Science and Medicine
- Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), naturalist (Beloit)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991), Nobel Prize-winning physicist (Madison)
- George Harold Brown (1908–1987), developer of color television (Portage)
- Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928), geologist (Beloit)
- John Henry Comstock (1849–1931), entomologist (Janesville)
- Seymour Cray (1925–1996), computer designer (Chippewa Falls)
- John Thomas Curtis (1913–1961), botanist and ecologist, the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him (Milwaukee)
- Marshall E. Cusic Jr., Chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Reserve Corps (Marshfield)
- Farrington Daniels (1889–1972), pioneer researcher in Solar energy (Madison)
- Richard Davidson (born 1951), psychologist, pioneer of affective neuroscience (Madison)
- Hector DeLuca, Vitamin D metabolism (Madison)
- Michael Dhuey (born 1958), co-developer of the Macintosh II and the iPod (Milwaukee)
- Olin J. Eggen (1919–1998), astronomer (Orfordville)
- Milton Erickson (1901–1980), founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, NLP
- Ernst Guillemin (1898–1970), recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (Milwaukee)
- Donald Knuth (born 1938), computer scientist (Milwaukee)
- Donald Laub (1935–), plastic surgeon (Milwaukee)
- Albert Lehninger (1917–1986), biochemist (Madison)
- Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), ecologist (Madison)
- Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), discovered warfarin (named for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) (Madison)
- William Shainline Middleton (1890–1975), co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine (Madison)
- John Muir (1838–1914), environmentalist (Portage)
- John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), inventor of Murphy's punch sign, Murphy's sign, and the Murphy drip (Appleton)
- Robert B. Pinter (1937–2001), biomedical engineer (Milwaukee)
- Carl Rogers (1902–1987), psychologist and originator of "client-centered therapy" (Madison)
- Francis G. Slack (1897–1985), physicist (Superior)
- Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), Vitamin D catalyzed by sunlight, D-fortified milk; rickets cured (Charlestown, New Holstein, Madison)
- Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836–1920), inventor of the Tainter gate (Prairie du Chien)
- James Thomson (born 1958), first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells (Madison)
- Darold Treffert, noted psychiatrist (Fond du Lac)
- Charles R. Van Hise (1857–1918), geologist and academic (Fulton)
- Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), sociologist, economist, social theorist (Cato)
- Warren Weaver (1894–1978), pioneer of machine translation (Reedsburg)
- Daniel Hale Williams (1858–1931), surgeon (Janesville)
- Joseph Zimmerman (1912–2004), inventor of the answering machine (Kenosha)
- Otto Julius Zobel (1887–1970), inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network (Ripon)
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“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
“In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)