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Brewster Shaw
Space Shuttle Astronaut If Brewster Shaw BS1968, MS1969 had his way, everyone would get the chance to soar thousands of miles above Earth as he did. The former astronaut completed three space-shuttle missions — twice... Read more »
Gabriela Cezar
Stem-Cell Visionary The door to major breakthroughs in human health and medical care opened in 1998 when a UW researcher first cultured human embryonic stem cells. Gabriela Cezar PhD2002 walked right on through, discovering ways... Read more »
Jim Lovell
Apollo 13’s Commander Though often misquoted, Jim Lovell’s actual words — “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” — have become the quintessential understatement in American lore. At that moment, Lovell (attended 1946 to 1948), as commander... Read more »
John Bardeen
Two-Time Nobelist The soft-spoken man who skipped so many grades that he became an eighth-grader at age nine went on to win two Nobel Prizes for work that enriches our daily lives. Madison native John... Read more »
Joseph Hickey
Distinguished Ornithologist Joseph Hickey MS1943 was so drawn to our feathered friends that he did everything possible to save them when their populations were in danger. As UW–Madison’s second professor of wildlife management — recruited... Read more »
Laurel Clark
Columbia Astronaut She died doing something she loved. We often console ourselves with that thought when someone perishes tragically. And so it was with the adventure-loving Laurel Salton Clark BS1983, MD1987. Clark had come to... Read more »
Raymond Damadian
Father of the MRI No scalpels required. Thanks to Raymond Damadian BS1956’s remarkable invention, it’s no longer necessary to open up the human body to detect cancer or pinpoint an injury. Damadian built the world’s... Read more »