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John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
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American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
Rainer Weiss
American physicist (1932–2025)
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese-American physicist
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)
Henry Way Kendall
American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Clifford Shull
American physicist (1915–2001)
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
Susumu Tonegawa
Japanese biologist (1939 - )
Richard R. Schrock
1945-, American chemist
Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
Daniel McFadden
American economist
Phillip Sharp
American biologist
Edward Norton Lorenz
American mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)
Moungi Bawendi
American chemist of French and Tunisian descent
William Henry Pickering
American astronomer (1858–1938)
Robert J. Van de Graaff
American physicist (1901–1967)
Akshay Venkatesh
Australian number theorist
Isadore Singer
American mathematician (1924–2021)
Daniel Quillen
American mathematician (1940–2011)
Max Tegmark
Swedish-American physicist and cosmologist
Sara Seager
Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist
Michael Artin
American mathematician
Walter Lewin
Dutch-born American physicist (born 1936)
Bruno Rossi
Italian experimental physicist (1905–1993)
Hillel Furstenberg
German-born US–Israeli mathematician
Eric Lander
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President
James Crafts
American chemist (1839-1917)
James L. Elliot
American astronomer (1943–2011)
Angelika Amon
Austrian American molecular and cell biologist and academic
Robert Weinberg
American biologist
Gilbert Strang
American mathematician
Nergis Mavalvala
Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist
George Lusztig
American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Sallie W. Chisholm
American oceanographer, marine biologist
Walter Rudin
American mathematician (1921-2010)
Gian-Carlo Rota
American mathematician and philosopher (1932-1999)
Daniel Kleppner
American physicist (1932–2025)
Feng Zhang
Chinese-American synthetic biologist
Dirk Jan Struik
Dutch mathematician (*1894 – †2000)
Ali Javan
Iranian-American Physicist
Susan Lindquist
American geneticist, molecular biologist, and university teacher (1949–2016)
Edward O. Thorp
American mathematician
Jule Gregory Charney
US meteorologist (1917–1981)
Irwin I. Shapiro
American astrophysicist
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist, paleontologist (1838-1902)
Tom M. Apostol
American mathematician (1923-2016)
Felix Browder
American mathematician (1927-2016)
Stephen J. Lippard
American chemist
Richard P. Stanley
American mathematician
Julius Adams Stratton
American electrical engineer and university administrator (1901-1994)
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Spanish physicist at MIT
Richard P. Binzel
American astronomer