Irish-American:Science

 

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John Philip Holland – inventor of the submarine, Fenian  

 

John Murphy (engineer) – invented ARCNET, the first commercial networking system
 

Joseph John O'Connell – electrical engineer and inventor, invented the circuit breaker, the coin return, and the "invisible wire" which was the first time more than one telephone conversation could occur on the same wire
 

James Watson – molecular biologist, discoverer of double helix structure DNA, laureate

 

 

John L. Hennessy - Computer scientist who won the 2017 Turing Award for work in developing the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture.
 

 

Gerard K. O'Neill - American physicist who invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. He is well known for the idea known as an O'Neill cylinder.
 

 

 

Notable Mentions :

 Jonathan Dowling - Professor in theoretical physics known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) for applications to quantum metrology, quantum sensing, and quantum imaging.

Jim Collins – Rhodes Scholar, MacArthur genius, bioengineer and inventor
 

Charles Brian Montagu McBurney – medical pioneer, known for early reports about appendicitis

O. Timothy O'Meara – mathematician, University of Notre Dame
 

Charles Townes – physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
 

Michael Collins – astronaut with Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions^[109]  

Simon Hullihen – known as The Father of Oral Surgery^[112]   

Joseph Murray - 1990 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
 

John O'Keefe - 2014 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
 

William C. Campbell - 2015 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
 

James Cronin - 1980 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physics

Dennis Sullivan - Mathematician who was awarded the Abel Prize in 2022 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010.

Alan C. Newell - Mathematician who received the John von Neumann Prize in applied mathematical sciences and who made contributions to many areas of research such as pattern formation, nonlinear waves and solutions, optics, wave turbulence, plasmas and fluids and coherent structures.
 

Hugh McDevitt - Immunologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology who was best-known for his discovery of immune response genes and the first definitive physical map of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).

Peter Dervan - Professor of Chemistry and winner of several awards, including the 2006 National Medal of Science, the 2022 Priestley Medal, and the 1999 Linus Pauling Award.
 

Bert W. O'Malley - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and winner of the 2007 National Medal of Science. He is considered the 'father of molecular endocrinology' and has received numerous other awards as well, including the prestigious Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
 

William P. Murphy - 1934 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
 

Linda B. Buck - 2004 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
 

Thomas Christian Kavanagh - Civil engineer and educator, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering, serving as its first treasurer from 1964–1974.
 

Kathleen Antonelli - Also known as Kay McNulty, was a computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers.
 

William James MacNeven - Physician and referred to as the "Father of American Chemistry". One of the oldest obelisks in New York City is dedicated to him near St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway.

Sean B. Carroll - Biologist who has won several awards including the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science from the Franklin Institute "for proposing and demonstrating that the diversity and multiplicity of animal life is largely due to the different ways that the same genes are regulated rather than to mutation of the genes themselves."
 

Margaret Murnane - Physicist who has earned multiple awards including the MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of The Optical Society, and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.
 

John P. Hayes - Computer Scientist and Electrical Engineer who in 2013, the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Community honored with a Lifetime Contribution Medal. In 2014, Hayes was recognized with the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation Pioneering Achievement Award "for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing."
 

Thomas Maurice Rice - Theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter physics who won the prestigious 1998 EPS Europhysics Prize for his "original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems."
 

Conor P. Delaney - Physician and medical researcher whose research contributions include various aspects of surgery, surgical cost-efficiency and surgical education, while his clinical research contributions include developing enhanced recovery pathways in minimally invasive laparoscopic colorectal surgery, carcinoma of the colon and rectum, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis, sphincter-saving surgery, re-operative abdominal surgery, and colonoscopy. 

Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon) - Professor of Surgery who invented the Myxo ETlogix ring, a heart valve repair ring.
 

Betty Sullivan - Biochemist and first women to win the Osbourne Medal by the American Association of 

Cereal Chemists. Sullivan was also awarded the Garvan–Olin Medal in 1954 by the American Chemical Society.
 

Craig Fennie - Physicist and materials scientist. He is best known for winning a MacArthur Award in 2013.
 

Neville Hogan - Professor of Mechanical Engineering who received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal in 2009.
 

David Madigan - Professor of Statistics with over 200 publications
 

John F. McCarthy Jr. - Scientist and engineer who was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1982
 

Eugene P. Kennedy - Biochemist who won the 1986 Heinrich Wieland Prize and was nominated for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 

Garret A. FitzGerald - Medical researcher who has won several awards including the 2013 Schottenstein Prize, Lefoulon-Delalande Prize, Scheele Award, the Lucian Award as well as the 2009 Taylor Prize. His work contributed substantially to the development of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks and stroke.
 

Morrough Parker O'Brien - Hydraulic engineering professor and is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering. He is known for the MOJS equation, an equation used to estimate the wave loads in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures. He also worked in the aerospace division of  

General Electric and was elected to their Propulsion Hall of Fame in 1984.

John Benjamin Murphy - Physician and abdominal surgeon. Several medical terms are named after him including: Murphy’s button, Murphy drip, Murphy’s punch, Murphy’s test, and Murphy-Lane bone skid. The Mayo Clinic co-founder William James Mayo called him "the surgical genius of our generation".