Founded 1861 by William Barton Rogers.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
| F. Duane Ackerman |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of Bellsouth, 1997-2006 |
| Gerald S. Adolph |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Booz Allen Hamilton |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| William O. Albertini |
Business |
29-Jun-1943 |
28-Jun-2008 |
CFO of Bell Atlantic, 1991-97 |
| Buzz Aldrin |
Astronaut |
20-Jan-1930 |
|
Second man on the Moon |
| Anthony J. Alexander |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of FirstEnergy |
| Thad Allen |
Military |
16-Jan-1949 |
|
Commandant, US Coast Guard |
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Maryanne Amacher |
Composer |
25-Feb-1943 |
|
Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) |
| Kofi Annan |
Government |
8-Apr-1938 |
|
Secretary General of the UN, 1997-2006 |
| Pedro Aspe |
Economist |
7-Jul-1950 |
|
Mexican Minister of Finance, 1988-94 |
| Les Aspin |
Politician |
21-Jul-1938 |
21-May-1995 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1993-94 |
| Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
| Horace W. Babcock |
Astronomer |
13-Sep-1912 |
29-Aug-2003 |
Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| Roger Babson |
Economist |
6-Jul-1875 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Founder of Babson College |
| Lawrence S. Bacow |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, Tufts University |
| Martin N. Baily |
Economist |
1945 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 |
| Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
| Jim Bell |
Activist |
6-Apr-1958 |
|
Assassination Politics |
| Jeffrey D. Benjamin |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Apollo Management |
| Warren Bennis |
Educator |
8-Mar-1925 |
|
Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Charles Bickford |
Actor |
1-Jan-1891 |
9-Nov-1967 |
The Song of Bernadette |
| J. A. Blanchard III |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of eFunds, 2000-02 |
| Marc Blank |
Computer Programmer |
1954 |
|
Programmer behind Zork |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Alan S. Blinder |
Economist |
14-Oct-1945 |
|
Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve |
| W. Frank Blount |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Telstra, 1992-99 |
| Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| Bruce R. Bond |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of PictureTel Corporation, 1998-99 |
| Amar Bose |
Inventor |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Inventor of Bose speakers |
| H. Kent Bowen |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor at HBS |
| Albert H. Bowker |
Educator |
8-Sep-1919 |
20-Jan-2008 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80 |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Johns Hopkins University |
| Dylan Bruno |
Actor |
6-Sep-1972 |
|
Colby Granger on Numb3rs |
| Gelett Burgess |
Cartoonist |
30-Jan-1866 |
17-Sep-1951 |
Has never seen a purple cow |
| Peter Camejo |
Activist |
31-Dec-1939 |
|
Persistent Green Party candidate |
| J. Kermit Campbell |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Herman Miller, 1992-95 |
| John W. Campbell |
Editor |
8-Jun-1910 |
11-Jul-1971 |
Editor of Astounding, 1938-71 |
| Robert H. Campbell |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Sunoco, 1991-2000 |
| Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
| Timothy Michael Carney |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Haiti, 1998-99 |
| Daniel A. Carp |
Business |
4-May-1948 |
|
CEO of Kodak, 2001-05 |
| Richard Carrión |
Business |
26-Nov-1952 |
|
CEO of Popular, Inc. |
| Thomas R. Cech |
Chemist |
8-Dec-1947 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Ahmed Chalabi |
Government |
30-Oct-1944 |
|
Prominent on the Iraqi Provisional Council |
| Elaine Chao |
Government |
26-Mar-1953 |
|
US Secretary of Labor |
| Leon Chua |
Scientist |
28-Jun-1936 |
|
Hypothesized the memristor |
| Aaron Ciechanover |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1947 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| Richard A. Clarke |
Government |
1951 |
|
Former US counter-terrorism czar |
| Phillip L. Clay |
Educator |
17-May-1946 |
|
Chancellor, MIT |
| Jared L. Cohon |
Educator |
c. 1947 |
|
President, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Philip M. Condit |
Business |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
CEO of Boeing, 1996-2003 |
| Jill Ker Conway |
Educator |
9-Oct-1934 |
|
President of Smith College, 1975-85 |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| James G. Cullen |
Business |
1942 |
|
