Notable Alumni
See also: List of Cornell University alumni- Mike Chang (M.D. '66), Western Blot
- Robert C. Atkins (M.D. '55), The Atkins Diet
- John P. Donohue (M.D. '58), testicular cancer treatment pioneer
- Anthony Fauci (M.D. '66), Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health
- Wilson Greatbatch (B.E.E. '50), inventor of the cardiac pacemaker
- Henry Heimlich (M.D. '43), promoter of the abdominal thrust (Heimlich maneuver)
- Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. '47), co-recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis.
- Mae C. Jemison (M.D. '81), former astronaut, Science Mission Specialist on STS-47, Spacelab-J of space shuttle Endeavour (September 1992)
- C. Everett Koop (M.D. '41), former Surgeon General
- Elizabeth Nabel, President of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Former Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
- Lt. Gen. James Peake (M.D. '76), former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Ida S. Scudder (M.D. 1899), Medical Missionary in India; Founder of Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu)
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