<p>Albert Michelson, Class of 1868.
First American Nobel Prize in Physics, 1907. </p>
<p>Joseph Erlanger, M.D., 1892
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1945</p>
<p>Eric Cornell '80
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2001</p>
<p>Here is some other interesting people from my old high school outside of science…</p>
<p>Stephen Breyer, current Supreme Court Justice
Richard Levin, current President of Yale University
Don Fisher, founder of GAP Inc.
William Hewlett, founder of Hewlett Packard</p>
<p>Someone previously mentioned something about trends. With such a great variety in schools and accomplished people, I believe the conclusion we can come to is, it doesn’t matter what school you go to. Although, it is fun looking at your schools accomplished alums, it gives yourself a sense of pride for some reason.</p>
<p>“I hope after reading this thread people will realize that not getting in to Harvard doesn’t mean you can’t make a contribution to our world or lead an otherwise successful life. Thanks for all the interesting input.”</p>
<p>Why didn’t you just write this in the first place…</p>
<p>-Charles Addams: Creator, The Addams Family
-Sadie Tanner Alexander: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D, appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman.
-Gloria Allred: Lawyer, Feminist
-Christian B. Anfinsen: Nobel prize winner in Chemistry
-Walter Annenberg: Philantropist, former U.S Ambassador to the United Kingdom
-Nnamdi Azikiwe: First President of Nigeria
-Ernesto P. Balladares: President of Panama, 1994-1999
-Chuck Bednarik: Philadelphia Eagles Linebacker
-Bert Bell: Former National Football League Commissioner from 1946-1959
-Candice Bergen: Actress, best known as TV’s Murphy Brown
-Nicholas Biddle: President of the Second Bank of the United States
-Henry Bloch: Founder, H&R Block
-Richard Bloch: Founder, H&R Block
-Len Bosack: Co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet routers company)
-William J. Brennan: U.S. Supreme Court Justice
-Michael S. Brown: Nobel prize winner in Chemistry
-Ron Brown: NBC International Affairs correspondent
-Warren Buffett: CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, investor, second richest man in the world (attended but did not graduate)
-Britton Chance: Scientist and Olympic gold medallist who made great contributions to spectrometry and biochemistry/biophysics research
-Noam Chomsky: Linguist and activist.
-Gordon Clark: philosopher and Christian theologian.
-Richard Clarke: Author and National Counter-Terrorism Director under the presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
-Bruce Dern: Actor
-Ira Einhorn: 1960s Hippie leader and imprisoned murderer of Holly Maddux
-Chaka Fattah: U.S. Congressman representing Philadelphia.
-William Fawcett: Actor
-Richard Fisher: Fisher Brothers Construction, New York
-Harold E. Ford, Jr.: U.S. Representative from Tennessee, candidate for house minority leader, 2002
S-tephen Glass: Former reporter for The New Republic, author of The Fabulist
-Leonard Goldberg: Former Chairman of 20th Century Fox/TV and Movie Producer
-Oscar Goodman: Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada and Attorney.
-Hussam Hamadeh: Founder, Vault.com
-William Henry Harrison (flunked out; class of 1791): 9th President of the United States
-Charles Heimbold: U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, former CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb Corporation
-John Heisman: The Heisman Trophy is named after him
-Duncan Kenworthy: Producer, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Notting Hill
-C. Everett Koop: Surgeon General of the United States, 1981-1989
-Alvin Kraenzlein: four-time Olympic champion
-Andrea Kremer: ESPN sports correspondent
-Leonard Lauder: Co-founder of Est</p>
<p>George Washington (received his surveyor’s certificate), American Revolutionary War general, first President of the United States , former Chancellor of the College
Thomas Jefferson , author of the Declaration of Independence , third President of the United States , founder of the University of Virginia
Linda Lavin , American actress (starred as the title character on the television show Alice )
James Monroe , fifth President of the United States
John Marshall fourth Chief Justice of the United States
John Tyler tenth President of the United States , former Chancellor of the College
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., MD , Physician (ex-Director NCI, Pioneer in Oncology)
Glenn Close , actress (Broadway, TV, film)
Jon Stewart , comedian ( Daily Show )
Perry Ellis , fashion designer (Perry Ellis International)
Bill Lawrence , televison producer ( Scrubs )
Scott Glenn , actor (Hunt for Red October, Silence of the Lambs)
William Barton Rogers , academic (Founder of MIT)
Michael Powell , government (Head of the FCC)
James Comey , government (Deputy U.S. Attorney General)
Mary Jo White , government (ex-U.S. Attorney for Southern N.Y. District)
Robert Gates , government (ex-Head of the C.I.A.)
