Science and Technology
- Bruce Alberts (1956) is a biochemist, known for his work on chromosome replication. He was president of the National Academy of Sciences (1993–2005) and is currently editor in chief of the journal Science (2008–present).
- Todd Golub (1981) cancer researcher, director of the Cancer program at the Broad Institute
- Mary-Claire King (1963) is a geneticist. She led the team which first mapped a gene she had discovered, BRCA1, the first known gene linked to hereditary breast cancer.
- Michael Peskin (1969), physicist
- Martin Rocek (1971) Physicist, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Rafael Sorkin (valedictorian 1963) is a physicist known for proposing the causal sets approach to quantum gravity.
- Jack Steinberger (1938) is the co-discoverer of the muon neutrino, and co-recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. He donated his Nobel medal to the New Trier science department.
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