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2305 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203-1727
615-322-2561 | 800-288-0432
admissions@vanderbilt.edu
Notable Alumni
Science/Medicine
- Rick Chappell, BA’65 – NASA Astronaut
- Michael L. Gernhardt, BS’78 – NASA astronaut
- Michael Mott, BE'71 – Served as the third-highest ranking official at NASA headquarters
- Dr. Mildred Stahlman, BA’43, MD’46 – Neonatology pioneer at Vanderbilt
- John Ridley Stroop, BS’24, MA’25, PhD’33 (deceased) – Pioneering psychologist known internationally for discovering the “Stroop Effect,” a psychological process related to word recognition, color and interference
- Levi Watkins Jr., MD’70 – Performed the world’s first implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator
- Dr. Antonio Gotto, BA’57, MD’65 – Dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University; internationally recognized expert in cardiovascular medicine
- Dr. Stanford Moore, BA’35 (deceased) – Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1972)
- J. Donald M. Gass, BA'50, MD'57 (deceased) – Named one of the ten most influential ophthalmologists of the 20th century
- Dr. Norman Shumway, MD’49 (deceased) – Heart transplant pioneer