page_title: List of Washington University alumni
section_title: Science, engineering, and medicine
hierarchical_section_title: List of Washington University alumni / Science, engineering, and medicine
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped to show Cowan only. Original caption: "Col Robert B. Burlin, Director of the Army Nudear Power Program, presents model of Army's first nuclear pOwer plant, the SM-l, to the Smithsoniau Institution. Accepting is Dr. P. W. Bishop, center, of the Smithsonian' Divi ion of ,Ianufacturers and Heavy Industries and Dr. Clyde L. Cowan; professor of physics at Catholic University and Adviser to the Museum."
context_page_description: The following persons are notable alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis.
context_section_description: Richard Askey (BA 1955): mathematician known for his work on special functions
  Bob Behnken (BS 1992):  NASA astronaut, engineer, and former Chief of the Astronaut Office
  J. Michael Bailey (AB 1979): psychologist, professor, researcher on sexual orientation
  Geoffrey Ballard (PhD 1963): developed Fuel cells; member of Order of Canada; founder of Ballard Power Systems
  Lt. Col. Robert Behnken (BSPhy 1992, BSME 1992): NASA astronaut
  Judson A. Brewer (PhD 2002, MD 2004): neuroscientist and psychiatrist, director of research and innovation at Brown University's Mindfulness Center
  Ewald W. Busse (M.D.): dean of the Duke University School of Medicine (1974–1982)
  Woo Chia-wei (MA, PhD): physicist; founding president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; president of San Francisco State University
  Clyde Cowan (AM, PhD 1949): physicist and co-discoverer of the neutrino
  Elizabeth A. Craig: biochemistry professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison; member of the National Academy of Sciences
  Lorrie Cranor (BS 1992, MS 1993, MS 1996, D.Sc 1996): Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Served as chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission
  Arnold W. Donald (BS): President and CEO of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  Carl Eckart (BS, MS 1923): noted physicist; member of National Academy of Sciences; known for Wigner-Eckart theorem, Eckart-Young theorem
  Eric Green (MD PhD 1987): Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
  Philip Gressman (AB 2001): mathematician known for work on harmonic analysis
  Lee Harrison III (BFA 1952, BS 1959): engineer; Emmy winner for invention of computer animation
  Albert G. Hill (BS 1930, MS 1934): professor of physics at MIT; head of Lincoln Lab and Draper Lab; director of research at Institute for Defense Analyses
  Julian W. Hill (BS 1924): chemist; co-inventor of nylon
  Marc Kamionkowski (BA 1987): astrophysicist, particle theorist, and cosmologist
  William Kincaid (BS 1988): costume manufacturer and artist
  Edwin Krebs (MD 1943): winner of Nobel laureate in medicine for work with protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism
  Appu Kuttan: founder of the National Education Foundation
  Alexander Langsdorf, Jr. (BS 1932): Manhattan project physicist; vocal critic of nuclear proliferation
  J. C. R. Licklider (BS 1937): pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence
  Walter E. Massey (AM 1966, PhD 1966): physicist, director of the National Science Foundation, president of Morehouse College
  W. E. Moerner (BS 1975): Stanford University professor; winner of 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; pioneer in single molecule spectroscopy and member of the National Academy of Sciences
  Robert H. Mohlenbrock (PhD 1957): botanist and author
  Ben Moreell (BS 1913): U.S. Navy admiral; founder of the Navy's Seabees construction battalions
  Daniel Nathans (MD 1954): Nobel laureate in medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes; awarded National Medal of Science
  Alton Ochsner (MD): surgeon and medical researcher at The Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans
  Fred Olsen (PhD): inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process
  Michael E. Phelps (PhD 1970): developed PET scan
  Rob Phillips (PhD 1989): noted biophysicist; professor at Caltech
  Pejman Salimpour: physician who successfully challenged the legality of exclusivity agreements between hospitals and doctors' groups
  Peter Shawhan (BS 1990): LIGO physicist; co-recipient of Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
  Joseph Edward Smadel (MD): inaugural recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research
  Sol Spiegelman (PhD 1944): molecular biologist
  Samuel Stanley (MD 1980): 5th President of Stony Brook University
  Earl Sutherland (MD 1942): Nobel laureate in medicine for elucidating the mechanisms of the actions of hormones
  T. Bill Sutherland (BA 1963): theoretical and mathematical physicist
  Thea Tlsty (PhD 1980), professor of pathology at the University of California, San Francisco.
  Kenneth S. Wagoner (MA, 1934; PhD 1938), experimental psychologist
  Leana Wen (MD): former President of Planned Parenthood, former Ba
caption: Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino
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