Scientists and Inventors
- Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), inventor of rodeo equipment, (Columbia)
- Gail Borden (1801–1874), inventor of condensed milk, (Amite county)
- Harry A. Cole, inventor of Pine-Sol, (Jackson)
- James A. Ford (1911–1968), archaeologist, (Water Valley)
- Fred Haise (born 1933), engineer, astronaut, (Biloxi)
- Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885–1975), microbiologist, developer of nystatin, (Rich)
- Joseph Newman, inventor of the Newman motor, (Lucedale)
- Henry Sampson (born 1934), inventor, (Jackson)
- Roy A. Tucker (born 1951), astronomer, (Jackson)
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“Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)
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