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- Farid F. AbrahamFarid F. AbrahamFarid F. Abraham is an American scientist.Abraham earned his Bachelor of Science and Ph.D from the University of Arizona in 1959 and 1962, respectively. By pioneering new methods of using computer modelling in research, he has made seminal contributions to science in the fields of fracture...
- Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)Thomas Adams , was a 19th-century American scientist and inventor who is regarded as a founder of the chewing gum industry. He eventually joined with well-known chewing gum maker William Wrigley, Jr.....
- Peter AgrePeter AgrePeter Agre is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane...
- Dan AldersonDan AldersonDaniel John "Dan" Alderson was a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. He came from a middle class family and had diabetes...
- Paul AlivisatosPaul AlivisatosArmand Paul Alivisatos is an American scientist of Greek descent, researching the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of nanocrystals...
- Warder Clyde AlleeWarder Clyde AlleeWarder Clyde Allee was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect.-University career:...
- John P. AllenJohn P. AllenJohn Polk Allen is a systems ecologist and engineer, metallurgist, adventurer and writer. He is best known as the inventor and Director of Research of Biosphere 2, the world's largest laboratory of global ecology, and was the founder of Synergia Ranch...
- Braden AllenbyBraden AllenbyBraden R. Allenby is an American environmental scientist, environmental attorney and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University.- Biography :...
- Bradley AlpertBradley AlpertBradley K. Alpert is a computational scientist at NIST. He is probably best known for co-developing fast spherical filters. His fast spherical filters were critical in the construction of the most efficient three-dimensional fast multipole methods for solving the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell's...
- John AlroyJohn AlroyJohn Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney.-Area of expertise:Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, connecting regional and local diversity, taxonomic...
- David AlterDavid AlterDavid Alter was a prominent American inventor and scientist of the 19th century. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Reformed Medical School in New York City. He had German and Swiss ancestry.-Inventions:Dr...
- Roy AmaraRoy AmaraRoy Amara was a researcher, scientist and past president of the Institute for the Future. Born in Boston 1925, he has also worked at Stanford Research Institute....
- Henry James AndersonHenry James AndersonHenry James Anderson was an American scientist and educator. He was born in New York City, and graduated from Columbia College in 1818 he subsequently studied medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He did not practice medicine for long however, instead...
- Walter Truett AndersonWalter Truett AndersonWalter Truett Anderson is a political scientist, social psychologist, and author of numerous nonfiction books and articles in newspapers and magazines....
- Martin AppleMartin AppleMartin A. Apple is president of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents , an organization of presidents of some sixty scientific federations and societies whose combined membership reportedly totals over 1.4 million scientists and science educators...
- Jerome AptJerome AptJerome III "Jay" Apt, Ph.D. is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Venus space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from...
- David Archer (scientist)David Archer (scientist)David Archer is a computational ocean chemist, and has been a Professor at the Department of The Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago since 1993. He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor...
- Frances ArnoldFrances ArnoldFrances Hamilton Arnold is an internationally recognized American scientist and engineer. She pioneered methods of directed evolution to create useful biological systems, including enzymes, metabolic pathways, genetic regulatory circuits, and organisms...
- Joseph Brant ArseneauJoseph Brant ArseneauJoseph Brant Arseneau is generally known in finance and technology for first formally defining finance techniques for third world housing by describing the securitization of excess cash flow from renewable energy with the use of Renewable Energy Derivatives.The technique was first based on...
- Aseem ShuklaAseem ShuklaDr. Aseem Shukla is an associate professor in urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is also a co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation. He also writes a weblog for The Washington Post on Hinduism-related topics...
- Anthony AtalaAnthony AtalaAnthony Atala, M.D., is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina...
- James E. AtwaterJames E. AtwaterJames E. Atwater is a retired North American multidisciplinary physical scientist with training in geophysics, chemistry and biological science. He was awarded the Wright Brothers Medal for his work on microwave powered methods for microbial stabilization and water recovery from solid waste...
- Oscar AuerbachOscar AuerbachDr. Oscar Auerbach was a pathologist famous for being one of the first to link cigarette smoking with cancer.- Early life :...
- Avi Ben-AbrahamAvi Ben-AbrahamDr Avi Ben-Abraham is an American scientist who was involved in research work in the fields of low temperature medicine, cryogenics, and human and stem cell cloning.Dr...
- Addison BainAddison BainAddison Bain is a retired NASA scientist and founding member of the National Hydrogen Association who is credited with postulating the Incendiary-Paint Theory , which posits that the Hindenburg disaster was caused by the electrical ignition of lacquer- and metal-based paints used on the outer hull...
- Ira BaldwinIra BaldwinIra L. Baldwin was the founder and director emeritus of the Wisconsin Academy Foundation. He began teaching bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he had done his doctoral work, in 1927, and a few years later moved into what became a long career in administration...
- Siva S. BandaSiva S. BandaSiva Subrahmanyam Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer. He is Director of the Control Science Center of Excellence and senior scientist for Control Theory for the Air Vehicles Directorate at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base...
- Utpal BanerjeeUtpal BanerjeeUtpal Banerjee is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtained his Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from the...
- George Frederick BarkerGeorge Frederick BarkerGeorge Frederick Barker was an American physician and scientist. He graduated at the Yale Scientific School in 1858. He was successively chemical assistant in Harvard Medical School in 1858-59 and 1860–61, professor of chemistry and geology in Wheaton College...
- Kathy BarkerKathy BarkerKathy Barker is a scientist/writer who focuses on science management and on communicating science to society. She authored At the Bench which teaches laboratory practice to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences, and At the Helm which educates new principal...
- Charles BartleyCharles BartleyCharles E. Bartley was an American scientist, known for developing the first elastomeric solid propellant at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California in the late 1940s....
- Hans D. BaumannHans D. BaumannHans D. Baumann is a German-American inventor and engineer. He has registered over 200 patents and produced 105 publications. He is known internationally as a valve specialist and is an expert on aerodynamic noise of gases.-Life:...
- Robert Nason BeckRobert Nason BeckRobert Nason Beck was an American scientist and a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine...
- Robert O. BeckerRobert O. BeckerRobert O. Becker was a U.S. orthopedic surgeon and researcher in electrophysiology/electromedicine. He worked mainly as professor at Upstate Medical Center in State University of New York, Syracuse, and as Director of Orthopedic Surgery at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Syracuse, New...
- Charles Emerson BeecherCharles Emerson BeecherCharles Emerson Beecher was an American Paleontologist most famous for the thorough excavation, preparation and study of trilobite ventral anatomy from specimens collected at Beecher's Trilobite Bed...
- James F. Bell, IIIJames F. Bell, IIIJames F. Bell III is a Professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, specializing in the study of planetary geology, geochemistry and mineralogy using data obtained from telescopes and from various spacecraft missions. Dr...
- Arden L. Bement, Jr.
- Joseph Young BergenJoseph Young BergenJoseph Young Bergen was an American botanist.-Career:Bergen was born in Red Beach, Maine. He graduated in 1872 from Antioch College, and was for a time successively a member of the Ohio Geological Survey and professor of natural sciences at Lombard College...
- Helen M. BermanHelen M. BermanHelen M. Berman is the director of the – one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank and a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. A structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes,...
- Harvey BialyHarvey BialyHarvey Bialy is an American molecular biologist and AIDS denialist. He was one of the signatories to a letter to the editor by a group of AIDS denialists calling themselves the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis...
- John BidwellJohn BidwellJohn Bidwell was known throughout California and across the nation as an important pioneer, farmer, soldier, statesman, politician, prohibitionist and philanthropist...
- Rene J. BienvenuRene J. BienvenuRene Joseph Bienvenu, Jr. was an American scientist and academic who wound up his career from 1977-1982 as the president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana....
- Amasa Stone BishopAmasa Stone BishopAmasa Stone Bishop was an American nuclear physicist specializing in fusion physics. He received his B.S. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1943...
- Victor Gustav Bloede (chemist)Victor Gustav Bloede (chemist)Victor Gustav Bloede , was a chemist and manufacturer of chemicals, president of the Victor G. Bloede Company, and businessman.-Early life and education:...
- James Bloodworth, Jr.James Bloodworth, Jr.James Morgan Bartow Bloodworth, Jr., M.D., F.C.A.P., was an American physician, pathologist, and researcher on diabetes mellitus. He was born in Atlanta on February 21, 1925, to James Bloodworth, Sr.—an attorney—and Elizabeth Bloodworth. Dr...
- Hendrik Wade BodeHendrik Wade BodeHendrik Wade Bode , was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist], of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.He made important contributions...
- Mark BosloughMark BosloughMark Boslough is a physicist most famous for his April Fools' Day 1998 joke involving Pi. To poke fun at New Mexico's legislature for attempting to require schools to teach creationism, he wrote an article claiming that Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical...
- Karel BossartKarel BossartKarel Jan Bossart was a pioneering rocket designer and creator of the Atlas ICBM...
- William C. BoydWilliam C. BoydWilliam Clouser Boyd was an American immunochemist, who with his wife Lyle, during the 1930s, made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types. Born in Dearborn, Missouri, he discovered that blood groups are inherited and not influenced by environment...