President and COO of Bell Atlantic, 1998-2000 |
| Paul J. Curlander |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Lexmark |
| Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
| Earnest W. Deavenport, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Eastman Chemical, 1994-2001 |
| John Deutch |
Government |
27-Jul-1938 |
|
CIA Director, 1995-96 |
| Martin Deutsch |
Physicist |
29-Jun-1917 |
16-Aug-2002 |
Discovered positronium |
| Peter Diamandis |
Activist |
20-May-1961 |
|
Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation |
| Whitfield Diffie |
Scientist |
5-Jun-1944 |
|
Invented public key cryptography |
| Odie C. Donald |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
President of DirecTV, 2000-01 |
| James Doolittle |
Aviator |
14-Dec-1896 |
27-Sep-1993 |
Doolittle Raid against Tokyo in 1942 |
| Mary C. Doswell |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Senior VP at Dominion Resources |
| Lewis W. Douglas |
Politician |
2-Jul-1894 |
7-Mar-1974 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1947-50 |
| K. Eric Drexler |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1955 |
|
Nanotechnology primer Engines of Creation |
| Philip N. Duff |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Front Point Partners |
| Charles Duke |
Astronaut |
3-Oct-1935 |
|
10th to walk on the Moon |
| William Easterly |
Economist |
c. 1957 |
|
The White Man's Burden |
| Richard J. Egan |
Business |
1930 |
|
Co-Founder, EMC Corporation |
| Travis Engen |
Business |
1944 |
|
CEO of Alcan, 2001-06 |
| Kathleen Foley Feldstein |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
Economics Studies, Inc. |
| Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
| John F. Fiedler |
Business |
1938 |
|
CEO of BorgWarner, 1995-2003 |
| Carly Fiorina |
Business |
6-Sep-1954 |
|
CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1999-2005 |
| Andrew Z. Fire |
Scientist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
RNA interference |
| Donald V. Fites |
Business |
1934 |
|
CEO of Caterpillar, 1990-99 |
| Kristin J. Forbes |
Economist |
21-Aug-1970 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| William Clay Ford, Jr. |
Business |
3-May-1957 |
|
CEO of Ford, 2001-06 |
| Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Economist |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 |
| Bob Frankston |
Computer Programmer |
14-Jun-1949 |
|
Programmer of Visicalc |
| John R. Freeman |
Engineer |
27-Jul-1855 |
6-Oct-1932 |
Charles River Dam |
| Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth |
Government |
1957 |
|
FCC Commissioner, 1997-2001 |
| Harvey B. Gantt |
Politician |
14-Jan-1943 |
|
Mayor of Charlotte, 1983-87 |
| Robert S. Gelbard |
Diplomat |
1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1999-2001 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Weak interaction of particles |
| W. H. Krome George |
Business |
27-Mar-1918 |
6-Sep-2004 |
Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, 1975-83 |
| Thomas P. Gerrity |
Business |
13-Jul-1941 |
|
Former Dean, Wharton School |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Terence C. Golden |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Host Marriott, 1995-2000 |
| Stephen M. Goldfeld |
Economist |
9-Aug-1940 |
25-Aug-1995 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 |
| James Goodby |
Diplomat |
20-Dec-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Finland, 1980-81 |
| Shira D. Goodman |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
EVP at Staples |
| Austan Goolsbee |
Economist |
c. 1969 |
|
Obama economics advisor |
| Bruce S. Gordon |
Business |
15-Feb-1946 |
|
President of the NAACP, 2005-07 |
| Ilene S. Gordon |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Alcan Packaging |
| Samuel Goudsmit |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1902 |
4-Dec-1978 |
Conceived idea of Quantum Spin |
| Diane Greene |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Co-Founder, CEO of VMware, 1998-2004 |
| Philip Greenspun |
Computer Programmer |
28-Sep-1963 |
|
ArsDigita, Photo.net |
| Abbie J. Griffin |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Business Professor at UIUC |
| Leslie R. Groves |
Military |
17-Aug-1896 |
13-Jul-1970 |
Director of the Manhattan Project |
| Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory |
| Roger W. Hale |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of LG&E Energy, 1990-2001 |
| Roy W. Haley |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of WESCO International |
| Leland H. Hartwell |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1939 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
| Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| Michael Hawley |
