astronomer, established the James Craig Watson Medal John V. Wehausen (BS 1934, MS 1935, Ph.D. 1938), researcher in hydrodynamics Nancy Wexler (Ph.D. 1974), geneticist, Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology at Columbia University Terry Jean Wilson (BS), Antarctic researcher Ta You Wu (Ph.D. 1933), "the father of Chinese physics" Zhu Guangya (Chinese: 朱光亚 (Ph.D. 1950), nuclear physicist; academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences; vice chairman of 8th and 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; led the development of China's atomic and hydrogen bomb programs George Zweig (BS 1959), a graduate student when he published "the definitive compilation of elementary particles and their properties" in 1963, the work that led up to his theory about the existence of quarks in 1964; considered to have developed the theory of quarks independently of Murray Gell-Mann Kathleen Weston (BS Biology 1929), world renowned toxicologist, worked on the Salk polio vaccine, taught from the Sunday school level to the medical school level for over 50 years Efrat Lifshitz (M.Sc. 1981, Ph.D. 1984), professor of chemistry at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Yıldız Bayazıtoğlu (M.Sc. 1969, Ph.D. 1974), First woman to earn doctorate of engineering at University of Michigan, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harry S. Cameron Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University, National Medal of Science Laureates/National Medal of Technology and Innovation Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American nuclear physicist winner of the National Medal of Science Detlev Wulf Bronk, credited with establishing biophysics as a recognized discipline winner of the National Medal of Science John W. Cahn, scientist, winner of the 1998 National Medal of Science Stanley Cohen (Ph.D.), biochemist; 1986 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine winner of the National Medal of Science Carl R. de Boor, German-American mathematician winner of the National Medal of Science George Dantzig (M.A.), mathematician called by some the "father of linear programming" winner of the National Medal of Science Harry George Drickamer, born Harold George Weidenthal, pioneer experimentalist in high-pressure studies of condensed matter winner of the National Medal of Science Roger L. Easton (MDNG) was an American physicist who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson. Awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2006. Donald N. Frey (Ph.D.), Ford Motor Company product manager; National Medal of Technology winner Willis M.