Academics and Science
- H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934), author and historian who was expelled from his Stanford University professorship for involvement in a leftist group.
- Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008), geneticist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work in bacterial genetics, was born in Montclair.
- Ronald T. Raines (born 1958), chemical biologist and expert on the chemistry and biology of proteins.
- Dr. Leo Sternbach (1908–2005), chemist, invented precursor to Valium.
- Edward Weston (1850–1936), electrical engineer and inventor whose Weston Electrical Instrument Company won the contract to illuminate the Brooklyn Bridge.
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