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- Maurice L. Albertson (1918–2009) civil engineer and educator.
- Sidney Altman (born 1939) molecular biologist and 1989 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the discovery of catalytic properties of ribonucleic acid.
- Albert Allen Bartlett (1923–) physicist and opponent of the concept of sustainable growth.
- Arden Lee Bement, Jr. (1932–) metallurgical engineer, scientist, and Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- Lewis M. Branscomb (born 1926) physicist, Director of the National Bureau of Standards, and founder of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.
- Thomas Robert Čech (1947–) biochemist and 1989 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the discovery of catalytic properties of ribonucleic acid.
- Edward Uhler Condon (1902–1974) nuclear physicist, Director of the National Bureau of Standards, and President of the American Physical Society.
- Eric Allin Cornell (born 1961) physicist and 2001 Nobel laureate in Physics for creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.
- George Gamow (Георгий Антонович Гамов) (1904–1968) theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author.
- John Lewis "Jan" Hall (1934–) physicist and 2005 Nobel laureate in Physics for precision spectroscopy and the optical frequency comb technique.
- Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) physicist who created the first fermionic condensate in 2003.
- Herbert Kroemer (born 1928) physicist, electrical engineer, and 2000 Nobel laureate in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.
- Margaret Mary Murnane (1959–) physicist and creator of ultra-high-speed lasers.
- Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (1912–1985) nuclear physicist and educator.
- Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла) (1856–1943) inventor and engineer whose pioneering work with electromagnetism formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems.
- Carl Edwin Wieman (1951–) physicist and 2001 Nobel laureate in Physics for creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995.
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