Photographer |
18-Nov-1961 |
|
Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey |
| George T. Haymaker, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Kaiser Aluminum, 1994-99 |
| Richard Haythornthwaite |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Chairman of Mastercard |
| Sandra L. Helton |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CFO of Telephone & Data, 1998-2006 |
| Mayo D. Hersey |
Engineer |
30-Aug-1886 |
5-Sep-1978 |
Tribology |
| Dan Hesse |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Sprint Nextel |
| William Hewlett |
Business |
20-May-1913 |
12-Jan-2001 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
| Danny Hillis |
Business |
25-Sep-1956 |
|
Co-Founder, Thinking Machines |
| David Ho |
Doctor |
3-Nov-1952 |
|
AIDS researcher |
| Outerbridge Horsey |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1910 |
18-Aug-1983 |
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66 |
| Robert B. Horton |
Business |
18-Aug-1939 |
|
CEO of BP, 1989-92 |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| James J. Howard |
Business |
1-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Northern States Power, 1987-2000 |
| Robert T. Huang |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Synnex |
| Vernon W. Hughes |
Physicist |
28-May-1921 |
25-Mar-2003 |
Muons |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Clay Johnson |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
OMB Deputy Director |
| Brewster Kahle |
Business |
1960 |
|
Founder of the Internet Archive |
| William S. Kaiser |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Greylock Partners |
| Paul G. Kaminski |
Military |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Technovation, Inc. |
| Fred Kaplan |
Columnist |
? |
|
Slate columnist |
| Mitch Kapor |
Business |
1950 |
|
Founder of Lotus, Co-founder EFF |
| Marcy Kaptur |
Politician |
17-Jun-1946 |
|
Congresswoman, Ohio 9th |
| Jeffrey G. Katz |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Orbitz, 2000-04 |
| Stephen P. Kaufman |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Arrow Electronics, 1986-2000 |
| Edmund F. Kelly |
Business |
1946 |
|
CEO of Liberty Mutual |
| Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
| Lydia H. Kennard |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Los Angeles World Airports |
| Breene M. Kerr |
Business |
c. 1929 |
|
Kerr Consolidated, Inc. |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Cleve L. Killingsworth |
Business |
5-Jun-1952 |
|
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts |
| Lance Kinsey |
Actor |
13-Jun-1959 |
|
Lt. Proctor in Police Academy films |
| Lawrence R. Klein |
Economist |
14-Sep-1920 |
|
Macroeconometric modeling |
| Marius Kloppers |
Business |
26-Aug-1962 |
|
CEO of BHP Billiton |
| Charles G. Koch |
Philanthropist |
1-Nov-1935 |
|
Conservative philanthropist, Koch heir |
| David H. Koch |
Business |
3-May-1940 |
|
Conservative philanthropist, Koch heir |
| Fred C. Koch |
Business |
23-Sep-1900 |
Nov-1967 |
Founder, Koch Industries |
| Gina Kolata |
Journalist |
25-Feb-1948 |
|
New York Times science writer |
| Kent Kresa |
Business |
24-Mar-1938 |
|
CEO of Northrop Grumman, 1990-2003 |
| Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
| Ray Kurzweil |
Inventor |
12-Feb-1948 |
|
Age of Spiritual Machines |
| Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
| James A. Lash |
Business |
4-May-1944 |
|
Manchester Principal LLC |
| Robert B. Laughlin |
Physicist |
1-Nov-1950 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Joseph LeBaron |
Diplomat |
c. 1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritania |
| Stuart L. Levenick |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Group President, Caterpillar Inc. |
| Steven Levitt |
Economist |
1968 |
|
Freakonomics |
| Judy C. Lewent |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CFO of Merck |
| Drew Lewis |
Government |
3-Nov-1931 |
|
US Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83 |
| Peter W. Likins |
Educator |
1936 |
|
President, University of Arizona, 1997-2006 |
| Edward H. Linde |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Boston Properties |
| Hugh Lofting |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1886 |
26-Sep-1947 |
The Story of Dr. Dolittle |
| Gordon R. Lohman |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Amsted Industries, 1990-99 |
| Edward Lorenz |
Scientist |
23-May-1917 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Chaos theory |
| Gary W. Loveman |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of Harrah's Entertainment |
| Dolph Lundgren |
Actor |
3-Nov-1957 |
|
The Punisher |
| Modesto A. Maidique |
Educator |
