Asteroid 1361 Leuschneria Yuei-An Liou, distinguished professor and director at the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, Taiwan Jane Claire Marks – conservation ecologist and educator, Professor of Aquatic Ecology at Northern Arizona University, lead scientist in the PBS documentary, A River Reborn: The Restoration of Fossil Cree J. Ward Moody (Ph.D. 1986), professor of astronomy at Brigham Young University (BYU), principal author of the textbook Physical Science Foundations, work on Large-scale structure of the universe. Homer A. Neal (PhD 1966), director of the ATLAS Project; board member, Ford Motors (1997–); Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents Harald Herborg Nielsen (Ph.D.), physicist who performed pioneering research in molecular infrared spectra Antonia Novello (MED: 1974), first female US Surgeon General James Arthur Oliver (MSC 1937; Ph.D. 1942), herpetologist; director of the Bronx Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Aquarium; the only person ever to have held the directorship at all three institutions Donald Othmer (MSC 1925; Ph.D. 1927), co-founded and co-edited the 27-volume Kirk—Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology in 1947; chairman of Polytechnic University Chemical Engineering Department (1937–1961); invented the Othmer still, which concentrated the acetic acid needed to produce cellulose acetate for motion picture film; awarded 40 patents at Kodak Raymond Pearl (Ph.D. 1902), one of the founders of biogerontology Henry Pollack (Ph.D. 1963), emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan Albert Benjamin Prescott (MED: 1864), chemist; dean of the school of pharmacy in 1876; director of the chemical laboratory in 1884; president of the American Chemical Society in 1886; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1891; president of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1900 Edwin William Schultz (A.B. 1914), pathologist; Guggenheim award winner Shirley E. Schwartz (BS 1957), chemist and research scientist at General Motors Homi Sethna (M.A. 1946), former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India; in 1976 became the first chairman of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences in Pune, Maharashtra Joseph Beal Steere (A.B. 1868), ornithologist Marie Tharp (MS Geology), oceanographic cartographer whose work paved the way for the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift Catherine Troisi (Ph.D. 1980), epidemiologist Juris Upatnieks (MSE EE 1965), with Emmett Leith created the first working hologram in 1962 Steven G. Vandenberg (Ph.D. 1955), behavior geneticist James McDonald Vicary, market researcher; pioneered the notion of subliminal advertising in 1957 James Craig Watson (BA 1857, MA 1859),