Science
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel laureate in Physics.
- Min Chueh Chang, Co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill.
- Shiing-Shen Chern, mathematician and winner of the 1983 Wolf Prize for his work in differential geometry.
- Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1997 for research on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light and the current United States Secretary of Energy.
- David D. Ho, HIV/AIDS researcher
- Har Gobind Khorana, shared the Nobel laureate in “Physiology or Medicine” in 1968 for work in genetics and protein synthesis.
- Tsung-Dao Lee, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in particle physics along with Chen Ning Yang.
- Yuan T. Lee, 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
- Yoichiro Nambu, 2008 Nobel laureate in physics
- Santa J. Ono, President, University of Cincinnati, immunologist and vision scientist
- Charles J. Pedersen, 1987 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
- Ching W. Tang, inventor of the organic light-emitting diode(OLED) and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell (OPV). Winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
- Terence Tao, mathematician, 2006 Fields Medal winner.
- Samuel C.C. Ting, 1976 Nobel laureate in physics for discovering the existence of a new particle called j/psi.
- Roger Y. Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, for the discovery of the green fluorescent protein.
- Daniel Tsui, 1998 Nobel laureate in Physics for contributions to the discovery of the fractional Quantum Hall effect.
- Chien-Shiung Wu, winner of the 1978 Wolf Prize in Physics. First woman to be elected president of American Physical Society.
- Chen Ning Yang, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in particle physics along with Tsung-Dao Lee.
- Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician, 1982 Fields Medal winner.
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