CITY

Population:
29287 (2000 census)

County:
Tompkins County

NEWSPAPERS

Newspaper
The Ithaca Journal

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Ithaca College	1892
Cornell Law School	1887
Cornell University	1865

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tim DeKay	Actor	12-Jun-1963		Carniv�le
George Dyson	Author	1953		Darwin Among the Machines
R. T. French	Business	15-Nov-1828	17-Jun-1893	Yellow mustard
Patrick W. Gross	Business	15-May-1944		Co-Founder, American Management Systems
Alex Haley	Novelist	11-Aug-1921	10-Feb-1992	Roots
Jim Marshall	Politician	31-Mar-1948		Congressman from Georgia, 2003-11
David Foster Wallace	Novelist	21-Feb-1962	12-Sep-2008	Infinite Jest

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
M. H. Abrams	Author	23-Jul-1912	21-Apr-2015	The Mirror and the Lamp
A. R. Ammons	Poet	18-Feb-1926	25-Feb-2001	Sphere
Carl Becker	Historian	7-Sep-1873	10-Apr-1945	Everyman His Own Historian
Hans Bethe	Physicist	2-Jul-1906	6-Mar-2005	Atomic scientist
Ezra Cornell	Business	11-Jan-1807	9-Dec-1874	Founder of Cornell University
Peter Debye	Physicist	24-Mar-1884	2-Nov-1966	Studied molecular structure, dipoles
Paul Peter Ewald	Physicist	23-Jan-1888	22-Aug-1985	X-Ray crystallographer
Thomas Gold	Scientist	22-May-1920	22-Jun-2004	Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel
Bill Gordon	Astronomer	8-Jan-1918	16-Feb-2010	Designed Arecibo radio telescope
Robert C. Richardson	Physicist	26-Jun-1937	19-Feb-2013	Superfluidity of helium-3
Clinton Rossiter	Historian	18-Sep-1917	11-Jul-1970	Constitutional Dictatorship
Edwin E. Salpeter	Astronomer	3-Dec-1924	26-Nov-2008	Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography
William Strunk	Author	1-Jul-1869	26-Sep-1946	Elements of Style
Edward Titchener	Psychologist	11-Jan-1867	3-Aug-1927	Structural psychology

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