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Undergraduate Colleges /
University of Rochester |
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Notable Alumni |
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- George Abbott (BA 1911), Broadway showman who wrote, produced, and directed notable Broadway plays, including The Pajama Game(directed), A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum(directed), and Damn Yankees
(co-wrote).
- Steven Chu (BA math and BS physics 1970), Nobel laureate (1997, physics)
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (BS 1943), Nobel
laureate (1976, physiology or medicine)
- Frederick Fennell (BA 1937, MA 1939), internationally
recognized conductor, and one of the primary figures in promoting the wind ensemble as a performing group
- Edward Gibson (BS 1959), former NASA astronaut
- Susan Hockfield (B.S. 1973), sixteenth president of MIT
- Jay Last (BS 1951), member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon
Valley
- James A. Pawelczyk (BS 1982), NASA astronuat
- Bruce Schneier (BS Physics), noted computer security expert
- Avie Tevanian (BA Math), an important figure in the development of
the NeXT Computer and its successor, Mac OS X at Apple
- Richard Thaler (PhD 1974), economist know for pioneering behaviorial finance
- Ivan Sag (B.A. 19??), professor of linguistics at Stanford University
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Interesting Fact |
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When P.T. Barnum donated money to Tufts University, he did so on the condition that the school's mascot be named after his beloved elephant. The Tufts University mascot has been the "Jumbos" ever since. |
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