Science, Medicine, & Research Leaders
Science, Medicine, & Research Leaders
Louis R. Caplan
Neurologist, physician, and former Chair of the American Heart Association and the Stroke Council
B.A. in history
Robert Fogel
Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1993, with Douglass North)
B.A. in history
Atul Gawande
Surgeon, author, and public health researcher
B.A. in political science and M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)
Mae Jemison
Former physician and astronaut
B.A. in African and Afro-American studies
Eric Kandel
Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine
B.A. in history and literature
Harold Varmus
Former Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1989, with Michael Bishop)
B.A. in English literature