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:
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“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)
“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)