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Etienne-Emile Baulieu, biochemist and president, Academy of Sciences, France

Alexander Graham Bell, scientist and inventor

Hans A. Bethe*, physicist

Sydney Brenner*, geneticist, distinguished professor, Salk Institute

Michael S. Brown* and Joseph Goldstein*, geneticists and professors, University of Texas

Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician and Norway's first woman prime minister

Melvin Calvin*, chemist

Thomas R. Cech*, chemist and president, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

DeWitt Clinton, former governor of New York

Esther M. Conwell, chemist

Charles Darwin, biologist and evolutionist

Israel Dostrovsky, nuclear chemist, former president of Weizmann Institute

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, physicist

Thomas Edison, scientist and inventor

Albert Einstein*, physicist

Getrude Elio*, biochemist

Paul Erdos, mathematician

Paul Greengard*, neurobiologist and professor, Rockefeller University

Peter Gruss, biologist and president, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany

Thomas Huxley, biologist and anthropologist

Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

Eric Kandel*, neuroscientist

Joshua Lederberg*, geneticist

Leon Lederman*, physicist and professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist

Ernst Mayr, biologist

Margaret Mead, anthropologist

Brenda Milner, neuroscientist

James Monroe, U.S. President

Thomas Hutn Morgen*, biologist

Louis Pasteur, microbiologist

Linus Pauling*, chemist and biologist

Fred Plum*, neuroscientist

Andrei Sakharov*, physicist and human rights activist

B.F. Skinner, psychologist

Lewis Thomas, biologist and author

Shirley Tilghman, geneticist and president, Princeton University

Harold Varmus*, geneticist

James D. Watson*, geneticist; co-discoverer of DNA

Torsten Wiesel*, neuroscientist

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, geneticist and president, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

Roslyn Yalow*, geneticist

*Nobel Laureate


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