List of People From Wisconsin - Science and Medicine

Science and Medicine

• Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), naturalist (Beloit)
• John Bardeen (1908–1991), Nobel Prize-winning physicist (Madison)
• George Harold Brown (1908–1987), developer of color television (Portage)
• Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928), geologist (Beloit)
• John Henry Comstock (1849–1931), entomologist (Janesville)
• Seymour Cray (1925–1996), computer designer (Chippewa Falls)
• John Thomas Curtis (1913–1961), botanist and ecologist, the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him (Milwaukee)
• Marshall E. Cusic Jr., Chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Reserve Corps (Marshfield)
• Farrington Daniels (1889–1972), pioneer researcher in Solar energy (Madison)
• Richard Davidson (born 1951), psychologist, pioneer of affective neuroscience (Madison)
• Hector DeLuca, Vitamin D metabolism (Madison)
• Michael Dhuey (born 1958), co-developer of the Macintosh II and the iPod (Milwaukee)
• Olin J. Eggen (1919–1998), astronomer (Orfordville)
• Milton Erickson (1901–1980), founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, NLP
• Ernst Guillemin (1898–1970), recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (Milwaukee)
• Donald Knuth (born 1938), computer scientist (Milwaukee)
• Donald Laub (1935–), plastic surgeon (Milwaukee)
• Albert Lehninger (1917–1986), biochemist (Madison)
• Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), ecologist (Madison)
• Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), discovered warfarin (named for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) (Madison)
• William Shainline Middleton (1890–1975), co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine (Madison)
• John Muir (1838–1914), environmentalist (Portage)
• John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), inventor of Murphy's punch sign, Murphy's sign, and the Murphy drip (Appleton)
• Robert B. Pinter (1937–2001), biomedical engineer (Milwaukee)
• Carl Rogers (1902–1987), psychologist and originator of "client-centered therapy" (Madison)
• Francis G. Slack (1897–1985), physicist (Superior)
• Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), Vitamin D catalyzed by sunlight, D-fortified milk; rickets cured (Charlestown, New Holstein, Madison)
• Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836–1920), inventor of the Tainter gate (Prairie du Chien)
• James Thomson (born 1958), first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells (Madison)
• Darold Treffert, noted psychiatrist (Fond du Lac)
• Charles R. Van Hise (1857–1918), geologist and academic (Fulton)
• Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), sociologist, economist, social theorist (Cato)
• Warren Weaver (1894–1978), pioneer of machine translation (Reedsburg)
• Daniel Hale Williams (1858–1931), surgeon (Janesville)
• Joseph Zimmerman (1912–2004), inventor of the answering machine (Kenosha)
• Otto Julius Zobel (1887–1970), inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network (Ripon)