page_title: List of University of Pittsburgh faculty
section_title: Science, medicine, and technology
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Pittsburgh faculty / Science, medicine, and technology
caption_attribution_description: Samuel Pierpont Langley, pioneer aviator and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute. taken during his tenure at the Smithsonian (1887-1906), and credited to him. It is in the public domain as produced by the United States Government, and also because published before 1923.
context_page_description: This list of University of Pittsburgh faculty includes instructors, researchers, and administrators of the University of Pittsburgh, a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
context_section_description: George Frederick Barker (faculty 1864–?) – scientist who studied early incandescent lighting; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Chemical Society
  Jeremy M. Berg (faculty) – Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry-winning biochemist known for his work on zinc finger proteins
  John Alfred Brashear – astronomer; succeeded James Keeler as Director of the Allegheny Observatory; later Pitt's Chancellor; maker of astronomical and scientific instruments; developer of silvering methods that would become the standard for telescope mirrors
  David M. Brienza (faculty) – bioengineer specializing in wheelchair design and ulcer prevention
  William A. Cassidy – geologist noted for his work on Antarctic meteorites, founder and former leader of ANSMET.
  Yuan Chang – virologist; pathologist; co-discoverer of the cause of Kaposi's sarcoma, a deadly cancer commonly found in AIDS patients
  David I. Cleland (A&S 1954, KGSB 1958, faculty) – engineer and educator; "father of project management"
  Ellen Cohn – associate dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
  Rory A. Cooper (faculty 1994–present) – bioengineer and inventor who holds numerous patents on wheelchair technology.
  Sheila Corrall (faculty) – Professor of Library and Information Science and first President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
  John Charles Cutler (faculty) – former deputy director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau; led a U.S. Public Health Service research team in a controversial experiment which infected about 1500 citizens of Guatemala with syphilis and gonorrhea in the late 1940s
  Thomas Detre (faculty) – psychiatrist; transformative leader within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 1973–2010
  Erik Erikson (faculty 1951–1960) – developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychosocial development and for coining the phrase "identity crisis"
  Kai T. Erikson (faculty 1959–1963) – sociologist; authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events; 76th president of the American Sociological Association
  Reginald Aubrey Fessenden – inventor, chemist, and sonar pioneer; developed insulation for electrical wires; built first wireless telephone; transmitted the first audio radio broadcast; head of electrical engineering at Western University of Pennsylvania
  Bernard Fisher (MD, faculty)– pioneer breast cancer researcher
  Diana E. Forsythe – anthropologist noted for her work on artificial intelligence and medical informatics
  Freddie Fu (faculty) – sports medicine expert
  David Geller (faculty) – hepatobiliary surgical oncologist who helped to pioneer laparoscopic liver resections
  George Otto Gey (A&S 1921, faculty) – scientist who first propagated the HeLa cell line
  Thomas Hales – mathematics professor; provided proof of the Kepler Conjecture
  David Halliday (A&S 1938, MS 1939, PhD 1941, faculty 1946–2010) — physicist widely known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics
  D.A. Henderson (faculty) – 1986 National Medal of Science; directed World Health Organization's Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign
  Niels Kaj Jerne (faculty 1962–1966) – Nobel Prize-winning immunologist credited for describing the production of monoclonal antibodies
  Panayotis Katsoyannis – biochemist; discoverer of synthetic insulin
  James E. Keeler – astronomer; Director of Allegheny Observatory, 1891–1898; discovered that Saturn's rings were not solid but made of particles; interred in the observatory crypt
  Allen Kent – (faculty 1963–1992) pioneer of information science, founded Pitt's Department of Information Science
  Charles Glen King (MS, PhD, faculty) – biochemist; isolated vitamin C
  Samuel Pierpont Langley – astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer, professor of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania; his 1890 publication of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory was used to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect
  Margaret McFarland – an American child psychologist who researched the
caption: Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley was a leading astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer, and also served as the head of the Smithsonian Institution.
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