David M. Brown , pilot / astronaut, (died aboard the space shuttle Columbia )
Mark McCormack , business (Int’l Mgmt Group Founder)
George M. Bibb , United States Secretary of the Treasury 1844-1845
Mike “Pinball” Clemons ,Canadian Football League football player/coach
Curtis Pride ,Major League Baseball outfielder
Darren Sharper ,National Football League , saftey for the Green Bay Packers</p>
<p>I think someone was asking about sat scores earlier… and don’t think I am sayign that money equals succcess, but I flipped through some book focused on success… and it said that:</p>
<p>The average millionare’s (of a random sample) SAT score was like 1210 and
ranged (25th to 75th percentile) 1120-1300</p>
<p>This to me is one of the ultimate testaments to the fact that the student has a lot more to do with future success than the school they attend. My friend’s dad was the CFO of AT&T before he retired a few years ago. He graduated from…</p>
<p>Cal State Northridge</p>
<p>For those of you not from California, Cal States are basically the UC’s but about 5 tiers lower (if rankings even go down that far).</p>
<p>tokenadult: You are correct that Abraham Lincoln did not attend college, but it’s interesting to note that the first honorary degree Lincoln was awarded was from Knox College (Illinois).</p>
<ul>
<li> **Aaron Burr 1772 - 3rd Vice President of the United States
<ul>
<li>John F. Kennedy class of 1939 (left after first semester for medical reasons) - 35th President of the United States</li>
<li>James Madison 1771 - 4th President of the United States **</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>Government / Law / Public policy
* **Ralph Nader A.B. 1955 - Green Party presidential candidate **
* Donald Rumsfeld A.B. 1954 - Secretary of Defense under Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush</p>
<p>Business
* James T. Aubrey, Jr. A.B. 1941 - president of CBS and MGM
* Jeff Bezos B.S.E. 1986 - founder of Amazon.com
* Malcolm Forbes A.B. 1941 - businessman and publisher
* Steve Forbes A.B. 1970 - son of Malcolm, businessman and publisher of Forbes magazine
* Carl Icahn A.B. 1957 - Corporate raider
* **Eric Schmidt B.S.E. 1976 - CEO of Google **
* Charles Schwab A.B. 1944 - founder of brokerage firm
* **Meg Whitman A.B. 1977 - CEO of eBay **</p>
<p>Economics
* Gary Becker A.B. 1951 - Nobel laureate (Economics 1992)
* Alan Blinder A.B. 1967 - professor of economics, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Bill Clinton
* James Heckman M.A. 1968, Ph.D 1971 - Nobel laureate (Economics 2000)
* Michael Spence A.B. 1966 - Nobel laureate (Economics 2001)</p>
<p>Mathematics/Science
* John Bardeen Ph.D 1936- Nobel laureate (Physics 1956 and 1972)
* George Boolos, A.B. 1961 - philosopher/logician, professor at MIT
* Arthur Compton Ph.D 1916 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1927)
* Clinton Davisson Ph.D 1911 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1937)
* **Richard Feynman Ph.D 1942 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1965) **
* Robert Hofstadter Ph.D 1938 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1961)
* Edwin McMillan Ph.D 1933 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1951)
* **John Nash, Ph.D 1950 - Nobel laureate (Economics 1994) **
* Richard Smalley Ph.D 1974 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1996)
* Steven Weinberg Ph.D 1957 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1979)
* Frank Wilczek M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1974 - Nobel laureate (Physics 2004)</p>
<p>Engineering/Technology</p>
<pre><code>* Hal Abelson, A.B. 1969 - directed implementation of the Logo programming language for the Apple II, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Alonzo Church, A.B. 1924, Ph.D.1927 - mathematician known for the Church-Turing thesis , developed the lambda calculus that exposed the “undecideability” problem and influenced the Lisp programming language
**Charles “Pete” Conrad, B.S.E. 1953 - astronaut, third man to walk on the moon **
Brian Kernighan Ph.D 1969, electrical engineering. Professor, computer science. Co-inventor of the awk programming language, and co-author of the definitive textbook The C Programming Language.
Michael Stonebraker, S.B. 1965 - pioneer researcher in relational databases, founder of Ingres (acquired by Computer Associates) and Illustra Information Technologies (acquired by Informix) and initiator of PostgreSQL
Alan Turing Ph.D 1938 - pioneering computer scientist, formulated the Turing machine and the Turing test. The Turing award is named in his honor.
<p>Literature
* Ian Caldwell A.B. 1998 - co-authored the recent book The Rule of Four, set on the Princeton campus.
* Jonathan Safran Foer A.B. 1999 - author of Everything is Illuminated
* Frederick Buechner A.B. 1947 - Pulitzer Prize-nominated author
* Jos</p>