Academics and Science
- Ira Black (1941–2006) – neuroscientist and stem-cell researcher; first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey
- Todd Gitlin (born 1943) – sociologist; co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society
- Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008) – cardiac-surgery pioneer
- Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008) – nose cone physicist; co-inventor of the intra-aortic balloon pump
- Robert Lefkowitz (born 1943) Nobel prize for chemistry of protein receptors, 2012
- Paul Levinson (born 1947) – science-fiction and non-fiction author; communications professor
- Ronald Mallett (born 1945) – theroetical physicist of time travel
- Joseph M. McShane (born 1942) – Jesuit priest; president of Fordham University
- Joseph A. O'Hare (born 1931) – Jesuit priest; longest-serving president of Fordham University (1984–2003); first chair of New York City Campaign Finance Board (1988–2003)
- Carolyn Porco (born 1953) – planetary scientist; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the Colorado Space Science Institute, studying Saturn
- Alan Pred (1936-2007) – geographer at University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley
- Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) – economist; helped define modern libertarianism
- Ken Schaffer (born 1947) – inventor; invented wireless guitar, video placeshifting
- Joseph Francis Shea (1925–1999) – aerospace engineer; headed NASA's Apollo program
- Robert Sobel (1931–1999) – historian and writer; history professor at Hofstra University; writer of business histories
- Michael I. Sovern (born 1931) – Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and President Emeritus of Columbia University
- Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) – computer designer; director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
- Leonard Susskind (born 1940) – theoretical physicist
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1959) – astrophysicist; director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium; host of PBS's educational-television series NOVA scienceNOW
- Allen Weinstein (born 1937) – historian; Archivist of the United States
- Barry Wellman (born 1942) – sociologist; University of Toronto professor studying social networks, community and the Internet
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born 1921) – medical physicist; co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) – historian; Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)
“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecution of science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)