Science, Technology, Medicine, and Mathematics
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roger Adams (1889–1971) | College 1909, Ph.D. 1912 | Pioneering organic chemist | |
| Howard H. Aiken (1900–1973) | M.A. 1937; Ph.D. 1939 | Computer scientist; Designer of the Harvard Mark I | |
| James Gilbert Baker (1914–2005) | Ph.D. 1942 | Astronomer, optician | |
| John Bartlett (minister) (1784–1849) | College 1805 | Minister, Founder of Massachusetts General Hospital | |
| Amy Bishop | Ph.D. 2003 | Genetics, Neuroscience, 2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting | |
| Francine D. Blau (born 1946) | M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1975 | Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, first woman to receive the IZA Prize in Labor Economics | |
| Dan Bricklin (born 1951) | Business 1979 | Creator of VisiCalc | |
| Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996) | College 1917; A.M. 1921; Ph.D. 1923 | Geologist; One of the top Canadian scientists of the 20th century; Thomasclarkite | |
| Stephen Cook | S.M. 1962; Ph.D. 1966 | Computer scientist | |
| Don Coppersmith | S.M. 1975; Ph.D. 1977 | Computer scientist | |
| Leda Cosmides (born 1957) | College 1979; Ph.D. 1985 | Evolutionary psychologist | |
| Robert K. Crane | Ph.D. 1950 | Biochemist | |
| Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) | Medical 1895 | Brain surgeon | |
| Elliott Cutler (1888–1947) | College 1909, M.D. 1913; Professor | Surgeon and medical educator | |
| Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) | Ph.D. 1962 | Chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96 | |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) | College 1980 | Astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Television Host | |
| Fe Del Mundo (born 1911) | Medical 1938 | National Scientist of the Philippines, Pediatrician, Recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award, Devised an incubator made out of bamboo which was designed for use in rural communities without electrical power. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School. | |
| Russell Doolittle | Ph.D., 1962 | Biochemist | |
| Gideon Dreyfuss | Ph.D. 1978 | Biochemist, HHMI Investigator | |
| Charles Epstein (geneticist) | Harvard Medical College 1959 | Geneticist; Injured by Ted Kaczynski aka Unabomber | |
| Paul Farmer (born 1959) | Medical 1988; Ph.D. 1990; Professor | Founder of Partners in Health | |
| Lewis J. Feldman | Ph.D. 1975 | Professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| Rabab Fetieh (born 1954) | Dental 1987 | First Saudi Arabian female orthodontist | |
| Robert Galambos (1914–2010) | Ph.D. | researcher who discovered how bats use echolocation | |
| Paul Graham (born 1964) | S.M. 1988; Ph.D. 1990 | Computer programmer and essayist | |
| Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893–1977) | College 1915 | paleontologist | |
| Brian Greene (born 1963) | College 1984 | Famous in the world of String Theory; Columbia University Professor | |
| Victor Guillemin (born 1937) | Ph.D. 1962 | Differential geometer | |
| G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924) | Ph.D. 1878 | First president of APA and Clark University | |
| Benjamin Morgan Harrod (1837–1912) | College 1856; Civil Engineering 1859 | Designed the water and sewerage systems in his native New Orleans, Louisiana | |
| Donald Olding Hebb (1904-1985) | PhD 1936 | Canadian psychologist; "father of neuropsychology"; President of the American Psychological Association 1960; Fellow of the Royal Society; Chancellor of McGill University 1970-1974 | |
| Andrew Heckerling (born 1979) | College 2001 | Product Development Manager, Axion Biosystems; Associate Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |
| Heisuke Hironaka (1931–) | Ph.D. 1960; Professor | Mathematician; Fields Medal winner | |
| Arthur Allen Hoag (1921–1999) | Ph.D. 1953 | Discovered Hoag's object | |
| Tony Hsieh (1973–) | College 1995 | CEO of online shoe and clothing shop Zappos, co-founder of LinkExchange, author of Delivering Happiness | |
| Ruth Hubbard (1924–) | Ph.D. 1950 Radcliffe | professor, biologist | |
| Ernest Ingersoll (1852—1946) | naturalist, writer and explorer | ||
| Thomas Jaggar | Ph.D. 1897 | Geologist, founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory | |
| William James (1842–1910) | Medical 1869 | Philosopher; psychologist; gave name to William James Hall | |
| Michio Kaku (born 1947) | College 1968 | theoretical physicist, activist | |
| Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956) | Sc. D. 1919 | Sexologist | |
| Ivan Krstić | College | Computer security expert | |
| Holbrook Mann MacNeille (1907–1973) | Ph.D. 1935 | Mathematician | |
| Scott McNealy (born 1954) | College 1976 | Co-founder and chairman of Sun Microsystems | |
| Marvin Minsky (born 1927) | College 1950 | Computer scientist | |
| Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) | College 1908 | Mayanist scholar and archaeologist | |
| Robert Tappan Morris (born 1965) | College 1987; S.M. 1993; Ph.D. 1999 | CS professor at MIT, creator of the first computer worm | |
| David Mumford (born 1937) | College 1957; Ph.D. 1961 | Mathematician; Fields Medal winner | |
| Major General Spurgeon Neel (1919–2003) | M.P.H. 1958 | pioneer of aeromedical evacuation | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) | College 1925 | Physicist, "father of the atomic bomb" | |
| Tim O'Reilly | College 1975 | Founder of O'Reilly Media | |
| George Parkman (1790–1849) | College 1809; Medical 1813 | Physician;businessman; murder victim | |
| Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) | College 1859 | Philosopher; Mathematician | |
| A. Sivathanu Pillai (born 1947) | Business 1991 | Distinguished Scientist & Chief Controller DRDO and CEO of BrahMos Aerospace | |
| Mark Plotkin (born 1955) | Extension 1979 | Ethnobotanist; founder of Amazon Conservation Team | |
| Daniel Quillen (1940–2011) | College 1961; Ph.D. 1964 | Mathematician; Fields Medal winner | |
| Christian R. H. Raetz | M.D. and Ph.D. 1973 | Professor of biochemistry at Duke University and member of National Academy of Sciences | |
| Charles Reigeluth | B.A. Economics, 1969 | Professor of instructional design systems and creator of Elaboration Theory | |
| Stuart A. Rice (born 1932) | A.M. 1954; Ph.D. 1955 | Physical chemist at The University of Chicago | |
| Dennis Ritchie | College 1963; Ph.D. 1968 | Computer Scientist | |
| Vern L. Schramm | M.S nutrition | Professor of biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine | |
| Harold Hill Smith (1910–1994) | Ph.D. | Geneticist | |
| Richard Stallman (born 1953) | College 1974 | Founder of the Free Software Foundation | |
| John Tooby | Ph.D. 1985 | Anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist | |
| John White Webster (1793–1850) | College 1811; Medical 1815 | Physician; professor; killer | Parkman-Webster murder case |
| Edward Osborne Wilson (born 1929) | Ph.D. 1955; professor | Biologist | |
| Charles F. Winslow (1811–1877) | Medical 1834 | Physician, diplomat, and atomic theorist | |
| John Winthrop (1714–1779) | College 1732; professor | Astronomer; Mathematician | |
| Chauncey Wright (1830–1875) | College 1852 | Mathematician, philosopher, professor |
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