Andrea Lunsford, former Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State, is a world leader in the field of rhetoric and composition. She also completed her PhD in English at Ohio State.
James Phelan is a Distinguished University Professor and Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State. He has been a worldwide leader in building the field of narrative theory since the mid-1980s.
Melvin Newman (1908-1993) was professor of Chemistry at Ohio State. Newman is best known for the Newman projection, which he developed to understand molecular structure.
Roy Plunkett (1910-1994) received his PhD in chemistry from The Ohio State University in 1936. Upon graduation, he went to work for the DuPont, where he remained for his entire working career.
Donald Borror (1907-1988), emeritus professor of entomology at Ohio State, was a world-renowned expert on Odonata (an order of carnivorous insects including dragonflies and damselflies) and bioacoustics, particularly of songbirds.