Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Dennis A. Ausiello |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Massachusetts General Hospital |
Katherine Baicker |
Economist |
23-May-1971 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
Albert Bandura |
Psychologist |
4-Dec-1925 |
|
Bobo doll experiments |
Steven C. Beering |
Educator |
20-Aug-1932 |
|
President of Purdue, 1983-2000 |
Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
Bruce A. Beutler |
Biologist |
29-Dec-1957 |
|
Lipopolysaccharide receptors |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
Scientist |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
Lester Breslow |
Doctor |
17-Mar-1915 |
9-Apr-2012 |
Dean, UCLA School of Public Health, 1972-80 |
William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
Linda B. Buck |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
Sheila P. Burke |
Administrator |
c. 1951 |
|
COO of the Smithsonian Institution |
Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
William T. Butler |
Doctor |
c. 1932 |
|
Baylor College of Medicine |
Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
|
Recombinant DNA |
Mary Sue Coleman |
Educator |
2-Oct-1943 |
|
President, University of Michigan |
Molly J. Coye |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Founder, Health Technology Center |
Peter B. Dervan |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
DNA Researcher |
Victor J. Dzau |
Doctor |
1946 |
|
CEO of Duke University Health System |
Richard R. Ernst |
Chemist |
14-Aug-1933 |
|
NMR spectroscopy |
James R. Gavin III |
Doctor |
c. 1945 |
|
Morehouse School of Medicine |
Lee Goldman |
Doctor |
6-Jan-1948 |
|
Goldman Index for cardiac risk |
Margaret A. Hamburg |
Government |
1955 |
|
FDA Commissioner |
Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
|
Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
Harry R. Jacobson |
Doctor |
c. 1947 |
|
Vice Chancellor for Health at Vanderbilt |
Mae C. Jemison |
Astronaut |
17-Oct-1956 |
|
First African-American woman in space |
Michael M. E. Johns |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, Emory University |
William N. Kelley |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1939 |
|
Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome |
Jim Yong Kim |
Administrator |
8-Dec-1959 |
|
President of the World Bank |
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey |
Doctor |
1954 |
|
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
David M. Lawrence |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Kaiser KHFP, 1991-2002 |
Philip Leder |
Biologist |
19-Nov-1934 |
|
Harvard Geneticist |
Jeffrey M. Leiden |
Doctor |
c. 1953 |
|
Clarus Ventures |
Lawrence S. Lewin |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
The Lewin Group |
Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
Robert W. Mann |
Inventor |
1924 |
16-Jun-2006 |
Prosthetic devices |
Joseph B. Martin |
Doctor |
1938 |
|
Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007 |
Barbara J. McNeil |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Harvard Professor of Health Care Policy |
John Mendelsohn |
Biologist |
31-Aug-1936 |
|
Cancer researcher |
Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Ozone depletion |
Mary O. Mundinger |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
Dean, Columbia School of Nursing |
Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
Woodrow A. Myers, Jr. |
Doctor |
14-Feb-1954 |
|
EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05 |
Joseph P. Newhouse |
Economist |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Rand economist, Harvard professor |
Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
Gilbert S. Omenn |
Business |
30-Aug-1941 |
|
Professor, University of Michigan |
Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
David C. Page |
Biologist |
6-Jul-1956 |
|
Director, Whitehead Institute |
Cecil B. Pickett |
Biologist |
5-Oct-1945 |
|
Ezetrol, Singulair, and Vioxx |
George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
|
Health Technology Networks |
Deborah E. Powell |
Doctor |
1939 |
|
Dean of UMN Medical School |
Uwe E. Reinhardt |
Educator |
24-Sep-1937 |
|
Health economist |
Robert D. Reischauer |
Administrator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of the Urban Institute |
William C. Richardson |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95 |
William L. Roper |
Government |
c. 1948 |
|
Director, Centers for Disease Control, 1990-93 |
F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
Stephen J. Ryan |
Doctor |
20-Mar-1940 |
29-Apr-2013 |
Dean, Keck School of Medicine, 1991-2004 |
Charles A. Sanders |
Business |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
CEO of Glaxo, 1989-95 |
Leonard D. Schaeffer |
Business |
28-Jul-1945 |
|
CEO of WellPoint, 1992-2004 |
Harold T. Shapiro |
Educator |
8-Jun-1935 |
|
President of Princeton, 1988-2000 |
Thomas E. Shenk |
Biologist |
c. 1947 |
|
Princeton Molecular Biologist |
Carolyn W. Slayman |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Genetics professor at Yale |
Ralph Snyderman |
Doctor |
1940 |
|
CEO of Duke University Health System |
Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
Thomas P. Stossel |
Doctor |
c. 1941 |
|
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
Samuel O. Thier |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
Roger Y. Tsien |
Scientist |
1-Feb-1952 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
Wylie Vale, Jr. |
Doctor |
3-Jul-1941 |
3-Jan-2012 |
Endocrinologist at Salk Institute |
Gail R. Wilensky |
Activist |
14-Jun-1943 |
|
Health care official |