List of Bates College People - Science

Science

• Charles Verrill, attended 1857-1858, Professor of Mathematics at Mansfield University
• Frank H. Hall, Class of 1862 (Seminary), inventor of "Hall braille writer" in the 1880s and an early electric clock
• Oliver C. Wendell, Class of 1868, Harvard University astronomer
• Lyman Jordan, Class of 1870, Chemistry and Biology scholar at Bates College
• John Irwin Hutchinson, Class of 1889, Cornell University mathematician
• Herbert E. Walter, Class of 1892, geneticist, author, Brown University professor, and marine biologist at Woods Hole
• Stella (James) Sims, Class of 1897, African American scholar, professor of science at Storer College
• William Spear, Class of 1937, Pioneer in Emergency Medicine and first president of the Maine Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Chairman of the Maine Governor's Advisory Board for Licensure of Ambulance Services. First Chief of the Emergency Department at Central Maine General, now Central Maine Medical Center.
• Frances Carroll, Class of 1939, Manhattan Project scientist (1943–1945)
• Edith K. MacRae, Class of 1940, Biochemist at M.I.T., first female on the biology faculty
• John A. Kenney, Class of 1942, President of National Medical Association, researcher of African skin diseases
• George Hammond, Class of 1943, chemist, professor, researcher, recipient of the National Medal of Science
• John Googin, Class of 1944, Manhattan Project scientist (1944–1945)
• Zanvil A. Cohn, Class of 1948, cell biologist and immunologist, professor at Rockefeller University
• Robert McAfee, Class of 1956, President of the American Medical Association (1994–1995)
• Suzanne Hurd, Class of 1961, Director, Division of Lung Disease National Institutes of Health
• Michael Falk, Class of 1970, Biochemist, director of Life Sciences Research Office
• Steven M. Girvin, Class of 1974, Yale University theoretical physicist.
• John R. Hetling, Class of 1989, Bioengineer at the University of Illinois at Chicago