- Herbert BoyerHerbert BoyerHerbert W. Boyer is a recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He served as Vice President of Genentech from 1976 through his retirement in 1991....
- Robert S. BoyerRobert S. BoyerRobert Stephen Boyer, aka Bob Boyer, is a retired professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore...
- John BrashearJohn BrashearDr. John Alfred Brashear was an American astronomer and instrument builder.- Life and work :Brashear was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, a town 35 miles south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. His father, Basil Brown Brashear, was a saddler, and his mother, Julia Smith Brashear, was a...
- Charles BrennerCharles BrennerCharles Brenner born October 30, 1961 is the Roy J. Carver Chair and head of Biochemistry and a director of the at the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a veteran of biotechnology companies, having worked at Chiron Corporation and DNAX Research Institute, prior to...
- David M. BrienzaDavid M. BrienzaDavid M. Brienza is a professor of rehabilitation science at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences with additional professorial appointments in bioengineering and electrical engineering....
- Lyman James BriggsLyman James BriggsLyman James Briggs was an American engineer, physicist and administrator. He was a distinguished director of the National Bureau of Standards during the Great Depression and chairman of the Uranium Committee before America entered the Second World War...
- Robert William Briggs
- David BritzDavid BritzDavid Alexander Britz is an American scientist and engineer who is best known for his contributions to the field of materials science and nanotechnology....
- Samuel BroderSamuel BroderSamuel Broder is an American oncologist and medical researcher. He was a co-developer of some of the first effective drugs for the treatment of AIDS and was Director of the National Cancer Institute from 1989 to 1995....
- Lester R. BrownLester R. BrownLester Russel Brown is a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C...
- Robert Brownlee (chemist)Robert Brownlee (chemist)Robert Gregg Brownlee was an American chemist.-Biography:Robert Brownlee was born October 21, 1942 in South Dakota. He founded Brownlee Labs in the 70s, in the San Francisco Bay area, a manufacturer of columns and pumps for high performance liquid chromatography systems.Bob Brownlee took the...
- Clifford E. BrubakerClifford E. BrubakerClifford E. Brubaker is Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Brubaker is also a Professor at that institution and an Adjunct Professor at both Xian Jiaotong University and Carnegie Mellon University....
- Frank W. Bubb, Sr.
- Bernard BudianskyBernard BudianskyBernard Budiansky was a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He was a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal.-Biography:...
- Willy BurgdorferWilly BurgdorferWilly Burgdorfer, an American scientist born and educated in Basel, Switzerland, is an international leader in the field of medical entomology. He is famous for his discovery of the bacterial pathogen that causes Lyme disease, a spirochete named Borrelia burgdorferi in his honor.-Background:Dr....
- Harold Saxton BurrHarold Saxton BurrHarold Saxton Burr was E. K. Hunt Professor of Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine. His early years were spent in Springfield, Massachusetts, while most of his later life was spent in New Haven. In 1908 he was admitted to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and received his Ph.B. in...
- Robert W. BussardRobert W. BussardRobert W. Bussard was an American physicist who worked primarily in nuclear fusion energy research. He was the recipient of the Schreiber-Spence Achievement Award for STAIF-2004. He was also a fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics and held a Ph.D...
- William H. CadeWilliam H. CadeDr. William H. "Bill" Cade is a biologist and a former president of the University of Lethbridge. He researches the role of acoustic signals in field cricket mating behaviour.-Education:...
- John W. CahnJohn W. CahnJohn Werner Cahn is an American scientist and winner of the 1998 National Medal of Science. He was a professor in the department of Materials Science at MIT from 1964-1978. Since 1977, he has held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology . Dr...
- John B. CalhounJohn B. CalhounJohn B. Calhoun was an American ecologist and research psychologist noted for his studies of population density and its effects on behavior. He claimed that the bleak effects of overpopulation on rodents were a grim model for the future of the human race...
- David Callaway
- James Edward CampbellJames Edward CampbellDr. James Edward Campbell recently retired as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is now serving as a consultant to Sandia. He is one of the developers of the statistical technique known as Latin hypercube sampling.Prior...
- Neil Campbell (scientist)Neil Campbell (scientist)Neil A. Campbell was an American scientist known best for his textbook Biology. First published in 1987, the text is currently in its 9th edition and co-authored by Jane Reece...
- Rebecca Campbell-HoweRebecca Campbell-HoweRebecca Campbell-Howe is an American solar-energy editor and non-profit-organization administrator....
- Ann Z. CaracristiAnn Z. CaracristiAnn Z. Caracristi is an American cryptanalyst, former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, where she served at various positions over a 40-year career. She served as a member of the Secretary of Defense Joint Security Commission and President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board...
- Shawn CarlsonShawn CarlsonShawn Carlson is an American science educator who founded the Society for Amateur Scientists in 1994, which is dedicated to "Helping ordinary people do extraordinary science." In 2010, he founded the LabRats Science Education Program, to inspire students aged 11 to 18 to "love learning about...
- George Robert Carruthers
- Carlos Castillo-ChavezCarlos Castillo-ChavezCarlos Castillo-Chavez is a Regents Professor, and Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University and the executive director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute and Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science as well...
- Don CatlinDon CatlinDon H. Catlin, M.D. is an anti-doping scientist and one of the founders of modern drug-testing in sport. -Career:Catlin has overseen testing for performance-enhancing drugs at the three most recent Olympics held in the United States since the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, as well as testing...
- Anthony CeramiAnthony Cerami-Biography:Anthony Cerami is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Warren Pharmaceuticals, and the founder and chairman of the Board and CEO of Araim Pharmaceuticals. He received a Ph.D...
- Haroutioun Hovanes ChakmakjianHaroutioun Hovanes ChakmakjianHaroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian was a published scientist, as well as the father of American composer Alan Hovhaness.-Family/Early background:...
- Martin ChalfieMartin ChalfieMartin Chalfie is an American scientist. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the department of biological sciences. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the...
- Thomas C. ChalmersThomas C. ChalmersThomas Clark Chalmers, MD, FACP was famous for his role in the development of the randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis in medical research....
- Dean Roden ChapmanDean Roden ChapmanDean Roden Chapman was a mechanical engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and at Stanford University.-Biography:...
- Charles B. HensleyCharles B. HensleyCharles B. Hensley is an American entrepreneur and Chairman of Hensley Group, Inc., an umbrella organization that controls a diverse set of corporate entities involved in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, music, television and film....
- Jia ChenJia ChenDr. Jia Chen is currently Director of Technical Sales & Innovation for IBM’s Growth Market Units, based in Shanghai, China. Dr. Chen has leadership for technical sales team across all IBM's sectors for Greater China Group, ASEAN, Australia/New Zealand, Korea, India, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle...
- James ChinJames ChinJames Chin is a public health epidemiologist. He works in public health surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases, particularly AIDS.-Career:...
- Charles L. ChristCharles L. ChristCharles L. Christ was an American scientist, geochemist and mineralogist. He received his Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, completing his Ph.D. in 1940. After receiving his degree, he worked for the General Electric Company as a research chemist in...
- Christian PikeChristian PikeChristian Pike is an Associate Professor at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a member of the USC Neuroscience Program. His ongoing work focuses on Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. His laboratory studies the role of neuronal apoptosis in neural diseases...
- Carol ChristianCarol ChristianCarol Christian is an American astronomer, educator, and Information Technologist. Her astronomical work is focussed on stellar populations. She has worked extensively in studying the use of emerging technologies for science education....
- Chu Ching-wuChu Ching-wuPaul Chu is an Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a Professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston...
- William C. ClarkWilliam C. ClarkWilliam C. Clark is an American ecologist and environmental policy analyst, and Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F...
- Marjorie ClarkeMarjorie ClarkeMarjorie J. Clarke, Ph.D., is an environmental scientist who specializes in recycling participation, waste prevention methods, waste-to-energy/incinerator emissions controls, environmental impacts of the World Trade Center fires and collapse, and community botanical gardening; her experience also...
- Steven ClarkeSteven ClarkeSteven G. Clarke, an American biochemist, is a director of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA biochemistry department. Clarke heads a laboratory at UCLA's department of chemistry and biochemistry...
- Janice E. ClementsJanice E. ClementsJanice Ellen Clements is Vice Dean for Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Faculty Affairs. She is a professor in the departments of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Neurology, and Pathology, and has a joint appointment in Molecular...
- Manfred ClynesManfred ClynesManfred Clynes is a scientist, inventor, and musician. He is best known for his innovations and discoveries in the interpretation of music, and for his contributions to the study of biological systems and neurophysiology.-Overview:...
- Edwin Joseph CohnEdwin Joseph CohnEdwin Joseph Cohn was an early protein scientist. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover [1911], and the University of Chicago [1914, PhD 1917], he made important advances in the physical chemistry of proteins, and was responsible for the blood fractionation project that saved thousands of lives...
- Ellen CohnEllen CohnEllen R. Cohn is an Associate Dean and associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with a secondary faculty appointment at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy...
