- Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta (Swallow) Richards (December 3, 1842 - March 30, 1911) was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its first female instructor, the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry.
- Mark S. Wrighton
Mark Stephen Wrighton Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis Mark S. Wrighton , Ph.D., was elected the 14 th Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis in 1995, and serves as its chief executive officer. In the years following his appointment, the University has made significant progress in student quality, campus improvements, resource development, curriculum, and international reputation.
- Ali Babacan
Ali Babacan (born 1967 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish politician. He is currently State Minister for Economy in the 58th cabinet from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which came to power in November 2002. On May 24, 2005, he was appointed Turkey's chief negotiator in accession talks with the European Union. Babacan graduated from the TED Ankara College ranking first among the class of 1985. He attended the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and, …
- Gary Richardson
Gary Richardson was born February 5, 1941, in Caddo, Oklahoma (located in Bryan County, Oklahoma) and is an American lawyer who practices law in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Presently, he is employed by the Richardson Law Firm, P.C. Richardson attended College at Southern Nazarene University (located in Bethany, Oklahoma) and was graduated with a B.S. degree in 1963. He also attended the South Texas College of Law and earned his J.D. in 1972.
- David Berning
David W. Berning was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1951. He received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1973. In 1974, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST), in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Much of his career has focused on semiconductor device reliability, first using laser-scanning techniques to probe active devices, …
- Barney Ewell
Harold Norwood "Barney" Ewell (February 25, 1918 - April 4, 1996) was an American athlete, winner of one gold and two silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born into poverty in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Barney Ewell was one of the world's leading sprinters of the 1940s. Mr. Ewell attended J. Piersol McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. McCaskey High School honored Mr. Ewell by dedicating their stadium in his name.
- Lloyd A. Karmeier
Lloyd A. Karmeier (born January 12, 1940) is a Justice on the State Supreme Court of Illinois. Lloyd A. Karmeier was born in rural Washington County, Illinois on January 12, 1940 where he attended a one room grade school and graduated as valedictorian in 1958 from Okawville Community High School. He received both his B.S degree in 1962 and his J.D degree in 1964 from the University of Illinois. He and his wife, Mary, reside in Nashville, …
- Judith Meierhenry
Judith Meirhenry (January 20, 1944 -) is an associate justice and the first woman to serve on the South Dakota Supreme Court. Meierhenry attended the University of South Dakota, receiving her Bachelor of Science in 1966, her Master's degree 1968, and her Juris Doctor in 1977. She lived in Vermillion, South Dakota and practiced law there. In 1979 South Dakota Governor Bill Janklow appointed her to serve in the State Economic Opportunity Office.
- Jacob Wolfowitz
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 - July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910, he emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1920.
- Warren E. Hearnes
Warren Eastman Hearnes (born July 24, 1923) is an American politician who was Governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1973. He was the first Missouri Governor eligible to serve two consecutive four year terms. He is a Democrat. He is married to Betty C. Hearnes, a former Missouri State Representative who was the Democratic Party nominee for Governor in 1988. Born in Moline, Illinois, Hearnes moved to Charleston, Missouri as a child. He still resides there.
- Harriette Simpson Arnow
Harriette Arnow was a U.S. novelist, claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself was never a simple hill woman. She loved cities and spent crucial periods of her life in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. She was born Harriette Simpson in Wayne County, Kentucky, and grew up in neighboring Pulaski County.
- Carl Otto Lampland
Carl Otto Lampland (December 29 1873 - December 14 1951) was an American astronomer. He earned a degree at Indiana University and then went to Lowell Observatory in 1902. He designed cameras used for astronomy and also designed and maintained telescopes, including resilvering the mirror of the 40-inch telescope. He also constructed thermocouples and used them to measure temperatures of planets.
- Albert George Wilson
Albert George Wilson (born July 28 1918) is an American astronomer. He was born in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1947; his thesis title was "Axially Symmetric Thermal Stresses in a Semi-Infinite Solid". In 1949 he accepted a job at Palomar Observatory, and led the Palomar Sky Survey. In 1953 he became assistant director of Lowell Observatory, and served as director from 1954 to 1957.
- Guido Calabresi
Judge Calabresi was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July 1994, and entered into duty on September 16, 1994. Prior to his appointment, he was Dean and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, where he began teaching in 1959, and is now Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law. Judge Calabresi received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude , from Yale College in 1953, a B.A. degree with First Class Honors from Magdalene College, Oxford University, in 1955, an LL.B.
- Irwin M. Jacobs
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs , Founder and Chairman of Qualcomm Inc. USA is visiting Amity Campus on thursday, 8th January 2004 to receive the Platinum Award for Technology Innovation. Dr. Jacobs has made a $ 3 Billion Telecom Empire and holds many patents which are part of Qualcomms extensive portfolio of more than 2,300 US patents. Amity Institute of Telecom Technology is the partner of Qualcomm Inc to impart CDMA training in India .
- Arthur C. Vailas
Dr. Arthur Vailas is vice chancellor and vice president for research and intellectual property management for the University of Houston System and the University of Houston (UH). He joined UH in 1995 as vice president for research and vice provost for graduate studies, and professor and distinguished chair in biology and biochemistry.
