List of People From Texas - Science/medicine

Science/medicine

• Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972), theoretical physicist
• Angela Belcher (born 1967), materials scientist, biological engineer, MIT professor, MacArthur Fellow
• Bruce Beutler (born 1957), immunologist, geneticist, won Nobel Prize in Medicine
• T. Berry Brazelton (born 1918), pediatrician, author, syndicated columnist
• Michael Glyn Brown (born 1957), hand surgeon
• Michael Stuart Brown (born 1941), Nobel Prize-winning geneticist
• John Cacioppo (born 1951), co-founder of social neuroscience
• Robert Cade (1927–2007), physician, scientist; inventor of Gatorade
• William H. Cade (born 1946), zoologist, evolutionary biologist, authority on mating systems of Orthoptera
• Paul C. W. Chu (born 1941), physicist, leading authority on superconductivity
• Denton Cooley (born 1920), pioneering heart surgeon
• Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008), pioneering heart surgeon
• Everette Lee DeGolyer (1886–1956), geophysicist, philanthropist
• Robert Dennard (born 1932), computer scientist and inventor
• Bryce DeWitt (1923–2004), physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe")
• Cécile DeWitt-Morette (born 1922), physicist, mathematician
• Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874–1954), mathematician
• James "Red" Duke (born 1928), physician, professor, journalist
• Helen J. Farabee (1934–1988), pioneer in mental health
• Ralph Feigin (1938–2008), pediatrician, writer, educator, hospital administrator
• Joseph L. Goldstein (born 1940), Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, biochemist
• Cecil Howard Green (1900–2003), geophysicist, founder of Texas Instruments, philanthropist
• G.B. Halsted (1853–1922), mathematician
• M. King Hubbert (1903–1989), geophysicist
• Lane P. Hughston (born 1951), mathematician, physicist, scholar and professor of mathematical finance
• Jack Kilby (1923–2005), electrical engineer; invented integrated circuit, handheld calculator, thermal printer; Nobel Prize Laureate
• R. Bowen Loftin (born 1949), physicist, computer scientist, educator, university president
• Michael Lynn (born 1980), computer security expert
• Eugene McDermott (1899–1973), geophysicist, founder of Texas Instruments, philanthropist
• C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), prominent political sociologist and author
• Oscar Monnig (1902–1999), astronomer and meteoricist
• Robert Lee Moore (1882–1974), mathematician, educator
• Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967), geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph Nagyvary (born 1934), biochemist, violin maker, Stradivarius researcher
• Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (1911–2000), chemical engineer; designed the first commercial penicillin production plant
• John Stapp (1910–1999), Air Force officer, researched human transport and safety
• Michael Starbird (born 1948), mathematician, educator
• George Sudarshan (born 1931), physicist, author, University of Texas professor
• John Tate (born 1925), mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
• Gordon Teal (1907–2003), electrical engineer known for developing the first silicon transistor
• Alice Y. Ting (born 1974), chemist, MIT professor
• Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), astronomer
• Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), mathematician, National Medal of Science
• Harry Vandiver (1882–1973), mathematician
• Abraham Verghese (born 1955), physician, educator, author
• Hubert Stanley Wall (1902–1971), mathematician, educator
• Steven Weinberg (born 1933), Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Spencer Wells (born 1969), geneticist and anthropologist
• John A. Wheeler (1911–2008), physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole'
• Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 1936), Nobel Prize-winning physicist, astronomer