Science
See also:Nobel laureates
- Arthur L. Benton (1931), neuropsychologist.
- Thaddeus Cahill (1889), physicist, inventor of the teleharmonium, the first electromechanical musical instrument.
- Kenneth Stewart Cole (1922), biophysicist, best known for creating the concept of the voltage clamp.
- Joan Feynman (1948), Solar astrophysicist (at JPL in Pasadena, California) who created a method to predict sun spot cycles and made original studies on the interactions between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere . Sister of Richard Feynman.
- Jim Fixx (1957), author of The Complete Book of Running.
- Thomas Frieden (1982), Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Robert Galambos (1914–2010), researcher who discovered how bats use echolocation.
- John Gofman (1939), a scientist involved in the Manhattan Project and an activist concerning issues with nuclear power and radiation danger.
- Elisha Gray, an inventor of the telephone who was beaten to the patent office by Alexander Graham Bell. Also credited with the invention of the electromechanical oscillator. The records of his inventions still remain in the Oberlin Archive.
- Philip Hanawalt (1954), scientist, co-discoverer of DNA excision repair.
- Ellen Hayes (1878) astronomer and mathematician
- Edward Haskell (1929), scientist and educator who dedicated his life to the unification of human knowledge into a single discipline.
- Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009), biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme.
- Ernest Ingersoll, American naturalist.
- Richard Lenski (1977), biologist and 1996 MacArthur Fellow.
- John Edward Mack (1951), psychologist, author (A Prince of Our Disorder).
- Rollo May (1930), psychologist, author.
- Catherine McBride-Chang 1989, Psychologist, researcher in the area of cross-cultural development of early literacy skills
- George Herbert Mead (1883), philosopher, leading figure of American Pragmatism; his theories became the foundation of the symbolic interactionist school of sociology and social psychology.
- Anita Roberts (1964), molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of TGF beta
- Larry Squire (1963), Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at University of California, San Diego, researcher in the field of memory, Past President of the Society for Neuroscience.
- Paul Wennberg (1985), chemist and 2002 MacArthur Fellow.
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Geomicrobiologist at the US Geological Survey and a Fellow of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
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