Carl Barton Huffaker (1938, 1939) was president of the International Organization for Biological Control and an influential professor of entomology at the University of California. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, president of the Entomological Society of America, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

John Melvin Googin Jr. (1953) won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award in 1967. He was involved in the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and later was principal chemist and senior corporate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was Tennessee president of the American Civil Liberties Union, a fellow of the National Academy [...]

Weston Fulton (1901) invented the metal bellows used in thermostatic devices. He held more than 125 patents for his inventions.

Marion Dorset graduated from UT in 1893. He discovered the cause of hog cholera and developed a serum for it. The eradication of hog cholera is his best known accomplishment, but he also developed a rapid diagnostic test for pullorum, a disease of chickens, that has saved poultry farmers millions of dollars. The purple ink [...]

Sheldon Datz (1960) won the Enrico Fermi Award for lifetime achievement, one of the top U.S. scientific prizes. He pioneered crossed molecular beam chemistry and was a physicist and senior corporate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Samuel C. Collins (1920, 1924) was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Science. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Murray Bowen (1934) was a pioneer in the field of family therapy. He was the first director of the Family Division at the National Institute of Mental Health. Later he joined the psychiatry department at Georgetown University and gained international recognition for his leadership in the field of family therapy. He established the Georgetown University [...]

Owen Davis, an 1889 graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Icebound in 1923.

Arthur Preston Whitaker (1915) was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1965. He published 20 books and numerous articles.

Matthew G. Smith (1909) was an attorney and bankruptcy judge in Fort Worth, Texas.