activity.-Research:Dr...
  
  
• Leigh Lisker
  Leigh Lisker
  Leigh Lisker was an eminent American linguist and phonetician. Most of his career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor and then emeritus professor of linguistics. Dr. Lisker received his A.B. in 1941, with a major in German, his M.A. in 1946, and a Ph.D. in 1949 in...
  
  
• Timothy M. Lohman
  Timothy M. Lohman
  Timothy M. Lohman earned his Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977. After completing his Ph. D., he furthered his training with postdoctoral research at the University of California and the University of Oregon...
  
  
• Alfred Lee Loomis
  Alfred Lee Loomis
  Alfred Lee Loomis was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist/physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research...
  
  
• Lorraine Lisiecki
  Lorraine Lisiecki
  Lorraine Lisiecki is an American paleoclimatologist. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has proposed a new analysis of the 100,000-year problem in the Milankovitch theory of climate change...
  
  
• Joseph Lovering
  Joseph Lovering
  Joseph Lovering was an American scientist and educator.He graduated from Harvard in 1833. In 1838 he was named Hollis Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard. He held this chair until 1888, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus, after 50 years service...
  
  
• Raymond Luebbers
  Raymond Luebbers
  Dr. Raymond J. Luebbers was Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and Ohio University, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom, Inc....
  
  
• David T. Lykken
  David T. Lykken
  David Thoreson Lykken was a behavioral geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota...
  
  
• Dennis McCarthy (scientist)
  Dennis McCarthy (scientist)
  Dr. Dennis D. McCarthy is a former Director of Time at the United States Naval Observatory. Dr. McCarthy also works for the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. -References:...
  
  
• Jennifer McCarty
  Jennifer McCarty
  Jennifer Hooper McCarty is a materials scientist who specializes in the analysis of historic materials. McCarty is co-author of What Really Sank the Titanic: New Forensic Discoveries.-Education:...
  
  
• Barbara McClintock
  Barbara McClintock
  Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...
  
  
• Celeste McCollough
  Celeste McCollough
  Celeste McCollough, known since about 1996 as Celeste McCollough Howard is an American scientist who conducts research in human visual perception. She is famous for discovering, in 1965, the first contingent aftereffect, known soon after as the McCollough effect...
  
  
• L. Hamilton McCormick
  L. Hamilton McCormick
  Leander Hamilton McCormick was an American author, inventor, art collector and sculptor.-Life:Hamilton McCormick was born in Chicago, May 27, 1859.His grandfather Robert McCormick of Virginia invented agricultural machinery....
  
  
• Stacy McGaugh
  Stacy McGaugh
  Stacy McGaugh is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. His fields of speciality include low surface brightness galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, tests of dark matter and alternative hypotheses, and...
  
  
• Michael McKubre
  Michael McKubre
  Michael McKubre, PhD, is an electro-chemist in the forefront of cold fusion energy development and one of the most respected scientists in the field. McKubre was director of the Energy Research Center at SRI International in 1998. He is a native of New Zealand.From 1989 to 2002, he has been...
  
  
• Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
  Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
  Richard Cockburn Maclaurin was a Scottish-born U.S. educator and mathematical physicist. He was made president of MIT in 1909, and held the position until his death in 1920....
  
  
• Brian MacWhinney
  Brian MacWhinney
  Brian James MacWhinney is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed...
  
  
• Eugene O. Major
  Eugene O. Major
  Eugene O. "Gene" Major, PhD, is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , a part of the United States National Institutes of Health...
  
  
• Ho-Kwang Mao
  Ho-Kwang Mao
  Ho-Kwang Mao is an eminent American geologist and Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.-Family:...
  
  
• John Marburger
  John Marburger
  John Harmen Marburger, III was an American physicist who directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of President George W. Bush, thus serving as the Science Advisor to the President...
  
  
• Noella Marcellino
  Noella Marcellino
  Mother Noella Marcellino, O.S.B., is a Benedictine nun who has earned a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut...
  
  
• Lynn Margulis
  Lynn Margulis
  Lynn Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory, which is now generally accepted...
  
  
• Julius Marmur
  Julius Marmur
  Julius Marmur was an American molecular biologist who made significant contributions to DNA research. His discovery, while working in the laboratory of Paul Doty at Harvard University, that the denaturation of DNA was reversible and depended on salt- and GC-content, had a major impact on how...
  
  
• William F. Martin
  William F. Martin
  William Martin is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Botanik III, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf....
  
  
• Bruce E. Maryanoff
  Bruce E. Maryanoff
  Bruce Eliot Maryanoff is an American medicinal and organic chemist.-Background and contributions:...
  
  
• Cynthia A. Maryanoff
  Cynthia A. Maryanoff
  Cynthia Anne Maryanoff is an American organic and materials chemist.-Background and contributions:...
  
  
• Deborah Mash
  Deborah Mash
  Deborah Mash is an American professor of neurology and of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine and director of the university's Brain Endowment Bank. She is one of the world's foremost scientific experts on the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine.Dr...
  
  
• Kirstin Matthews
  Kirstin Matthews
  Kirstin Matthews is a Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Matthews received a bachelors degree in biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Texas Health Science Center...
  
  
• Walter Mauderli
  Walter Mauderli
  Walter Mauderli, DSc, . Mauderli was a pioneer in the development of the field of medical physics. He earned his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under the instruction of notable physicists as Nobel Laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli.Mauderli trained in the dosimetry of low-...
  
  
• Matthew Fontaine Maury
  Matthew Fontaine Maury
  Matthew Fontaine Maury , United States Navy was an American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator....
  
  
• Richard L. Meier
  Richard L. Meier
  Richard Louis Meier, is an US regional planner, systems theorist, scientist, urban scholar, and futurist, who was Professor in the College of Environmental Design at University of California at Berkeley. He was an early thinker on sustainability in planning, and recognized as a leading figure in...
  
