List of University of Florida People - Notable Alumni or Attendees - Science and Mathematics

Science and Mathematics

• Mark Adler, American researcher, known for his work in data compression, and creator of zlib and gzip
• Seong-Eun Ahn, notable Korean economist
• James Allchin, developed Microsoft Operating Systems, former executive
• Miguel Altieri, notable Agroecologist at the University of California, Berkeley
• John D. Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum
• John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer
• C. D. Atkins, co-creator of the frozen Orange Juice concentrate
• Rodney J. Bartlett, American chemist, and Guggenheim Fellow
• Marston Bates, American zoologist and fellow with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Charles A. Becker, food scientist, winner of the Calvert L. Willey Award
• Sidney W. Bijou, developmental psychologist
• George F. Bond, American physician, and father of saturation diving
• Karen Ramey Burns, American forensic anthropologist, and Fulbright Scholar
• Berry L. Cannon, American aquanaut
• Archie Carr, American zoologist, famed conservationist, and founder of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
• Marjorie Harris Carr, pioneer in the American Conservation Movement
• Jack Clemons, Notable aerospace engineer and air and space industry professional
• Robert Costanza, American ecological economist and the Gund Professor of Ecological economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont
• Thomas Des Jean, American anthropologist
• Nils J. Diaz, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Jonathan F. Earle, American engineer, received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
• John F. Eisenberg, American zoologist
• Wesley R. Elsberry, notable marine biologist
• Philip Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), known as "father of the IBM PC"
• Manuel Fernandez, entrepreneur, guiding force behind the Gavilan SC, the first laptop computer
• Fred Gage, American researcher of Alzheimer's disease and the spinal cord
• Jesse James Garrett, American experience designer, who coined the term Ajax
• Jürgen Gauß, German theoretical chemist
• Robert Gentry, nuclear physicist and creationist advocate
• John W. Griffin, archaeologist, researcher, administrator, and author
• Herbert Gursky, former superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory's Space Science Division
• Kelsie Harder, American onomastician
• Steven Hebert, American nephrologist
• Richard Highton, famous zoologist, and current professor emeritus of biology at the University of Maryland
• Shere Hite, famous sex educator and feminist
• Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., notable carcinologist, and former head curator of the United States National Museum
• James Hollan, American cognitive scientist, and professor at University of California, San Diego
• Nicholas Honerkamp, American archaeologist
• George Kauffman, former professor emeritus of chemistry, Guggenheim Fellow
• Pramod Khargonekar, former dean of the University of Florida College of Engineering, notable control system theorist
• Bruce C. Kone, former dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine
• Martin Kreitman, American geneticist, and professor at the University of Chicago
• Kenney Krysko, American herpetologist
• Capers Jones, notable American software engineer
• Joseph C. Joyce, current executive Vice President for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
• Reynol Junco, American psychologist and social media researcher, faculty at Harvard University
• Seymour London, American physician, and inventor of the first automatic blood pressure monitor
• Robert Love, American author, speaker, and open source software developer
• Louis G. MacDowell, co-creator of the frozen Orange Juice concentrate
• Ron Magill, renowned wildife expert, photographer and communications director for the regional Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens
• Chris Malachowsky, American computer scientist and co-founder of NVIDIA
• Preston McAfee, current vice president for Yahoo! Research
• Edwin H. McConkey, prominent biologist who studies evolution, current Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado
• Jerald Milanich, American anthropologist and archaeologist
• William J. Mitsch, famed ecologist
• Lee Ann Newsom, famed anthropologist, and MacArthur Fellow
• Nandini Nimbkar, current president of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in India
• Carole C. Noon, American primatologist, and founder of Save the Chimps
• Jerald S. Paul, former Deputy Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration
• David Price, American anthropologist
• Peter Pritchard, famed zoologist
• Anil K. Rajvanshi, mechanical engineer, and current Director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in India
• K. R. Rao, notable electrical engineer and co-inventor of the Discrete cosine transform
• Michael Reynolds, notable Astronomer
• Lesa Roe, current director of the NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia
• Douglas A. Rossman, American herpetologist
• Michael Ryschkewitsch, current chief engineer for NASA
• Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, American psychotherapist and author
• Samuel Sears, notable American psychologist
• Dana Shires, researcher, helped to develop Gatorade
• Stephen C. Sillett, American botanist
• Eduardo Sontag, notable Argentine mathematician
• Jeffrey Spieler, current director of research for USAID
• Lewis Stadler, American geneticist
• David Steadman, currently a museum curator
• Will Steffen, executive director of the ANU Climate Change Institute
• Gregg Steinberg, American sports psychologist and author
• Gilbert Stork, creator of the Stork enamine alkylation, and professor emeritus of chemistry at Columbia University
• Ashutosh Tewari, notable Indian oncologist and urologist
• Michael Thomas, American entomologist
• James Thompson, former director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Eva Vertes, notable Alzheimer's and cancer researcher
• Michael Warren, notable Forensic anthropologist
• Sung Won Sohn, notable Korean American economist