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page 1Scientists from Virginia
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Richard E. Byrd
American naval officer, explorer (1888-1957)
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer (1774-1809)
Catherine Coleman
American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
John William Draper
British-American academic (1811-1882)
William Clark
American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor (1770-1838)
Radia Perlman
American software designer and network engineer (born 1951)
Walter Reed
American physician and medical researcher (1851–1902)
Edmund M. Clarke
American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Kim M. Cobb
American climate scientist and academic (1974-)
Ormond Stone
American astronomer (1847–1933)
Joseph Harvey Riley
American ornithologist (1873-1941)
Seth Shostak
astronomer
Bud Grace
American cartoonist
Winston W. Royce
American software engineer (1929–1995)
Mary Elliott Hill
chemist (1907-1969)
Charles Pollard Olivier
American astronomer
James West
American inventor and acoustician
William M. Bass
American forensic anthropologist
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
American chemist (1929–1997)
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
American paleontologist
Herman Branson
American physicist (1914–1995)
Richard Lawrence Hoffman
U.S. zoologist (1927–2012)
Seth Barton
Confederate Army general (1829-1900)
John H. Gibbons
American physicist
Charles Lee Remington
American entomologist (1922-2007)
James Watson Robbins
American physician and botanist (1801-1879)
Wade Fox
U.S. zoologist (1920–1964)
George C. McGhee
American diplomat (1912–2005)
Beth A. Brown
NASA astrophysicist
Robert Q. Marston
American university president, research scientist, medical doctor, National Institutes of Health director (1923–1999)
Vijay Pande
Trinidadian American scientist and venture capitalist
Vivian Pinn
American physician-scientist and pathologist
Edmund Ruffin
Virginia planter and slaveholder