Warren Bennis (1951), distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California; Chair of the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership; author of more than thirty books on leadership
Leland C. Clark Jr. (B.S. 1941), PhD, biochemist and inventor
George W. Comstock (1937), physician, public health expert, lead researcher in seminal studies demonstrating the effectiveness of isoniazid for treating latent tuberculosis infection
William A. Gamson (1946), sociologist, President of American Sociological Association
Clifford Geertz (1950), PhD. Harvard, Professor of Social Science Univ. of Chicago & Princeton Univ.
Stephen Jay Gould (1963), Harvard professor, geologist, evolutionary biologist, author
Sheena Hill (2005), psychotherapist and parenting coach. Founder of Parenting Works.
Carole Hooven (1988) PhD., retired Harvard Professor of Anthropology
Cornelius S. Hurlburt (1929) Professor of Mineralology, Harvard University editor of Dana's Manual of Mineralogy (textbook)
Judith G. Voet (B.S. 1963), professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Swarthmore College; author of several widely used biochemistry textbooks, PhD, University of Pennsylvania