List of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute people

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[edit] Presidents of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1 Presidents of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2 Notable alumni
3 Professors & Researchers
4 External link

• Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford	(1824–1828)
• John Chester	(1828–1829)
• Eliphalet Nott	(1829–1845)
• Nathan S.S. Beman	(1845–1865)
• John F. Winslow	(1865–1868)
• Thomas C. Brinsmade	1868
• James Forsyth	(1868–1886)
• William Gurley, 1839	(1886–1887) (acting)
• Albert E. Powers	(1887–1888) (acting)
• John H. Peck	(1888–1901)
• Palmer C. Ricketts	(1901–1934)
• William O. Hotchkiss	(1935–1943)
• Livingston W. Houston, 1913	(1943–1958)
• Richard G. Folsom	(1958–1971)
• Richard J. Grosh	(1971–1976)
• George M. Low, 1948	(1976–1984)
• Daniel Berg	(1984–1985) (acting) (1985–1987)
• Stanley I. Landgraf, 1987	(1988–1988) (acting)
• Roland W. Schmitt	(1988–1993)
• R. Byron Pipes	(1993–1998)
• Cornelius J. Barton, 1958	(1998–1999) (acting)
• Shirley Ann Jackson	(1999–

For a list of the highest elected student leaders at RPI see List of RPI Grand Marshals.

[edit] Notable alumni

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has a long list of notable alumni.

Don L. Anderson (1955), famous geophysiscist
Truman H. Aldrich (1869), civil engineer and US State Representative
Garnet Baltimore (1881), engineer and Garnet D. Baltimore Lecture Series honoree.
Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks.com
Myles Brand (1964),president of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association).
Leffert L. Buck, civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures, including the Williamsburg Bridge in NYC.
David Cheever, Architect
Erin Crocker (2003), is a female NASCAR driver.
George R. Dennis, was a United States Senator from Maryland
Dr. Allen B. Dumont (1924), perfected the cathode ray tube and is considered the "father of modern TV"
Ebenezer Emmons, (1826), Geologist, author of Natural History of New York (1848) and American Geology
Thomas Farrell (1912), Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project
Bobby Farrelly, famous director, writer and producer of such films as "Shallow Hal" and "There's Something About Mary"
George W. G. Ferris (1881), inventor of the Ferris Wheel
James Flaherty, actor and stand up comedian.
Jeffrey M. Friedman, discovered lepitin, a key hormone in the area of human obesity.
Michael James Gaffey, planetary scientist
Arthur J. Gajarsa, Federal judge
Lois Graham (1946), first woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and the first woman fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Ivar Giaever(1964), shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in Semiconductors. Currently, Institute Professor of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Frederick Grinnell (1855), inventor of the fire sprinkler.
Morton Gurtin,(1955), mathematical physicist.
Fitzedward Hall, (1901, American Orientalist
James Hall (1832), American Geologist and paleontologist
Jon Hall, (1947), Executive Director of Linux International
Marcian Hoff (1958), the "father of the microprocessor"
Eben N. Horsford (1838), Scientist and author, most famous for discovering baking powder.
Douglass Houghton (1829),Michigan’s first state geologist. Discovered deposits of salt, copper, and iron. with enormous A Michigan city, county, and lake honor his name.
Walter E. Irving (1896), founded in 1902 what was to become the Irving Subway Grating Co. He invented the “Streamline Splice" technology to create steel floors.
Howard P. Isermann (1942), developed the ultraviolet absorber that became the most effective and leading sunscreen in the world.
J. Christopher Jaffe (1949), leader in architectural acoustic design. Taught acoustics at the Juilliard School, City University of New York, and Rensselaer, where he is founder of the master’s program in architectural acoustics and over the last four decades he has consulted on more than 250 performance halls.
J. Erik Jonsson (1922), co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated. The Jonsson Engineering Center on campus is named after him.
Theodore Judah (1837) visionary of the transcontinental railroad.
Joé Juneau, (1991) 14-year NHL veteran, top scorer at the 1992 Winter Olympics while playing for the Canadian Olympic hockey team.
Richard Klein, astronomer
George Low, manager at National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the Apollo 11 project that put the first person on the moon. Low was president of RPI from 1976 to 1984. The Low Center for Industrial Innovation on campus is named after him.
Richard Mastracchio, (1987) NASA Astronaut, flew on STS-106 Atlantis (September 8-20, 2000).
William Metcalf, (1858) Steel manufacturing pioneer.
Keith D. Millis (1938), metallurgical engineer and inventor of ductile iron.
William Mow, (1959) Founded apparel maker Bugle Boy in 1977.
Adam Oates, NHL star from 1985 to 2004, 6th on the NHL's all-time assists list.
John Olver, (1958), Massachusetts State Representative (D), since 1991.
Gabriel Oyibo, Mathematician
James "Kibo" Parry, satirist, Usenet personality, and typeface designer.
David Korn, (1965), computer programmer who created the Korn Shell, a popular UNIX shell.
Ely S. Parker, Civil War Statesman, author of Appomattox Courthouse agreement.
Mary Pride, (1974), Christian author
Curtis Priem, (1982) Nvidia co-founder, architect of first PC Video Processor, and many that followed. Currently (2005) a trustee of RPI.
Darren Puppa, Played for 15 seasons in the NHL.
Daniel Reed, (2003) software engineer at Google, also created popular chat program naim.
Robert Resnick, Author of well-read physics textbooks and famous physics educator.
Sheldon Roberts, member of the Traitorous Eight that created Silicon Valley; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Amelco.
John Rigas, co-founder of Adelphia Communications.
Washington Roebling (1857), chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Henry Augustus Rowland (1870), first president of the American Physical Society and Johns Hopkins University's first physics professor
James Salisbury, (1844), physician and inventor of the Salisbury Steak.
Peter Schwartz, Futurist
Kip Siegel (1948), Physicist
Mark Shepard, (1994), Vermont State Senator
John L. Swigert Jr. (1965), an Air Force fighter pilot and test pilot, earned a master’s degree in aerospace science from Rensselaer’s Hartford campus in 1965 and in 1966 was selected by NASA in it's 5th astronaut class. Member of Apollo 13. Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom,1970. State Representative for Colorado,1982.
Tony Tether, (1964), director of DARPA as of 2001
Dennis Tito, American millionaire and the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket.
Raymond Tomlinson(1963), inventor of the electronic mail (email) system.
Alan M. Voorhees (1947), city planner and traffic forecaster. Also a former Rensselaer trustee and principal supporter for Rensselaer's Voorhees Computing Center.
William H. Wiley(1866), Civil War artillery commander, co-founder of publisher John Wiley and Sons, and US State Representative.
Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond) (1987), member of the hacker think tank L0pht Heavy Industries, pioneer in software vulnerability research.