- L. Stephen ColesL. Stephen ColesL. Stephen Coles is the co-founder and the Executive Director of the Gerontology Research Group,; a Visiting Scholar in the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States.; and an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery, at the UCLA David Geffen...
- James Bryant ConantJames Bryant ConantJames Bryant Conant was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As thePresident of Harvard University he reformed it as a research institution.-Biography :...
- Albert CoonsAlbert CoonsAlbert Hewett Coons, M.D. was an American physician, pathologist, and immunologist. He was the first person to conceptualize and develop immunofluorescent techniques for labeling antibodies in the early 1940s....
- Franklin Seaney Cooper
- Alfred L. CopleyAlfred L. CopleyAlfred Lewin Copley was a German-American medical scientist and an artist at the New York School in the 1950s. As an artist he worked under the name L. Alcopley. He is best known as an artist for his abstract expressionist paintings, and as a scientist for his work in the field of hemorheology...
- Robert CorellRobert CorellRobert W. Corell is an American global climate scientist, Principal for the , an Ambassador for ClimateWorks, Professor II at the University of the Arctic’s new Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry and a Professor II at the University of Tromso...
- Eugene E. CovertEugene E. CovertEugene Edzards Covert was an aeronautics specialist born in Rapid City, South Dakota credited with the world's first practical wind tunnel magnetic suspension system, and was a member of the Rogers Commission...
- Jerry CoyneJerry Coyne-Online articles:* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* ", The New Republic * -Online articles:* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* , The New Republic* ", The New Republic (Review of Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution)* -Online articles:* , The New Republic* , The...
- Dwight CrandellDwight CrandellDwight R. "Rocky" Crandell was an American volcanologist who alongside Donal R. Mullineaux correctly predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century....
- Robert K. CraneRobert K. CraneRobert Kellogg Crane is an American biochemist best known for his discovery of sodium-glucose cotransport.-Biography:...
- Harriet CreightonHarriet CreightonHarriet Baldwin Creighton was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.Born in Delavan, Illinois, Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933...
- John CullineyJohn CullineyJohn L. Culliney is a graduate of Yale and Duke universities and holds a doctorate in zoology. He has taught biology and marine science in Hawai‘i since 1978 and has authored four books on subjects ranging from the North American continental shelf to the horticulture of native Hawaiian plants...
- Harold CumminsHarold CumminsHarold Cummins M.D. was a dermatoglyphics specialist, considered to be the father of dermatoglyphics. -References:...
- Joseph Augustine CushmanJoseph Augustine CushmanJoseph Augustine Cushman was an American geologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist.He was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and was educated at Bridgewater State College. He was the captain and catcher for the baseball team along with fullback and manager for the football team. He...
- Clarence Madison DallyClarence Madison DallyClarence Madison Dally was an American glassblower, noted as an assistant to Thomas Edison in his work on X-rays and as an early victim of radiation dermatitis and its complications.- Early life and education :...
- Walter DandyWalter DandyWalter Edward Dandy, M.D. was an American neurosurgeon and scientist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of neurosurgery, along with Victor Horsley and Harvey Cushing...
- Wilbur DavenportWilbur DavenportWilbur B. Davenport Jr. was an American engineer and scientist, known for his work on communications systems.He received his S.M. and Ph.D. from M.I.T. where he became assistant professor and professor . From 1951 he worked with Lincoln Lab as leader of the research group on communications...
- Kelvin DaviesKelvin DaviesKelvin J. A. Davies is the James E. Birren Chair of Gerontology at the University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. Educated at the University of London, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of California at Berkeley, he was previously a faculty member at...
- James Henry DeeseJames Henry DeeseJames Henry Deese was a NASA manager.-Career:He was Chief of Facilities Design Branch, Kennedy Space Center from 1960 to 1964; Chief of the Advanced Studies Office of NASA Launch Operations Center from 1964 to 1966; Senior Research Administrator for the Future Studies Office at Kennedy Space...
- Edmund B. DelabarreEdmund B. DelabarreEdmund Burke Delabarre , was a researcher and professor of psychology at Brown University. He graduated from Amherst College in 1886. Professor Delabarre was a pioneer in the field of shape perception and on the interaction between mental processes and the involuntary movements of the body...
- David DemingDavid DemingDavid Deming , an American geologist and geophysicist, is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1972. He graduated from Indiana University in 1983 with a BS degree in geology, and...
- Harry DemopoulosHarry DemopoulosHarry B. Demopoulos, MD is an pioneer in the medical aspects of free radicals, especially in the areas of ischaemic injury, the toxicity of anticancer drugs, and in spinal cord injury...
- Victor Denenberg
- Chester DeweyChester DeweyChester Dewey was an American botanist, clergyman and educator.- Early life :Dewey was born in Sheffield, Mass. October 25, 1784, and studied for the ministry at Williams College, graduating in 1806. He officiated at Tryingham, Massachusetts...
- Michael DirrMichael DirrMichael A. Dirr, Ph.D is a horticulturist and a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on woody plants.-Education and Experience:...
- Paul M. DotyPaul M. DotyPaul Mead Doty is an emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry who specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules and has been strongly involved in peace and security policy issues....
- Hugh Latimer DrydenHugh Latimer DrydenHugh Latimer Dryden was an aeronautical scientist and civil servant. He served as NASA Deputy Administrator from August 19, 1958 until his death.-Biography:...
- Peter DuesbergPeter DuesbergPeter H. Duesberg is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley...
- Louis DunnLouis DunnLouis G. Dunn was a South African-born engineer who played a key role in the development of early American missiles and launch vehicles.- Caltech :...
- Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.Wendell Earl Dunn, Jr. was a chemical engineer, metallurgist, and inventor. His technologies for high temperature chlorination, gold extraction, tantalum and titanium extraction are still widely used.-Early years:Dunn was the first son of educator Wendell E...
- Nguyet Anh DuongNguyet Anh DuongNguyet Anh Duong is a Vietnamese American scientist responsible for the creation of the Thermobaric weapon.She is noted as the "Scientist who developed the bomb that ended the war with Afghanistan" by the Vietnamese American National Gala.-Biography:...
- Samuel T. DurranceSamuel T. DurranceSamuel Thornton Durrance is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.-Background:Durrance was born September 17, 1943, in Tallahassee, Florida, but considers Tampa, Florida his hometown...
- John DurrantJohn DurrantJohn Durrant is an audiologist and a Professor in the Departments of Communication Science and Disorders, Otolaryngology, and University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He is also Adjunct Professor of Speech and Hearing Science at the Ohio State University...
- August DvorakAugust DvorakAugust Dvorak was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout...
- Roger L. EastonRoger L. EastonRoger L. Easton is an American scientist. He is the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System . In 1955, Easton co-wrote the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard proposal for a U.S. satellite program in competition with two other proposals, including a proposal from...
- Thomas EdisonThomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
- Ron EglashRon EglashRon Eglash is an American cyberneticist, university professor, and author widely known for his work in the field of ethnomathematics, which aims to study the diverse relationships between math and culture...
- Albert Ellis (psychologist)
- Paul Hugh Emmett
- John Franklin EndersJohn Franklin EndersJohn Franklin Enders was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders had been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."-Life:...
- Terry ErwinTerry ErwinTerry L. Erwin is an entomologist with the Smithsonian Institution.Erwin is notable for his controversial estimate of 30 million as the total number of species....
- Hiram Bond EverestHiram Bond EverestHiram Bond Everest was a professor of science, businessman, investor and inventor.-Biography:Everest was born in Pike, New York and moved to Wisconsin around age 18 to work as a teacher of science until 1853, when he moved to Rochester, N.Y.. There he established a grocery business...
- James Ewing (pathologist)
- David J. FarberDavid J. FarberDavid J. "Dave" Farber is a professor of Computer Science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. He is currently Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science, Heinz College, and Department of...
- Harrison FarberHarrison FarberHarrison Farber is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston University.He attended undergraduate at Duke University before moving to Belgium and became a member of the Belgium cycling team. He then went on to attend medical school at George...
- Christopher FieldChristopher FieldDr. Christopher Field is a scientist and researcher, who has contributed to the field of climate change. The author of more than 200 scientific publications, Field’s research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale...
- Caleb FinchCaleb FinchCaleb 'Tuck' Finch is a professor at the University of Southern California's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology who studies aging in humans, with expertise in cell biology and Alzheimer's disease....
- Mark FishmanMark FishmanMark Fishman is a noted researcher and clinician in cardiology and the current President of the Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research , the main research arm of Novartis Pharmaceuticals with over 5,000 employees and a 2008 budget of $5.7B....
- John Adam FlemingJohn Adam FlemingJohn Adam Fleming, was an American physicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity....
- Paul FloryPaul FloryPaul John Flory was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his prodigious volume of work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules...
- Rousseau H. FlowerRousseau H. FlowerRousseau Hayner Flower was an extremely prolific 20th century paleontologist, known for his eccentric personality.- Career :Although trained as an entomologist, and a specialist in dragonflies and orthopterans, Flower began studying paleontology in the middle of the 1930s...
