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Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
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American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Kenneth Arrow
American economist (1921–2017)
Herbert Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)
Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Casimir Funk
Jewish-Polish biochemist
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884-1951)
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
Irwin Rose
American biologist (1926-2015)
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist (1912–2000)
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist (1912–2004)
Richard Axel
American molecular biologist
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
Joseph Erlanger
American doctor (1874-1965)
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
Andrew Fire
American biologist
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist (1912–2004)
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)
Randy Schekman
Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian chemist
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate
Harvey J. Alter
American medical researcher
Howard Gardner
american developmental psychologist & academic
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist (1916-2009)