Science and Technology
- Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist and winner of the 1st National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration.
- Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize: Medical; 2002
- Jan C. A. Boeyens, chemist
- Selig Percy Amoils, ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor.
- Ron Clarke, paleoanthropologist.
- Colin Gerald Caro Discoveries in physiological fluid flow
- Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist, discoverer of the Taung Child.
- H. J. De Blij, Geographer, Professor, Television Personality, Analyst, and Award Winner.
- David A. Forsyth, computer vision researcher.
- Max Gluckman, anthropologist.
- Julien Hoffman, cardiologist, professor.
- Paul Kantor, cardiologist (Sick Children's Hospital- Toronto), Former Chief Cardiologist (Hamilton Children's Hospital).
- David King, scientist.
- James Kitching, Karroo paleontologist.
- Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize: Chemistry; 1982
- Danie G. Krige, Mining Engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics.
- Robert Kröger specializes in Aquatic Sciences and is a Professor at Mississippi State University
- Jonathan Lewis, Surgical Oncologist, Biomedical Researcher, Developer of Cancer Drugs.
- David Lewis-Williams, is Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art. He is the founder of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
- Tingye Li One of the pioneers in LASERS and optical communication.
- Doron Lubinsky, mathematician and author.
- Kim Man Lui, software engineer
- John K. Lundy, visionary bioanthropologist and sagacious medical examiner.
- Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC.
- Allistair Neil, geoscientist, first graduate of school of geosciences.
- Wanda Orlikowski, Information Systems scholar
- Seymour Papert, artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language.
- David Pettifor, physicist.
- Audrey Richards, social anthropologist.
- Peter Sarnak, mathematician.
- Friedel Sellschop, physicist
- Herbert Sichel, statistician.
- Himla Soodyall, geneticist.
- Lars Georg Svensson, cardiac surgeon.
- Phillip Tobias, paleoanthropologist and anatomist.
- Sir Jack Zunz, civil engineer.
- Professor Mamokgethi Setati, Mathematics education researcher and academic.
- Professor Roy Robins-Browne, Leading Tropical Medicine researcher
- Dr Basil Hirschowitz, Inventor of the first fiberoptic endoscope.
- Sir Terence English, Cardiac surgeon
- Dr Alan Menter, (MBBCh)(1966)(Wits). Dr. Menter is a world-renowned dermatologist, noteworthy for his expertise in the treatment of psoriasis and other complicated diseases of the skin. He is Chairman of the Division of Dermatology and Director of the Dermatology Residency program for Baylor University Medical Center, and Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, both in Dallas.
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