13 Notable alumni of
University of the Sciences
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The University of the Sciences is 3613th in the world, 1232nd in North America, and 1172nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from the University of the Sciences sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Henry Solomon Wellcome
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- businessperson
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Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Company with his colleague Silas Burroughs in 1880, which is one of the four large companies to eventually merge to form GlaxoSmithKline. He left a large amount of capital for charitable work in his will, which was used to form the Wellcome Trust, one of the world's largest medical charities. He was a keen collector of medical artefacts which are now managed by the Science Museum, London, and a small selection of which are displayed at the Wellcome Collection.
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Josiah K. Lilly, Sr
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Josiah Kirby Lilly Sr., nicknamed "J. K.," was an American businessman, pharmaceutical industrialist, and philanthropist who became president and chairman of the board of Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical firm his father, Colonel Eli Lilly, founded in 1876. Josiah, the colonel's sole heir, began working at his father’s company at the age of fourteen.
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Teodoro Moscoso
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- diplomat
- Biography
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José Teodoro Moscoso Mora, was a Puerto Rican businessman and politician known as "the architect of Operation Bootstrap".
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William Procter, Jr
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- pharmacist
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William Procter Jr. was an American pharmacist. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1837. He is known for his role in establishing the American Pharmacists Association and his work on the United States Pharmacopeia. He was the author and editor of the first pharmacy textbook published in America. He is generally regarded as the Father of American Pharmacy.
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Robert L. McNeil, Jr
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- pharmacistchemistpharmacologist
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Robert Lincoln McNeil Jr. was an American chemist and pharmaceutical industry executive. He was responsible for, among other things, the commercial development, naming, and introduction of the pain reliever Tylenol.
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Frederick Gutekunst
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- photographerwar photographer
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Frederick Gutekunst was an American photographer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He opened his first photographic portrait studio with his brother in 1854 and successfully ran his business for sixty years. He grew to national prominence during the American Civil War and expanded his business to include two studios and a large phototype printing operation. He is known as the "Dean of American Photographers" due to his high quality portraits of dignitaries and celebrities. He worked as the official photographer of the Pennsylvania Railroad and received national and international recognition for his photographs of the Gettysburg battlefield and an innovative 10-foot long panoramic photograph of the Centennial Exposition.
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Silas M. Burroughs
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- 1846-1895 (aged 49)
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- pharmacistindustrialistchemist
- Biography
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Silas Mainville Burroughs was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
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Harkishan Singh
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- 1928-2020 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- chemist
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Harkishan Singh was Professor Emeritus at the Panjab University (Chandigarh, India). He was a well recognized pharmaceutical academic, medicinal chemistry researcher and science historian. He had more than half a century experience in his respective fields to his credit. He worked at the Banaras Hindu University, University of Saugar, and the Panjab University in India, and abroad at the University of Maryland, University of Mississippi and the University of London.
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Philip Needleman
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- pharmacologist
- Biography
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Philip Needleman was an American medical researcher, pharmaceutical industry executive and leader and philanthropist.
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Robert Battey
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- surgeon
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Robert Battey was an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey's Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy (or removal of a woman's ovaries).
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John Wyeth
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- 1770-1858 (aged 88)
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- music publisherprinter
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John Wyeth was a printer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania who is best-known for printing Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (Harrisburg, PA: 1813), which marks an important transition in American music. Like the original Repository of 1810, Part Second used the four-shape system of Little and Smith in The Easy Instructor (Philadelphia, PA: 1801) to appeal to a wider audience; but its pioneering inclusion American folk tunes influenced all subsequent folk hymn, camp meeting, and shape note collections. Musicologist Warren Steel sees Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second as marking "the end of the age of New England composer-compilers (1770–1810) and the beginning of the age of southern collector-compilers (1816–1860)."
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Edward Parrish
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- pharmacist
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Edward Parrish was an American pharmacist. He was the first president of Swarthmore College.
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Susan Hayhurst
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- physicianeducatorpharmacistteacher
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Susan Hayhurst was an American physician, pharmacist, and educator, and the first woman to earn a pharmaceutical degree in the United States.