  
• Alvin Joseph Melveger
  Alvin Joseph Melveger
  Alvin Joseph Melveger is an American scientist specializing in physical chemistry, spectroscopy, biomaterials, polymers and other disciplines, Alvin Joseph Melveger has had a long multifaceted career in chemical analysis, research, editing, publishing and teaching...
  
  
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
  Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
  Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist.-Biography:Mendenhall was born in Hanoverton, Ohio to Stephen Mendenhall, a farmer and carriage-maker,...
  
  
• George W. Merck
  George W. Merck
  George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck , was the president of Merck & Co. from 1925 to 1950.-Biography:Born in New York and raised in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, he attended Harvard College, graduating in 1915. World War I prevented him from pursuing an advanced degree in Germany; instead, he joined...
  
  
• Antonio Meucci
  Antonio Meucci
  Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor, a compatriot of revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone....
  
  
• George H. Miller
  George H. Miller
  George H. Miller Ph.D. was appointed the interim director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by the University of California on March 15, 2006. Dr. Miller, an employee of the university for 34 years, replaced Michael Anastasio, who left LLNL to head Los Alamos National Security LLC,...
  
  
• Raymond D. Mindlin
  Raymond D. Mindlin
  Raymond David Mindlin was a mechanician who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences.-Education:...
  
  
• Ormsby M. Mitchel
  Ormsby M. Mitchel
  Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel was an American astronomer and major general in the American Civil War....
  
  
• William A. Mitchell
  William A. Mitchell
  Dr. William A. "Bill" Mitchell was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, quick-set Jell-O, Cool Whip, and powdered egg whites. During his career he received over 70 patents.He was born in...
  
  
• Scott L. Montgomery
  Scott L. Montgomery
  Scott L Montgomery is a geologist, author, and part-time faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has written many technical papers, monographs, and several textbooks related to energy...
  
  
• Philip Morrison
  Philip Morrison
  Philip Morrison, was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Jürgen Moser
  Jürgen Moser
  Jürgen Kurt Moser or Juergen Kurt Moser was a German-American mathematician.-Professional biography:...
  
  
• Adilson E. Motter
  Adilson E. Motter
  Adilson E. Motter, born January 1, 1974, is a Brazilian-born U.S.-based scientist working at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks...
  
  
• Forrest S. Mozer
  Forrest S. Mozer
  Forrest S. Mozer is an American experimental physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur known best for his pioneering work on electric field measurements in space plasma and for development of solid state electronic speech synthesizers and speech recognizers....
  
  
• Ferid Murad
  Ferid Murad
  Ferid Murad is an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.- Life :...
  
  
• William P. Murphy Jr.
  William P. Murphy Jr.
  Dr. William P. Murphy Jr. is the son of the American physician William Parry Murphy who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934....
  
  
• Roger D. Nelson
  Roger D. Nelson
  Roger D. Nelson is the director of the Global Consciousness Project , an international, multi-laboratory collaboration founded in 1997 to study collective consciousness. From 1980 to 2002, he was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at Princeton...
  
  
• M. Graham Netting
  M. Graham Netting
  Maurice Graham Netting — known as M. Graham Netting — was a herpetologist, an early participant in the conservation and environmental movement, and a director of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gerald Neugebauer
  Gerald Neugebauer
  Gerald 'Gerry' Neugebauer is an American astronomer known for his pioneering work in infrared astronomy.Neugebauer was born in Göttingen, Germany and is the son of Otto Neugebauer, an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science, and Grete Bruck. After moving to the United States at...
  
  
• Marcia Neugebauer
  Marcia Neugebauer
  Marcia Neugebauer is a prominent American geophysicist who made important contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's pioneering research yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comets.Neugebauer was a primary investigator of the...
  
  
• William F. Neuman
  William F. Neuman
  William F Neuman was an important biochemist and author. He was born June 2, 1919, in Petoskey, Michigan and died January 4, 1981, in Rochester, New York. Neuman was an authority on the biochemistry of bone tissue. Before joining the faculty of the University of Rochester in 1944, he headed the...
  
  
• Michael Newton (hypnotist)
  Michael Newton (hypnotist)
  Michael Duff Newton, Ph.D. is a certified hypnotherapist, a member of the American Counseling Association and founder of The Michael Newton Institute for Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy . He is an author of books on past life regression...
  
  
• Sarfaraz K. Niazi
  Sarfaraz K. Niazi
  Sarfaraz K. Niazi was born in Lucknow, India in 1949; he migrated to Karachi, Pakistan in 1962, and to the United States in 1970...
  
  
• Nicholas E. Wagman
  Nicholas E. Wagman
  Nicholas E. Wagman was an American astronomer and astrometrist.Beginning in 1930, Wagman was associated with Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory. He was director of the Observatory and also chairman of the University of Pittsburgh's Astronomy Department from 1941 until 1970...
  
  
• Landon Curt Noll
  Landon Curt Noll
  Landon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward....
  
  
• Thomas T. Norton
• Bill Nye
  Bill Nye
  William Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist...
  
  
• John A. O'Keefe
  John A. O'Keefe
  John Aloysius O'Keefe was a planetary scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1958 to 1995. He is credited with the discovery of Earth's "pear shape" using U.S. Vanguard satellite data collected in the late 1950s...
  
  
• Brian O'Leary
  Brian O'Leary
  Brian Todd O'Leary was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in August 1967...
  
  
• S. Jay Olshansky
  S. Jay Olshansky
  Stuart Jay Olshansky is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.-Biography:He received his Ph.D...
  
  
• Henry John Orchard
  Henry John Orchard
  Henry John Orchard was a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and an authority on filter design and network theory. He died June 23 of 2004 at his home in Santa Monica of respiratory failure...
  
  
• Michael Orshansky
  Michael Orshansky
  Michael Orshansky is an American researcher in integrated circuit design, currently with University of Texas at Austin since 2003. He received his undergraduate education and Ph.D...
  
