Famous
Patersonians
Scientists
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Fish, Dr. Marie Poland (1902 - 1989) - U.S. Navy oceanographer
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Janowitz, Dr. Henry D. (1918 - ) - Physician, researcher, author, former
president of the American Gastroenterological Society
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Reines,
Frederick (1918 - 1998) - Physicist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize
in Physics for the study of neutrinos
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Sabin, Dr. Albert
B. (1906 - 1993) - Polio conquerer
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Shrabisch, Max (1869 - 1949) - Archeologist, author and musician
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Sullivan, Dr. Kathryn (1951 - ) - Astronaut
Technology
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Colt, Samuel (1814 - 1862) - Inventor,
started his first gun mill in Paterson (more)
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Danforth, Charles (1797 - 1876) - Inventor of the Danforth frame in
locomotives
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Holland,
John (1841 - 1914) - Inventor of the first practical submarine
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Rogers, Jacob S. (1823 - 1901) - Owner of Rogers Locomotive Works
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Rogers, Thomas (1792 - 1856) - Designer and builder of railroad locomotives.
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