Sciences
| Name | Year | Notability | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown, David McDowellDavid McDowell Brown | 1978 | Astronaut, surgeon and pilot who died during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003 | |
| DeVita, Vincent T.Vincent T. DeVita | 1957 | Physician and pioneer in oncology; CEO of Yale University's Comprehensive Cancer Institute | |
| Holsinger, SarahSarah Holsinger | 1958 | Head of the dairy products research unit of the U.S.D.A.'s Agricultural Research Service; developed enzyme treatment to make milk digestible by people with lactose intolerance, research that resulted in the commercial product Lactaid | |
| Miller, George H.George H. Miller | 1967 / M.S. 1969 / Ph.D 1972 |
Notable physicist; current director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | |
| Old, Jr., William ErwoodWilliam Erwood Old, Jr. | 19?? | Malacologist | |
| Spicer, WilliamWilliam Spicer | 1949 | Professor of physics at Stanford University (1963–2004); developer of night vision technology; inventor of modern night vision devices | |
| Winfree, William P.William P. Winfree | 1975 !M.S. 1975 / Ph.D. 1978 |
Experimental physicist who is known for his contributions to the field of nondestructive evaluation | |
| Richels, Richard G.Richard G. Richels | 1968 | Directs global climate change research at the Electric Power Research Institute |
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)