- Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) for combining electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force.
- Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. Her books of poetry include "Going Back to the River" (1990), "Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons" (1986), and "Presentation Piece" (1975), which won the National Book Award.
- H. David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, …
- Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic.
- Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. He grew up in New York City in the Great Depression and went to the Bronx High School of Science. His interest in physics began there at the age of 12.
- Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959).
- Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories of machine learning. He sees this as a crisis point in a time of an aging population that he feels will need help in performing many tasks. "We have a computer program that can beat a world chess champion, but we don’t have one that can reach for an umbrella on a rainy day, or put a pillow in a pillow case."
- E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Laurence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. Although he had written books for years, it was not until the publication of "The Book of Daniel" in 1971 that he obtained acclaim. His next book, "Ragtime", was a commercial and critical success. As of 2006, he held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University.
- Jon Cryer
Jon Cryer (born on April 16, 1965 in New York, NY), is an American actor, writer and producer. He is currently starring in the CBS comedy series "Two and a Half Men" with Charlie Sheen. In July 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the series. He is the son of Gretchen Cryer and David Cryer, and has two sisters, Robin and Shelley. He is a 1983 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.
- Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
- Roy J. Glauber
Roy Jay Glauber is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New York City, he was awarded one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence", with the other half shared by John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch.
- Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman, FRSC (b. 1942) directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structure, as manifested in social networks in communities and organizations. His overarching interest is in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to "networked individualism". He has written more than 300 articles, chapters, reports and books.
- Martin Peretz
As editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine since 1974, Martin Peretz is among the most influential journalists in America. His articles in the magazine, as well as his editorial stewardship, have helped frame the terms for public debate in the U.S., not to mention the public perception of Israel and of Jewish life.
- Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. He is widely respected for being a multi-talented, versatile performer who conquered many music genres, including folk, country, pop, and jazz. He was also an award-winning actor, songwriter and music business entrepreneur.
- Sheldon Lee Glashow
Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932, Brookline, MA) is an American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University. Around 1960 Glashow put forward an initial theory of electroweak interactions, which Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam later developed. For this work the three won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. Also, in collaboration with John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, Glashow predicted the charm quark.
- Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libsekind's architectural designs are endless juxtapositions. They honor the historical yet are unapologetically modern. Some view his work, such as the spiral addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as controversial - while others view it as a brilliant representation of modern-day architecture in all its glory. His work harmoniously combines materials, shapes, and structure in a way most thought impossible, improbable, and many would even say, questionable.
- Gregory Chaitin
Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a new incompleteness theorem similar in spirit to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and City College of New York, where he first developed his theorem while still in his teens.
- William Safire
William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He is perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for "The New York Times" and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the "New York Times Magazine", a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.
- Bruce Ames
Bruce Ames (born December 16, 1928), is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is the inventor of the Ames test, a system for easily and cheaply testing the mutagenicity of compounds. His research focuses on cancer and aging and he has authored over 500 scientific publications.
- Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 - August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
- Richard Price
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949 in the Bronx, New York) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His books explore the urban world in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. A self-described "middle class Jewish kid", Price grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, has a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and an MFA from Columbia.
- Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he earned a Master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969, all in electrical engineering.
- Russell Alan Hulse
Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". He was a specialist in the pulsar studies and gravitational waves.
- Michael Kay
Michael Kay (born February 2, 1961) is the main play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees, host of "Centerstage" on the YES Network and the host of "The Michael Kay Show" on WEPN.
- Robert Price
Robert Price is an American attorney, investment banker and corporate executive. He was appointed to New York State's Commission of Investigation in 2001. He founded Price Communications in 1981, a media company owning television and radio stations, a cellular telephone system, and the New York Law Journal. Born in the Bronx, Price is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Columbia Law School. He served as Law Clerk to United States District Court Archie Dawson, …
- Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author. Norman Spinrad, born in New York City, is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, and now lives in Paris. He married fellow novelist N. Lee Wood in 1990; they divorced in 2005. They had no children.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. October 5, 1958 in New York City) is an African American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
- Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity, work he did in his 20s. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him. He is a professor at Brown University. Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a B.A. in 1951, …
- Nita Lowey
Nita M. Lowey (born July 5, 1937) is a politician from the U.S. state of New York. Lowey was born Nita Sue Melnikoff in New York, New York and she graduated from Mount Holyoke College. She was first elected to the House of Representatives from the New York 20th district as a Democrat in 1988 and now serving in the 18th district (map).
- Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born 1947) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. Her works include: * "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" (1995) - the genius in question was John Harrison, …
- Jon Favreau
Jonathan K. Favreau (born on October 19, 1966) is an American actor and director.
- Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science; he received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, …
- Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations.
- Leonard Kleinrock
Kleinrock, Leonard Based on his Ph.D. work at MIT on computer networking, Kleinrock was asked to join ARPA to work on a unified network in response to Sputnik. Kleinrock's work with ARPA led directly to the creation of the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet), and UCLA, where Kleinrock had been a professor since 1963, was the first node to join the ARPANET. Kleinrock is currently a professor of computer science at UCLA and is chairman and founder of Nomadix.
- Kevin Phillips
Kevin Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a Republican Party strategist, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its harshest critics. He is a regular contributor to the "Los Angeles Times" and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS' "NOW with Bill Moyers".
- Ronald Lauder
Ronald Steven Lauder (born February 26 1944 in New York City) is an American businessman, civic leader, philanthropist, and art collector. Forbes lists Lauder among the richest people of the world with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion in 2007.
- Michael I. Sovern
Michael Ira Sovern (born December 1, 1931) was the 17th president of Columbia University. He is currently the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Sovern was born in the Bronx, three blocks from Yankee Stadium to a dress salesman father and bookkeeper mother. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1949, "summa cum laude" from Columbia College in 1953, and first in his class at Columbia Law School in 1955.
- Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born c. 1966) is an American environmental advocate and artist. She is focused on revitalization of her home borough of the Bronx, NY and currently works as the Executive Director/Founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSB).
- Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin (New York) is a professor of Journalism and Sociology at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A contributor to Mother Jones, The Nation and other publications, he is one of America's leading cultural critics. Among his many books are The Whole World is Watching; Inside Prime Time; and Media Unlimited.
- Carl Bialik
Carl Bialik is an American journalist, best known for his work for The Wall Street Journal's Web site, and the paper itself. He is also a co-founder of the growing online-only Gelf Magazine. At WSJ.com, Bialik is the creator and writer of the weekly Numbers Guy column, about the use and (particularly) misuse of numbers and stastics in the news and advocacy. It launched in early 2005.