  
• Arnold Edward Ortmann
  Arnold Edward Ortmann
  Arnold Edward Ortmann was a naturalist, and zoologist who specialized in malacology.- Biography :Ortmann was born in Magdeburg, Prussia. A student of Ernst Haeckel, he was graduated from the University of Jena in 1885 with a Ph.D. From 1886 on, he worked as an instructor at the University of...
  
  
• Simon Ostrach
  Simon Ostrach
  Dr. Simon Ostrach is an American academic scientist and a pioneer in the fields of buoyancy-driven flows and microgravity science. He is a Distinguished Professor at Florida State University, where he is affiliated with the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering. ...
  
  
• David Ostry
  David Ostry
  David J. Ostry is an engineer and neuroscientist whose research focuses on human motor control.He is a professor of Psychology at McGill University and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. His research focuses on understanding the biological mechanisms of voluntary...
  
  
• Dan Otte
  Dan Otte
  Daniel Otte is a noted behavior ecologist, a world expert on crickets and grasshoppers and a prominent scientific illustrator. He has made significant contributions to evolutionary biology...
  
  
• Becky Wai-Ling Packard
  Becky Wai-Ling Packard
  Becky Wai-Ling Packard is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College.She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. She is the winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers , the...
  
  
• Irvine Page
  Irvine Page
  Irvine Heinly Page was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and was an American physiologist who played an important part in the field of hypertension for almost 60 years....
  
  
• Sanford Palay
  Sanford Palay
  Sanford Louis "Sandy" Palay was an American scientist and educator.-Academic Background:...
  
  
• J. A. Panitz
  J. A. Panitz
  J. A. Panitz is the co-inventor of the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope and the inventor of the 10-cm atom-probe, the Imaging Atom-Probe, the LIFE detector , Isothermal Ramped Field-Desorption Spectroscopy , Field-Ion tomographyJ. A. Panitz is the co-inventor of the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope...
  
  
• Dan James Pantone
  Dan James Pantone
  Dan James Pantone is an American ecologist and conservationist with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. A former professor at Texas A&M University, Dr. Pantone is a researcher who has published numerous refereed articles on agroecology and sustainable agriculture...
  
  
• John Parascandola
  John Parascandola
  Dr. John Parascandola is an American medical historian. He has written numerous books, including The Development of American Pharmacology: John J...
  
  
• Rudolph Pariser
  Rudolph Pariser
  Rudolph Pariser is a physical and polymer chemist. He was born in Harbin, China to merchant parents. He attended the Von Hindenburg Schule in Harbin, an American Missionary School in Beijing and American School in Tokyo...
  
  
• Patrick G. Carrick
  Patrick G. Carrick
  Patrick G. Carrick is a member of the Senior Executive Service and an academic.-Career:Before joining the United States Department of Defense, Carrick was Assistant Professor of Physics at Mississippi State University and Director of the Shared Laser Facility at the University of Oregon. In 1989 he...
  
  
• Randy Pausch
  Randy Pausch
  Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
  
• Jerome Pearson
  Jerome Pearson
  Jerome Pearson is an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators and lunar space elevator. He is president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA...
  
  
• E. Converse Peirce 2nd
  E. Converse Peirce 2nd
  Edmund Converse Peirce 2nd, M.D. was Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City), from 1966 to 1991 when he retired. During his career, Dr...
  
  
• Jacob Perkins
  Jacob Perkins
  Jacob Perkins was an Anglo-American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith...
  
  
• Alan Perlis
  Alan Perlis
  Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:...
  
  
• Leonid Perlovsky
  Leonid Perlovsky
  Dr. Leonid Perlovsky is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base...
  
  
• William C. Pfefferle
  William C. Pfefferle
  William C. Pfefferle is an American scientist and inventor.Nicknamed the "father of catalytic combustion," he invented the original catalytic combustor for gas turbine engines in the early 1970s. Gas turbines work by mixing fuel with compressed and heated air, which burns and generates energy to...
  
  
• William Daniel Phillips
  William Daniel Phillips
  William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. He is of Italian and Welsh descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• John R. Pierce
• Kyle Pierce
  Kyle Pierce
  Kyle Pierce is an associate professor of kinesiology and health science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and director of the LSUS USA Weightlifting Development Center.A former lifter himself, Dr...
  
  
• Elizabeth Pisani
  Elizabeth Pisani
  Elizabeth Pisani is the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK. She is formerly a journalist and currently an epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business...
  
  
• William Poduska
  William Poduska
  Dr. John William Poduska, Sr was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility and also worked at Honeywell....
  
  
• Dragoljub Pokrajac
  Dragoljub Pokrajac
  Dragoljub Pokrajac Dragoljub Pokrajac Dragoljub Pokrajac (born 1970 in Šibenik, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American scientist. His fields of interest include data mining, video analysis, image processing, applied mathematics and others...
  
  
• Sergey Polyakov
  Sergey Polyakov
  Sergey Vladimirovich Polyakov is a Russian-American scientist performing research for USPolyResearch...
  
  
• Stephen Porges
• George Poste
  George Poste
  George Poste, F.R.S., is a former Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Poste was Chief Science and Technology Officer and President of Research & Development for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, SmithKline Beecham...
  
  
• Sandra Postel
  Sandra Postel
  Sandra Postel is the director and founder of the Global Water Policy Project. She is a world expert on fresh water issues and related ecosystems. From 1988 to 1994 she served as the Vice President for Research at the Worldwatch Institute. In 2002, Scientific American magazine named her as one of...
  
  
• Laramie Potts
  Laramie Potts
  Laramie Potts is an American scientist at the Ohio State University who identified the Wilkes Land crater with Ralph von Frese. He is from South Africa...
  
  
• Nader Pourmand
  Nader Pourmand
  Nader Pourmand is a biomolecular engineer. He is currently associate professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the Genome Sequencing Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering...
  
  
• William T. Powers
  William T. Powers
  William T. Powers is an independent scientist who has developed perceptual control theory, which finds that the behavior of living things is not controlled by them, but rather is their means of controlling their inputs...
  