- Francis B. FoleyFrancis B. FoleyFrancis B. Foley , was an American ferrous metallurgist.-Biography:Foley was born July 7, 1887 in Philadelphia. His father, Dennis Foley, died in 1889 in Dakota Territory, leaving a wife, daughter, and three sons...
- Michael FosselMichael FosselMichael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University and editor of the Journal Of Anti-Ageing Medicine who is best known for his views on telomerase therapy as a possible treatment for cellular senescence...
- Dian FosseyDian FosseyDian Fossey was an American zoologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous anthropologist Louis Leakey...
- Carol FowlerCarol FowlerCarol A. Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was a former President and Director of Research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut from 1992 to 2008. She is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics and...
- Samuel Fowler (1779–1844)
- Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinDr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
- David Franklin (scientist)
- Childs FrickChilds FrickChilds Frick was an American vertebrate paleontologist.He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory...
- Jeffrey M. FriedmanJeffrey M. FriedmanJeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity.-Biography:...
- Carl FroschCarl FroschCarl Frosch was a Bell Labs researcher who discovered that silicon could be protectively coated with silicon dioxide by the right exposure to oxygen when hot. Such protective coating overcame a problem of surface states found in active silicon circuit elements...
- Elmer L. GadenElmer L. GadenElmer L. Gaden Jr. has been described as the “father of biochemical engineering." A graduate of Columbia University, he wrote a groundbreaking dissertation that quantified the amount of oxygen necessary to fuel the fermentation process used to produce penicillin. Dr. Gaden established Columbia's...
- Daniel Carleton GajdusekDaniel Carleton GajdusekDaniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious....
- Jay GanJay GanJay Jianying Gan , is an American agricultural and environmental scientist. Gan is current Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences at University of California, Riverside.-Biography:...
- Merrill GarnettMerrill GarnettMerrill Garnett is a biochemist and cancer researcher, and the founder and director of Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc. Holding a D.D.S. from New York University, and graduate study in chemistry and biochemistry from New York University and Brooklyn College, Dr...
- Ralph W. GerardRalph W. GerardRalph Waldo Gerard was an American neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological basis of schizophrenia.-Biography:...
- Eloise GerryEloise GerryEloise Gerry was an influential research scientist whose early 20th century work contributed greatly to the study of southern pine trees and turpentine production. Gerry was the first woman appointed to the professional staff of the U.S...
- Albert GhiorsoAlbert GhiorsoAlbert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned five decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.-Early life:...
- Barrie GilbertBarrie GilbertBarrie Gilbert was born in 1937 in Bournemouth, England. He is well-known for his invention of numerous analog circuit concepts, holding over 100 patents worldwide, and for the discovery of the Translinear Principle and a class of related topologies loosely referred to as the Gilbert cell, one of...
- Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
- Lillian Moller GilbrethLillian Moller GilbrethLillian Moller Gilbreth was an American psychologist and industrial engineer. One of the first working female engineers holding a Ph.D., she is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr...
- Robert GilmanRobert GilmanRobert C. Gilman is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages. The Gilmans’ work was important in giving definition to the ecovillage movement and shaping the direction of the Global Ecovillage Network...
- Stanton GlantzStanton GlantzStanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine , American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and Director of the at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Glantz's research focuses on the health effects of tobacco smoking...
- Peter GlaserPeter GlaserPeter Edward Glaser is an American scientist and aerospace engineer. He served as Vice President, Advanced Technology , was employed at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA ; subsequently he served as a consultant to the company . He was president of Power from Space Consultants...
- Peter GleickPeter GleickDr. Peter H. Gleick is a scientist working on issues related to the environment, economic development, and international security, with a focus on global freshwater challenges. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, which he co-founded in 1987. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur...
- George H. GobleGeorge H. GobleGeorge H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner.Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s...
- Calvin Goddard (ballistics)Calvin Goddard (Ballistics)Colonel Calvin Hooker Goddard was a forensic scientist, army officer, academic, researcher and a pioneer in forensic ballistics. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
- Alan H Goldstein
- Lawrence S.B. GoldsteinLawrence S.B. GoldsteinLawrence S.B. Goldstein is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at University of California, San Diego and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and the California Institute for...
- John B. GoodenoughJohn B. GoodenoughJohn Bannister Goodenough is an American professor and prominent solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin...
- John GorrieJohn GorrieJohn Gorrie , physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian, is considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning. He was born on the Island of Nevis to Scottish parents on October 3, 1802, and spent his childhood in South Carolina...
- John Stanton GouldJohn Stanton GouldJohn Stanton Gould was a 19th-century Quaker scientist and philanthropist of the United States.-Biography:...
- Ralph GraysonRalph GraysonRalph Lawrence Grayson was a scientist, engineer, pilot, attorney, soldier, father and husband. He was born into poverty, the son of an Arkansas sharecropper...
- Michael GrazianoMichael GrazianoMichael Steven Anthony Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on how the cerebral cortex monitors the space around the body and controls movement within that space...
- Cecil Howard GreenCecil Howard GreenCecil Howard Green was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
- Richard J. Green
- Kevin GreenaughKevin GreenaughKevin Greenaugh, PhD is an American nuclear engineer and senior manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington, DC, USA....
- Michael E. GreenbergMichael E. GreenbergMichael Greenberg is an American neuroscientist who specializes in neurobiology at the molecular level.- Biography :...
- Lewis Joel GreeneLewis Joel GreeneLewis Joel Greene is an American Brazilian biochemist, scientist, university professor and editor of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research....
- Alan GrodzinskyAlan GrodzinskyAlan J. Grodzinsky is an American scientist and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT....
- Stephen GrossbergStephen GrossbergStephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, mathematician, and neuromorphic technologist. He is the Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.Grossberg's work...
- Ernst GuilleminErnst GuilleminErnst Adolph Guillemin was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network analysis and synthesis.-Biography:Guillemin was born in 1898, in Milwaukee, and received his B.S. and...
- Gregor S. GustafsonGregor S. GustafsonGregor S. Gustafson is a U.S. scientist and human bioenergy researcher. Mr. Gustafson has developed a bio-electric recording instrument to discover and measure frequency patterns existing in physiological, emotional and consciousness-based conditions and diseases. Mr...
- Charles Claude GuthrieCharles Claude GuthrieCharles Claude Guthrie was an American physiologist. He was born at Gilmore, St. Charles Co., Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1901 and from the University of Chicago in 1908; taught physiology while engaged in advanced studies, and was professor of physiology and...
- Nelson HairstonNelson HairstonNelson Hairston Sr. was a preeminent ecologist of the 20th century. Hairston is well-known for his work in ecology and human disease. In the field of ecology he is famous for championing the idea of the trophic cascade, on which he published the provocative “Green World Hypothesis” with colleagues...
- Thomas Callister HalesThomas Callister HalesThomas Callister Hales is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1998 computer-aided proof of the Kepler conjecture, a centuries-old problem in discrete geometry which states that the most space-efficient way to pack spheres is in a pyramid shape...
- John D. HamakerJohn D. HamakerJohn D. Hamaker , was an American mechanical engineer, ecologist, agronomist and science writer in the fields of soil remineralization, rock dusting, mineral cycles, climate cycles and glaciology.-Biography:Background...
- Debora HammondDebora HammondDebora Hammond is an American historian of science, Provost and Professor Interdisciplinary Studies of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at the Sonoma State University...
- Henry Paul HansenHenry Paul HansenHenry Paul Hansen was an American palynologist known largely for his pioneering work on the vegetation history of the North American Pacific Northwest and for his time as the dean of Graduate Studies at Oregon State University from 1949 - 1972.-Early life:Henry Hansen was born on the April 28,...
- Mary Styles HarrisMary Styles HarrisMary Styles Harris, Ph.D. is an American geneticist.- Early life :Harris was born in Nashville, Tennessee, June 26, 1949 to George and Margaret Styles. George was a doctor, and it was his career that sparked Harris' early interest in science. George died when Harris was 9 years old...
- Edwin B. HartEdwin B. HartEdwin B. Hart was an American biochemist.A native of Ohio, Hart studied physiological chemistry under Albrecht Kossel in Germany, and also studied at the University of Marzburg and University of Heidelberg...
- William M. HartmannWilliam M. HartmannWilliam M. Hartmann is a noted physicist, psychoacoustician, author, and former president of the Acoustical Society of America. His major contributions in psychoacoustics are in pitch perception, binaural hearing, and sound localization...
- Leland H. HartwellLeland H. HartwellLeland Harrison Hartwell is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and R...
- Stephen HarveyStephen HarveyStephen C. Harvey is a structural biologist with research interest in nucleic acids, the ribosome, virus structure and high density lipoprotein. He is currently professor and Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar in the at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia...
- Caryl Parker HaskinsCaryl Parker HaskinsCaryl Parker Haskins was a scientist, author, inventor, philanthropist, governmental adviser and pioneering entomologist in the study of ant biology . In the 1930s he was inspired by Alfred Lee Loomis to establish his own research facility. Along with Franklin S. Cooper, he founded the Haskins...
