Scientists and Inventors
- David H. Bailey co-author of a noted algorithm about pi.
- John Moses Browning was a notable gun designer. Many of his designs are still in production today.
- Jonathan Browning, gunsmith, inventor, and father of John Moses Browning.
- Val A. Browning, gun designer and son of John Moses Browning.
- William Clayton, inventor of the "roadometer", an early version of the modern odometer
- Henry Eyring, former professor of chemistry at Princeton University and the University of Utah
- Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the Cathode Ray television
- H. Tracy Hall, invented synthetic diamonds
- Robert B. Ingebretsen developer of the first practical digital audio recording system with Thomas Stockham; received an Academy award in 1999
- Don Leslie Lind, astronaut
- Yukihiro Matsumoto, a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language
- Orson Pratt, mathematician and astronomer. Aided in the invention of the "roadometer."
- Alvino Rey, inventor of the pedal steel guitar
- James LeVoy Sorenson, co-inventor of real-time computerized heart monitor and 40 other medical patents
- James E. Talmage, scholar, scientist, and elected to life membership in several learned societies.
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“There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
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