Science
| Alumni | Class | Reasoning for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Ambati Balamurali Ambati | 1989 | youngest person to become a doctor |
| Askey Richard Askey | 1951 | mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials |
| Baer, Eric Eric Baer | 1949 | polymer and plastics researcher |
| Berman Edgar Berman | 1932 | surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey |
| Bloom, William William Bloom | 1916 | pathologist |
| Caplan, Louis Louis R. Caplan | 1954 | neurologist |
| Dryden, Hugh Hugh Latimer Dryden | 1913 | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA |
| DunnWendell E. Dunn, Jr. | 1938 | chemical engineer, metallurgist |
| Golomb Solomon W. Golomb | 1949 | mathematician, engineer, inventor of polyominoes |
| Hackerman Norman L. Hackerman | 1928 | chemist, former president, University of Texas, Rice University |
| Howell, William HenryWilliam Henry Howell | 1878 | physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| KatzNicholas Katz | 1960 | mathematician; Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture |
| Kinsey, Lee Lee Kinsey | 1920 | physicist, astronomer; chairman, Department of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Kramer, Morton Morton Kramer | 1931 | bio-statistician, created international standards in mental health diagnostics |
| Levin, Simon Simon A. Levin | 1957 | ecologist, Princeton University |
| Plitt Charles C. Plitt | 1866 | botanist |
| Resnick, RobertRobert Resnick | 1939 | physicist; professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oersted Medal (1974) |
| Rodbell, MartinMartin Rodbell | 1943 | biochemist, molecular endocrinologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 |
| Sonneborn Tracy M. Sonneborn | 1922 | biologist, geneticist |
| Strasb Victor Strasburger | 1967 | pediatrician; medical adolescent expert |
| Wheeler, John John Archibald Wheeler | 1927 | theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics |
| Wolman Abel Wolman | 1909 | sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques |
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“After sitting in my chamber many days, reading the poets, I have been out early on a foggy morning and heard the cry of an owl in a neighboring wood as from a nature behind the common, unexplored by science or by literature.”
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