Scientists
Pioneering physician Elizabeth Blackwell, pioneering astronaut Pamela Melroy, and naturalist Henry Augustus Ward are the most notable scientists to come from the Rochester area.
- James C. Adamson, astronaut
- Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to become qualified as a medical doctor
- Frank J. Duarte, laser physicist and author
- Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist
- David Lipman, bioinformaticist
- Edward Tsang Lu, space shuttle astronaut, International Space Station resident
- Pamela Melroy, astronaut
- Lewis Henry Morgan, anthropologist
- John Wesley Powell, geologist
- Mark Rosenzweig, research psychologist
- Lewis A. Swift, astronomer
- Henry Augustus Ward, naturalist and geologist, founder of Ward's Natural Science
- John Ralston Williams, medical pioneer
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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)
“Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don’t pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“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)