  
• George R. Price
  George R. Price
  George Robert Price was an American population geneticist. Originally a physical chemist and later a science journalist, he moved to London in 1967, where he worked in theoretical biology at the Galton Laboratory, making three important contributions: first, rederiving W.D...
  
  
• Joseph Priestley
  Joseph Priestley
  Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
  
  
• John Charles Priscu
  John Charles Priscu
  John C. Priscu is a Romanian-American scientist who is the current Professor of Ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University...
  
  
• Ronald F. Probstein
  Ronald F. Probstein
  Ronald F. Probstein is the Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He played a principal role in spacecraft and ballistic missile reentry physics and design, hypersonic flight theory, comet behavior, desalination and synthetic fuels.Together with...
  
  
• Merle Randall
  Merle Randall
  Merle Randall was an American physical chemist famous for his work, over the period of 25 years, in measuring free energy calculations of compounds with Gilbert N. Lewis...
  
  
• Anatol Rapoport
  Anatol Rapoport
  Anatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
  
  
• Paul Raskin
  Paul Raskin
  Paul Raskin is the Founding Director of the Tellus Institute which has conducted over 3,500 research and policy projects throughout the world on environmental issues, resource planning, and sustainable development...
  
  
• Arthur Emmons Raymond
• Grote Reber
  Grote Reber
  Grote Reber was an amateur astronomer and pioneer of radio astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies...
  
  
• Allan Rechtschaffen
  Allan Rechtschaffen
  Allan Rechtschaffen is a noted pioneer in the field of sleep research whose work includes some of the first laboratory studies of insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea,and napping....
  
  
• Christopher M. Reddy
  Christopher M. Reddy
  Christopher M. Reddy is a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry and the Director of the Institution’s Coastal Ocean Institute. He studies oil spills, other forms of marine pollution, and biofuels...
  
  
• Jane Reece
  Jane Reece
  Jane B. Reece is an American scientist and textbook author. She is the co-author, along with Neil Campbell, of the Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks....
  
  
• Franklin G. Reick
• Robert Remez
  Robert Remez
  Robert Remez is an American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, theoretician and teacher. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition . His teaching focuses on the relationships...
  
  
• Lauren Resnick
  Lauren Resnick
  Lauren B. Resnick is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the cognitive science of learning and instruction. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and was previously director of the University's Learning Research and Development Center. In...
  
  
• John Leonard Riddell
  John Leonard Riddell
  John Leonard Riddell was a science lecturer, botanist, geologist, medical doctor, chemist, microscopist, numismatician, politician, and science fiction author in the United States. He was born in Leyden, Massachusetts, the son of John Riddell and Lephe Gates. He received his B.A. and M.A...
  
  
• Paul Ridker
  Paul Ridker
  Paul M. Ridker is a medical researcher and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard University. He is also on staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Ridker was included in TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2004. Previously, TIME and CNN...
  
  
• Royal Rife
  Royal Rife
  Royal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. In the 1930s, he claimed that by using a specially designed optical microscope, he could observe a number of microbes which were too small to visualize with previously existing...
  
  
• David Rittenhouse
  David Rittenhouse
  David Rittenhouse was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official...
  
  
• John Robbins (scientist)
  John Robbins (scientist)
  Dr. John Robbins, M.D. is a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, best known for his development of the vaccine against bacterial meningitis with his colleague Dr. Rachel Schneerson, M.D....
  
  
• Anita Roberts
  Anita Roberts
  Anita B. Roberts was a molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF-β, that is critical in healing wounds and bone fractures and that has a dual role in blocking or stimulating cancers...
  
  
• Arthur B. Robinson
  Arthur B. Robinson
  Arthur B. Robinson is an American scientist and activist. He is the founder, president, and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which describes itself as a research institute that studies protein chemistry, nutrition, and predictive and preventive medicine...
  
  
• Julia Robinson
  Julia Robinson
  Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.-Background and education:...
  
  
• John Rock (American scientist)
  John Rock (American scientist)
  John Rock was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. He is best known for the major role he played in the development of the first hormonal contraceptive, colloquially called "the pill".-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
  Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
  Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is a Venezuelan scientist. He currently serves as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University...
  
  
• Lynn Rogers
  Lynn Rogers
  Dr Lynn Leroy Rogers is an American biologist specialising in the study of wild black bears. He is the founder of the North American Bear Center....
  
  
• Emily Rosa
  Emily Rosa
  Emily Rosa is the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. At age nine Rosa conceived and executed a scientific study of therapeutic touch which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998...
  
  
• Alan Rosen
  Alan Rosen
  Alan Rosen is a robotic neurobiologist, machine consciousness designer, space systems engineer-scientist, and nuclear physicist, known for his design and development of robotic machines that exhibit characteristics of human intelligence, consciousness, and emotions.- Youth :Alan Rosen was born in...
  
  
• Carol Rosin
  Carol Rosin
  Carol Sue Rosin is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. She is a former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and has consulted to a number of companies, organizations, government departments and the intelligence community...
  
  
• Karol G. Ross
  Karol G. Ross
  Dr. Karol Girdler Ross is a leading scientist in decision-making research. She received her Ph.D. in Experiemental Psychology from the University of Tennessee and is now a Chief Scientist for and a Research Psychologist at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central...
  
  
• Francis Peyton Rous
  Francis Peyton Rous
  Peyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer...
  
  
• George C. Royal
  George C. Royal
  George Calvin Royal Jr is one of the few remaining first generation African American microbiologists to receive a Ph.D in the United States and from an Ivy League institution, and was part of one of the few African American husband - wife teams in Science with Gladys W. Royal Ph.D. George C...
  
  
• Edmund Ruffin
  Edmund Ruffin
  Edmund Ruffin was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. He advocated states' rights, secession, and slavery and was described by opponents as one of the Fire-Eaters. He was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and a longstanding enemy of the North...
  
  
• Rodney S. Ruoff
  Rodney S. Ruoff
  Rodney S. Ruoff is a world-leading pioneer in graphene-based materials. He is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair VII Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Physics by the ...
  
