Math, Science and Technology
- Mary Anderson, inventor of windshield wipers
- Andrew Jackson Beard, inventor of automatic railcar coupling
- Lawrence J. DeLucas, biophysical engineer; Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut.
- E. O. Wilson, entomologist and noted author
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