Math, Science, and Invention
- Ruth Benerito, inventor of wrinkle-free cotton
- Alfred H. Clifford, mathematician
- Jan Hamer, organic chemist
- Benjamin Morgan Harrod, civil engineer
- Andrew Higgins, ship builder & inventor
- Emile Lamm, inventor
- Abraham Louis Levin, physician and inventor of the Levin Tube
- Levi Spear Parmley, inventor of dental floss
- Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist
- Norbert Rilleaux, inventor, engineer
- A. Baldwin Wood, inventor & engineer
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