- Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - David J. Skorton
David J. Skorton became Cornell University's 12th president on July 1, 2006 and was formally inaugurated in ceremonies on Cornell's Ithaca campus on September 7, 2006. President Skorton holds faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering on Cornell's Ithaca campus. Cornell University President David J. Skorton - Ratan Naval Tata
"One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India - best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India..." Ratan Tata - Thomas Gold
Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was an Austrian astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, and geophysics. - Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", … - Franklin W. Olin
Franklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation. He was born in Woodford, Vermont into a modest family; his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons. After graduating with the class of 1886, he worked in several jobs before founding a blasting powder mill construction business; his first opened in East Alton, … - David Gries
David Gries (born 26 April 1939 in Flushing, Queens, New York) is a computer scientist at Cornell University. He is currently Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering. His research interests include programming methodology and related areas such as programming languages, programming language semantics, and logic. He has devoted much of his academic life to teaching these topics to undergraduate students. - Justin Rattner
Justin Rattner , 59, is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). He is also an Intel Senior Fellow and head of the Corporate Technology Group. In the latter role, he directs Intel's global research efforts in microprocessors, systems, and communications including the company's disruptive research activity. In 1989, Rattner was named Scientist of the Year by R&D Magazine for his leadership in parallel and distributed computer architecture. - Livingston Farrand
Livingston Farrand, M.D., LL.D. (June 14, 1867 - November 8, 1939) was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and academic administrator. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received in undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D.. He attended the universities of Cambridge and Berlin. - Paul McEuen
Paul McEuen (born 1963 in Oklahoma) is an American physicist. He received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma (1985), and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Yale University (1991). After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990-1991), he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to Cornell University in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of Physics. He is one of the world experts on carbon nanotubes. - 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 . - James A. Perkins
James A. Perkins (1911-1998) was the seventh president of Cornell University. Born in 1911 in Philadelphia, Perkins graduated with high honors in 1934 from Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University in 1937. - Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering. Levoy first studied computer graphics as an architecture student under Donald Greenberg at Cornell University. He received his B.Arch. in 1976 and M.S. in Architecture in 1978. He developed a 2D computer animation system as part of his studies, … - Tom Kelly
Thomas Joseph Kelly (1932 - March 23, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer. Thomas J. Kelly graduated from Cornell University in 1951, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. Kelly was the Project Engineer, Engineering Manager and Deputy Program Manager for Grumman Aircraft's Apollo Lunar Module (1962-1970). His book "Moon Lander" documents the process of designing, building and flying the Lunar Module. - Willis Carrier
Willis Haviland Carrier was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented modern air conditioning. - Edmund Ezra Day
Edmund Ezra Day (December 7, 1883-March 23, 1951) was a U.S. educator. Day received his undergraduate and masters degree from Dartmouth College and his doctorate in economics from Harvard. He went on to serve as the fifth president of Cornell University from 1937 to 1949. While in office, he helped establish School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell. The administrative building at Cornell, Day Hall, is named after Edmund Ezra Day. - 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. - Dale R. Corson
Dale R. Corson (b. 1914) was the eighth president of Cornell University. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938. In 1946 Corson came to Cornell University as an assistant professor of physics and helped design the Cornell synchrotron. - Wilson Greatbatch
Wilson Greatbatch (born September 6 1919) is an inventor who advanced the development of early implantable cardiac pacemakers. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University at Buffalo. Greatbatch is often miscredited as the inventor of the pacemaker as a whole. - Arthur Kantrowitz
Arthur R. Kantrowitz (born 1913) is an American scientist, engineer and educator. Kantrowitz earned his B.S., M.A. and, in 1947, his Ph.D. degrees in physics from Columbia University. During his studies at Columbia, Kantrowitz started working as a physicist, in 1936, for the NACA, work he would keep for ten years. He went on to teach at Cornell University for the next ten years, meanwhile he founded the Avco-Everett Research Lab (AERL) in Everett, Massachusetts, in 1955. - Sartaj Sahni
Sartaj Sahni is a computer scientist and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is currently distinguished professor and chairman of the CISE department at the University of Florida. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, … - Srinivasan Keshav
Srinivasan Keshav is the author of the much celebrated book on computer networks titled "An Engineering approach to Computer Networks". He used to be a professor at Cornell University. He left Cornell in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, and returned to academia in 2003 as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. - Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (born December 19 1944; Philadelphia, USA) is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. The son of a Polish and a Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Feigenbaum's education was not a happy one. Despite excelling in examinations, his early schooling at Tilden High School, Brooklyn, New York, and the City College of New York seemed unable to stimulate his appetite to learn. - William E. Gordon
