Name
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Class year
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Notability
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References
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James Truslow Adams
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1898
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Writer, historian
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Benjamin Adler
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Helped develop commercial television
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Ali Akansu
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1983, 1987
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Turkish American scientist; known for his contributions to the theory and applications of sub-band and wavelet transforms; professor at NJIT
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Fred Amoroso
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Chairman of Yahoo!; former President, CEO, and director of Rovi Corporation
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Charles E. Anderson
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1948
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First African American to receive a Ph.D. in Meteorology
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Bishnu S. Atal
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1968
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Researcher in linear predictive coding; joined Bell Laboratories in 1961; made major contributions in the field of speech analysis, synthesis, and coding, including low bit-rate speech coding and automatic speech recognition; retired in 2002 to become affiliate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington
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Franklin Bartlett
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1865
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U.S. Representative from New York
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Jacob Bekenstein
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1966, 1969, 1971
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Namesake of Bekenstein bound in general relativity; member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics for work on black holes
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David Bergstein
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1982
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Entrepreneur; film producer; chairman of THINKFilm and Capitol Films
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Barouh Berkovits
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1956
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Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker
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[1]
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Denis Blackmore
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1965, 1969
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Physicist; contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics; professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Israel Borovich
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1967, 1968, 1971, Hon 2005
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Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines
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Ursula Burns
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1980
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CEO, Xerox Corporation
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Charles Camarda
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1974
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NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery
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Hugh John Casey
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Chairman of the New York City Transit Authority; chief engineer of the Army
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K. Mani Chandy
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1968
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Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science and Deputy chair of engineering at the California Institute of Technology
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Francesco DeMaria
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1951
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Italian-American chemist; professor at University of Connecticut
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Bern Dibner
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1921
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Inventor of the first solderless electrical connector; founder of the Burndy Corporation
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John Dionisio
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Chairman and CEO of AECOM
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Dot da Genius
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2008
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Hip-hop producer
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Gertrude B. Elion
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Former doctoral student at Polytechnic; awarded 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine
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George Ellner
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Developed the use of ultraviolet light for sterilization
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[2]
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Joel S. Engel
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1964
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Engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of cellular networks
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Leopold B. Felsen
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1959, 1961, 1964
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Electrical engineer; member of the National Academy of Engineering; named a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Dean of Engineering 1974-1978 at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; professor at Boston University College of Engineering
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Antonio Ferri
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Leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel
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[2]
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Paul Ferri
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Founder of Matrix Partners
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Charles Ranlett Flint
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1868
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Businessman; founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which later became IBM
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Bruno A. Boley
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Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University
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Fazlollah Reza
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1950
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Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Elmer L. Gaden
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Russ Prize winner
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[9]
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Torunn Atteraas Garin
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Oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it; developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee
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Carl Gatto
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1960
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Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives
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Norman Gaylord
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1949, 1950
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Industrial chemist and research scientist; played a key role in the development of the oxygen-permeable contact lens
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Erol Gelenbe
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1968, 1972
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Electrical engineer; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at University of Michigan; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Duke University; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Imperial College London
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Bancroft Gherardi, Jr.
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1891, 1933H
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Electrical engineer; pioneer in early telephone systems
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John Gilbert
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1953
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Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon
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[10]
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Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
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1960
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Jewish-American Zen Buddhist roshi
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Samuel D. Goldberg
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Revolutionized dentistry by inventing local anesthetics and making Novocain commercially feasible
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[2]
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Steven L. Goldman
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1962
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Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Lehigh University
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Martha Greenblatt
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1967
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Chemist, researcher, and faculty member at Rutgers University
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Jay Greene
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1964
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Former Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center
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Leonard Greene
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Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many aviation-related
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Clayton Hamilton
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1900
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Drama critic; professor at Columbia University
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Fredric J. Harris
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1961
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Expert on DSP and communication systems
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Charles Waldo Haskins
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Founder of Haskins and Sells, which later merged with Deloitte
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F. Augustus Heinze
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Colorful Montana entrepreneur
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Nicholas Hoff
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Structural analyst whose calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design
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[2]
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Edward Everett Horton
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1908
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Character actor, appeared in The Front Page, Top Hat, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Pocketful of Miracles
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Ta-Lin Hsu
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1968
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Electrical engineer; Chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific; on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley; Advisory Board Member of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley
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Frances Hugle
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Scientist, engineer, inventor; contributed to the understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials
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Joseph J. Jacobs
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1937, 1939, 1942
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Founder of Jacobs Engineering Group
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Tudor Jenks
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1874
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Author, poet, artist, editor, journalist, lawyer
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Peter Grant Jordan
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President at Tarrant County College
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Leopold Just
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Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City, as well as Washington’s Metro system and the Ohio and Connecticut Turnpikes
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Ephraim Katzir
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Post-doc
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President of Israel; biophysicist
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Thomas Kelly
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1958
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Scientist, father of lunar module
