Science/Research
- Edward Goodrich Acheson - (Washington)
- Ross Allen – herpetologist
- Sara Alpern – women's historian at Texas A&M University
- David Alter – (Westmoreland) leading inventor of Spectrum Analysis as well as early telegraphs and telephones
- Christian B. Anfinsen – (Westmoreland) Nobel Prize winner
- Frederick S. Billig – scramjet pioneer
- Andrew H. Bobeck – (Fayette) Bell Labs scientist, invented Bubble Memory
- William D. Boyce – founder, Boy Scouts of America
- Rachel Carson – Author, marine biologist, nature writer, and environmenatalist
- Yuan Chang - Virologist, codiscoverer of causes of several viral cancers including Kaposi's sarcoma
- Robert L. Coble - (Fayette)
- Childs Frick - (Allegheny)
- Richard Hartshorne – (Armstrong) leading geographer
- John Holdren - (Allegheny)
- William Jacob Holland – entomologist and chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania
- Stephanie Kwolek – (Westmoreland) inventor of Kevlar
- Dorothy Molter – (Westmoreland) naturalist
- Helen Morrison – (Westmoreland) noted criminologist
- George C. Nichopoulos - (Allegheny) Elvis' personal physician.
- H. Winnett Orr – (Westmorland) leading research doctor, invented and popularized the plaster cast method
- Randy Pausch, founder of Alice, and man behind the Last Lecture
- Judith Resnik – biomedical engineer and astronaut who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger; second American woman and the second Jew in space
- John Roebling – (Butler) civil engineer, one of the pioneers in the construction of suspension bridges
- Washington Roebling – (Butler) civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge
- David Roselle – (Westmoreland) Mathematician President of Univ. of Kentucky, President of Univ. of Delaware
- Jonas Salk – physician and inventor of first polio vaccine
- Clifford Shull – (Allegheny) Nobel Prize winner
- Harriet Shetler – (Armstrong) Founder of the National Alliance for Mental Illness
- Alex Shigo – arboriculturist and horticulturist
- Herbert A. Simon – Carnegie Mellon University professor and winner of Nobel Prize for Economics
- Herbert Spiegel – (Allegheny) popularized the use of Hypnosis therapy
- Thomas Starzl – pioneering transplantsurgeon in liver and multiorgan transplantation
- Jesse Steinfeld – United States Surgeon General under President Richard Nixon
- Otto Stern – German-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his studies of molecular beams (Carnegie Institute of Technology professor (now Carnegie Mellon University))
- James L. Swauger - (Westmoreland)
- Nicholas E. Wagman (Allegheny)
- Jerome Wolken (1917–1999), biophysicist
- Jamie Zawinski – (Allegheny)
- Vladimir Zworykin – engineer and inventor, developed an early form of television; the IEEE presents a Vladimir Zworykin Award for outstanding contributions to development of television technology
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