20-Mar-1940 |
|
President, Florida International University |
| Julianne Malveaux |
Columnist |
c. 1953 |
|
Pundit |
| Greg Mankiw |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
George W Bush economist |
| Robert W. Mann |
Inventor |
1924 |
16-Jun-2006 |
Prosthetic devices |
| Armen Der Marderosian |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
GTE Government Systems Corp. |
| Hans Mark |
Physicist |
17-Jun-1929 |
|
US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81 |
| Mark McClellan |
Government |
26-Jun-1963 |
|
Medicare Chief |
| William T. McCormick, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of CMS Energy, 1985-2002 |
| Ross McElwee |
Film Director |
1947 |
|
Idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker |
| K. T. McFarland |
Government |
1952 |
|
Former Kissinger staffer |
| James F. McNulty |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
President and CEO, Parsons Corp. |
| Dana G. Mead |
Business |
1936 |
|
Chairman of MIT Corporation |
| Robert Mehrabian |
Business |
31-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Teledyne |
| Montgomery Meigs |
Military |
11-Jan-1945 |
|
Military analyst |
| Steve Meretzky |
Computer Programmer |
1-May-1957 |
|
Leather Goddesses of Phobos |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
|
Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
| Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
| Laurence H. Meyer |
Economist |
8-Mar-1944 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1996-2002 |
| David Miliband |
Politician |
15-Jul-1965 |
|
British Foreign Secretary |
| Robert B. Millard |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Managing Director, Lehman Brothers |
| Frederic S. Mishkin |
Economist |
11-Jan-1951 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
| Edgar Mitchell |
Astronaut |
17-Sep-1930 |
|
6th to walk on the Moon |
| Thomas Gale Moore |
Economist |
6-Nov-1930 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
| Bruce A. Morrison |
Politician |
8-Oct-1944 |
|
Congressman from Connecticut, 1983-91 |
| Alan Mulally |
Business |
4-Aug-1945 |
|
CEO of Ford Motor Company |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Studied molecular structure |
| David W. Mullins |
Business |
28-Apr-1946 |
|
Vice Chairman of the Fed, 1991-94 |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Charles Murray |
Author |
1943 |
|
The Bell Curve |
| Joseph Nacchio |
Business |
22-Jun-1949 |
|
Qwest CEO, convicted of fraud |
| John Nash |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1928 |
|
Nutball math genius |
| Nicholas Negroponte |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Founder, MIT Media Lab |
| Benjamin Netanyahu |
Head of State |
21-Oct-1949 |
|
Prime Minister of Israel, 1996-99 |
| Neil S. Novich |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Ryerson, 2006-07 |
| Robert Noyce |
Inventor |
12-Dec-1927 |
3-Jun-1990 |
Co-Inventor, integrated circuit |
| John Olver |
Politician |
3-Sep-1936 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 1st |
| Bradford W. Parkinson |
Engineer |
16-Feb-1935 |
|
Global Positioning System |
| Charles J. Pedersen |
Chemist |
3-Oct-1904 |
26-Oct-1989 |
Synthesis of crown ethers |
| I. M. Pei |
Architect |
26-Apr-1917 |
|
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid |
| Tom Perkins |
Business |
1932 |
|
Co-Founder, Kleiner-Perkins |
| Peter J. Perrone |
Business |
c. 1968 |
|
VP at Goldman Sachs |
| William D. Phillips |
Physicist |
5-Nov-1948 |
|
Trapped atoms with laser light |
| John W. Poduska |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Founder of Apollo Computer |
| Kenneth Pollack |
Scholar |
1966 |
|
Brookings Institution |
| Robert W. Poole |
Editor |
? |
|
Founder, Reason Foundation |
| John Edward Porter |
Politician |
1-Jun-1935 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1980-2001 |
| John E. Potter |
Government |
1956 |
|
US Postmaster General |
| E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Leslie Rahl |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc. |
| Daniel R. Raichel |
Scientist |
? |
22-Dec-2006 |
Acoustics expert |
| John S. Reed |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000 |
| Henry Regnery |
Activist |
5-Jan-1912 |
18-Jun-1996 |
Regnery Publishing |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Burton Richter |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi particle |
| Donald L. Ritter |
Politician |
21-Oct-1940 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-93 |
| John D. Roach |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Stonegate International |
| Hugh G. Robinson |
Military |
4-Aug-1932 |
|
CEO of Global Building Systems |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Jeffrey A. Rosensweig |
