EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Bronx, NY

Founding Date:
1938

Enrollment:
2,700 (2004)

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marshall Berman	Scholar	24-Nov-1940	11-Sep-2013	All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Rose Marie Bravo	Business	13-Jan-1951		CEO of Burberry, 1997-2006
Stokely Carmichael	Activist	29-Jun-1941	15-Nov-1998	Black separatist, Pan-Africanist
Dominic Chianese	Actor	2-Sep-1934		Uncle Junior on The Sopranos
Leon N. Cooper	Physicist	28-Feb-1930		BCS Theory of Superconductivity
Jon Cryer	Actor	16-Apr-1965		Duckie Dale in Pretty in Pink
Bobby Darin	Singer	14-May-1936	20-Dec-1973	Mack the Knife
Samuel R. Delany	Author	1-Apr-1942		Triton
E. L. Doctorow	Novelist	6-Jan-1931	21-Jul-2015	The Book of Daniel
Jon Favreau	Actor	19-Oct-1966		Swingers
Martin Garbus	Attorney	8-Aug-1934		Attorney for Lenny Bruce
Todd Gitlin	Educator	6-Jan-1943		Journalism professor, social critic
Sheldon Glashow	Physicist	5-Dec-1932		Electroweak Theory
Roy J. Glauber	Physicist	1-Sep-1925		Quantum optics
Alan Grayson	Politician	13-Mar-1958		Congressman, Florida 9th
Jeff Greenfield	Pundit	10-Jun-1943		ABC, CNN talking head
Marilyn Hacker	Poet	27-Nov-1942		Presentation Piece
Martin Harwit	Astronomer	9-Mar-1931		Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy
Martin Hellman	Inventor	2-Oct-1945		Public key cryptographer
Sally Hernandez	Attorney	c. 1952		Deputy Mayor of NYC, 1990-92
Ira Michael Heyman	Educator	30-May-1930	19-Nov-2011	Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1980-90
John Hollander	Poet	28-Oct-1929	17-Aug-2013	Powers of Thirteen
Russell A. Hulse	Physicist	28-Nov-1950		Co-Discovered first binary pulsar
Ronald S. Lauder	Business	26-Feb-1944		US Ambassador to Austria, 1986-87
Jeffrey M. Lipton	Business	5-Jul-1942		CEO of NOVA Chemicals, 1998-2009
Nita Lowey	Politician	5-Jul-1937		Congresswoman, New York 18th
Donald Marron	Business	21-Jul-1934		PaineWebber CEO
Dash Mihok	Actor	24-May-1974		Lynn McKennan on Felicity
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927	24-Jan-2016	Father of Artificial Intelligence
Alan J. Pakula	Film Director	7-Apr-1928	19-Nov-1998	All the President's Men
Kevin P. Phillips	Pundit	30-Nov-1940		Political commentator
H. David Politzer	Physicist	31-Aug-1949		Deep structure of matter
Christopher Reid	Rapper	5-Apr-1964		Kid of Kid n' Play
William Safire	Columnist	17-Dec-1929	27-Sep-2009	NYT columnist, language maven
Melvin Schwartz	Physicist	2-Nov-1932	28-Aug-2006	Researcher of neutrinos
Maggie Siff	Actor	21-Jun-1974		Tara Knowles on Sons of Anarchy
Michael I. Sovern	Educator	1-Dec-1931		President of Columbia University, 1980-93
Norman Spinrad	Author	15-Sep-1940		SF author, Little Heroes
William Taubman	Author	13-Nov-1940		Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Neil deGrasse Tyson	Astronomer	5-Oct-1958		Astrophysicist
Steven Weinberg	Physicist	3-May-1933		Electroweak Theory
Dave Winer	Computer Programmer	2-May-1955		Co-Creator of RSS, Scripting News
Boaz Yakin	Screenwriter	20-Jun-1966		Remember the Titans

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