page_title: List of University of the Witwatersrand people
section_title: Science and technology
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of the Witwatersrand people / Science and technology
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Prins Claus reikt dr. H.P. Heinekenprijs uit aan dr. A. Klug English: Aaron Klug receives the H.P. Heineken prize from Prince Claus
context_page_description: This is a list of notable alumni and staff of the University of the Witwatersrand.
context_section_description: Lucinda Backwell, paleoanthropologist
  Aaron Klug, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1982
  Audrey Richards, social anthropologist
  Dr Botha de Meillon (BSc 1925; BSc Hons 1926; MSc 1927; Honorary Doctorate in Science 1932; Honorary Doctorate in Medicine 1975) was a founding member of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa and was awarded life membership in 1986. Born Schalk Jacobus Botha de Meillon on 15 October 1902 in Prieska, northern Cape Province, this pioneering South African scientist passed away peacefully in the U.S.A. on 6 December 2000 at age 98.
  Danie G. Krige, mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics
  David Forsyth, computer vision researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana champaign
  David King, scientist
  John Edmund Kerrich, first head of the Statistics department. Famous for experiments in probability performed while interned (in Denmark) during the second world war.
  David Lewis-Williams, Professor emeritus of Cognitive Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand; specialist in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art; founder of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand
  David Pettifor, physicist
  Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf, known for her work in materials science
  Dr Bernie Fanaroff, physicist and Project Director at South African Square Kilometre Array Project
  Frank Nabarro, solid state physicist, DVC
  Friedel Sellschop, physicist
  H. J. De Blij, geographer, professor, television personality, analyst
  Herbert Sichel, statistician
  Himla Soodyall, geneticist
  James Kitching, Karooo paleontologist
  Jan C. A. Boeyens, chemist
  John Burland, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London; Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the Imperial College, London; led the international consulting team that stabilized the leaning tower of Pisa; one of the few engineers to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
  Kim Man Lui, software engineer
  Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist, winner of the first National Geographic Prize for Research and Exploration
  Lewis Wolpert, graduated in Civil Engineering; studied biology at Imperial College; Professor of Biology Applied to Medicine at University College, London; Fellow of the Royal Society; popular science lecturer and writer
  Marlene Behrmann, cognitive neuroscientist specializing in visual perception, specifically object recognition; professor at Carnegie Mellon University
  Max Gluckman, anthropologist
  Peter Sarnak, mathematician, head of School of Mathematics at Princeton, Honorary degree recipient in 2014 (DSc)
  Phillip Tobias, paleoanthropologist and anatomist
  Raymond Dart, anatomist and anthropologist; discoverer of the Taung Child
  Ron Clarke, paleoanthropologist
  Beric Skews scientist, faculty member
  Selig Percy Amoils, ophthalmologist and biomedical engineering inventor
  Seymour Papert, artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of the Logo programming language
  Sir Basil Schonland, Honorary Doctor of Science (1957); founding director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand; made significant contributions to the study of atmospheric electricity, photographing lightning and investigating the electric fields generated by thunderclouds
  Tingye Li; pioneer in lasers and optical communication
  Wanda Orlikowski, information systems scholar
caption: Sir Aaron Klug, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982
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