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Notable Alumni: David Mosena (1968, 1971)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

David Mosena (1968, 1971) is CEO and president of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. He is former president of the Chicago Transit Authority.



Notable Alumni: Carl Barton Huffaker (1938, 1939)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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.



Notable Alumni: John Melvin Googin Jr. (1953)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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 [...]



Notable Alumni: Weston Fulton (1901)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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



Notable Alumni: Marion Dorset (1893)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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 [...]



Notable Alumni: Sheldon Datz (1960)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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.



Notable Alumni: Samuel C. Collins (1920, 1924)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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.



Notable Alumni: Murray Bowen (1934)

Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

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 [...]



Notable Alumni: Betsy Middleton Sutherland (1967)

Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

Betsy Middleton Sutherland (1967) was the first female recipient (1985) of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for outstanding contributions in atomic energy. She is a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.



Notable Alumni: Paul Selby (1972)

Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: Notable Alumni

Paul Selby (1972) received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for outstanding contributions in atomic energy in 1981. He is a staff member in Life Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology.