Science and Medicine
- Clayton Anderson (1959–) NASA astronaut assigned to International Space Station Expedition 15
- Henry Beachell (1906–), developer of hybrid rice, which has saved millions around the world from starvation
- George Wells Beadle (1903–1989), geneticist
- Charles Edwin Bessey (1845–1915), botanist, responsible for planting of the Nebraska National Forest
- Leon Douglass (1869–1940), inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company
- John R. Dunning (1907–1975), physicist, played an instrumental role in the development of the atomic bomb
- Doc Edgerton (1903–1990), professor at MIT, pioneer in stroboscopic photography
- Rollins A. Emerson (1873–1947), geneticist, pioneer in researching the genetics of maize
- Jay Wright Forrester (1918–), pioneer of computer engineering
- Daniel Freeman (1826–1908), a homesteader, physician and American Civil War veteran, first person to file for a claim under the Homestead Act of 1862
- Jay Keasling (1964- ), synthetic biology pioneer
- Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) First Native American Anthropologist, Author. Omaha
- Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), first person to receive federal aid for education and the first American Indian woman to become a Western Medicine physician in the United States
- Max Mathews (1926–2011), wrote first computer music program
- Victor Mills (1897–1997), chemical engineer, inventor of the modern disposable diaper
- Donald Othmer (1904–1995), chemical engineer
- Ivan Sutherland (1938–), inventor of the Sketchpad
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Famous quotes containing the words science and/or medicine:
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)