Sciences
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eben Alexander III | 1975 | Chemistry | Neurosurgeon and author |
| Francis Collins (geneticist) | Grad. | Medicine | Director National Human Genome Project, discovered gene for cystic fibrosis, Director National Institutes of Health (2009–present) |
| Robert F. Furchgott | 1937 | Chemistry | Chemist and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Seymour Geisser | Grad. | Statistics | Statistician and DNA evidence expert, founder of the University of Minnesota's School of Statistics |
| Ma Haide | 1932 | Pre-medicine | Doctor and public health official in China |
| Howard T. Odum | 1947 | Zoology | Ecosystem ecologist |
| Barbara Rothbaum | 1982 | Psychology | Psychologist |
| Tamara Sher | Grad. | Psychology | NIH Researcher and IIT Professor |
| Kevin R. Stone | Grad. | Medicine | Orthopedic surgeon and founder of The Stone Clinic |
| Charles Tart | Grad. | Psychology | Psychologist |
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“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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