- Michael HasselmoMichael HasselmoMichael Hasselmo is a neuroscientist at Boston University.He is known for his work on neuromodulators, particularly acetylcholine, and for his computational modelling work on the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, especially regarding the functional role of theta rhythm.He is on the editorial board...
- Brian Hayes (scientist)Brian Hayes (scientist)Brian Hayes is an American scientist, columnist and author.He is a senior writer and regular columnist for the magazine American Scientist, and was editor in chief for the magazine from 1990 to 1992. He has also edited and written columns for Scientific American, as well as writing for Computer...
- Eric J. HellerEric J. HellerEric J. "Rick" Heller is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University...
- Karl Gordon HenizeKarl Gordon HenizeKarl Gordon Henize[p], Ph.D. was an astronomer, NASA astronaut, space scientist, and professor at Northwestern University. He was stationed at several observatories around the world, including McCormick Observatory, Lamont-Hussey Observatory , Mount Wilson Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical...
- Alfred HersheyAlfred HersheyAlfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist.He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University in 1930 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1934, taking a position shortly thereafter at the Department of Bacteriology...
- John HeuserJohn HeuserJohn E. Heuser is a Professor of Biophysics in the department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine as well as a Professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Matieral Sciences at Kyoto University...
- Craig L. HillCraig L. HillCraig L. Hill is an American scientist . He is working now with his research group at the Emory University.- Academic career :...
- Ronald K. HoeflinRonald K. HoeflinRonald K. Hoeflin is a philosopher by trade, creator of the Mega and Titan intelligence tests. In 1988 Hoeflin won the American Philosophical Association's Rockefeller Prize for his article, "Theories of Truth: A Comprehensive Synthesis." His article argues for the interrelated nature of seven...
- Dean HogeDean HogeDean R. Hoge was an American sociologist, who spent decades studying American Catholics, especially empirical surveys on the priesthood....
- Theo HolmTheo HolmHerman Theodor "Theo" Holm was a Danish-American systematic botanist. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming and graduated 1880. He participated in the Danish Dijmphna expedition to the territory between Russia and the North Pole during the First...
- Erna Schneider HooverErna Schneider HooverDr. Erna Schneider Hoover is an American mathematician famous for inventing a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at Bell Laboratories....
- Grace HopperGrace HopperRear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language...
- Jay HoslerJay HoslerJay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, and Optical Allusions. Clan Apis follows the life of a honey bee named Nyuki; the story conveys factual information about honey bees in a humorous fashion...
- Mike HudakMike HudakMichael John Hudak is an environmental researcher and author, Sierra Club activist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker concerned with the environmental damage that ranching inflicts on US public land . He is an author of and its companion series of web-based videos...
- Gordon Ferrie HullGordon Ferrie HullGordon Ferrie Hull was a Canadian / American teacher, mathematician and physicist, especially known for the experimental detection of the radiation pressure exerted by light which he achieved in 1903....
- Fazle HussainFazle HussainA. K. M. Fazle Hussain is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the director of the at the University of Houston and a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.-Education:He did his BS in...
- Shinya InouéShinya Inouéis a biophysicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research field is the visualization of dynamic processes within living cells using the light microscope. Currently he is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory....
- Eastman JacobsEastman JacobsEastman Nixon Jacobs was a leading aerodynamicist who worked for NACA's Langley Research Center from the 1920s to the 1940s. He was responsible for advancing many fields in aerodynamics, dealing particularly with wind tunnels, airfoils, turbulence, boundary layers, and Schlieren...
- Robert M. JacobsonRobert M. JacobsonRobert Martin Jacobson is the former chair of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and a full professor of pediatrics at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He still regularly sees young patients as a member of the Division of Community Pediatric and...
- Rakesh JainRakesh JainRakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jain primarily researches tumor pathophysiology...
- Ramesh JainRamesh JainRamesh Chandra Jain is a scientist and entrepreneur whose decades long career has spanned several universities and startup companies. He is best known for founding the company Virage and working on some of the early visual information retrieval systems...
- Bruce JakoskyBruce JakoskyBruce Martin Jakosky has been involved with the Viking, Solar Mesosphere Explorer, Clementine, Mars Observer, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Science Laboratory and MAVEN spacecraft missions, and is involved in planning future spacecraft missions.-Career:Jakosky heads up the University of...
- John T. JamesJohn T. JamesDr. John T. James is the Chief Toxicologist for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. Dr. James leads the Space Toxicology Office located at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.- Education :...
- William Jeffrey (NIST)
- Mae JemisonMae JemisonMae Carol Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.-Early years:...
- Alejandro JenkinsAlejandro JenkinsAlejandro Jenkins is a post-doctorate researcher of high energy physics at Florida State University. Dr. Jenkins is a native of Costa Rica. He received degrees from Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology....
- Jim MullinsJim MullinsJames I. Mullins is an American scientist. Jim currently is a Professor of Microbiology and Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. -References:...
- Joaquin FusterJoaquin FusterJoaquin M. Fuster is a neuroscientist whose research has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behavior. His several books and hundreds of papers, particularly on memory and the prefrontal cortex, are widely cited.Born in Barcelona,...
- J. Leonard JohnsonJ. Leonard JohnsonJames Leonard Vincent "Len" Johnson was an American scientist."Len" Johnson was an American engineer, designer, and scientist in the mid-twentieth century in the field of metallurgy and nuclear technology...
- Herrick L. Johnston
- Kalidas ShettyKalidas ShettyKalidas Shetty is a noted food scientist, an associate professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts, and a recipient of the Jefferson science fellowship. He is the author of a significant number of books on food science...
- William T. KaneWilliam T. KaneWilliam T. Kane was a physicist for Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, Inc., in Corning, New York, who held patents in crystallography and heat-sensing technology—developments which contributed to the early processing and manufacture of fiber optics...
- Charles K. KaoCharles K. KaoThe Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications...
- Edward KasnerEdward KasnerEdward Kasner who studied under Cassius Jackson Keyser, was a prominent American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department...
- Jerome KavkaJerome KavkaJerome Kavka is an emeritus supervising and training analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Beginning in the early 1990s, he also served as archivist for the Institute....
- Yoshihiro KawaokaYoshihiro Kawaokais a leading scientist in the field of influenza and other infectious diseases. He is currently a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo....
- Donald KeckDonald KeckDr. Donald B. Keck is an American research physicist and engineer most noted for his involvement in developing low-loss optical fiber. Keck grew up in Lansing, Michigan and attended Michigan State University, after which he joined Corning Incorporated’s research department. As a senior research...
- Charles David KeelingCharles David KeelingCharles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming...
- Klaus KeilKlaus KeilKlaus Keil is a professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the former Director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. He is also the former director of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics. Klaus...
- Edwin D. KilbourneEdwin D. KilbourneEdwin Dennis Kilbourne was an American research scientist. Born in Buffalo, New York, he received his AB and MD degrees from Cornell University. After completion of service in the Medical Corps of the Army of the United States at the end of World War II, he trained in virus research at The...
- James Rhyne KillianJames Rhyne KillianDr. James Rhyne Killian, Jr. was the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959.-Career:...
- Kim Sung-HouKim Sung-HouKim Sung-Hou PhD is a Korean-born American structural biologist and biophysicist. Dr. Kim reported the first 3D structure of tRNA with A. Rich in 1973. He also published many papers on the structures of protein molecules including human Ras, human cyclin dependent kinase 2 and small heat shock...
- J. Peter KincaidJ. Peter KincaidJ. Peter Kincaid is a scientist and educator who is the founding director of the Modeling and Simulation Ph.D. program at the University of Central Florida. Trained as a human factors psychologist at the Ohio State University, Kincaid has split his career between higher education and working as a...
- Ebenezer Kinnersley
- Harry KloorHarry KloorHarry 'Doc' Kloor Ph.D Ph.D is, as of 1994, the first person in world history to earn two PhDs simultaneously in any discipline. He holds PhDs in Physics and in Chemistry.-Background:...
- J. Val KlumpJ. Val KlumpJeffrey Val Klump is an American limnologist. He was the first person to reach the deepest spot in Lake Superior, a depth of 1333 feet , which is also the lowest point in the United States, on July 30, 1985 while aboard the R/V Seward Johnson with the Johnson-SeaLink-II submersible...
- Brian KobilkaBrian KobilkaBrian K. Kobilka, M.D., is a professor in the departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in the United States. He is also the co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G-protein coupled receptors...
- Rudolf KompfnerRudolf KompfnerRudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube .Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents...
- Daniel KopansDaniel KopansDaniel B. Kopans, MD, FACR is a radiologist specializing in mammography and other forms of breast imaging.Dr. Daniel Kopans is a leading experts in breast cancer detection and diagnosis. He is the founder of the Breast Imaging Division in the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General...
- David E. KuhlDavid E. KuhlDavid Edmund Kuhl isan American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine.He is well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. Dr...
- Thomas KuhnThomas KuhnThomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was deeply influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term "paradigm shift," which has since become an English-language staple.Kuhn...
