George Washington Carver (1864-1943) became known as "The Peanut Man." He developed over 300 products from peanuts, including peanut cosmetics. His friend, Henry Ford said of him, "Dr. Carver had the brain of a scientist and the heart of a saint."

Aaron Ciechanover (1947), a Jewish Nobel prize-winner, loved the world around him. As a young child, he gathered wild flowers on Mount Carmel and pressed them between the pages of an ancient Babylonian Talmud that belong to his brother. (Oops! None of us is perfect.) He said, "My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life."

Devout Muslim and Nobel prize-winner, Mohammad Abdus Salam (1926-1996) grew up in Pakistan. Many of his countrymen loved him. Thirty thousand stormed his funeral to mourn his loss. He said, "[A] sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being . . . the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law."

Francis Collins (1950) served as Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) under three presidents (Obama, Trump, and Biden), and is now President Biden's scientific advisor. His family had a band when he was young. He didn't want to be left out, so he learned to play the pump organ at age five. He said, "I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation."

Georgia Mae Dunston (1944) received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in Human Genetics. As a child, she was very smart and her teachers encouraged her to go on to school. She became one of the first black scientists and has inspired many blacks to continue their education. "We are literally part of one big human family . . . Now the question is how we're going to reflect that knowledge in how we live."