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Scientists from New York City

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Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Isidor Isaac Rabi
American physicist (1898–1988)
Carl David Anderson
American physicist
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
Russell Alan Hulse
American astronomer
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Hugh David Politzer
American physicist
Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
John Fenn
American analytical chemist (1917–2010)
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist (1912–2004)
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
Paul Greengard
American neuroscientist (1925-2019)
John O'Keefe
American British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
William G. Kaelin
American Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
James P. Allison
American immunologist and Nobel laureate (born 1948)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
David Julius
American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
Martha Nussbaum
American philosopher (born 1947)
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
Carolyn Porco
American planetary scientist
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician (1897–1965)
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)
James R. Schlesinger
United States Secretary of Defense; United States Secretary of Energy; economist, academic and educator (1929-2014)
Theodore Gill
American biologist (1837–1914)
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)
Harold Brown
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1927-2019)
Jonathan Haidt
American social psychologist (1963-)
Gregory Olsen
American astronaut and businessman
Gerard K. O'Neill
American physicist and futurologist (1927–1992)
Nathaniel Lord Britton
American botanist and geologist (1859-1934)
John Ostrom
American paleontologist (1928-2005)
Cleveland Abbe
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician (1929–2021)
Michael H. Hart
American astronomer
Harry Hammond Hess
American geologist (1906–1969)
Mary L. Trump
American psychologist and writer (born 1965)
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Canadian mathematician (1923–2017)
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American electrochemist (1933–2024)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
American sexologist
Hassler Whitney
American mathematician (1907–1989)
Niles Eldredge
American biologist
Janet Rowley
American human geneticist (1925–2013)
Charles H. Bennett
American physicist, information theorist and IBM Research fellow
Maurice Karnaugh
American physicist (1924–2022)
Beatrice Mintz
American biologist (1921–2022)
John Lawrence LeConte
American entomologist (1825-1883)
Joseph Kruskal
American statistician (1928-2010)
Charles Kittel
American physicist (1916–2019)
Alia Sabur
American mathematician
David Finkelstein
American physicist (1929-2016)