Medicine
- Robert Gallo (Resident in Medicine 1963-1965) - Identified first retrovirus in humans.
- Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) - Microbiologist, specialising in vaccinology.
- Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) - MacArthur Fellow (1995); Acting director (1985) of the Centers for Disease Control.
- Leon Kass (S.B. 1958, M.D. 1962) - Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics; Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute.
- Ulysses G. Mason (M.D. 1936) - Founder of the first integrated hospital.
- Joseph Ransohoff (M.D. 1941) - Pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; founder of the first neurosurgical intensive care unit; chief of neurosurgery at NYU Medical Center.
- Janet Rowley (Ph.B. 1944, S.B. 1946, M.D. 1948) - Discovered translocation on chromosome 9 resulted in the Philadelphia chromosome, and had implications for specific types of leukemia. Her work has influenced further research into cancer genetics.
- Samuel Stanley, MD- Immunologist, Biomedical Researcher and 5th President of Stony Brook University
- David Talmage {Professor of Medicine}- Discovered The Clonal Selection Theory
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucius.
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)