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Graduate Schools /
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Noted alumni |
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- Carl D. Anderson, BS 1927, PhD 1930 - Nobel laureate in physics (1936)
- Moshe Arens, MS 1953 - former Israeli defense minister and foreign
minister
- Arnold Beckman, PhD 1928 - Founder of Beckman Instruments and financier of the first "silicon" company in
Silicon Valley, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.
- Sabeer Bhatia, BS 1991 - Co-founder of Hotmail
- David Brin, BS 1973 - science fiction author
- Frank Capra, BS 1918 - Filmmaker, author of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life
- Chester Carlson, BS 1930 - Inventor of the photocopier, the
foundation of Xerox
- Chung-Yao Chao, PhD 1930 - The first scientist that captured
positron through electron-positron annihilation. Father of atomic energy enterprise of China.
- Fernando J. Corbató, BS 1950 - Computer scientist,
recipient of the 1990 Turing
Award
- William A. Fowler, PhD 1936 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1983)
- Yuan-Cheng Fung, PhD 1948 - Founder of Biomechanics
- Donald A. Glaser, PhD 1950 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1960)
- Juris Hartmanis, PhD 1955 - Computer scientist, recipient of the
1993 Turing Award
- Leland H. Hartwell, BS 1961 - Nobel laureate in physiology
or medicine (2001)
- Steingrímur Hermannsson, MS 1952 - former Prime
Minister of Iceland
- David Ho, BS 1974 - AIDS researcher
- Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD 1939 - Father of China's rocket program
- Donald Knuth, PhD 1963 - Computer scientist, creator of TeX typesetting language, and author of The Art of Computer Programming, recipient of the 1974 Turing Award
- Edward B. Lewis, PhD 1942 - Nobel laureate in physiology or
medicine (1995)
- York Liao, BS 1967 - inventor of
liquid crystal displays
- Alan Lightman, PhD 1974 - physicist and novelist
- William Lipscomb, PhD 1946 - Nobel laureate in chemistry
(1976)
- Paul MacCready, MS 1948,
PhD 1952 - Father of Human Powered Flight, invented the Gossamer
Condor and the Gossamer Albatross
- Benoît Mandelbrot, Eng 1949 - Pioneer of fractal geometry
- John McCarthy, BS 1948 - Computer scientist, inventor of the Lisp programming language and recipient of the 1971 Turing Award
- Edwin Mattison McMillan, BS 1928, MS 1929 - Nobel
laureate in chemistry (1951)
- Robert C. Merton, MS 1967 - Nobel laureate in economics (1997)
- Cleve Moler, BS 1961 - Inventor of MATLAB, co-founder of The MathWorks, influential in the
field of numerical analysis
- Gordon E. Moore, PhD 1954 - co-founder of Intel Corp. and author of Moore's law
- Frank Oppenheimer, PhD 1939 - Manhattan Project physicist, founder of the Exploratorium
- Douglas D. Osheroff, BS 1967 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1996)
- Linus Pauling, PhD 1925 - Nobel laureate in chemistry (1954) and
peace (1962)
- William Luther Pierce, graduate studies - Neo-Nazi activist, founder of the white supremacist National Alliance,
author of The Turner Diaries
- John M. Poindexter, PhD 1964 - Director of DARPA Information Awareness Office, National Security Advisor to Ronald Reagan
- Leo James Rainwater, BS 1939 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1975)
- Simon Ramo, PhD 1936 - co-founder of TRW and developed ICBMs
- Benjamin Rosen, BS 1954 -
co-founder of Compaq
- Harrison Schmitt, BS 1957 - astronaut and US Senator, the only
geologist to have ever walked on the moon
- William Shockley, BS 1932 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1956)
- Vernon L. Smith, BS 1949 - Nobel laureate in economics
(2002)
- Robert Tarjan, BS 1969 - Computer scientist, recipient of the
1986 Turing Award
- Howard M. Temin, PhD 1960 - Nobel laureate in physiology or
medicine (1975)
- Charles H. Townes, PhD 1939 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1964)
- Kenneth G. Wilson, PhD 1961 - Nobel laureate in physics
(1982)
- Robert W. Wilson, PhD 1962 - Nobel laureate in
physics (1978)
- Stephen Wolfram, PhD 1979 - Creator of Mathematica
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