University of Georgia

draft, and Reggie Brown, drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2005 draft. Alumni with careers in professional sports include Mitchell Boggs, a former baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, a professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Some University of Georgia alumni who have served in the scientific and medical fields include Alfred Blalock, an award-winning chief of surgery, professor, and director of the department of surgery of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery; Cornelia Bargmann, an award-winning neurobiologist, who is Wiesel Professor of Genetics and Neurosciences at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Crawford Long, a surgeon and pharmacist best known for the first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic; Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, a geneticist who is Professor of Botany at …