- Joy Laskar
- Lois R. Finkelstein
Lois R. Finkelstein , Lois R. Finkelstein , an experienced litigator, is a frequent lecturer on family law and in particular on issues involving child custody and child custody litigation. Ms. Finkelstein teaches Continuing Legal Education courses for the Family Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar. She has been selected as a voting delegate for the Annual Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia.
- Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
- Pam Iorio
Pam Iorio , 49, is the mayor of Tampa, the nation's 55th largest city. Sworn into office for a second four-year term on April 1, 2007, Mayor Iorio has established six strategic goals to guide Tampa throughout this decade.
- Ernie Fletcher
Governor Ernie Fletcher has led a remarkable life - as an Air Force fighter pilot, engineer, family doctor, lay minister, state legislator, and United States Congressman. He was born in Mt. Sterling and is a longtime resident of Lexington. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering in 1974 and later graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
- Sam Farr
Sam Farr was born in San Francisco and lives in Carmel. His father, Frederick Sharon Farr , was a state senator and environmentalist whose legislation established California's first scenic highway system. After graduating from Willamette University with a bachelor's in biology in 1963, Farr spent two years with the Peace Corps in Colombia. Farr later attended the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the University of Santa Clara.
- George Wald
George Wald(November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.
- Henry F. Schaefer III
Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.
- Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason co-founded XCOR in September 1999 and serves as its President. XCOR is a privately held company located in Mojave, California that provides rocket engines and rocket vehicles to cost-sensitive government and private markets. XCOR has developed several generations of long-life, highly reusable rocket engines, a low cost piston pump for rocket propellants, and a manned reusable rocket aircraft, the EZ-Rocket, which has flown nineteen times without mishap.
- Judith Estrin
Judy Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American business, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She started her career as a 21-year old researcher in the lab that created the underlying technology for the Internet, co-founded several successful companies, pioneered the computer networking industry, and served as chief technology officer of networking giant Cisco.
- David Ho
David Da-i Ho (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.
- Ramu Yalamanchi
Ramu Yalamanchi is an American entrepreneur. He founded the social networking web site hi5 and is its CEO. During college, Ramu was a partner at SponsorNet New Media. Ramu received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Edwin A. Fleishman
Edwin A. Fleishman (born March 10 1927) is an American psychologist best known for devising a taxonomy for describing individual differences in perceptual-motor performance. He graduated Loyola College in Maryland in 1945, then served in the United States Navy. He earned his doctorate in applied psychology in 1951 from Ohio State University, then took a position with the United States Air Force. He was the President of Advanced Research Resources Organization (ARRO).
- Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1898. In his younger days, he was noted more for his athletic prowess rather than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn good grades in every subject, except for spelling. He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track meet in 1906. That year he also set a state record for high jump in Illinois.
- Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen
Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen (born January 23, 1965) is a Norwegian business leader, living in England. Since 1996 he has served as director of Stolt-Nielsen S.A., a trans-national seafood company, and since 2000 he has been the company's chief executive officer, taking over after his father, Jacob Stolt-Nielsen. He has a BS degree in Business and Finance from Hofstra University in 1990.
- M. M. Ayoub
Dr. M.M. Ayoub is a retired P.W. Horn Professor of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is a pioneer in the field of ergonomics, specifically relating to the application of mechanics to manual material handling. Dr. Ayoub holds a BS degree in Aeronautical Engineering which he earned at the University of Cairo, graduating in 1953. His MS (1955) and PhD (1964) are in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa. Dr.
- Tunç Erem
Tunç Erem (1938) is a Turkish academic in international marketing and international trade and strategic management. Erem was born in İstanbul in 1938. After finishing Robert College High School in İstanbul, he graduated from the College of Business Administration of Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1962 with a BS degree. He received his doctorate from the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences in 1968.
- Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, …
- Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox was named the seventh Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998.
- Bill Bergey
William Earl Bergey (born February 9 1945) is a former professional American football player for the Cincinnati Bengals and the Philadelphia Eagles. Bill Bergey was born in South Dayton, New York in 1945. Bergey graduated from Arkansas State University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education. He was an All-American with the Arkansas State Indians and has been voted by fans the Top Player in Arkansas State history.
- Edgar Camargo
Dr. Edgar Camargo Dr. Edgar Camargo is a board certified physician in internal medicine who practices in Manhattan and Forest Hills, New York. He has been providing professional and compassionate primary care for many years. Dr. Camargo graduated from Hunter College with a B.S. degree and earned his Doctorate of Medicine from SUNY College of Medicine at Syracuse.
- Beverly Kuykendall
Beverly Kuykendall , Corporate Membership Consultant As Corporate Membership Consultant for NaVOBA, Beverly Kuykendall vehemently promotes the use of veteran-owned suppliers to large corporations. Beverly comes with extensive supplier diversity experience. Much of her time is spent in Washington DC, where she meets with members of Congress, presidential appointees and the Small Business Administration on behalf of small veteran, women and minority-owned businesses.
- James Breyer
Jim is currently on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (WMT), where he is the Lead / Presiding Independent Director, and Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Finance Committee. He also serves on the board of Marvel Entertainment (MVL), RealNetworks (RNWK...
- Anonymous Spocker
Carl Showalter is a founding partner of Opus Capital investing in Internet and data communications startups. Previously, Carl was a General Partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners.