Scientists and Inventors
- Benjamin Banneker, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author
- Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon
- Rachel Carson, environmentalist
- George Dantzig, mathematical scientist
- Roger L. Easton, principal inventor of Global Positioning System
- Charles Fefferman, mathematician
- Henry Gantt, mechanical engineer
- Solomon Golomb, mathematician who invented pentominoes
- Michael Griffin, NASA administrator
- Arlo Hemphill, explorer/ocean conservationist
- John Mauchly, physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, invented the first general-purpose electronic computer
- Ayub K. Ommaya, neurosurgeon
- Arthur William Savage, inventor of the Savage Model 99
- Paul Reed Smith, luthier
- John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
- Edward Witten, physicist/mathematician
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Famous quotes containing the words scientists and/or inventors:
“Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don’t pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)