EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1854 as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute.

Location:
Brooklyn, NY

Founding Date:
1854

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Eleanor Baum	Educator	c. 1939		Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union
Vincent A. Calarco	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Crompton Corporation, 1985-2004
Robert W. Chambers	Author	26-May-1865	16-Dec-1933	The King in Yellow
Robert W. Cremin	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Esterline Technologies
Gertrude B. Elion	Scientist	23-Jan-1918	21-Feb-1999	Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Edward A. Frieman	Physicist	19-Jan-1926	11-Apr-2013	Director of Scripps, 1986-96
F. Augustus Heinze	Business	1869	4-Nov-1914	Copper baron, went broke in the Panic of 1907
Herbert L. Henkel	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Ingersoll-Rand
Eugene Kleiner	Business	12-May-1923	20-Nov-2003	Venture capitalist
Arthur C. Martinez	Business	1939		CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1995-2000
Martin L. Perl	Physicist	24-Jun-1927	30-Sep-2014	Discovered the tau lepton
Richard T. Santulli	Business	c. 1944		CEO of NetJets
Robert J. Stevens	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Lockheed Martin
John M. Trani	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Stanley Works, 1996-2003
Harlan Ullman	Columnist	15-Mar-1941		Shock and Awe

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Paul Peter Ewald	Physicist	23-Jan-1888	22-Aug-1985	X-Ray crystallographer
Eugene D. Genovese	Historian	19-May-1930	26-Sep-2012	Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Gordon Gould	Physicist	17-Jul-1920	16-Sep-2005	Invented the laser, arguably
Nicholas J. Hoff	Engineer	3-Jan-1906	4-Aug-1997	Aluminum in aircraft design
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemist	21-Jul-1923		Electron-transfer reactions
Murray Rothbard	Economist	2-Mar-1926	7-Jan-1995	Anarcho-capitalist
Louis Zukofsky	Poet	23-Jan-1904	12-May-1978	Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Vincent A. Calarco	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Crompton Corporation, 1985-2004
Herbert L. Henkel	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Ingersoll-Rand
Richard W. Rahn	Economist	c. 1941		The End of Money

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