page_title: List of George Washington University alumni
section_title: Sciences
hierarchical_section_title: List of George Washington University alumni / Sciences
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Michael D. Griffin, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Feb. 26, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by Monica King)
context_page_description: The list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including the current U.S. Attorney General, four current heads of state or government, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.
context_section_description: Ralph Alpher, "Father of the Big Bang theory"
  Charles Critchfield, physicist of the Manhattan Project
  Michael Griffin, 11th Administrator of NASA
  James E. Webb, 2nd Administrator of NASA
  James Morhard, 14th Deputy-Administrator of NASA
  Frederick D. Gregory, interim Administrator of NASA
  Peter Caws, President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
  Patricia Wilson Berger, President of the American Library Association
  James Carroll, President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
  Allenna Leonard, President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
  Marcus Ward Lyon Jr., President of the American Society of Mammalogists
  Nancy B. Jackson, President of the American Chemical Society
  Paul Antony, Chief Medical Officer of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
  Serena M. Auñón, American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut.
  Julius Axelrod, biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler
  Paul S. Berry, HIV researcher
  Captain Michael Coats (1977), astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander
  Todd B. Hawley, co-founder of the International Space University
  Anousheh Ansari (M.S., 1992), chairwoman and co-founder of Prodea Systems; patroness of private space flight; first female space tourist
  Howard Judd, menopause expert and medical researcher
  Hans Lineweaver (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1933), physical chemist who developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot
  Matthew Stirling, ethnologist and archaeologist who discovered and excavated many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites
  Ashani Weeraratna, cancer researcher
  Patch Adams, physician and comedian portrayed in a 1998 movie
  Neal D. Barnard, physician, author, clinical researcher, founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
  Albert Freeman Africanus King (MD 1861), personal physician to President Abraham Lincoln
caption: Michael Griffin, 11th Administrator of NASA.
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