Category
page 1Scientists from Pittsburgh
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Frances Arnold
Nobel prize winning US scientist and engineer (born 1956)
Clifford Shull
American physicist (1915–2001)
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Randy Pausch
American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Samuel Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
Helen Murray Free
American chemist and educator (1923–2021)
Philip Morrison
American astrophysicist (1915–2005)
Robert Weinberg
American biologist
Jay Apt
American astronaut, scientist, and professor
Sidney Darlington
electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration
James Ewing
American pathologist (1866–1943)
Thomas Callister Hales
American mathematician
Anita Roberts
American biologist
Stephen J. Lippard
American chemist
John Brashear
American astronomer and instrument builder (1840–1920)
Julianne Dalcanton
American astronomer
Arnold Edward Ortmann
Prussian-born United States naturalist and zoologist (1863–1927)
David J. Farber
American computer scientist (1934–2026)
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
American anthropologist
David Slepian
American mathematician (1923–2007)
Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson
American physician
Norman Farberow
American psychologist specializing in suicide prevention
Norman Christ
American physicist
Childs Frick
American paleontologist (1883–1965)
Martha L. Ludwig
American biochemist (1931–2006)
Daniel Chamovitz
American-born Israeli biologist
Jeffrey Lagarias
American mathematician
Robert W. Lucky
American engineer
Arden L. Bement, Jr.
American metallurgical engineer
Mary Bidwell Breed
American chemist
Peter H. Molnar
American geophysicist and professor (1943–2022)
Robert Bindschadler
American physicist
Robert Wolke
American chemist (1928–2021)
Catherine Havasi
American computer scientist