- Stephanie KwolekStephanie KwolekStephanie Louise Kwolek is a Polish-American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek has won numerous awards for her work in polymer chemistry.- Early life and education :Kwolek was...
- Paul Eston LacyPaul Eston LacyPaul Eston Lacy, M.D., Ph.D. was an anatomist & experimentalist and one of the world’s leading diabetes mellitus researchers. He is often credited as the originator of islet transplantation.- Education :...
- Jeffrey LaitmanJeffrey LaitmanJeffrey Todd Laitman, Ph.D. is an American anatomist and physical anthropologist whose science has combined experimental, comparative, and paleontological studies to understand the development and evolution of the human upper respiratory and vocal tract regions...
- Edwin H. LandEdwin H. LandEdwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision...
- David A. Lane (scientist)David A. Lane (scientist)David A. Lane is an American economist, who developed the theory of artifact innovation. At the Santa Fe Institute he has been defining the notion of economic complexity and the Santa Fe approach...
- Samuel Pierpont LangleySamuel Pierpont LangleySamuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...
- Irving LangmuirIrving LangmuirIrving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his...
- Murder of Annie LeMurder of Annie LeLe was born in Placerville, California, to a Vietnamese American family. She spent her childhood with her aunt and uncle. Le was valedictorian of her graduating class at Union Mine High School, and voted one of two students to be "the next Einstein." After earning approximately $160,000 in...
- Robert Ledley
- Zachary LemniosZachary LemniosZachary J. Lemnios is an American scientist who currently holds the post of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering , formerly known as Director, Defense Research and Engineering , in the United States Government.He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 19, 2009,...
- Allenna LeonardAllenna LeonardAllenna Leonard is an American cyberneticist, consultant and Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Canada, internationally, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration.- Biography :...
- Norman N. LiNorman N. LiNorman N. Li , born December 28, 1932 in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese American engineer and scientist famous for his inventions and development of liquid membrane technologies.-Biography:Li graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1954...
- Sidney H. LiebsonSidney H. LiebsonSidney H. Liebson received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1947. His thesis was on the discharge mechanism of Geiger Muller counters...
- Eli LillyEli LillyEli Lilly was the founder of Eli Lilly and Company.Eli Lilly may also refer to:* Eli Lilly and Company, a global pharmaceutical company...
- Paul J. LioyPaul J. LioyPaul J. Lioy, Ph. D. is an American working in the field of Environmental Health and specializing in Exposure Science. He is one of the world’s leading experts in personal exposure to toxins....
- John T. LisJohn T. LisJohn T. Lis is the Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Dr. Lis was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 for his research on protein templating in the propagation of gene activity.-Research:Dr...
- Leigh LiskerLeigh LiskerLeigh Lisker was an eminent American linguist and phonetician. Most of his career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor and then emeritus professor of linguistics. Dr. Lisker received his A.B. in 1941, with a major in German, his M.A. in 1946, and a Ph.D. in 1949 in...
- Timothy M. LohmanTimothy M. LohmanTimothy M. Lohman earned his Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1977. After completing his Ph. D., he furthered his training with postdoctoral research at the University of California and the University of Oregon...
- Alfred Lee LoomisAlfred Lee LoomisAlfred Lee Loomis was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist/physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research...
- Lorraine LisieckiLorraine LisieckiLorraine Lisiecki is an American paleoclimatologist. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has proposed a new analysis of the 100,000-year problem in the Milankovitch theory of climate change...
- Joseph LoveringJoseph LoveringJoseph Lovering was an American scientist and educator.He graduated from Harvard in 1833. In 1838 he was named Hollis Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard. He held this chair until 1888, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus, after 50 years service...
- Raymond LuebbersRaymond LuebbersDr. Raymond J. Luebbers was Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and Ohio University, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom, Inc....
- David T. LykkenDavid T. LykkenDavid Thoreson Lykken was a behavioral geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota...
- Dennis McCarthy (scientist)Dennis McCarthy (scientist)Dr. Dennis D. McCarthy is a former Director of Time at the United States Naval Observatory. Dr. McCarthy also works for the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. -References:...
- Jennifer McCartyJennifer McCartyJennifer Hooper McCarty is a materials scientist who specializes in the analysis of historic materials. McCarty is co-author of What Really Sank the Titanic: New Forensic Discoveries.-Education:...
- Barbara McClintockBarbara McClintockBarbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...
- Celeste McColloughCeleste McColloughCeleste McCollough, known since about 1996 as Celeste McCollough Howard is an American scientist who conducts research in human visual perception. She is famous for discovering, in 1965, the first contingent aftereffect, known soon after as the McCollough effect...
- L. Hamilton McCormickL. Hamilton McCormickLeander Hamilton McCormick was an American author, inventor, art collector and sculptor.-Life:Hamilton McCormick was born in Chicago, May 27, 1859.His grandfather Robert McCormick of Virginia invented agricultural machinery....
- Stacy McGaughStacy McGaughStacy McGaugh is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. His fields of speciality include low surface brightness galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution, tests of dark matter and alternative hypotheses, and...
- Michael McKubreMichael McKubreMichael McKubre, PhD, is an electro-chemist in the forefront of cold fusion energy development and one of the most respected scientists in the field. McKubre was director of the Energy Research Center at SRI International in 1998. He is a native of New Zealand.From 1989 to 2002, he has been...
- Richard Cockburn MaclaurinRichard Cockburn MaclaurinRichard Cockburn Maclaurin was a Scottish-born U.S. educator and mathematical physicist. He was made president of MIT in 1909, and held the position until his death in 1920....
- Brian MacWhinneyBrian MacWhinneyBrian James MacWhinney is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed...
- Eugene O. MajorEugene O. MajorEugene O. "Gene" Major, PhD, is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , a part of the United States National Institutes of Health...
- Ho-Kwang MaoHo-Kwang MaoHo-Kwang Mao is an eminent American geologist and Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.-Family:...
- John MarburgerJohn MarburgerJohn Harmen Marburger, III was an American physicist who directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the administration of President George W. Bush, thus serving as the Science Advisor to the President...
- Noella MarcellinoNoella MarcellinoMother Noella Marcellino, O.S.B., is a Benedictine nun who has earned a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Connecticut...
- Lynn MargulisLynn MargulisLynn Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory, which is now generally accepted...
- Julius MarmurJulius MarmurJulius Marmur was an American molecular biologist who made significant contributions to DNA research. His discovery, while working in the laboratory of Paul Doty at Harvard University, that the denaturation of DNA was reversible and depended on salt- and GC-content, had a major impact on how...
- William F. MartinWilliam F. MartinWilliam Martin is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Botanik III, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf....
- Bruce E. MaryanoffBruce E. MaryanoffBruce Eliot Maryanoff is an American medicinal and organic chemist.-Background and contributions:...
- Cynthia A. MaryanoffCynthia A. MaryanoffCynthia Anne Maryanoff is an American organic and materials chemist.-Background and contributions:...
- Deborah MashDeborah MashDeborah Mash is an American professor of neurology and of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami School of Medicine and director of the university's Brain Endowment Bank. She is one of the world's foremost scientific experts on the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine.Dr...
- Kirstin MatthewsKirstin MatthewsKirstin Matthews is a Fellow in Science and Technology Policy at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Matthews received a bachelors degree in biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Texas Health Science Center...
- Walter MauderliWalter MauderliWalter Mauderli, DSc, . Mauderli was a pioneer in the development of the field of medical physics. He earned his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under the instruction of notable physicists as Nobel Laureate physicist Wolfgang Pauli.Mauderli trained in the dosimetry of low-...
- Matthew Fontaine MauryMatthew Fontaine MauryMatthew Fontaine Maury , United States Navy was an American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator....
- Richard L. MeierRichard L. MeierRichard Louis Meier, is an US regional planner, systems theorist, scientist, urban scholar, and futurist, who was Professor in the College of Environmental Design at University of California at Berkeley. He was an early thinker on sustainability in planning, and recognized as a leading figure in...
- Alvin Joseph MelvegerAlvin Joseph MelvegerAlvin Joseph Melveger is an American scientist specializing in physical chemistry, spectroscopy, biomaterials, polymers and other disciplines, Alvin Joseph Melveger has had a long multifaceted career in chemical analysis, research, editing, publishing and teaching...
- Thomas Corwin MendenhallThomas Corwin MendenhallThomas Corwin Mendenhall was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist.-Biography:Mendenhall was born in Hanoverton, Ohio to Stephen Mendenhall, a farmer and carriage-maker,...
- George W. MerckGeorge W. MerckGeorge Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck , was the president of Merck & Co. from 1925 to 1950.-Biography:Born in New York and raised in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, he attended Harvard College, graduating in 1915. World War I prevented him from pursuing an advanced degree in Germany; instead, he joined...
- Antonio MeucciAntonio MeucciAntonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor, a compatriot of revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone....
- George H. MillerGeorge H. MillerGeorge H. Miller Ph.D. was appointed the interim director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by the University of California on March 15, 2006. Dr. Miller, an employee of the university for 34 years, replaced Michael Anastasio, who left LLNL to head Los Alamos National Security LLC,...
