- 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. - Antonio Gotto
Dr. Gotto has served as National President of the American Heart Association, as a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council, and on the National Diabetes Advisory Board. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2000 Distinguished Alumnus award from Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. - Irene Rosenfeld
Irene Rosenfeld is the 53-year-old CEO of Kraft Foods Inc., having been appointed June 26, 2006. Rosenfeld had spent more than 20 years with Kraft and General Foods before joining Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, in 1994, and rejoining Kraft as president of Kraft Canada in 2000. Rosenfeld left Kraft to become CEO of Frito-Lay in 2004 before returning to Kraft in June 2006. She is currently a trustee of Cornell University, her alma mater. - Eloy Rodriguez
Eloy Rodriguez (born January 7, 1947) is a Mexican-American biochemist. He is the James Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University. He was born in Edinburg, Texas. Collaborating with primatologist Richard Wrangham, Rodriguez introduced the concept of zoopharmacognosy. Rodriguez graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a B.S. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Phytochemistry and Plant Biology in 1975. - Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. - William Sanders
William D. Sanders (born 1941) is an innovative American real estate businessman and developer. In 1968, he founded the real estate firm LaSalle Partners, in El Paso, Texas, and years later, the Security Capital Group (1990) and Verde Realty. Among existing companies that evolved from holdings once associated with Sanders are: ProLogis, Archstone-Smith Trust (a REIT), CarrAmerica Realty and Storage USA. - Edith Jones
Edith Hollan Jones (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1949) is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Jones graduated from Cornell University in 1971. She received her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 1974. She was in private practice in Houston, Texas from 1974 until 1985, working for the firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, where she became the firm's first female partner. She specialized in bankruptcy law. - Edward M. House
Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 - March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, politician and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the honorific title of Colonel House, he had enormous personal influence with President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor until Wilson removed him in 1919. Born to a wealthy Texas landholding family, House was educated in New England prep schools and went on to study at Cornell University in 1877, … - Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith (July 31, 1859 - December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist. - W. E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner (usually known as W.E. Moerner), born 1953, received his B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering and his A.B. in Mathematics from Washington University in 1975 followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1978 and 1982, respectively. W.E. Moerner is the Harry S. Mosher Professor at Stanford University in the Chemistry department, with a courtesy appointment in Applied Physics. - James Duffy
James D. Duffy is a neuropsychiatrist and palliative medicine physician. He received his medical degree in 1979 from the Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine at the University of Rhodesia, and began his residency in South Africa before completing it at Brown University. Duffy is currently Professor of Psychiatry in Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. - Jon Daniels
Jon Daniels (born August 24,1977) is the current general manager (GM) of the U.S. baseball club the Texas Rangers. He is a 1999 graduate of Cornell University, a member of the Ivy League, joining Boston and Yale's Theo Epstein as one of the two youngest GM's in major league baseball. His baseball career began in 2001, when he landed an internship with the Colorado Rockies. - Paul Olum
Paul Olum (August 16 1918-January 19 2001) was an American mathematician and university administrator - Richard H. Price
Richard H. Price is a leading American physicist, well known for his important work in general relativity. Price graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1960, and went on to earn a dual degree in physics and engineering from Cornell University in 1965. He earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from Caltech under the supervision of Kip Thorne. He has spent most of his career at the University of Utah, … - Werner Seligmann
Werner Seligmann (March 30, 1930-November 12, 1998), was an architect, urban designer, and educator. He was born on March 30, 1930 in Germany. His father was a violinist from which Werner derived a life long appreciation for music and the arts in general. He, together with his family, spent the latter part of the Second World War in concentration camps from which his mother and sister never returned. After the war he was reunited with his father, in Holland. - Peter Ostrum
Peter Gardner Ostrum (born November 1, 1957) is a former American child actor who starred as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory". Peter born in Dallas, Texas, USA, but mainly raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland), and was a student at Byron Junior High School (now Shaker Middle School) when he was named to the role. After the film he was offered several movie roles, but turned them down. - Ron Prince
Ron Prince (born September 18, 1969, in Omaha, Nebraska) is the head football coach at Kansas State University. In his first season he was the third-youngest NCAA Division I-Bowl Subdivision head coach in the country, and he is presently one of just six African-American head coaches in the Division I Bowl Subdivision. Prince succeeded Bill Snyder at Kansas State following the 2005 season. In his first season at Kansas State, in 2006, … - Jonathan R. Macey
Jonathan R. Macey is Deputy Dean and Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University, and Professor in the Yale School of Management. Professor Macey is the author of several books including the two-volume treatise, Macey on Corporation Laws , and co-author of two leading casebooks, Corporations: Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies and Banking Law and Regulation . - Christopher Rich
Christopher Rich Wilson (born September 16, 1953 in Dallas, Texas) is an American actor, best known for his roles on "Murphy Brown" (as Miller Redfield) and "Reba" (as Reba's ex-husband, Brock Hart). He first became popular playing the role of Alexander "Sandy" Cory on the daytime drama "Another World" from 1981 to 1985. He starred in the short-lived 1987-1988 series "The Charmings" as Prince Eric Charming, with Caitlin O'Heaney, … - Violet Archer