  
• Howard A. Rusk
  Howard A. Rusk
  Howard A. Rusk was a prominent physician and founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. He was considered to be the founder of rehabilitation medicine....
  
  
• Ruth L. Kirschstein
  Ruth L. Kirschstein
  Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D. was a pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health . Dr...
  
  
• Raymond St. Leger
  Raymond St. Leger
  Raymond J. St. Leger is an American mycologist, entomologist and molecular biologist who is currently a professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the recipient of the Universities 2009 Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award. St...
  
  
• Elliot Saltzman
  Elliot Saltzman
  Elliot Saltzman is an American psychologist and speech scientist. He is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Boston University and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. He is best known for his development, with J. A...
  
  
• Ram Samudrala
  Ram Samudrala
  Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He researches protein and proteome folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution spanning atomic to organismal levels of description...
  
  
• Thomas J. Samuelian
  Thomas J. Samuelian
  Thomas J. Samuelian is an American author of a number of books and articles in the field of Armenian language, literature, and history. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and St. Nersess Seminary. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania....
  
  
• Berta Scharrer
  Berta Scharrer
  Berta Vogel Scharrer was a German-born American scientist who helped to found the scientific discipline now known as neuroendocrinology.-Legacy:...
  
  
• Stanley F. Schmidt
  Stanley F. Schmidt
  Stanley F. Schmidt was born in Hollister, California, on January 21, 1926. He received the B.E.E. degree from Marquette University in 1946, and M.S. and Ph.D...
  
  
• David P. Schmitt
  David P. Schmitt
  David P. Schmitt is a personality psychologist who founded the International Sexuality Description Project . The ISDP is the largest-ever cross-cultural research study on sex and personality. Over 100 psychologists simultaneously administered an anonymous self-report survey to 17,837 individuals...
  
  
• Francis O. Schmitt
  Francis O. Schmitt
  Francis O. Schmitt was an American biologist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Schmitt received an A.B. in 1924 and a Ph.D. in 1927 from Washington University in St. Louis...
  
  
• Edward L. Schneider
  Edward L. Schneider
  Edward L. Schneider, M.D., is a professor of gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, with a joint appointment in biological sciences and molecular biology....
  
  
• Allan Schore
  Allan Schore
  Allan Schore is a leading researcher in the field of neuropsychology, whose ground-breaking contributions have influenced the fields of affective neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, trauma theory, developmental psychology, attachment theory, pediatrics, infant mental health, psychoanalysis,...
  
  
• Charles Anthony Schott
  Charles Anthony Schott
  Charles Anthony Schott was a German-American scientist.Charles Anthony Schott was born at Mannheim, Baden, Germany. In 1847 he was graduated from the Polytechnic School, at Karlsruhe. The following year he came to America and entered the Coast and Geodetic Survey...
  
  
• Jeffrey H. Schwartz
  Jeffrey H. Schwartz
  Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz, PhD, is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President of the World Academy of Art and Science ....
  
  
• William C. Schwartz
  William C. Schwartz
  William C. Schwartz was a civic leader in Central Florida and a pioneer in the laser industry. He was founder, President and Chairman of International Laser Systems, Inc., and later, Schwartz Electro-Optics, Inc., both based in Orlando, Florida....
  
  
• Katherine D. Seelman
  Katherine D. Seelman
  Katherine Dolores Seelman is an American academic, focused on science, technology and public policy, especially telecommunications and accessibility...
  
  
• John H. Seinfeld
  John H. Seinfeld
  John H. Seinfeld is a expert in the causes and modelling of tropospheric pollution.He grew up in Elmira, NY and attended the University of Rochester, where he received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering...
  
  
• Homayoun Seraji
  Homayoun Seraji
  Homayoun Seraji was an Iranian scientist, engineer, a JPL senior researcher and former professor of Sharif University of Technology who published extensively in the field of multivariable control systems, focusing on optimal control, pole placement, multivariable PID controllers, and output...
  
  
• Ed Seykota
  Ed Seykota
  Edward Arthur Seykota is a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets...
  
  
• Michael Shermer
  Michael Shermer
  Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members...
  
  
• Landrum Brewer Shettles
  Landrum Brewer Shettles
  Landrum Brewer Shettles was an American biologist and pioneering in vitro fertilization researcher at Columbia University.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jay Short
  Jay Short
  Jay Short was CEO, President and Head of Research of Diversa until his departure in 2005.While at Diversa, Short invented methods of protein and pathway discovery via metagenomics, in addition to key evolution technologies, Gene Site Saturation MutagenesisTM and GeneReassemblyTM methods, and was...
  
  
• Deepak Shukla
  Deepak Shukla
  Deepak Shukla, is an American molecular virologist with expertise in herpesviruses.-Early life and education:Shukla was born in Varanasi, . Varanasi. He studied at Kendriya Vidyalaya, BHU and then obtained his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from BHU...
  
  
• Clifford Shull
  Clifford Shull
  Clifford Glenwood Shull was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Steven J. Sibener
  Steven J. Sibener
  Steven J. Sibener is a scientist, who focuses on surface chemistry and physics, and materials research, as well as thin film polymer dynamics and AFM imaging studies of bacterial cell wall structure.-Awards:* Carl William Eisendrath Professor...
  
  
• Robert F. Siliciano
  Robert F. Siliciano
  Robert F. Siliciano, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Siliciano has a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins...
  
  
• Leslie Earl Simon
  Leslie Earl Simon
  Leslie Earl Simon was a 20th century American scientist , and the author of the book, German Research in World War II: an analysis of the conduct of research. He was Major General, Ordnance Department, U.S...
  
  
• Robert L. Simpson, Jr.
  Robert L. Simpson, Jr.
  Dr. Robert L. Simpson, Jr iswhose primary research interest is in applied artificial intelligence, is Chief Scientist at Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc. , a small business focused on applied artificial intelligent solutions to government and industry. He is responsible for ASI core technology...
  
