page_title: List of Case Western Reserve University people
section_title: Science, technology, and medicine
hierarchical_section_title: List of Case Western Reserve University people / Science, technology, and medicine
context_page_description: This is a list of notable individuals associated with Case Western Reserve University, including students, alumni, and faculty.
context_section_description: Peter B. Armentrout – distinguished chemistry professor, University of Utah
  Roger Bacon – inventor of carbon fiber
  Hans Baumann – inventor and engineer
  Paul Berg – winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for biochemical characterization of recombinant DNA
  Paul Buchheit – 23rd employee of Google and creator of Gmail
  Neil W. Chamberlain – economist and industrial relations scholar (A.B., 1937; M.A., 1939)
  Philippe G. Ciarlet – mathematician known for work on finite element method; received his Ph.D. from the Case Institute of Technology 1966 and was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999
  Conor P. Delaney – colorectal surgeon known for laparoscopy and developing enhanced recovery pathways
  Herbert Henry Dow – founder of Dow Chemical
  Slayton A. Evans, Jr. – research chemist and professor
  H. Jack Geiger – founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for Human Rights
  Julie Gerberding – first woman director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Alfred G. Gilman – co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for co-discovery of G proteins
  Donald A. Glaser – winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics, for invention of the bubble chamber
  Corneille Heymans – winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carotid sinus reflex
  Siegfried S. Hecker – director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (1986–1997)
  Samuel Hibben – pioneer in blacklight technology; designed the lighting displays for the Statue of Liberty and other national monuments
  Bambang Hidayat - astronomer, former Vice-President of the International Astronomical Union
  George H. Hitchings – co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for research leading to development of drugs to treat leukemia, organ transplant rejection, gout, herpes virus, and AIDS-related bacterial and pulmonary infections
  Robert W. Kearns – the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. Kearns won one of the best-known patent infringement cases against a major corporation
  Donald Knuth – computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award (1974)
  Lawrence M. Krauss – physicist in the field of dark energy; bestselling author (The Physics of Star Trek)
  Polykarp Kusch – winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics, for determining the magnetic moment of the electron
  George Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) – philosopher, educator, and psychologist; first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) Orders of the Rising Sun
  Paul C. Lauterbur – co-winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discoveries leading to creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  Matthew N. Levy – cardiac physiologist and textbook author
  John J.R. Macleod – co-winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for discovery of insulin
  Sidney Wilcox McCuskey – astronomer noted for his work on the Milky Way galaxy
  Drew Meyer- John Teagle Professorial Fellow in Chemistry
  Albert A. Michelson – winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, for disproving existence of "ether"; first American to receive a Nobel Prize
  Edward Morley – performed interferometry experiment with Michelson
  Ferid Murad – co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for role in the discovery of nitric oxide in cardiovascular signaling
  George A. Olah – winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for contributions to carbocation chemistry
  Amit Patel – stem cell surgeon who demonstrated stem cell transplantation can treat congestive heart failure
  Raymond Stanton Patton (Ph.B.), engineer, rear admiral and first flag officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1929-1937)
  M. Scott Peck – psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled
  David Pedlar — Director of Research at the National Headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada
  James Polshek – architect; designed William J. Clinton Presidential Library
  Edward C. Prescott – co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Ec
caption: David Satcher, former Surgeon General of the United States
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