On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 07:23:26 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:


Oh...scientist alum include:

Jon Davies (BS 1980), meteorologist, expert on severe thunderstorm
environments and forecasting
Paul R. Ehrlich (MA/PhD 1957), entomologist, researcher and author of
The Population Bomb, and 1990 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Joe Engle (BS 1955), former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force
colonel[24]
Ronald E. Evans (BS 1956), former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Navy
captain[25]
Robert M. Haralick (BA 1964, BS 1966, MS 1967, PhD 1969), Distinguished
Professor of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New
York[26]
Steve Hawley (BA 1973), former NASA director and astronaut; Professor of
Physics and Astronomy at KU
Erasmus Haworth, founder of the Kansas Geological Survey
David Hillis, evolutionary biologist and 1999 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Wes Jackson (MA 1960), environmental historian and founder of the Land
Institute, a 1992 MacArthur Fellow recipient
Richard F. Johnston, ornithologist and author, onetime curator of the
Natural History Museum
William T. Kane, physicist in field of fiber optics
Joseph W. Kennedy (MA 1937), co-discoverer of the element plutonium
Brian McClendon (BSEE 1986), VP of Engineering for Google Earth,
formerly Keyhole, Inc.
Elmer McCollum, co-discoverer of Vitamin A
Nariman Mehta, pharmacologist, developer of the antidepressant and
smoking cessation drug bupropion
Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, "father" of the Aegis Combat System and
namesake of the USS Wayne E. Meyer naval destroyer
Douglas Shane (BS 1982), director of flight operations for SpaceShipOne,
which made the first privately funded human spaceflight
Vernon L. Smith (M.A. in economics 1952), awarded the 2002 Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economics[1]
Kathryn Stephenson (MD 1941), first American woman board-certified
plastic surgeon
Walter Sutton, pioneer of cellular biology and genetics, physician, inventor
George Tiller (BS 1963, MD 1967), physician, abortion provider,
pro-choice advocate
Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discoverer of the dwarf planet Pluto
Kent Whealy, co-founder of the Seed Savers Exchange; 1988 MacArthur
Fellow recipient

You come up with a couple dozen folks in 80 years