  
• Robert Simpson (meteorologist)
• Lawrence B. Slobodkin
  Lawrence B. Slobodkin
  Lawrence B. Slobodkin was an American ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He was one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology...
  
  
• Richard H. Small
  Richard H. Small
  Richard H. Small is an American scientist, who worked mainly on electroacoustics. The Thiele/Small parameters are named after him and Neville Thiele.-Career:...
  
  
• Jon Michael Smith
  Jon Michael Smith
  Jon Michael Smith is a scientist/engineer List of American scientists who developed the numerical integration technique known as T-integration....
  
  
• Robert R. Sokal
  Robert R. Sokal
  Robert Reuven Sokal is an Austrian-American biostatistician and anthropologist. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of Stony Brook, New York, Sokal is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Steve Spangler
  Steve Spangler
  Steve Spangler is an author, professional speaker, Emmy Award winner, listed in the public Time 100 poll, science teacher, founder of two companies, toy maker and a trained magician...
  
  
• Morgan Sparks
  Morgan Sparks
  Morgan Sparks was an American scientist and engineer who helped develop the microwatt bipolar junction transistor in 1951, which was a critical step in making transistors usable for every-day electronics...
  
  
• Richard O. Spertzel
  Richard O. Spertzel
  Richard O. Spertzel is a veterinarian, microbiologist and expert in the area of biological warfare. He participated in germ warfare research at U.S. Army Medical Unit , Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland....
  
  
• Sol Spiegelman
  Sol Spiegelman
  Sol Spiegelman was an American molecular biologist. He developed the technique of nucleic acid hybridization, which helped to lay the groundwork for advances in recombinant DNA technology....
  
  
• George Starkey (alchemist)
  George Starkey (alchemist)
  George Starkey, born George Stirk , was an American alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer of numerous commentaries and chemical treatises that were widely circulated in Europe and influenced prominent men of science, including Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton...
  
  
• Thomas Starzl
  Thomas Starzl
  Thomas E. Starzl is an American physician, researcher, and is an expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation."-Life:...
  
  
• Michael Stebbins
  Michael Stebbins
  Michael Stebbins is an American geneticist and science writer. He received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and his Ph.D...
  
  
• Allen Steere
  Allen Steere
  Allen C. Steere is a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University and previously at Yale University. Steere is credited with discovering and naming Lyme disease, and he published almost 200 scholarly articles on Lyme disease between 1977 and 2007. At a ceremony in Hartford, Connecticut in 1998,...
  
  
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers...
  
  
• Friedrich Stephan
  Friedrich Stephan
  Dr. Friedrich Stephan is an American academic who is a circadian physiologist. He is the Curt P. Richter Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Florida State University. His research focuses on localization and function of biological clocks in vertebrates, light and food as...
  
  
• Guy Sternberg
  Guy Sternberg
  Guy Sternberg is the owner and operator of Starhill Forest Arboretum in Petersburg, Illinois. He is an arborist, author of books on oaks and is a founding member of the International Oak Society, tree consultant, and lecturer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Stephen Sternberg
  Stephen Sternberg
  Stephen S. Sternberg, M.D. is a retired American surgical pathologist, who worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for his entire career....
  
  
• Barry Stevens (Renewable energy development)
  Barry Stevens (Renewable energy development)
  Dr. Barry Stevens is an American scientist, author, business developer and entrepreneur in technology-driven enterprises; Founder of TBD America Inc., a technology business development group ; and a “Limited Partner U.S.A.” with Bauhaus Capital Partners on renewable energy...
  
  
• Charles Edward Stevens
  Charles Edward Stevens
  Dr. Charles Edward "Ed" Stevens was an American scientist, professor, and veterinarian. An internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems, Dr...
  
  
• Ralph Randles Stewart
  Ralph Randles Stewart
  Dr. Prof. Ralph Randles Stewart usually referred to as R. R. Stewart, was an American botanist who spent his career teaching and studying plants in Pakistan.- Education :...
  
  
• Howard A. Stone
  Howard A. Stone
  Howard Alvin Stone is the Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.His field of research is in fluid mechanics, chemical engineering and complex fluids....
  
  
• Jeremy Stone
  Jeremy Stone
  Jeremy J. Stone was president of the Federation of American Scientists from 1970 to 2000, where he led that organization's advocacy initiatives in arms control, human rights, and foreign policy. In 2000, he was succeeded as president by Dr. Henry Kelly. Stone continued his work at a new...
  
  
• Thomas Blanchard Stowell
  Thomas Blanchard Stowell
  Thomas Blanchard Stowell was a distinguished American educator.Stowell was born on March 29, 1846 in Perry, New York. In 1865, at the age of 19, he graduated from Genesee College . He went on to earn a Master's degree in 1868 and a Ph.D...
  
  
• Wilma Subra
  Wilma Subra
  Wilma Subra is an American environmental scientist.She graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in microbiology, chemistry and computer sciences....
  
  
• Sunil Kumar Ahuja
  Sunil Kumar Ahuja
  Sunil Kumar Ahuja, M.D. is a professor of Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and an expert on the role of immunogenetics on HIV pathogenesis. Dr. Ahuja is also the Director of the Veterans Administration Research...
  
  
• Randy Sweeney
  Randy Sweeney
  William Randolph 'Randy' Sweeney is an American research scientist. He is a Senior Research Engineer and director for R&D at Philip Morris USA.-Biography:Sweeney was born in Richmond, Virginia and educated at the Virginia Tech...
  
  
• Thomas W. Swetnam
  Thomas W. Swetnam
  Thomas W. Swetnam is a Professor of Dendrochronology and the Director of the at the University of Arizona, studying disturbances of forest ecosystems across broad temporal and spatial scales.-Education, Academic and Service Activities:...
  
  
• Doris Taylor
  Doris Taylor
  Doris Taylor is an American scientist known for her achievements in stem cell research and decellularization.She is the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota...
  
  
• Bonnie C. Templeton
  Bonnie C. Templeton
  Bonnie Carolyn Templeton served as curator of botany for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County from 1929 to 1970, a time when women in science were uncommon.-Birth and Adolescence:...
  
  
• Benjamin Thompson
  Benjamin Thompson
  Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford , FRS was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during the American...
  
  
• Edward O. Thorp
  Edward O. Thorp
  Edward Oakley Thorp is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player. He was a pioneer in modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlations for reliable financial gain.He was the author of Beat the Dealer, the first...
  
  
• Victor A. Tiedjens
  Victor A. Tiedjens
  Victor Alphons Tiedjens was an American horticulturist, agronomist, biochemist and soil chemist. He was credited as "one of the pioneers in growing plants in chemical solutions."...
  
  
• Michael Tordoff
  Michael Tordoff
  Dr. Michael G. Tordoff is a psychobiologist working at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. His research deals with the genetics and physiology of taste and nutrition...
  
  
• Frederick Pearson Treadwell
  Frederick Pearson Treadwell
  Frederick Pearson Treadwell was an American analytical chemist working in Switzerland.- Life :...
  
  
• Mead Treadwell
  Mead Treadwell
  Mead Treadwell is the 13th and current Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.- Work with the Arctic Research Commission :...
  
  
• Trinh Xuan Thuan
  Trinh Xuan Thuan
  Trịnh Xuân Thuận is a Vietnamese-American astrophysicist.Thuận was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. He completed his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has taught astronomy at the University of Virginia since 1976, and is a Research Associate at the...
  
  
• Greg Tseng
  Greg Tseng
  Greg Yuchang Tseng is a controversial American Internet entrepreneur. He is co-founder and current CEO of social networking website Tagged...
  
  
• Peter Tsou
  Peter Tsou
  Peter Tsou is a principal science staff member at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked for the past 34 years.Dr. Tsou's area of focus is utilizing aerogel for space exploration.Dr...
  
  
• Merle Tuve
  Merle Tuve
  Merle Anthony Tuve, PhD was an American scientist and geophysicist who was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear...
  
  
• Stuart Umpleby
  Stuart Umpleby
  Stuart Anspach Umpleby is an American cybernetician and a professor in the Department of Management and Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at the George Washington University....
  
  
• Raymond Viskanta
  Raymond viskanta
  Professor Raymond Viskanta is W. F. M. Goss Professor of Engineering at Purdue University. He has distinguished himself during the past 50 years with research that has encompassed a wide range of topics in convection and radiation heat transfer, contributing significantly to Purdue's position as a...
  
  
• Louis R. Vitullo
  Louis R. Vitullo
  Louis R. Vitullo was a Chicago police sergeant and later became chief microanalyst at the city's crime lab. He is best known as the first person to standardize evidence collection in cases of sexual assault, which until then was not done in a systematic fashion...
  
  
• Tuan Vo-Dinh
  Tuan Vo-Dinh
  Tuan Vo-Dinh is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of Duke University. Vo-Dinh has been ranked No...
  
  
• John Volkman
  John Volkman
  John E. Volkman was an American industrial scientist, spent his career at RCA, designing studios and auditoria, and sound reinforcement components....
  
  
• William Hultz Walker
  William Hultz Walker
  William Hultz Walker April 7, 1869 – July 9, 1934 was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and graduated in 1890 at Penn State College and took his Ph.D. at Göttingen . In 1894 he accepted the chair of industrial chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where from 1908 he was also director of...
  
  
• William X. Wang
  William X. Wang
  William X. Wang is a Chinese American scientist and entrepreneur.-Early life:Wang was born in Wuhan, a metropolitan lying at the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han River in Central China...
  
  
• Mansukh C. Wani
  Mansukh C. Wani
  Professor Mansukh C. Wani, Ph.D. is a principal scientist at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina. He is co-discoverer of Taxol and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers. In 2000, Dr. Wani received an...
  
  
• Brian Wansink
  Brian Wansink
  Brian Wansink is an American professor in the fields of consumer behavior and nutritional science. He is a former Executive Director of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion ....
  
  
• Warren Winkelstein
  Warren Winkelstein
  Warren Winkelstein Jr., M.D., M.P.H. is an American epidemiologist and professor emeritus in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Winkelstein is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• James D. Watson
  James D. Watson
  James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...
  
  
• Owen Webster
  Owen Webster
  Owen W. Webster is a distinguished member of the organic and polymer chemistry communities. His polymerization technique for making block copolymer dispersing agents is used by DuPont to make ink-jet printer inks....
  
  
• Richard Weiszmann
  Richard Weiszmann
  Richard Weiszmann is a retired American soccer defender who played for the New England Revolution in 1996. He also spent five seasons in the USISL...
  
  
• Guenter Wendt
  Guenter Wendt
  Günter F. Wendt was a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs , and the...
  
  
• Paul Werbos
  Paul Werbos
  Paul J. Werbos is a scientist best known for his 1974 Harvard University Ph.D. thesis, which first described the process of training artificial neural networks through backpropagation of errors. The thesis, and some supplementary information, can be found in his book, The Roots of Backpropagation...
  
  
• James Westphal
  James Westphal
  James Adolf Westphal was an American academic, scientist, engineer, inventor and astronomer and Director of Caltech's Palomar Observatory from 1994 through 1997....
  
  
• Douglas Whalen
  Douglas Whalen
  Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist who is presently a program officer at the National Science Foundation where he is affiliated with the Cognitive Neuroscience, Documenting Endangered Languages, and Linguistics programs...
  
  
• Woodrow Whitlow, Jr.
• William T. Wickner
  William T. Wickner
  William T. Wickner born March 13, 1946, the James C. Chilcott '20 Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School, is an authority on membrane fusion and inheritance, which is a fundamental problem in eukaryotic and bacterial cell biology....
  