Economist |
c. 1957 |
|
Finance Professor at Emory |
| Rex C. Ross |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former Schlumberger executive |
| Ernesto Sábato |
Novelist |
24-Jun-1911 |
|
Angel of Darkness |
| Arthur J. Samberg |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Pequot Capital Management |
| J. Phillip Samper |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Gabriel Venture Partners |
| Francis W. Sargent |
Politician |
29-Jul-1915 |
21-Oct-1998 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1969-75 |
| AnnaLee Saxenian |
Scholar |
c. 1954 |
|
Information technologist |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Tom Scholz |
Musician |
10-Mar-1947 |
|
Founder and songwriter behind Boston |
| Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Gerhard Schulmeyer |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Siemens US, 1999-2001 |
| Mark A. Schulz |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Former Ford International EVP |
| Rusty Schweickart |
Astronaut |
25-Oct-1935 |
|
Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| David Scott |
Astronaut |
6-Jun-1932 |
|
Commander, Apollo 15 |
| Robert F. Seedlock |
Military |
6-Feb-1913 |
5-May-2004 |
Built the Burma Road in WWII |
| Oren G. Shaffer |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Vice Chairman and CFO of Qwest, 2002-07 |
| Adi Shamir |
Mathematician |
1952 |
|
The S in RSA |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Willy C. Shih |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
VP at Kodak, 1997-2005 |
| Robert Shiller |
Economist |
1946 |
|
Irrational Exuberance |
| Jon A. Shirley |
Business |
1938 |
|
President and COO of Microsoft, 1983-90 |
| William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
| William Shurcliff |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1909 |
20-Jun-2006 |
Manhattan Project physicist |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Matthew J. Slaughter |
Economist |
c. 1968 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
| Alfred P. Sloan |
Business |
23-May-1875 |
17-Feb-1966 |
Chairman of GM, 1937-56 |
| George F. Smoot |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1945 |
|
Big bang |
| Richard H. Solomon |
Diplomat |
1937 |
|
US Ambassador to the Philippines, 1992-93 |
| Alan Spoon |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
President of Washington Post Co., 1991-2000 |
| Pete Stark |
Politician |
11-Nov-1931 |
|
Congressman, California 13th |
| Chauncey Starr |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1912 |
17-Apr-2007 |
Electric Power Research Institute |
| Stanley Steinberg |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
Navigant Capital Advisors |
| William R. Stensrud |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Muze, Inc. |
| Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| Theresa M. Stone |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Treasurer of MIT |
| Roscoe S. Suddarth |
Diplomat |
1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Jordan, 1987-90 |
| Louis Sullivan |
Architect |
3-Sep-1856 |
14-Apr-1924 |
Early skyscraper architect |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| John E. Sununu |
Politician |
10-Sep-1964 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire |
| John H. Sununu |
Government |
2-Jul-1939 |
|
George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff |
| Ivan Sutherland |
Engineer |
16-May-1938 |
|
Father of computer graphics |
| Lip-Bu Tan |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Walden International |
| Andrew Tanenbaum |
Computer Programmer |
1944 |
|
Creator of Minix |
| Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
| John A. Thain |
Business |
26-May-1955 |
|
CEO of Merrill Lynch |
| E. Donnall Thomas |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1920 |
|
Bone marrow transplants |
| John W. Thompson |
Business |
24-Apr-1949 |
|
CEO of Symantec |
| Lee T. Todd, Jr. |
Educator |
6-May-1946 |
|
President, University of Kentucky |
| Thomas W. Traylor |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Traylor Bros. |
| Martin Trust |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of MAST Industries, 1970-2001 |
| Ronald L. Turner |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Ceridian, 2000-06 |
| Laura D. Tyson |
Economist |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Dean of London Business School |
| George Uhlenbeck |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1900 |
31-Oct-1988 |
Conceived idea of Quantum Spin |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Gabriele Veneziano |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1942 |