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[12]
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Raymond E. Kirk
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Editor, with Othmer, of the industry-standard Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
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[2]
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Murray S. Klamkin
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1947
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Mathematician
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Eugene Kleiner
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1948
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Honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp for developing and manufacturing revolutionary computer chips
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Edward R. Knowles
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Designed searchlights for the U.S. Navy; invented the storage battery
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[2]
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William B. Kouwenhoven
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1906
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Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor and dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University
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Erich E. Kunhardt
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1976
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Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Texas, and NYU-Poly
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Norman Lamm
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Chancellor and President of Yeshiva University
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Eugene Lang
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1940-41
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Millionaire; industrialist; Chair Emeritus of Swarthmore College; founder and Chair Emeritus of the Conference of Board Chairs of Liberal Arts Colleges; board member of the Columbia University Business School; board member of New School University
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Yehuda (Leo) Levi
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1964
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Rector of Jerusalem College of Technology
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Robert H. Lieberman
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1962
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Novelist and film director; long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University
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Hung-Chang Lin
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1956
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Inventor
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O. Winston Link
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1937
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Pioneering photographer
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Charles Battell Loomis
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Author
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William H. Maddren
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Physician; fourth head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team, 1897-1901
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Nathan Marcuvitz
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Head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT)
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Christos V. Massalas
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1976
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Greek academic working in the fields of mathematics and materials science
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George W. Melville
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1861
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Civil War-era engineer for the Navy; awarded Congressional Gold Medal; namesake of several ships
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Ami Miron
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An American Israeli entrepreneur and technology developer; developed and patented the first picture-in-picture for Philips Electronics; led the development of the first high-definition television (HDTV) system in the U.S., for which he received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards; founded software networking company MoreCom; president and founder of AM Partners
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Stephen Morse
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1963
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Architect of the Intel 8086 chip
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Paolo A. Nespoli
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1988, 1989
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Italian astronaut, mission specialist of STS-120 Space Shuttle mission
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A. Michael Noll
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1971
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Professor Emeritus and dean at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Southern California
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Joseph Owades
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1944, 1950
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Brewing pioneer, inventor of lite beer
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Frank Padavan
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1956
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Republican New York state senator
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Judea Pearl
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1965, Ph.D
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Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA; awarded Turing Prize in 2011
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Martin L. Perl
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1948, Hon 1996
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Awarded 1982 Wolf Prize in physics and 1995 Nobel Prize in physics; member of National Academy of Sciences
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Peter Pershan
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1956
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Physicist; Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, in both the Physics Department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University; recipient of 1988 Rothschild Prize, 2005 Israel Prize, and 2012 Wolf Prize in Physics
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Martin Pope
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1950
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Physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University
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George Preti
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Analytical organic chemist, Monell Chemical Senses Center
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Stav Prodromou
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1967, 1970
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Executive Advisor, Alien Technology
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Buddy Ratner
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1972
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A founding father of modern bioengineering; Fellow of the American Association For the Advancement of Science
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Peter P. Regna
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Helped discover Terramyscin, an antibiotic effective against more than 100 diseases
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[2]
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Mark Ronald
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1968
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Former President and CEO, BAE Systems Inc.
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Jack Ruina
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1957, 1961
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Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at MIT; instrumental in establishing the MIT Security Studies Program and its first director; professor at Brown University and the University of Illinois
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Richard Santulli
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1966
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CEO, NetJets
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Martin Schechter
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Order of British Columbia recipient for HIV research
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George Segal
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Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures
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Hugh Seidman
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1961
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Taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, and The New School
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Seymour Shapiro
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1956 PhD
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Synthesized phenformin
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Len Shustek
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Chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum
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Ronald Silverman
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1979, 1990
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Professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College
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Joel B. Snyder
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IEEE president
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Robert J. Stevens
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1985
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Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin
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Admiral Charles F. Stokes
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1880
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Member of the first Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons; Surgeon General of the United States Navy; President Theodore Roosevelt's personal physician
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Jerome Swartz
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1968
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Co-founded Symbol Technologies; professor at Stony Brook University in the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics; professor at NYU-Poly; board member at Stony Brook University and NYU-Poly; trustee at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and at the University of California at San Diego
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Mario Tchou
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Led a group of scientists from the University of Pisa to invent, in 1959, the ELEA 9003, Italy's first computer
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David J. Thomson
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1967, 1971
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Electrical engineer; professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, University of Cambridge, and Queen’s University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Don Torrieri
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1966
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Research engineer; Fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory
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William Tubby
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1875
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Hermann Viets
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1965, 1966, 1970
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President of Milwaukee School of Engineering; Professor of Engineering at Wright State University; professor and Associate Dean for Research at West Virginia University; Dean of Engineering at University of Rhode Island
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Pat Villani
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1976, 1982
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Computer programmer
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Steve Wallach
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1966
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Adviser to Centerpoint Venture partners, Sevin-Rosen, and Interwest; consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos
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Sang Whang
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1956, 1966
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Korean American community leader and politician in Florida
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Robert Anton Wilson
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attended 1952–57
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Author of 35 influential books
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Ronald R. Yager
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1958
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Professor at Pennsylvania State University; Visiting Researcher and scholar at University of California, Berkeley
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Leonard M. Pomata
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Virginia's secretary of technology
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