  
• Sheila Widnall
• John R. Wiegand
  John R. Wiegand
  John R. Wiegand discovered the Wiegand effect, a physical phenomenon in which a specially constructed Wiegand wire can detect small magnetic fields. The Wiegand wire is commonly used as a sensor to read security access cards. There is also a Wiegand Protocol commonly used to transmit the data...
  
  
• Richard Wiese
  Richard Wiese
  Richard Wiese is a world-class explorer. He is the author of a detailed guidebook titled Born to Explore. Wiese is the host of the ABC television program, Born to Explore, which was scheduled to debut September 3, 2011....
  
  
• John Wilbanks
  John Wilbanks
  John Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and runs the Consent to Research Project.-Education and career:John Wilbanks grew up in Knoxville, TN. He attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1994...
  
  
• Don Craig Wiley
  Don Craig Wiley
  Don Craig Wiley was an American microbiologist.Wiley was world-renowned for finding new ways to help the human immune system battle such viral scourges as smallpox, influenza, AIDS, Ebola, and herpes simplex. His research was honored with the 1993 Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award...
  
  
• Samuel Wendell Williston
  Samuel Wendell Williston
  Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially , rather than arboreally . He was also an entomologist, specialising in Diptera.-Early life:Williston was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Williston and...
  
  
• Beth Willman
  Beth Willman
  Beth Willman is an American astronomer and is an assistant professor at Haverford College. Working with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, she and her team have discovered two Milky Way satellites so far, SDSSJ1049+5103 and UMa dSph....
  
  
• Bryan Willson
  Bryan Willson
  Dr. Bryan Willson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University and is the current director and founder of the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at CSU. His main area of research interest involves the development of sustainable energy solutions.Dr...
  
  
• Ian Wilson (biologist)
  Ian Wilson (biologist)
  Ian Andrew Wilson is a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, United States.He received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1971, his PhD degree in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University in 1976 and did postdoctoral research at Harvard...
  
  
• Charles F. Winslow
• John A. Wise
  John A. Wise
  John A. Wise, PhD , was an American scientist and writer in the field of nutrition. He was honored in 2010 with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Council for Responsible Nutrition, an industry association dedicated to responsible business practices in the nutrition industry...
  
  
• Carl Woese
  Carl Woese
  Carl Richard Woese is an American microbiologist and physicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1977,...
  
  
• Flossie Wong-Staal
  Flossie Wong-Staal
  Flossie Wong-Staal , born Yee Ching Wong, is a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, a major step in proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS...
  
  
• Richard D. Wood
  Richard D. Wood
  Richard D. Wood is an American molecular biologist specializing in research on DNA repair and mutation. He is known for pioneering studies on nucleotide excision repair , particularly for reconstituting the minimum set of proteins involved in this process, identifying proliferating cell nuclear...
  
  
• Robert A. Woodruff
  Robert A. Woodruff
  Robert A. Woodruff is an American physicist who is known principally for having designed and worked on a wide variety of instruments for space telescopes...
  
  
• Gordon Woods
  Gordon Woods
  Gordon Woods was an American veterinary scientist who co-created Idaho Gem, the world's first cloned mule.-Early life:...
  
  
• Robert Simpson Woodward
  Robert Simpson Woodward
  Robert Simpson Woodward was an American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of...
  
  
• Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr.
  Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr.
  Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr. was a United States Forest Service employee, forestry researcher, professor at Yale University and author of books and articles related to forestry and forest regulation. In 1917 Woolsey was offered the position of Major in the U.S...
  
  
• Arthur W. Wright
  Arthur W. Wright
  -Experiments with Röntgen rays:In 1896, Wright had been experimenting with Crookes tube of spherical shape to generate long exposure x-ray photographs. He believed the cathode rays exuded in the sphere were dynamically different from those discovered by Phillipp Lenard only a year earlier...
  
  
• Joshua Wurman
  Joshua Wurman
  Joshua Michael Aaron Ryder Wurman is an atmospheric scientist and inventor noted for tornado, hurricane, and weather radar research.-Life and career:Wurman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Radnor High School...
  
  
• Xuong Nguyen-Huu
  Xuong Nguyen-Huu
  Xuong Nguyen-Huu received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NATO Senior Fellowship, and a UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics and Biology at UC San Diego...
  
  
• Xiangzhong Yang
  Xiangzhong Yang
  Professor Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang was a leading American biotechnology scientist, and stem cell research advocate...
  
  
• J. Scott Yaruss
  J. Scott Yaruss
  J. Scott Yaruss is an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Co-director of Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania....
  
  
• K. Aslihan Yener
  K. Aslihan Yener
  K. Aslihan Yener is an archaeologist of Turkish descent whose work on Bronze Age tin mines in Anatolia revealed a new possible source of the important metal.-Education and early years:...
  
  
• Hubert Yockey
  Hubert Yockey
  Professor Hubert P. Yockey , PhD is a physicist and information theorist. He worked under Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project, and at the University of California, Berkeley....
  
  
• Mariano Yogore
  Mariano Yogore
  Dr. Mariano G. Yogore, Jr. was a Full Professor in the University of Chicago Department of Microbiology beginning in 1959 and also Professor and head of Institute of Public Health at the University of the Philippines. He also had held the position of Research Associate and Professor in the...
  
  
• Paul Zamecnik
  Paul Zamecnik
  Paul Charles Zamecnik was an American scientist who played a central role in the early history of molecular biology. He was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Zamecnik pioneered the in vitro synthesis of proteins and helped...
  
  
• Paul Zindel
  Paul Zindel
  Paul Zindel Jr. was an American playwright, author, and educator.-Early years:Zindel was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York to Paul Zindel,Sr., a policeman, and Beatrice Frank, a nurse; his sister, Betty Hagen, was a year and a half older than he. Paul Zindel, Sr...
  
  

See also

• Science and technology in the United States
  Science and technology in the United States
  The United States came into being around the Age of Enlightenment , a period in which writers and thinkers rejected the superstitions of the past. Instead, they emphasized the powers of reason and unbiased inquiry, especially inquiry into the workings of the natural world...