List of American scientists

A list of American scientists.

• Farid F. Abraham
• Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)
• Peter Agre
• Dan Alderson
• Paul Alivisatos
• Warder Clyde Allee
• John P. Allen
• Braden Allenby
• Bradley Alpert
• John Alroy
• David Alter
• Roy Amara
• Henry James Anderson
• Walter Truett Anderson
• Martin Apple
• Jerome Apt
• David Archer (scientist)
• Frances Arnold
• Joseph Brant Arseneau
• Aseem Shukla
• Anthony Atala
• James E. Atwater
• Oscar Auerbach
• Avi Ben-Abraham
• Addison Bain
• Ira Baldwin
• Siva S. Banda
• Utpal Banerjee
• George Frederick Barker
• Kathy Barker
• Charles Bartley
• Hans D. Baumann
• Robert Nason Beck
• Robert O. Becker
• Charles Emerson Beecher
• James F. Bell, III
• Arden L. Bement, Jr.
• Joseph Young Bergen
• Helen M. Berman
• Harvey Bialy
• John Bidwell
• Rene J. Bienvenu
• Amasa Stone Bishop
• Victor Gustav Bloede (chemist)
• James Bloodworth, Jr.
• Hendrik Wade Bode
• Mark Boslough
• Karel Bossart
• William C. Boyd
• Herbert Boyer
• Robert S. Boyer
• John Brashear
• Charles Brenner
• David M. Brienza
• Lyman James Briggs
• Robert William Briggs
• David Britz
• Samuel Broder
• Lester R. Brown
• Robert Brownlee (chemist)
• Clifford E. Brubaker
• Frank W. Bubb, Sr.
• Bernard Budiansky
• Willy Burgdorfer
• Harold Saxton Burr
• Robert W. Bussard
• William H. Cade
• John W. Cahn
• John B. Calhoun
• David Callaway
• James Edward Campbell
• Neil Campbell (scientist)
• Rebecca Campbell-Howe
• Ann Z. Caracristi
• Shawn Carlson
• George Robert Carruthers
• Carlos Castillo-Chavez
• Don Catlin
• Anthony Cerami
• Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian
• Martin Chalfie
• Thomas C. Chalmers
• Dean Roden Chapman
• Charles B. Hensley
• Jia Chen
• James Chin
• Charles L. Christ
• Christian Pike
• Carol Christian
• Chu Ching-wu
• William C. Clark
• Marjorie Clarke
• Steven Clarke
• Janice E. Clements
• Manfred Clynes
• Edwin Joseph Cohn
• Ellen Cohn
• L. Stephen Coles
• James Bryant Conant
• Albert Coons
• Franklin Seaney Cooper
• Alfred L. Copley
• Robert Corell
• Eugene E. Covert
• Jerry Coyne
• Dwight Crandell
• Robert K. Crane
• Harriet Creighton
• John Culliney
• Harold Cummins
• Joseph Augustine Cushman
• Clarence Madison Dally
• Walter Dandy
• Wilbur Davenport
• Kelvin Davies
• James Henry Deese
• Edmund B. Delabarre
• David Deming
• Harry Demopoulos
• Victor Denenberg
• Chester Dewey
• Michael Dirr
• Paul M. Doty
• Hugh Latimer Dryden
• Peter Duesberg
• Louis Dunn
• Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.
