EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
La Jolla, CA

Founding Date:
1960

Motto:
Fiat Lux

Enrollment:
22,000

Official Website:
http://www.ucsd.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kathy Acker	Author	18-Apr-1947	30-Nov-1997	Blood and Guts in High School
Bill Atkinson	Computer Programmer	1951		Creator of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint
James Avery	Actor	27-Nov-1948		Philip Banks on Fresh Prince
Gregory Benford	Novelist	30-Jan-1941		Physicist and author of Timescape
Lowell Bergman	Film/TV Producer	24-Jul-1945		Former 60 Minutes producer
Hart Bochner	Actor	3-Oct-1956		Breaking Away
David Brin	Novelist	6-Oct-1950		The Uplift War
Ricardo Chavira	Actor	1-Sep-1971		Desperate Housewives
Angela Davis	Activist	26-Jan-1944		Black Panther, teacher, professor
Myron Ebell	Activist	c. 1953		Global Warming cynic
Raymond E. Feist	Novelist	1945		Riftwar Saga
Aria Giovanni	Pornstar	3-Nov-1977		Softcore vixen, fetish & bondage model
Khaled Hosseini	Novelist	4-Mar-1965		The Kite Runner
Mike Judge	Cartoonist	17-Oct-1962		Beavis and Butthead
Len J. Lauer	Business	c. 1957		EVP at Qualcomm
Kim Stanley Robinson	Novelist	23-Mar-1952		Mars Trilogy
Timothy J. Roemer	Politician	30-Oct-1956		9-11 Commission member
Philip Rosedale	Business	1968		Founder and CEO, Linden Lab
Robert N. Shelton	Educator	1948		President, University of Arizona
Susumu Tonegawa	Scientist	6-Sep-1939		Antibody production and diversity
Benicio Del Toro	Actor	19-Feb-1967		Traffic
Bud Tribble	Business	c. 1953		Apple, NeXT
Craig Venter	Scientist	14-Oct-1946		Sequenced own genome
Vernor Vinge	Author	10-Feb-1944		A Fire Upon The Deep
Alfred W. Zollar	Business	c. 1955		IBM executive, Tivoli Software

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hannes Alfvén	Physicist	30-May-1908	2-Apr-1995	Plasma physicist
David Antin	Artist	1-Feb-1932		Improv artist, talk poet
Edward Bullard	Physicist	21-Sep-1907	3-Apr-1980	Continental drift, magnetic fields
E. Margaret Burbidge	Astronomer	12-Aug-1919		Synthesis of the elements in stars
Geoffrey Burbidge	Astronomer	24-Sep-1925		Quasi-steady state cosmology
Robert C. Dynes	Educator	8-Nov-1942		President, University of California, 2003-08
Robert F. Engle III	Economist	10-Nov-1942		Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Maria Goeppert-Mayer	Physicist	28-Jun-1906	20-Feb-1972	Shell nuclear model
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Clive W.J. Granger	Economist	4-Sep-1934		Granger causality
Robert W. Holley	Scientist	28-Jan-1922	11-Feb-1993	RNA's role in protein synthesis
Irwin M. Jacobs	Business	18-Oct-1933		Co-Founder of Qualcomm
Walter Kohn	Chemist	9-Mar-1923		Density-functional theory
Herbert Marcuse	Philosopher	19-Jul-1898	29-Jul-1979	One-Dimensional Man
Harry M. Markowitz	Economist	24-Aug-1927		Portfolio theory
Quinn Martin	Business	22-May-1922	6-Sep-1987	Quinn Martin Productions
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Stanley Miller	Chemist	7-Mar-1930	20-May-2007	Miller-Urey Experiment
Pauline Oliveros	Musician	2-Jun-1932		Composer, Deep Listener
George E. Palade	Scientist	19-Nov-1912		Microstructure of the cell
Linus Pauling	Chemist	28-Feb-1901	19-Aug-1994	Reformed the science of chemistry
Jef Raskin	Computer Programmer	9-Mar-1943	26-Feb-2005	Designed Macintosh human interface
Eric Reissner	Mathematician	5-Jan-1913	1-Nov-1996	Reissner shear-deformation plate theory
Sally Ride	Astronaut	26-May-1951		First American woman in space
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935		Astrophysicist at CalTech
Richard L. Schmalensee	Economist	1944		Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert C. Dynes	Educator	8-Nov-1942		President, University of California, 2003-08
Marye Anne Fox	Educator	9-Dec-1947		Chancellor, UC San Diego
Jerry Hirshberg	Designer	1939		Nissan's design chief, 1980-2000
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
George E. Palade	Scientist	19-Nov-1912		Microstructure of the cell

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