William E. Gordon (born January 8 1918) is a physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1953. He was a faculty member at Cornell University from 1953 - 1966. He joined the faculty Rice University in 1966, serving as Dean of Science and Engineering, Dean of Natural Sciences, and Provost and Vice President. - Marshall Kirk McKusick
Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. January 19, 1954 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a computer scientist, famous for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is also on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine. He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk". - Hassan Aref
Dr. Hassan Aref (b. 1950) is the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Prior to joining Virginia Tech as Dean of Engineering in 2003-2005 Aref was Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a decade from 1992-2003. - Henry T. Yang
Henry T. Yang is the Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appointed in 1994, he is the fifth chancellor of the university. He also holds a professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He had held the post of Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. He had also held the post of dean of engineering at Purdue. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, … - Phil Karn
Phil Karn is an engineer from Baltimore, Maryland. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978 and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. From 1979 until 1984, Phil Karn worked at Bell Labs in Naperville, Illinois, and Murray Hill, New Jersey. From 1984 until 1991, he was with Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey. Since 1991 he has been with Qualcomm in San Diego, … - Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2006 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Dr. McIlroy is best known for having originally developed the Unix pipeline implementation, software componentry and several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. Dr. McIlroy earned his Bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University in 1954, … - Robert L. Cook
Robert L. Cook (December 10 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software. Cook was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and educated at Duke University and Cornell University. He is now Vice President of Software Engineering at Pixar Animation Studios. - Lowell McAdam
Lowell C. McAdam is president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless provider with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network. Prior to this position, McAdam was the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Verizon Wireless. Previously, McAdam was president and CEO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture owned by Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch. - Deane Waldo Malott
Deane Waldo Malott (July 10, 1898-September 11, 1996) was an American academic and administrator. The son of a banker, Malott was born in Abilene, Kansas and went on to study at the University of Kansas. While at school there, he wrote for the University Daily Kansan and was a brother in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He graduated in 1921 and went on to the Harvard Business School. - Ernest J. Sternglass
Ernest Sternglass , Ph.D., is Director, Cofounder, President, and Chief Technical Officer of the Radiation and Public Health Project. In 1963, Dr. Sternglass was invited to testify before the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, as to how the exponential increase in strontium-90 in baby teeth caused by bomb-test fallout was associated with increased childhood leukemia. - Robert Henry Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (in 1871). There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research at an academic institution for higher learning. He was the first president (1880-82) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. - Herbert Reich
Herbert Reich (October 25, 1900, Staten Island - 2000, Massachusetts) was a pioneering figure in electrical engineering. Reich made substantial contributions towards the design of early oscilloscopes as a graduate student at Cornell University. Reich later taught as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois (1929-44) and Yale University (1946-69). From 1944 to 1946 he worked at the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University with Frederick Terman. - Jim Olin
James R. (Jim) Olin (February 28, 1920 - July 29, 2006) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia. Olin was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in a middle-class suburb. He attended the ultra-exclusive and non-traditional Deep Springs College, before moving on to Cornell University, from which he earned an electrical engineering degree. Olin served for three years in the U.S. Army during World War II. Upon discharge, … - Manson Benedict
Manson Benedict (9 October 1907 in Lake Linden, Michigan - 18 September 2006 in Naples, Florida) was a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT. From 1958 to 1968, he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Prof. Benedict received a B.S. from Cornell University in chemistry, and a Ph.D. from MIT in physical chemistry. It was at MIT where he met his wife Marjorie, who also received a PhD in chemistry. Dr. - John Brombaugh
John Brombaugh, (March 1, 1937) is an American master pipe organ builder, known for his historically-oriented tracker action instruments, most of which are capable of playing at different historical pitches. - David Burpee
David Burpee (1893 - 1980) was born in Pennsylvania and attended Cornell University until his father died in 1915. Burpee dropped out and took over the family business selling seeds. He immediately began shifting the firm's focus from vegetables to flowers. In 1917 the W. A.. Burpee Company was incorporated with Burpee as president. Sales were $900,000 that year. - William W. Destler
William W. Destler is an American university professor and administrator. He will serve as the 9th president of Rochester Institute of Technology as of 1 July 2007, succeeding Albert J. Simone. Previously, Destler was provost and senior vice president for student affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2001 to 2007. He also served as a professor of the college of electrical engineering, dean of the graduate school (1999-2001), …
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