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:
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)
“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)