Nellie Wakeman (Yellow House)
Wakeman received a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was the first woman to receive a PhD in a pharmacy related discipline. She then served as a faculty member at the school until her retirement in 1946. She was the first woman to serve as a professor at the School of Pharmacy.
Takeru Higuchi (Orange House)
Known as the “Father of Physical Pharmacy”, Higuchi is famous for inventing the time-release medication capsule. He received his Doctorate in Physical and Organic Chemistry in 1943 from University of Wisconsin-Madison and later joined the school as an Assistant Professor in 1947.
Andrew DuMez (Purple House)
DuMez was the first graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s PhD program and also the first person to receive a PhD in Pharmaceutical Science in the United States. He later went on to become the Dean of the University of Maryland’s School of Pharmacy.
James Buchanan (Blue)
Buchanan was the second African-American to graduate from the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy and during his time at the school he was a founding member and leader of the student chapter of the American Pharmaceutical Association (now known as the American Pharmacists Association). After WWII, Buchanan was a respected community pharmacist on the South Side of Chicago. He was hired by Walgreens as Assistant Manager in 1947 and he remained with the company till the end of his career.
William Apple (Green House)
Apple was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Department of Pharmacy, as well as President and Chairman of the board of the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association, which has since grown into the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin. He moved to the Washington D.C. area when he joined APhA and served as its CEO for many years. In addition to ACPE, Apple also served in Presidential terms with the National Drug Trade Conference and the International Pharmaceutical Federation.