page_title: List of Brown University people
section_title: Science, technology and innovation
hierarchical_section_title: List of Brown University people / Notable alumni and leaders of Brown / Science, technology and innovation
caption_attribution_description: English: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, of Montclair, New Jersey, 1921. Original caption "Lillian Moller Gilbreth, of Montclair, New Jersey was a pioneer in engineering and scientific management. She and her husband were the parents of twelve children and the subject of a book, about their application of scientific management principles to the home. Cheaper by the Dozen. This picture was taken in 1921."
context_page_description: The following is a partial list of notable Brown people, known as Brunonians. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Brown University and Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown.
context_section_description: Willis Adcock (Ph.D. 1948) — chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas Instruments
  Katherine L. Adams (A.B. 1986) – General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Legal and Global Security, Apple Inc.
  Seth Berkley (Sc. B., MD) – President, CEO and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
  Brian Binnie (Sc. B. 1975, Sc. M. 1976) – test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne
  John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) – inventor of spellcheck
  John H. Crawford (1975) – chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group
  James B. Garvin (Sc. B. 1978, Sc. M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs
  Lisa Gelobter (1991) - developed visual programs such as Shockwave
  Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) – one of the first working female engineers; arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist; mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen
  Morton Gurtin (Ph.D. 1961) – Timoshenko Medal-winning mechanical engineer and mathematical physicist
  Andy Hertzfeld (Sc. B. 1975) – key member of original Apple Macintosh development team; one of the primary software architects of the classic Mac OS
  Eliot Horowitz – founder and CTO of MongoDB
  Wesley Huntress – president, Planetary Society
  William Williams Keen (1859) – first U.S. brain surgeon
  Dara Khosrowshahi (1991) – CEO of Uber
  Amy Leventer, marine biologist, micropaleontologist, Antarctic researcher
  David J. Lipman – director, National Center for Biotechnology Information
  Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) – third NASA Administrator, oversaw first seven Apollo manned missions
  Robert G. Parr (1942) – author of Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules
  Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) – Professor of Computer Science and co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University; lecturer and best-selling writer, The Last Lecture
  Leah Perlman (2004) – co-inventor of the Facebook like button
  Erin Pettit (Sc.B. 1994) – glaciologist, Antarctic researcher
  Joan Reede (Sc.B. 1976) – physician, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School
  Marion Elizabeth Stark (A.B. 1916, A.M. 1979) – one of the first female American mathematics professors
  Frederick Slocum (A.B. 1895, Ph.D. 1898) – astronomer, director of Van Vleck Observatory
  Ellen Stofan (Ph.D. 1989) – John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum
  Gordon Kidd Teal (Ph.D. 1931) – inventor of the silicon transistor
  John Wilder Tukey (Sc. B. 1936, Sc. M. 1937) – co-developed the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm; coined the terms bit, byte, software and cepstrum
  Winslow Upton (Sc.B. 1875) – astronomer, director of Ladd Observatory
  Bob Wallace – ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of the term shareware
  George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
  Maia Weinstock – Deputy Editor of MIT News; feminist
  Frank E. Winsor (Sc.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929) – civil engineer; chief engineer for the Quabbin Reservoir and Scituate Reservoir projects; Brown University trustee
caption: Lillian Moller Gilbreth
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