university of pittsburgh
Adrian Cronauer
Jim Burke
D.A. Henderson
Mike Ditka Wangari Maathai Bill Cullen
Fred Rogers
Dan Marino
Jonas Salk
Michael Chabon
August Wilson
Herbert Boyer
Business
Science, Medicine & Technology
Andrew W. Mellon
Herbert Boyer
Thomas Usher
John Brashear
Banker, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and founder of Carnegie Mellon
Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil
Biochemist, 1990 National Medal of Science, co-founded Genentech Astronomer, Pitt Chancellor, maker of astronomical and scientific instruments
Erik Buell
Military
Engineer, founder of the Buell Motorcycle Company, subsidiary of Harley-Davidson
Roscoe Robinson, Jr.
Reginald Fessenden
First African-American Four-star general
Philosophy Patricia Churchland
Inventor, chemist and sonar pioneer who developed insulation for electrical wires, built the first wireless telephone and transmitted the first audio radio broadcast
D.A. Henderson
1991 MacArthur Genius-winning philosopher noted for her work in neurophilosophy
Faculty member, National Medal of Science winner, directed World Health Organization’s Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign
Politics
Norman Horowitz
Orinn Hatch
United States Senator since 1977
Wangari Maathai
2004 Nobel Peace Prize
Dick Thornburgh
U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania
Geneticist who worked on the famous one-on-one gene enzyme hypothesis and space scientist for the Mariner and Viking missions to Mars
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Astronomer, physicist, inventor and aviation pioneer whose infrared observations were used to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect
Paul Lauterbur
2003 Nobel Prize winner for his invention of the MRI machine
Bert W. O’Malley
Molecular endocrinologist and 2008 National Medal of Science laureate
Peter Safar
Physician and CPR pioneer
Dr. Jonas Salk
Developer of the polio vaccine
John W. Simpson
Pioneer of nuclear energy, recipient of the Edison Medal
Thomas Starzl
Father of the organ transplant
Vladimir Zworykin
Inventor of television technology
James E. Keeler
Astronomer who discovered Saturn’s rings were made of particles
Charles Glen King
Biochemist known for isolating vitamin C
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