Science
- Ethan Allen, co-inventor of the single-action revolver
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Luther Burbank, horticulturist
- Vannevar Bush, engineer, inventor and science administrator
- Roderick Chisholm, philosopher
- Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist and philosopher
- Bob Doyle, scientist, inventor, and philosopher
- Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
- Robert Goddard, inventor
- Temple Grandin, doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University
- Elias Howe, inventor
- Dan Itse, chemical engineer and NH public official
- Melvin Johnson, prominent firearms designer
- Richard Karp, computer scientist, computational theorist
- Alan Kay, computer scientist
- Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr., mechanical engineer
- Arthur Little, chemist and chemical engineer
- John McCarthy, computer scientist, cognitive scientist
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
- William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician
- Richard Muther, industrial engineer
- Lloyd Ohlin, sociologist and criminologist
- Gregory Pincus, scientist, developed birth control pill
- Albert Sacco, chemical engineer and Payload Specialist for NASA
- John Henry Schwarz, theoretical physicist
- Andrew Strominger, theoretical physicist
- Benjamin Thompson, physicist and inventor
- Edward Thorndike, psychologist
- Worcester Warner, mechanical engineer, astronomer
- Samuel Wellman, inventor of the crucible steel furnace
- Daniel Wesson, prominent firearms designer
- Eli Whitney, inventor
- Robert Wood, physicist, inventor
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer, luminosity of Cepheid variable stars.
- Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, First American to receive Nobel Prize in Science.
- Percival Lowell, astronomer, Famous for Mars's canals, now discredited.
- William D. Coolidge, physicist.
Read more about this topic: List Of People From Massachusetts
Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.”
—James Conant (1893–1978)
“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)