• Nguyet Anh Duong
• Samuel T. Durrance
• John Durrant
• August Dvorak
• Roger L. Easton
• Thomas Edison
• Ron Eglash
• Albert Ellis (psychologist)
• Paul Hugh Emmett
• John Franklin Enders
• Terry Erwin
• Hiram Bond Everest
• James Ewing (pathologist)
• David J. Farber
• Harrison Farber
• Christopher Field
• Caleb Finch
• Mark Fishman
• John Adam Fleming
• Paul Flory
• Rousseau H. Flower
• Francis B. Foley
• Michael Fossel
• Dian Fossey
• Carol Fowler
• Samuel Fowler (1779–1844)
• Benjamin Franklin
• David Franklin (scientist)
• Childs Frick
• Jeffrey M. Friedman
• Carl Frosch
• Elmer L. Gaden
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
• Jay Gan
• Merrill Garnett
• Ralph W. Gerard
• Eloise Gerry
• Albert Ghiorso
• Barrie Gilbert
• Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth
• Robert Gilman
• Stanton Glantz
• Peter Glaser
• Peter Gleick
• George H. Goble
• Calvin Goddard (ballistics)
• Alan H Goldstein
• Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
• John B. Goodenough
• John Gorrie
• John Stanton Gould
• Ralph Grayson
• Michael Graziano
• Cecil Howard Green
• Richard J. Green
• Kevin Greenaugh
• Michael E. Greenberg
• Lewis Joel Greene
• Alan Grodzinsky
• Stephen Grossberg
• Ernst Guillemin
• Gregor S. Gustafson
• Charles Claude Guthrie
• Nelson Hairston
• Thomas Callister Hales
• John D. Hamaker
• Debora Hammond
• Henry Paul Hansen
• Mary Styles Harris
• Edwin B. Hart
• William M. Hartmann
• Leland H. Hartwell
• Stephen Harvey
• Caryl Parker Haskins
• Michael Hasselmo
• Brian Hayes (scientist)
• Eric J. Heller
• Karl Gordon Henize
• Alfred Hershey
• John Heuser
• Craig L. Hill
• Ronald K. Hoeflin
• Dean Hoge
• Theo Holm
• Erna Schneider Hoover
• Grace Hopper
• Jay Hosler
• Mike Hudak
• Gordon Ferrie Hull
• Fazle Hussain
• Shinya Inoué
• Eastman Jacobs
• Robert M. Jacobson
• Rakesh Jain
• Ramesh Jain
• Bruce Jakosky
• John T. James
• William Jeffrey (NIST)
• Mae Jemison
• Alejandro Jenkins
• Jim Mullins
• Joaquin Fuster
• J. Leonard Johnson
• Herrick L. Johnston
• Kalidas Shetty
• William T. Kane
• Charles K. Kao
• Edward Kasner
• Jerome Kavka
• Yoshihiro Kawaoka
• Donald Keck
• Charles David Keeling
• Klaus Keil
• Edwin D. Kilbourne
• James Rhyne Killian
• Kim Sung-Hou
• J. Peter Kincaid
• Ebenezer Kinnersley
• Harry Kloor
• J. Val Klump
• Brian Kobilka
• Rudolf Kompfner
• Daniel Kopans
• David E. Kuhl
• Thomas Kuhn
• Stephanie Kwolek
• Paul Eston Lacy
• Jeffrey Laitman
• Edwin H. Land
• David A. Lane (scientist)
• Samuel Pierpont Langley
• Irving Langmuir
• Murder of Annie Le
• Robert Ledley
• Zachary Lemnios
• Allenna Leonard
• Norman N. Li
• Sidney H. Liebson
• Eli Lilly
• Paul J. Lioy
• John T. Lis
• Leigh Lisker
• Timothy M. Lohman
• Alfred Lee Loomis
• Lorraine Lisiecki
• Joseph Lovering
• Raymond Luebbers
• David T. Lykken
• Dennis McCarthy (scientist)
• Jennifer McCarty
• Barbara McClintock
• Celeste McCollough
• L. Hamilton McCormick
• Stacy McGaugh
• Michael McKubre
• Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
• Brian MacWhinney
• Eugene O. Major
• Ho-Kwang Mao
• John Marburger
• Noella Marcellino
• Lynn Margulis
• Julius Marmur
• William F. Martin
• Bruce E. Maryanoff
• Cynthia A. Maryanoff
• Deborah Mash
• Kirstin Matthews
• Walter Mauderli
• Matthew Fontaine Maury
• Richard L. Meier
• Alvin Joseph Melveger
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
• George W. Merck
• Antonio Meucci
• George H. Miller
• Raymond D. Mindlin
• Ormsby M. Mitchel
• William A. Mitchell
• Scott L. Montgomery
• Philip Morrison
• Jürgen Moser
• Adilson E. Motter
• Forrest S. Mozer
• Ferid Murad
• William P. Murphy Jr.
