Science and Technology
- Michael P. Anderson, astronaut killed in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- Walter Houser Brattain, awarded 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Dorothy M. Horstmann virologist, made important discoveries about polio
- Robyn and Rand Miller, founders of Cyan Worlds, the company that produced the computer game Myst
- Wilder Graves Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon who mapped out the functional areas of the cerebral cortex and pioneered groundbreaking research into epilepsy treatment
- Irwin Rose, biologist awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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