Adams, Henry (Boston)
The author of The Education of Henry Adams
Famous Brainiacs from the United States
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Andreessen, Marc (Cedar Falls)
Creator of the Netscape web browser -
Bancroft, Edward (Westfield)
Double agent of the Revolutionary War -
Banneker, Benjamin (Ellicott City)
The African-American scientist who helped survey Washington, D.C. -
Bernanke, Ben (Augusta)
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 2006- -
Burbank, Luther (Lancaster)
Creator of the Burbank potato -
Carpenter, Scott (Boulder)
The astronaut who also lived on Sealab -
Carver, George Washington (Diamond Grove)
America's great peanut innovator -
Chu, Steven (St. Louis)
Secretary of Energy under Barack Obama -
Daly, Mary (Schenectady)
The feminist professor who battled Boston College -
Dewey, John (Burlington)
Pragmatist educator of the early 20th century -
Edgerton, Harold (Fremont)
The professor who made strobe photography popular -
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Boston)
A founder of Transcendentalism -
Feynman, Richard (New York City)
The Nobel-winning author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman -
Fuller, Buckminster (Milton)
the inventor of the geodesic dome -
Garfield, Eugene (New York City)
Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information -
Greenspan, Alan (New York City)
Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1987-2006 -
Hanna, Jack (Knoxville)
Zoologist host of TV's Animal Adventures -
Hubble, Edwin (Marshfield)
The astronomer the Hubble space telescope is named after -
Jobs, Steve (San Francisco)
The co-founder of Apple computers -
Kinsey, Alfred (Hoboken)
Author of The Kinsey Report on sexuality -
Lawrence, Ernest O. (Canton)
Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the cyclotron -
Lehrer, Tom (New York City)
Composer of the satirical tune "The Vatican Rag" -
Mayer, Marissa (Wausau)
The early Google employee who became CEO of Yahoo in 2012 -
McClintock, Barbara (Hartford)
The genetics scientist who learned from maize -
Mead, Margaret (Philadelphia)
The anthropologist author of Coming of Age in Samoa -
Narin, Francis (Philadelphia)
Scientometrics pioneer who started CHI Research -
Nash, John (Bluefield)
The mathematician depicted in A Beautiful Mind -
Oppenheimer, J. Robert (New York City)
The physicist who directed the Manhattan Project -
Page, Larry (Lansing)
The co-founder of Google -
Pauling, Linus (Portland)
Vitamin C advocate and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize -
Richter, Charles F. (Overpeck)
The seismologist who created the earthquake scale -
Salk, Jonas (New York City)
Developer of the polio vaccine -
Shultz, George (New York City)
United States Secretary of State, 1982-89 -
Summers, Lawrence H. (New Haven)
Director of the U.S. National Economic Council, 2009-present -
Tuchman, Barbara (New York City)
Author of The Guns of August -
Van Allen, James (Mount Pleasant)
Cosmic ray expert who found the Van Allen radiation belts -
Vinge, Vernor (Waukesha)
Hugo-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep -
Watson, James (Chicago)
Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA -
Woodson, Carter G. (New Canton)
The "Father of Black History" -
Wozniak, Steve (San Jose)
The co-founder of Apple Computers who wasn't Steve Jobs -
Yellen, Janet (Brooklyn)
President Biden's Secretary of the Treasury -
Zinn, Howard (New York City)
Boat-rocking U.S. historian