Medicine, Science and Technology
- Thomas Starzl, (MS 1950, MD 1952), American surgeon, father of modern transplantation, performed the first liver transplant
- David Applebaum, Israeli physician
- Robert A. Buethe, Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force
- Andy Carvin, founding editor and former coordinator of the Digital Divide Network
- George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D., psychologist, physician, author, newspaper columnist
- Segun Toyin Dawodu, MD, JD, MBA, LL.M, MS (MS, Medical Informatics 2012) Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a Physician and an Attorney who established the first website on socio-political issues of Nigeria.
- Alston Scott Householder (B.A. 1925), mathematician
- Cheddi Jagan, dentist/Guyanese president
- Irene D. Long, Chief Medical Officer, Kennedy Space Center.
- Boris Lushniak, Assistant Surgeon General of the United States
- Charles Horace Mayo, doctor (Mayo Clinic)
- Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D., 1940, Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1998)
- Marc Kirschner (B.A. 1966), founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
- Richard Skrenta, creator of the first computer virus, Elk Cloner
- Joseph Staten, writer and director of the Halo video games
- Sam Treiman, former theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University
- Jacques Vallee (Ph.D. 1967), computer scientist, astronomer and UFO researcher
- Edward Weiler (B.A. 1971, M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1976), director, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Gary Kremen, Internet Entrepreneur and private investor, Founder of Match.com, Sex.com, and Clean Power Finance. First investor in Dolores Labs.
- Daniel Hale Williams, first person to perform open heart surgery
- Kermit E Krantz, (B.S. 1945, M.S. 1947, M.D. 1948) Distinguished University Professor of Medicine University of Kansas. Among others, developed the Marshall–Marchetti–Krantz (MMK) and invented the expandable tampon. Namesake of the Arey/Krantz Museum of Anatomy at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
- Pulickel Ajayan, Professor of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Rice University
- Richard Lerner, past president of the Scripps Research Institute, co-inventor of HUMIRA
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Famous quotes containing the words science and technology, science and/or technology:
“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)