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Amos Tversky
Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
Louis Nirenberg
American mathematician of Canadian origin (1925-2020)
Herman Kahn
American futurist noted for his views on nature of thermonuclear war (1922–1983)
Margaret Mahler
Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1897-1985)
Solomon Lefschetz
Jewish American mathematician (1884-1972)
Paul Lazarsfeld
Austrian-American sociologist
Joshua Fishman
American linguist (1926–2015)
David L. Rabinowitz
American astronomer
Hal Abelson
computer scientist
Elias M. Stein
American mathematician (1931-2018)
Ernst Gräfenberg
German gynaecologist and medical researcher (1881–1957)
Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)
Robert Sternberg
American psychologist & scholar
Edward Kasner
American mathematician (1878–1955)
Adele Goldberg
American computer scientist (born 1945)
Gregory Goodwin Pincus
American biochemist (1903–1967)
Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician (1929–2021)
Lex Fridman
Community Class speaker at MIT, working on human-centered AI and podcaster
Eric Lander
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President
Harry Dexter White
American economist and Soviet spy (1892–1948)
John N. Bahcall
American physicist (1934–2005)
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
American biomedical engineer
Robert Serber
American physicist (1909–1997)
Helene Deutsch
American psychoanalyst (1884–1982)
Marina Ratner
Russian mathematician (1938–2017)
Mildred Cohn
American biochemist (1913–2009)
Stanley Norman Cohen
American geneticist
Sidney Coleman
American physicist (1937–2007)
Judah Folkman
American biologist (1933–2008)
Joseph Keller
American mathematician (1923–2016)
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
Stanton T. Friedman
American ufologist (1934–2019)
Phoebus Levene
Lithuanian-American chemist (1869-1940)
Herbert Friedman
American physicist (1916-2000)
Frank Rosenblatt
American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence
Robert Weinberg
American biologist
Roman Vishniac
American photographer (1897–1990)
Samuel T. Cohen
American physicist (1921–2010)
Klara Dan von Neumann
Hungarian computer scientist (1911-1963)
Adele Goldstine
American computer programmer (1920–1964)
Lucy Shapiro
American developmental biologist
Richard Brauer
mathematician (1901-1977)
Robert Marshak
American physicist (1916–1992)
Jay Apt
American astronaut, scientist, and professor
Peter Goldreich
American astronomer
Joseph Kruskal
American statistician (1928-2010)
Burrill Bernard Crohn
American gastroenterologist (1884–1983)
Walter Munk
American oceanographer (1917–2019)
George Lusztig
American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Beatrice Mintz
American biologist (1921–2022)
Gerald Jay Sussman
American computer scientist
Salomon Bochner
American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry (1899–1982)
Richard Goldschmidt
German-American biologist (1878-1958)
Barry Mazur
American mathematician
Robert Fano
Italian-American computer scientist (1917–2016)
Terry Winograd
American professor
Frank Press
American geophysicist (1924–2020)
David Finkelstein
American physicist (1929-2016)
Eugenio Calabi
Italian American mathematician (1923–2023)
Alan Stern
American planetary scientist