Science and Medicine
- William F. Baker (born 1953), structural engineer
- Gordon Bell (born 1934), computer engineer and microcomputer pioneer
- Herbert Blumer (1900–1987), sociologist, developer of symbolic interactionism
- George Washington Carver (c. 1864–1943), botanist
- Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987), Inventor
- David F. Duncan (born 1947), psychologist and epidemiologist
- Edward T. Hall (1914–2009), anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher
- Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), astronomer
- Harry Laughlin (1880–1943), American eugenicist
- Mark Johnson (born 1949), philosopher
- Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born 1925) psychology researcher
- Jack Kilby (1923–2005), inventor of the integrated circuit
- Ernest Manheim (1900–2002), sociologist
- William Howell Masters (1915–2001), Gynecologist
- Richard Smalley (1943–2005), Nobel Prize-winning chemist, discovered buckminsterfullerene
- William Jasper Spillman (1863–1931), plant geneticist, a founder of agricultural economics
- Lewis Stadler (1896–1954) a.k.a. L.J. Stadler. maize geneticist
- Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917), physician and founder of osteopathic medicine
- Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), mathematician
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“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)