| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Dan Ariely |
Economist |
29-Apr-1968 |
|
The Upside of Irrationality |
| Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician |
22-Apr-1929 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| David H. Blackwell |
Mathematician |
24-Apr-1919 |
8-Jul-2010 |
Bayesian statistics |
| John Bossy |
Historian |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
Christianity in the West |
| Julian P. Boyd |
Historian |
3-Nov-1903 |
21-May-1980 |
Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52 |
| Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
| Jule Charney |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1917 |
16-Jun-1981 |
Quasi-gesotrophic theory |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
| Mario Draghi |
Business |
3-Sep-1947 |
|
President, European Central Bank |
| Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. |
Government |
28-Oct-1951 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF |
| Abraham Flexner |
Educator |
13-Nov-1866 |
21-Sep-1959 |
The American College |
| Kurt Gödel |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1906 |
14-Jan-1978 |
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
| Vartan Gregorian |
Educator |
8-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Carnegie Corporation |
| David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Erich S. Gruen |
Historian |
7-May-1935 |
|
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic |
| Shirley Hufstedler |
Judge |
24-Aug-1925 |
|
US Secretary of Education, 1979-81 |
| Kiyoshi Ito |
Mathematician |
7-Sep-1915 |
10-Nov-2008 |
Ito Calculus |
| Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
| J. Hans D. Jensen |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1907 |
11-Feb-1973 |
Shell nuclear model |
| Michio Kaku |
Physicist |
24-Jan-1947 |
|
String Theory |
| Helene L. Kaplan |
Attorney |
19-Jun-1933 |
|
Of Counsel, Skadden Arps |
| Paul Kennedy |
Historian |
17-Jun-1945 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
| Marie-Josée Kravis |
Economist |
11-Sep-1949 |
|
President of MoMA |
| Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
| William H. Luers |
Diplomat |
15-May-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1983-86 |
| Jack Matlock |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91 |
| Robert L. Mills |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1927 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Subatomic particles |
| Nathan Myhrvold |
Business |
3-Aug-1959 |
|
CTO of Microsoft, 1996-2000 |
| Yoichiro Nambu |
Physicist |
18-Jan-1921 |
5-Jul-2015 |
Spontaneous broken symmetry |
| Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
| Nancy B. Peretsman |
Business |
27-Mar-1954 |
|
Managing Director, Allen & Company |
| James J. Schiro |
Business |
2-Jan-1946 |
13-Aug-2014 |
CEO of Zurich Financial Services, 2002-09 |
| Ronaldo H. Schmitz |
Business |
30-Oct-1938 |
|
CFO of BASF, 1984-90 |
| William Schreyer |
Business |
13-Jan-1928 |
22-Jan-2011 |
CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92 |
| Nathan Seiberg |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1956 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| James Simons |
Mathematician |
c. 1938 |
|
Renaissance Technologies hedge fund |
| Lee Smolin |
Physicist |
1955 |
|
The Trouble with Physics |
| Paul Starr |
Educator |
12-May-1949 |
|
The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
| Jack Steinberger |
Physicist |
25-May-1921 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
|
German historian |
| Walter W. Stewart |
Economist |
1885 |
Mar-1958 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| Bengt Strömgren |
Astronomer |
21-Jan-1908 |
4-Jul-1987 |
Hydrogen stars |
| Sin-Itiro Tomonaga |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1906 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Marina v.N. Whitman |
Economist |
6-Mar-1935 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 |
| Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
|
Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
| Edward Witten |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1951 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| James Wolfensohn |
Business |
1-Dec-1933 |
|
World Bank president, 1995-2005 |
| Stephen Wolfram |
Mathematician |
29-Aug-1959 |
|
Creator of Mathematica |
| Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
| Chen Ning Yang |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1922 |
|
Particle physicist |
| Mort Zuckerman |
Business |
4-Jun-1937 |
|
Owner, New York Daily News |
