List of People From The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area - Science/Research

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