13 Notable alumni of University of the Sciences
Updated: June 13, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of the Sciences is ranked #3,339 in the world and #868 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from University of the Sciences sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of the Sciences won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Edward Parrish
1822-1872 (aged 50)
pharmacist
Edward Parrish was an American pharmacist. He was the first president of Swarthmore College.
2. Susan Hayhurst
1820-1909 (aged 89)
physician
educator
pharmacist
teacher
Susan Hayhurst was an American physician, pharmacist, and educator, and the first woman to earn a pharmaceutical degree in the United States.
3. Silas M. Burroughs
1846-1895 (aged 49)
industrialist
chemist
pharmacist
Silas Mainville Burroughs was an American pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
4. Philip Needleman
1939-2024 (aged 85)
pharmacologist
Philip Needleman was an American medical researcher, pharmaceutical industry executive and leader and philanthropist.
5. Robert Battey
1828-1895 (aged 67)
surgeon
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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6. John Wyeth
1770-1858 (aged 88)
music publisher
printer
John Wyeth was an American newspaper and book publisher. He published the Oracle of Dauphin newspaper in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1792 to 1827 and several hymnal books including Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second which had a major impact on shape-note song books in the Southern United States.
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7. Robert L. McNeil, Jr
1915-2010 (aged 95)
chemist
pharmacologist
pharmacist
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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8. Teodoro Moscoso
1910-1992 (aged 82)
diplomat
José Teodoro Moscoso Mora, was a Puerto Rican businessman and politician known as "the architect of Operation Bootstrap".
9. William Procter, Jr
1817-1874 (aged 57)
pharmacist
William Procter Jr. was an American pharmacist. He is known for his role in establishing the American Pharmacists Association and his work on the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). He was the author/editor of the first pharmacy textbook published in America. He has been referred to as the 'Father of American Pharmacy.'
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10. Frederick Gutekunst
1831-1917 (aged 86)
photographer
war photographer
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...
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11. Henry Solomon Wellcome
1853-1936 (aged 83)
businessperson
Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome was an American and British 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...
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12. Josiah K. Lilly, Sr
1861-1948 (aged 87)
businessperson
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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13. Harkishan Singh
1928-2020 (aged 92)
chemist
Harkishan Singh was an Indian pharmaceutical chemist and professor at Panjab University known for his research and teaching in India, United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and China. Singh specialized in organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and the study of natural products, making contributions to each field. During his career, he led the research group responsible for developing candocuronium iodide (also...
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