- Raymond D. MindlinRaymond D. MindlinRaymond David Mindlin was a mechanician who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences.-Education:...
- Ormsby M. MitchelOrmsby M. MitchelOrmsby MacKnight Mitchel was an American astronomer and major general in the American Civil War....
- William A. MitchellWilliam A. MitchellDr. William A. "Bill" Mitchell was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, quick-set Jell-O, Cool Whip, and powdered egg whites. During his career he received over 70 patents.He was born in...
- Scott L. MontgomeryScott L. MontgomeryScott L Montgomery is a geologist, author, and part-time faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has written many technical papers, monographs, and several textbooks related to energy...
- Philip MorrisonPhilip MorrisonPhilip Morrison, was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Early life and education:...
- Jürgen MoserJürgen MoserJürgen Kurt Moser or Juergen Kurt Moser was a German-American mathematician.-Professional biography:...
- Adilson E. MotterAdilson E. MotterAdilson E. Motter, born January 1, 1974, is a Brazilian-born U.S.-based scientist working at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks...
- Forrest S. MozerForrest S. MozerForrest S. Mozer is an American experimental physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur known best for his pioneering work on electric field measurements in space plasma and for development of solid state electronic speech synthesizers and speech recognizers....
- Ferid MuradFerid MuradFerid Murad is an Albanian-American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.- Life :...
- William P. Murphy Jr.William P. Murphy Jr.Dr. William P. Murphy Jr. is the son of the American physician William Parry Murphy who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934....
- Roger D. NelsonRoger D. NelsonRoger D. Nelson is the director of the Global Consciousness Project , an international, multi-laboratory collaboration founded in 1997 to study collective consciousness. From 1980 to 2002, he was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at Princeton...
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- Marcia NeugebauerMarcia NeugebauerMarcia Neugebauer is a prominent American geophysicist who made important contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's pioneering research yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comets.Neugebauer was a primary investigator of the...
- William F. NeumanWilliam F. NeumanWilliam F Neuman was an important biochemist and author. He was born June 2, 1919, in Petoskey, Michigan and died January 4, 1981, in Rochester, New York. Neuman was an authority on the biochemistry of bone tissue. Before joining the faculty of the University of Rochester in 1944, he headed the...
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- Sarfaraz K. NiaziSarfaraz K. NiaziSarfaraz K. Niazi was born in Lucknow, India in 1949; he migrated to Karachi, Pakistan in 1962, and to the United States in 1970...
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- Landon Curt NollLandon Curt NollLandon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward....
- Thomas T. Norton
- Bill NyeBill NyeWilliam Sanford "Bill" Nye , popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, mechanical engineer, and scientist...
- John A. O'KeefeJohn A. O'KeefeJohn Aloysius O'Keefe was a planetary scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1958 to 1995. He is credited with the discovery of Earth's "pear shape" using U.S. Vanguard satellite data collected in the late 1950s...
- Brian O'LearyBrian O'LearyBrian Todd O'Leary was an American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut. He was a member of the sixth group of astronauts selected by NASA in August 1967...
- S. Jay OlshanskyS. Jay OlshanskyStuart Jay Olshansky is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.-Biography:He received his Ph.D...
- Henry John OrchardHenry John OrchardHenry John Orchard was a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and an authority on filter design and network theory. He died June 23 of 2004 at his home in Santa Monica of respiratory failure...
- Michael OrshanskyMichael OrshanskyMichael Orshansky is an American researcher in integrated circuit design, currently with University of Texas at Austin since 2003. He received his undergraduate education and Ph.D...
- Arnold Edward OrtmannArnold Edward OrtmannArnold Edward Ortmann was a naturalist, and zoologist who specialized in malacology.- Biography :Ortmann was born in Magdeburg, Prussia. A student of Ernst Haeckel, he was graduated from the University of Jena in 1885 with a Ph.D. From 1886 on, he worked as an instructor at the University of...
- Simon OstrachSimon OstrachDr. Simon Ostrach is an American academic scientist and a pioneer in the fields of buoyancy-driven flows and microgravity science. He is a Distinguished Professor at Florida State University, where he is affiliated with the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering. ...
- David OstryDavid OstryDavid J. Ostry is an engineer and neuroscientist whose research focuses on human motor control.He is a professor of Psychology at McGill University and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. His research focuses on understanding the biological mechanisms of voluntary...
- Dan OtteDan OtteDaniel Otte is a noted behavior ecologist, a world expert on crickets and grasshoppers and a prominent scientific illustrator. He has made significant contributions to evolutionary biology...
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- Irvine PageIrvine PageIrvine Heinly Page was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and was an American physiologist who played an important part in the field of hypertension for almost 60 years....
- Sanford PalaySanford PalaySanford Louis "Sandy" Palay was an American scientist and educator.-Academic Background:...
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- Dan James PantoneDan James PantoneDan James Pantone is an American ecologist and conservationist with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. A former professor at Texas A&M University, Dr. Pantone is a researcher who has published numerous refereed articles on agroecology and sustainable agriculture...
- John ParascandolaJohn ParascandolaDr. John Parascandola is an American medical historian. He has written numerous books, including The Development of American Pharmacology: John J...
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- Patrick G. CarrickPatrick G. CarrickPatrick G. Carrick is a member of the Senior Executive Service and an academic.-Career:Before joining the United States Department of Defense, Carrick was Assistant Professor of Physics at Mississippi State University and Director of the Shared Laser Facility at the University of Oregon. In 1989 he...
- Randy PauschRandy PauschRandolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
- Jerome PearsonJerome PearsonJerome Pearson is an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators and lunar space elevator. He is president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA...
- E. Converse Peirce 2ndE. Converse Peirce 2ndEdmund Converse Peirce 2nd, M.D. was Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City), from 1966 to 1991 when he retired. During his career, Dr...
- Jacob PerkinsJacob PerkinsJacob Perkins was an Anglo-American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith...
- Alan PerlisAlan PerlisAlan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.-Biography:...
- Leonid PerlovskyLeonid PerlovskyDr. Leonid Perlovsky is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base...
- William C. PfefferleWilliam C. PfefferleWilliam C. Pfefferle is an American scientist and inventor.Nicknamed the "father of catalytic combustion," he invented the original catalytic combustor for gas turbine engines in the early 1970s. Gas turbines work by mixing fuel with compressed and heated air, which burns and generates energy to...
- William Daniel PhillipsWilliam Daniel PhillipsWilliam Daniel Phillips is an American physicist and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. He is of Italian and Welsh descent.-Biography:...
- John R. Pierce
- Kyle PierceKyle PierceKyle Pierce is an associate professor of kinesiology and health science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and director of the LSUS USA Weightlifting Development Center.A former lifter himself, Dr...
- Elizabeth PisaniElizabeth PisaniElizabeth Pisani is the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK. She is formerly a journalist and currently an epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business...
- William PoduskaWilliam PoduskaDr. John William Poduska, Sr was a founder of Prime Computer, Apollo Computer, and Stellar Computer. Prior to that he headed the Electronics Research Lab at NASA's Cambridge, Massachusetts facility and also worked at Honeywell....
- Dragoljub PokrajacDragoljub PokrajacDragoljub Pokrajac Dragoljub Pokrajac Dragoljub Pokrajac (born 1970 in Šibenik, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American scientist. His fields of interest include data mining, video analysis, image processing, applied mathematics and others...
- Sergey PolyakovSergey PolyakovSergey Vladimirovich Polyakov is a Russian-American scientist performing research for USPolyResearch...
- Stephen Porges
- George PosteGeorge PosteGeorge Poste, F.R.S., is a former Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Poste was Chief Science and Technology Officer and President of Research & Development for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, SmithKline Beecham...
- Sandra PostelSandra PostelSandra Postel is the director and founder of the Global Water Policy Project. She is a world expert on fresh water issues and related ecosystems. From 1988 to 1994 she served as the Vice President for Research at the Worldwatch Institute. In 2002, Scientific American magazine named her as one of...
- Laramie PottsLaramie PottsLaramie Potts is an American scientist at the Ohio State University who identified the Wilkes Land crater with Ralph von Frese. He is from South Africa...
- Nader PourmandNader PourmandNader Pourmand is a biomolecular engineer. He is currently associate professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the Genome Sequencing Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering...
- William T. PowersWilliam T. PowersWilliam T. Powers is an independent scientist who has developed perceptual control theory, which finds that the behavior of living things is not controlled by them, but rather is their means of controlling their inputs...
- George R. PriceGeorge R. PriceGeorge Robert Price was an American population geneticist. Originally a physical chemist and later a science journalist, he moved to London in 1967, where he worked in theoretical biology at the Galton Laboratory, making three important contributions: first, rederiving W.D...
- Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
- John Charles PriscuJohn Charles PriscuJohn C. Priscu is a Romanian-American scientist who is the current Professor of Ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University...
- Ronald F. ProbsteinRonald F. ProbsteinRonald F. Probstein is the Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He played a principal role in spacecraft and ballistic missile reentry physics and design, hypersonic flight theory, comet behavior, desalination and synthetic fuels.Together with...
