Scientists and Inventors
- Benjamin Banneker, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author
- Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon
- Rachel Carson, environmentalist
- George Dantzig, mathematical scientist
- Roger L. Easton, principal inventor of Global Positioning System
- Charles Fefferman, mathematician
- Henry Gantt, mechanical engineer
- Solomon Golomb, mathematician who invented pentominoes
- Michael Griffin, NASA administrator
- Arlo Hemphill, explorer/ocean conservationist
- John Mauchly, physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, invented the first general-purpose electronic computer
- Ayub K. Ommaya, neurosurgeon
- Arthur William Savage, inventor of the Savage Model 99
- Paul Reed Smith, luthier
- John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
- Edward Witten, physicist/mathematician
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Famous quotes containing the words scientists and/or inventors:
“All you of Earth are idiots!... First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade. They begin to kill your own people a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb, many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb—split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself.”
—Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1922–1978)
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)