|
Father of string theory |
| Hans von Spakovsky |
Government |
11-Mar-1959 |
|
FEC Commissioner |
| William E. Wade, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
President of ARCO, 1998-2000 |
| Kenneth Whipple |
Business |
1934 |
|
Retired Ford Motor executive |
| Ronald A. Williams |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Aetna |
| Terry Winograd |
Scientist |
24-Feb-1946 |
|
Understanding Natural Language |
| Robert H. Winters |
Politician |
18-Aug-1910 |
10-Oct-1969 |
Canadian Minister of Trade, 1966-68 |
| Howard Wolpe |
Government |
2-Nov-1939 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1979-83 |
| Jerry M. Woodall |
Inventor |
c. 1938 |
|
Inventor of the red LED |
| James Woods |
Actor |
18-Apr-1947 |
|
Casino, Any Given Sunday |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President and CEO, San Francisco Fed |
| Jerry York |
Business |
1938 |
|
CFO of IBM, 1993-95 |
| A. Thomas Young |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Martin Marietta, 1990-95 |
| Zap Zlatoper |
Military |
c. 1941 |
|
US Navy Admiral (ret.) |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator pioneer |
| C. Michael Armstrong |
Business |
18-Oct-1938 |
|
CEO of Comcast, 2002-04 |
| Lawrence S. Bacow |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, Tufts University |
| Martin N. Baily |
Economist |
1945 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1995-96, 1999-2001 |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Robert J. Birgeneau |
Educator |
1942 |
|
Chancellor, UC Berkeley |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
Poet |
8-Feb-1911 |
6-Oct-1979 |
North & South |
| Rebecca M. Blank |
Economist |
19-Sep-1955 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1998-99 |
| Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| Amar Bose |
Inventor |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Inventor of Bose speakers |
| H. Kent Bowen |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Baker Foundation Professor at HBS |
| Rodney Brooks |
Scientist |
30-Dec-1954 |
|
Robotics researcher, director of MIT CS and AI Lab |
| Robert A. Brown |
Educator |
22-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Boston University |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Started the National Science Foundation |
| Claude R. Canizares |
Physicist |
1945 |
|
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics |
| Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
| Alfred Chandler |
Historian |
15-Sep-1918 |
9-May-2007 |
Business historian |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Phillip L. Clay |
Educator |
17-May-1946 |
|
Chancellor, MIT |
| John F. Collins |
Politician |
1919 |
23-Nov-1995 |
Mayor of Boston, 1960-68 |
| Samuel C. Collins |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1898 |
19-Jun-1984 |
Collins-type cryocooler |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Anita Desai |
Novelist |
24-Jun-1937 |
|
Cry, the Peacock |
| John Deutch |
Government |
27-Jul-1938 |
|
CIA Director, 1995-96 |
| Martin Deutsch |
Physicist |
29-Jun-1917 |
16-Aug-2002 |
Discovered positronium |
| Robert H. Dicke |
Physicist |
6-May-1916 |
4-Mar-1997 |
Dicke radiometer |
| Joel Dorius |
Educator |
4-Jan-1919 |
14-Feb-2006 |
Professor fired for gay porn arrest |
| James S. Duesenberry |
Economist |
18-Jul-1918 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1966-68 |
| Charles William Eliot |
Educator |
20-Mar-1834 |
22-Aug-1926 |
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 |
| Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Kristin J. Forbes |
Economist |
21-Aug-1970 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2003-05 |
| Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| Thomas P. Gerrity |
Business |
13-Jul-1941 |
|
Former Dean, Wharton School |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Philip Greenspun |
Computer Programmer |
28-Sep-1963 |
|
ArsDigita, Photo.net |
| Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory |
| David M. Halperin |
Scholar |
2-Apr-1952 |
|
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality |
| George Russell Harrison |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1898 |
27-Jul-1979 |
Echelle spectrograph |
| Jerry A. Hausman |
Economist |
5-May-1946 |
|
Hausman Specification Test |
| Michael Hawley |
Photographer |
18-Nov-1961 |
|
Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey |
| Martin Hellman |
Scientist |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| Mayo D. Hersey |
Engineer |
30-Aug-1886 |
5-Sep-1978 |
Tribology |
| Raymond Hide |
Geologist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, MIT |
| Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Hendrik S. Houthakker |
Economist |
31-Dec-1924 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1969-71 |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Louis Kahn |
Architect |
20-Feb-1901 |
17-Mar-1974 |
Prominent architect |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Charles F. Kane |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
President of One Laptop Per Child |
| Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
| Arthur E. Kennelly |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1861 |
18-Jun-1939 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| H. Gobind Khorana |
Scientist |
9-Jan-1922 |
|
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Paul Krugman |
Columnist |
28-Feb-1953 |
|
New York Times columnist/economist |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
| Tom Lehrer |
Comic |
9-Apr-1928 |
|
Comedic songwriter |
| Kurt Lewin |
Psychologist |
9-Sep-1890 |
12-Feb-1947 |
Field theorist, group dynamicist |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
| Edward Lorenz |
Scientist |
23-May-1917 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Chaos theory |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Demonstrated natural selection in bacteria |
| Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
| Terrence Malick |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1943 |
|
Publicity-shy director of Badlands |
| Robert W. Mann |
Inventor |
1924 |
16-Jun-2006 |
Prosthetic devices |
| Hans Mark |
Physicist |
17-Jun-1929 |
|
US Air Force Secretary, 1979-81 |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
|
Created LISP programming language |
| Daniel L. McFadden |
Economist |
29-Jul-1937 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Robert Mehrabian |
Business |
31-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Teledyne |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
|
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| James A. Mirrlees |
Economist |
5-Jul-1936 |
|
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Ernest J. Moniz |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Professor of Physics, MIT |
| Nicholas Negroponte |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Founder, MIT Media Lab |
| Seymour Papert |
Computer Programmer |
1-Mar-1928 |
|
Programming language LOGO |
| Elizabeth Paté-Cornell |
Educator |
17-Aug-1948 |
|
Risk analysis expert, Stanford professor |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| Jean Piccard |
Aviator |
28-Jan-1884 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Extreme balloonist |
| Edward Charles Pickering |
Astronomer |
19-Jul-1846 |
3-Feb-1919 |
Photometer inventor and surveyor |
| Steven Pinker |
Linguist |
18-Sep-1954 |
|
The Language Instinct |
| Hilary Putnam |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Philosophy of Mind |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Ron Rivest |
Computer Programmer |
1947 |
|
The R in RSA |
| Stephen A. Ross |
Economist |
c. 1943 |
|
Professor of Financial Economics, MIT |
| Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
| Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
|
1970 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Richard L. Schmalensee |
Economist |
1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
| Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
| Gerhard Schulmeyer |
Business |
1938 |
|
President of Siemens US, 1999-2001 |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Phillip A. Sharp |
Biologist |
6-Jun-1944 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Clifford G. Shull |
Physicist |
23-Sep-1915 |
31-Mar-2001 |
Neutron scattering |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1924 |
|
Theory of economic growth |
| H. Guyford Stever |
Educator |
24-Oct-1916 |
|
President of CMU, 1965-72 |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| Elihu Thomson |
Inventor |
29-Mar-1853 |
13-Mar-1937 |
Electric welding and A/C motors |
| Lester Thurow |
Economist |
7-May-1938 |
|
Sloan School of Management |
| Samuel C. C. Ting |
Physicist |
27-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi particle |
| Susumu Tonegawa |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1939 |
|
Antibody production and diversity |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
|
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Victor Weisskopf |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1908 |
21-Apr-2002 |
Head of CERN, 1961-65 |
| Joseph Weizenbaum |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jan-1923 |
5-Mar-2008 |
ELIZA |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
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