• Roger D. Nelson
• M. Graham Netting
• Gerald Neugebauer
• Marcia Neugebauer
• William F. Neuman
• Michael Newton (hypnotist)
• Sarfaraz K. Niazi
• Nicholas E. Wagman
• Landon Curt Noll
• Thomas T. Norton
• Bill Nye
• John A. O'Keefe
• Brian O'Leary
• S. Jay Olshansky
• Henry John Orchard
• Michael Orshansky
• Arnold Edward Ortmann
• Simon Ostrach
• David Ostry
• Dan Otte
• Becky Wai-Ling Packard
• Irvine Page
• Sanford Palay
• J. A. Panitz
• Dan James Pantone
• John Parascandola
• Rudolph Pariser
• Patrick G. Carrick
• Randy Pausch
• Jerome Pearson
• E. Converse Peirce 2nd
• Jacob Perkins
• Alan Perlis
• Leonid Perlovsky
• William C. Pfefferle
• William Daniel Phillips
• John R. Pierce
• Kyle Pierce
• Elizabeth Pisani
• William Poduska
• Dragoljub Pokrajac
• Sergey Polyakov
• Stephen Porges
• George Poste
• Sandra Postel
• Laramie Potts
• Nader Pourmand
• William T. Powers
• George R. Price
• Joseph Priestley
• John Charles Priscu
• Ronald F. Probstein
• Merle Randall
• Anatol Rapoport
• Paul Raskin
• Arthur Emmons Raymond
• Grote Reber
• Allan Rechtschaffen
• Christopher M. Reddy
• Jane Reece
• Franklin G. Reick
• Robert Remez
• Lauren Resnick
• John Leonard Riddell
• Paul Ridker
• Royal Rife
• David Rittenhouse
• John Robbins (scientist)
• Anita Roberts
• Arthur B. Robinson
• Julia Robinson
• John Rock (American scientist)
• Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
• Lynn Rogers
• Emily Rosa
• Alan Rosen
• Carol Rosin
• Karol G. Ross
• Francis Peyton Rous
• George C. Royal
• Edmund Ruffin
• Rodney S. Ruoff
• Howard A. Rusk
• Ruth L. Kirschstein
• Raymond St. Leger
• Elliot Saltzman
• Ram Samudrala
• Thomas J. Samuelian
• Berta Scharrer
• Stanley F. Schmidt
• David P. Schmitt
• Francis O. Schmitt
• Edward L. Schneider
• Allan Schore
• Charles Anthony Schott
• Jeffrey H. Schwartz
• William C. Schwartz
• Katherine D. Seelman
• John H. Seinfeld
• Homayoun Seraji
• Ed Seykota
• Michael Shermer
• Landrum Brewer Shettles
• Jay Short
• Deepak Shukla
• Clifford Shull
• Steven J. Sibener
• Robert F. Siliciano
• Leslie Earl Simon
• Robert L. Simpson, Jr.
• Robert Simpson (meteorologist)
• Lawrence B. Slobodkin
• Richard H. Small
• Jon Michael Smith
• Robert R. Sokal
• Steve Spangler
• Morgan Sparks
• Richard O. Spertzel
• Sol Spiegelman
• George Starkey (alchemist)
• Thomas Starzl
• Michael Stebbins
• Allen Steere
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz
• Friedrich Stephan
• Guy Sternberg
• Stephen Sternberg
• Barry Stevens (Renewable energy development)
• Charles Edward Stevens
• Ralph Randles Stewart
• Howard A. Stone
• Jeremy Stone
• Thomas Blanchard Stowell
• Wilma Subra
• Sunil Kumar Ahuja
• Randy Sweeney
• Thomas W. Swetnam
• Doris Taylor
• Bonnie C. Templeton
• Benjamin Thompson
• Edward O. Thorp
• Victor A. Tiedjens
• Michael Tordoff
• Frederick Pearson Treadwell
• Mead Treadwell
• Trinh Xuan Thuan
• Greg Tseng
• Peter Tsou
• Merle Tuve
• Stuart Umpleby
• Raymond Viskanta
• Louis R. Vitullo
• Tuan Vo-Dinh
• John Volkman
• William Hultz Walker
• William X. Wang
• Mansukh C. Wani
• Brian Wansink
• Warren Winkelstein
• James D. Watson
• Owen Webster
• Richard Weiszmann
• Guenter Wendt
• Paul Werbos
• James Westphal
• Douglas Whalen
• Woodrow Whitlow, Jr.
• William T. Wickner
• Sheila Widnall
• John R. Wiegand
• Richard Wiese
• John Wilbanks
• Don Craig Wiley
• Samuel Wendell Williston
• Beth Willman
• Bryan Willson
• Ian Wilson (biologist)
• Charles F. Winslow
• John A. Wise
• Carl Woese
• Flossie Wong-Staal
• Richard D. Wood
• Robert A. Woodruff
• Gordon Woods
• Robert Simpson Woodward
• Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr.
• Arthur W. Wright
• Joshua Wurman
• Xuong Nguyen-Huu
• Xiangzhong Yang
• J. Scott Yaruss
• K. Aslihan Yener
• Hubert Yockey
• Mariano Yogore
• Paul Zamecnik
• Paul Zindel

See also

• Science and technology in the United States