Violet Archer was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, her family changed their name to Archer. She travelled to New York in the summer of 1942 where she studied with Béla Bartók, "who introduced her to Hungarian folk tunes and to variation technique." In 1962, … - Elliott Waters Montroll
Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - December 3, 1983 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA) was an American scientist and mathematician. He was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1939, with a thesis "Applications of the characteristic value theory of integral equations' in which he applied integral equations to the study of imperfect gases. - M. Travis Lane
Millicent Travis Lane (née Travis is an American-Canadian poet. She was born in San Antonio, Texas, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Cornell University. She was married to Lauriat Lane Jr. (d. 2005), Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The couple emigrated to Canada in 1960 and in 1973 attained Canadian citizenship. - Heinrich Ries
Heinrich Ries, Ph.D. (1871-1951) was an American economic geologist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Columbia University and at the University of Berlin. He was employed principally at Cornell University, initially as an instructor (1898-1902), as an assistant professor (1902-1905), as professor, and as head of the geological department (1915-). Professor Ries made numerous reports on clay published by the United States Geological Survey, … - Robert Roswell Palmer
Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 - June 11, 2002), commonly known as R.R. Palmer, was a distinguished historian of France. He is best known for his work as a history text writer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Palmer accelerated through the public schools, even winning a contest to write a play in Latin. He received his Ph. B.[Bachelor of Philosophy] from the University of Chicago in 1931 and PhD from Cornell University three years later. - George Friedman
Dr. Friedman is the founder and CEO of Stratfor, started in 1996 and now a leader in the field of private intelligence. He is the author of numerous articles and books on national security, warfare and intelligence. His most recent book is "America's Secret War" which was named a Barron's Best Book of 1994. Another book is scheduled to come out in 2009. Dr. Friedman has been featured in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the NY Times Magazine and many other publications. - Alvin Saunders Johnson
Alvin Saunders Johnson, Ph.D. (1874-1971) was an American economist, born near Homer, Neb., educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of Nebraska, the University of Texas, the University of Chicago, Leland Stanford and at Cornell after 1913. He was the founding president of The New School. He was assistant editor of the "Political Science Quarterly" in 1902-06, … - Rene J. Bienvenu
Rene Joseph Bienvenu, Jr. (March 19, 1923 -- January 27, 1983), was an American scientist and academic who wound up his career as the president of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, having served from 1977-1982. Bienvenu was born in Colfax, (pronounced COLL FAX), the seat of rural Grant Parish, to Rene J. Bienvenu, Sr., and the former Corinne Wells. He was educated in the Grant Parish schools. - John G. Alexander
John Grant Alexander (July 16, 1893 - December 18, 1971) was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from Minnesota; born in Texas Valley, Cortland County, New York; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1916; was admitted to the New York bar the same year; moved to Redwood Falls, … - Boris Bittker
Boris I. Bittker (November 28, 1916 - September 8, 2005) was a prominent United States legal academician. A professor at Yale Law School, Bittker was a prolific author, writing many textbooks and over one hundred articles on tax law. Born in Rochester, New York, Bittker attended Cornell University ('38) and Yale Law School ('41). After law school, Bittker clerked for Judge Jerome Frank of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. - Harry Vandiver
Harry Schultz Vandiver was an American mathematician, known for work in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John Lyon and Ida Frances (Everett) Vandiver. He did not complete a formal education, choosing instead to leave school at an early age to work for his father's firm, although he did attend some graduate classes at the University of Pennsylvania in 1904–5. From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the United States Naval Reserve, … - Stephen Hadley
Stephen Hadley , 53, is Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States of America for National Security Affairs. He served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1989 to 1993 and was responsible for defense policy on NATO and Western Europe, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defense, and arms control. He was also active in the negotiations that resulted in the START I and START II treaties. - Bob Zeidman
Bob Zeidman is the president and founder of Zeidman Technologies, a company that develops software tools for hardware/software codesign. He is the author of the books Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs , Verilog Designer's Library , and Introduction to Verilog . Bob holds an MSEE degree from Stanford and a BSEE and BA in physics from Cornell. His e-mail address is bob@zeidman.biz . - Charles Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen , PhD, is pioneer in the development of plant-based vaccines for disease prevention in humans and animals and served as founding director of the Biodesign Institute from January 2001 through May 2003. He was appointed to the Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Endowed Chair at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2000 and as Regents’ Professor in 2004. Dr. Arntzen is charting a new path for making the vaccines of tomorrow. - Marilyn Cane
- Jonas Chartock
Jonas Samuel Chartock is President & CEO of the Charter School Policy Institute. He was hired in January 2005. Upon graduating from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1997, Chartock joined Teach For America and taught fourth grade for three years at General Rosecrans Elementary School in Compton, California. - Harlan James Smith
Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924-October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Paul and Anna McGregor Smith. While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search". From 1943 until the end of World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, performing weather observation. Following the war he attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1949. - Ronald Campbell
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Peter E. Lipsky , M.D., Scientific Director National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health All About Clinical Studies: An Interview - Michael Kim
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