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:
“The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct “feminine” behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“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)