Work of national/international impact; leading researcher/inventor in field

• James D. Cole, BSEE ’13, invented the fan-cooled motor used in vacuum cleaners


• C. Paul Stocker, BSEE ’26 and HON ’74, Lorain Products founder whose more than 50 patents include the Syb-Cycle static frequency converter, the longest continuously manufactured part in the telephone industry


• Glenn H. Brown, BSCHE ’39 and HON ’87, pioneering liquid crystal researcher


• Fritz J. Russ, BSEE ’42 and HON ’75, leader of post-WWII team that developed instrumentation and procedures to measure aerial effects of nuclear bursts at Bikini atoll on nearby ships


• Wilfred Konneker, BS ’43, MS ’47, holder of numerous patents for his work in nuclear physics


• Jeannette G. Grasselli Brown, BS ’50 and HON ’78, whose former post as director of corporate research and analytical sciences for BP America made her the company’s highest-ranking female employee


• Richard H. McFarland, BS '50, founder of Ohio University’s Avionics Engineering Center and recipient of the President’s Citation of Merit Award from the Air Traffic Controllers Association (ATCA)


• Gordon Hartzell, BS ’55, pioneer in the science of fire toxicology


• John A. Raiser, BSAE ’55, inventor of the 100-year, no-maintenance concrete roof


• Hua T. Chua, BSEE ’59, co-inventor, programmable logic array and Vialink, a field-programmable interconnect technology


• Thomas J. Meyer, BSCHE ’63, leading scientist in inorganic electron transfer mechanisms and catalysis


• Lawrence R. Schmidt, BSCHE ’65, General Electric researcher who developed the manufacturing technique behind CDs


• Robert B. Goldberg, BS ’66, renowned plant molecular biologist; founding editor of The Plant Cell, the leading journal in the field


• Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan, PHD '76, 2009 Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry


• Connie Tobias, AAS ’77, BGS ’78, one of the first female captains for a major airline


• Robert J. Wood, BS ’78, NASA payload specialist