Life Sciences and Medicine
- Hyman Biegeleisen (c. 1922), physician and vein expert, pioneer of phlebology
- Philip H. Sechzer (1930) anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
- Joshua Lederberg (1940) genetics; 1957 United States National Academy of Sciences, 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1989 National Medal of Science, former President of Rockefeller University, 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Robert Werman (1946) neurophysiology (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, retired)
- Leonard Taylor (1947) electrical engineer; pioneer in radiation therapy (University of Maryland, College Park, emeritus)
- Socrates Litsios (1952) public health history; malaria, WHO, plague legends, Gorgas, Dickens, etc. (World Health Organization, retired)
- Thomas F. Weiss (1952) auditory physiology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Robert G. Martin (1952) National Institutes of Health; Martin's wife is Judith Martin, aka "Miss Manners"
- Alvin F. Poussaint (1952) clinical psychiatry (Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard University)
- Michael Alan Bleyman (1955) microbiology; formerly director, Carnivore Preservation Trust (d. 1996)
- Manning Feinleib (1955) epidemiology; former dir. National Center for Health Statistics (Georgetown University)
- Robert Ira Lewy (1960), Hematology, Baylor College of Medicine, developed early application of aspirin in heart disease and donated to the creation of the Stuyvesant High School library in 2006, the Dr Robert Ira Lewy Multimedia Center.
- Dennis Carson (1962) immunologist, Director of University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center
- Richard Axel (1963) biochemistry, 2004 Nobel Prize, post-doced with Gary Felsenfeld (1947)
- Eric Lander (1974) computational biology; Westinghouse scholarship, Rhodes Scholar, MacArthur Fellow, codirector of Human Genome Project, 1997 United States National Academy of Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Francis Barany (1974) microbiology (Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University)
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