- Merle RandallMerle RandallMerle Randall was an American physical chemist famous for his work, over the period of 25 years, in measuring free energy calculations of compounds with Gilbert N. Lewis...
- Anatol RapoportAnatol RapoportAnatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
- Paul RaskinPaul RaskinPaul Raskin is the Founding Director of the Tellus Institute which has conducted over 3,500 research and policy projects throughout the world on environmental issues, resource planning, and sustainable development...
- Arthur Emmons Raymond
- Grote ReberGrote ReberGrote Reber was an amateur astronomer and pioneer of radio astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies...
- Allan RechtschaffenAllan RechtschaffenAllan Rechtschaffen is a noted pioneer in the field of sleep research whose work includes some of the first laboratory studies of insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea,and napping....
- Christopher M. ReddyChristopher M. ReddyChristopher M. Reddy is a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry and the Director of the Institution’s Coastal Ocean Institute. He studies oil spills, other forms of marine pollution, and biofuels...
- Jane ReeceJane ReeceJane B. Reece is an American scientist and textbook author. She is the co-author, along with Neil Campbell, of the Campbell/Reece Biology textbooks....
- Franklin G. Reick
- Robert RemezRobert RemezRobert Remez is an American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, theoretician and teacher. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language & Cognition . His teaching focuses on the relationships...
- Lauren ResnickLauren ResnickLauren B. Resnick is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the cognitive science of learning and instruction. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and was previously director of the University's Learning Research and Development Center. In...
- John Leonard RiddellJohn Leonard RiddellJohn Leonard Riddell was a science lecturer, botanist, geologist, medical doctor, chemist, microscopist, numismatician, politician, and science fiction author in the United States. He was born in Leyden, Massachusetts, the son of John Riddell and Lephe Gates. He received his B.A. and M.A...
- Paul RidkerPaul RidkerPaul M. Ridker is a medical researcher and the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard University. He is also on staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Ridker was included in TIME magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2004. Previously, TIME and CNN...
- Royal RifeRoyal RifeRoyal Raymond Rife was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. In the 1930s, he claimed that by using a specially designed optical microscope, he could observe a number of microbes which were too small to visualize with previously existing...
- David RittenhouseDavid RittenhouseDavid Rittenhouse was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official...
- John Robbins (scientist)John Robbins (scientist)Dr. John Robbins, M.D. is a senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, best known for his development of the vaccine against bacterial meningitis with his colleague Dr. Rachel Schneerson, M.D....
- Anita RobertsAnita RobertsAnita B. Roberts was a molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF-β, that is critical in healing wounds and bone fractures and that has a dual role in blocking or stimulating cancers...
- Arthur B. RobinsonArthur B. RobinsonArthur B. Robinson is an American scientist and activist. He is the founder, president, and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which describes itself as a research institute that studies protein chemistry, nutrition, and predictive and preventive medicine...
- Julia RobinsonJulia RobinsonJulia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician best known for her work on decision problems and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.-Background and education:...
- John Rock (American scientist)John Rock (American scientist)John Rock was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. He is best known for the major role he played in the development of the first hormonal contraceptive, colloquially called "the pill".-Early life and career:...
- Ignacio Rodriguez-IturbeIgnacio Rodriguez-IturbeIgnacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is a Venezuelan scientist. He currently serves as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University...
- Lynn RogersLynn RogersDr Lynn Leroy Rogers is an American biologist specialising in the study of wild black bears. He is the founder of the North American Bear Center....
- Emily RosaEmily RosaEmily Rosa is the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. At age nine Rosa conceived and executed a scientific study of therapeutic touch which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998...
- Alan RosenAlan RosenAlan Rosen is a robotic neurobiologist, machine consciousness designer, space systems engineer-scientist, and nuclear physicist, known for his design and development of robotic machines that exhibit characteristics of human intelligence, consciousness, and emotions.- Youth :Alan Rosen was born in...
- Carol RosinCarol RosinCarol Sue Rosin is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. She is a former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and has consulted to a number of companies, organizations, government departments and the intelligence community...
- Karol G. RossKarol G. RossDr. Karol Girdler Ross is a leading scientist in decision-making research. She received her Ph.D. in Experiemental Psychology from the University of Tennessee and is now a Chief Scientist for and a Research Psychologist at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central...
- Francis Peyton RousFrancis Peyton RousPeyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer...
- George C. RoyalGeorge C. RoyalGeorge Calvin Royal Jr is one of the few remaining first generation African American microbiologists to receive a Ph.D in the United States and from an Ivy League institution, and was part of one of the few African American husband - wife teams in Science with Gladys W. Royal Ph.D. George C...
- Edmund RuffinEdmund RuffinEdmund Ruffin was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. He advocated states' rights, secession, and slavery and was described by opponents as one of the Fire-Eaters. He was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and a longstanding enemy of the North...
- Rodney S. RuoffRodney S. RuoffRodney S. Ruoff is a world-leading pioneer in graphene-based materials. He is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair VII Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Physics by the ...
- Howard A. RuskHoward A. RuskHoward A. Rusk was a prominent physician and founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. He was considered to be the founder of rehabilitation medicine....
- Ruth L. KirschsteinRuth L. KirschsteinRuth L. Kirschstein, M.D. was a pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health . Dr...
- Raymond St. LegerRaymond St. LegerRaymond J. St. Leger is an American mycologist, entomologist and molecular biologist who is currently a professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was the recipient of the Universities 2009 Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award. St...
- Elliot SaltzmanElliot SaltzmanElliot Saltzman is an American psychologist and speech scientist. He is a professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at Boston University and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. He is best known for his development, with J. A...
- Ram SamudralaRam SamudralaRam Samudrala is a professor of computational biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He researches protein and proteome folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution spanning atomic to organismal levels of description...
- Thomas J. SamuelianThomas J. SamuelianThomas J. Samuelian is an American author of a number of books and articles in the field of Armenian language, literature, and history. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and St. Nersess Seminary. He has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania....
- Berta ScharrerBerta ScharrerBerta Vogel Scharrer was a German-born American scientist who helped to found the scientific discipline now known as neuroendocrinology.-Legacy:...
- Stanley F. SchmidtStanley F. SchmidtStanley F. Schmidt was born in Hollister, California, on January 21, 1926. He received the B.E.E. degree from Marquette University in 1946, and M.S. and Ph.D...
- David P. SchmittDavid P. SchmittDavid P. Schmitt is a personality psychologist who founded the International Sexuality Description Project . The ISDP is the largest-ever cross-cultural research study on sex and personality. Over 100 psychologists simultaneously administered an anonymous self-report survey to 17,837 individuals...
- Francis O. SchmittFrancis O. SchmittFrancis O. Schmitt was an American biologist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Schmitt received an A.B. in 1924 and a Ph.D. in 1927 from Washington University in St. Louis...
- Edward L. SchneiderEdward L. SchneiderEdward L. Schneider, M.D., is a professor of gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, with a joint appointment in biological sciences and molecular biology....
- Allan SchoreAllan SchoreAllan Schore is a leading researcher in the field of neuropsychology, whose ground-breaking contributions have influenced the fields of affective neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, trauma theory, developmental psychology, attachment theory, pediatrics, infant mental health, psychoanalysis,...
- Charles Anthony SchottCharles Anthony SchottCharles Anthony Schott was a German-American scientist.Charles Anthony Schott was born at Mannheim, Baden, Germany. In 1847 he was graduated from the Polytechnic School, at Karlsruhe. The following year he came to America and entered the Coast and Geodetic Survey...
- Jeffrey H. SchwartzJeffrey H. SchwartzJeffrey Hugh Schwartz, PhD, is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, President of the World Academy of Art and Science ....
- William C. SchwartzWilliam C. SchwartzWilliam C. Schwartz was a civic leader in Central Florida and a pioneer in the laser industry. He was founder, President and Chairman of International Laser Systems, Inc., and later, Schwartz Electro-Optics, Inc., both based in Orlando, Florida....
- Katherine D. SeelmanKatherine D. SeelmanKatherine Dolores Seelman is an American academic, focused on science, technology and public policy, especially telecommunications and accessibility...
- John H. SeinfeldJohn H. SeinfeldJohn H. Seinfeld is a expert in the causes and modelling of tropospheric pollution.He grew up in Elmira, NY and attended the University of Rochester, where he received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering...
- Homayoun SerajiHomayoun SerajiHomayoun Seraji was an Iranian scientist, engineer, a JPL senior researcher and former professor of Sharif University of Technology who published extensively in the field of multivariable control systems, focusing on optimal control, pole placement, multivariable PID controllers, and output...
- Ed SeykotaEd SeykotaEdward Arthur Seykota is a commodities trader, who earned S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punched card computers to test ideas on trading the markets...
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See also
- Science and technology in the United StatesScience and technology in the United StatesThe United States came into being around the Age of Enlightenment , a period in which writers and thinkers rejected the superstitions of the past. Instead, they emphasized the powers of reason and unbiased inquiry, especially inquiry into the workings of the natural world...