List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni includes students who studied as undergraduates or graduate students at MIT's School of Engineering, School of Science, Sloan School of Management, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, or Whitaker College of Health Sciences.

Contents 1 Politics and Public Service 1.1 United States 1.2 International 2 Architecture and Design 3 Business and Entrepreneurship 3.1 Computers and Internet 3.2 Engineering 3.3 Manufacturing & Defense 3.4 Finance and Consulting 3.5 Health care and Biotechnology 3.6 Miscellaneous 4 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences 5 Education 6 Science and Technology 7 Alumni Nobel laureates 8 Alumni astronauts 9 Sports 10 Miscellaneous 11 Fictional Alumni 12 References

[edit] Politics and Public Service

[edit] United States

Name	Degree	Degree Year	Notability	Notes
Les Aspin	Ph.D. - Economics	1966	US Congressman from Wisconsin, Clinton's first Secretary of Defense
Ben Bernanke	Ph.D. - Economics	1979	Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
Samuel Bodman	Sc.D. - Chemical Engineering	1965	Secretary of Energy (2005-present)
Jun Choi	S.B. - Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering	1994	Mayor of Edison, New Jersey
Henry Cohen (civil servant)	S.M. - Urban Planning	1949	Director of Föhrenwald Displaced Persons camp in the American sector of post-WWII Germany
Jimmy Doolittle	S.M., Sc.D. - Aeronautical Engineering	1924, 1925	U.S. Air Force general
Luis A. Ferré	S.B., S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1924, 1925	Governor of Puerto Rico
Frank Kowalski	S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1937	United States Representative from Connecticut
N. Gregory Mankiw	Ph.D. - Economics	1984	Chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors
Mark McClellan	Ph.D. - Economics	1993	head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
Katharine Dexter McCormick	S.B. - Biology		suffragette, funded research for The Pill
David Nolan	S.B. - Political Science	1965	Founder of United States Libertarian Party
John Olver	Ph.D. - Chemistry	1961	US House of Representatives for Massachusetts
Joseph J. Romm	S.B. - Physics, Ph.D. - Physics	1982, 1987	Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Energy
Francis Sargent	Dropped out - studied architecture	1939	Governor of Massachusetts
George Schultz	Ph.D. - Economics	1949	Secretary of State
Pete Stark	S.B. - General Engineering	1956	US House of Representatives for California
John E. Sununu	S.B., S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1987, 1987	United States Senator from New Hampshire
John H. Sununu	S.B., S.M., Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering	1961, 1963, 1966	White House Chief of Staff under President George H.W. Bush, Governor of New Hampshire, host of Crossfire

[edit] International

Name	Degree	Degree Year	Notability	Notes
Tadatoshi Akiba	Ph.D. - Mathematics	1970	Mayor of Hiroshima
Kofi Annan	S.M. - Management	1972	Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Pedro Aspe Armella	Ph.D. - Economics	1978	Mexican Secretary of Finance
Virgilio Barco	S.B. - Civil Engineering	1943	Colombian president
Ahmed Chalabi	S.B. - Mathematics	1965	controversial Iraqi politician, now currently deputy prime minister of Iraq
José Figueres Ferrer		1926	President of Costa Rica
C.D. Howe			Canadian politician and cabinet minister
Rigoberto Omar Romero Martínez	S.M. - Civil Engineering		Honduran Sub-secretary of Planning (1984) and Sub-secretary of Transportation and Public Works (1985)
David Miliband	S.M. Political Science		British politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Mohammad Ali Najafi	S.M. - Mathematics	1979	former Vice President of Iran	[1]
Benjamin Netanyahu	S.B. - Architecture, S.M. - Management	1975, 1976	former Prime Minister of Israel
Milen Velchev	S.M. - Management	1995	Bulgarian financial minister (2001-2005)
Robert Winters			Canadian politician
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	M.C.P. - City Planning, Ph.D. - Urban Studies & Planning	1978, 1981	Finance Minister of Nigeria (2003-2006), Foreign Minister of Nigeria, (2006)

[edit] Architecture and Design

• Gordon Bunshaft B.Arch. 1933, M.Arch. 1935 — architect of Lever House, New York City
• Ogden Codman, Jr. — architect and interior designer
• John Desmond M.Arch. — designed numerous public buildings in Baton Rouge, including the River Center
• Rob Fisher S.B. 1961 — artist, including "American Dream" at the Philadelphia International Airport Arrivals Hall
• Daniel Chester French 1871 — architect of the Lincoln Memorial
• Cass Gilbert 1880 — architect of the US Supreme Court Building
• Miranda Goelz — noted contemporary architect
• Marion Mahony Griffin 1894 — co-designer of the plan for Canberra, Australia
• Nathanael Herreshoff — naval architect-engineer, yacht designer
• Raymond Hood 1903 — architect of Rockefeller Center
• Lois Lilly Howe 1890 — second woman in the US to found an architecture firm
• Edward Lovett — architect
• Myron Hunt — architect
• Steve Meretzky S.B. 1979 — computer game designer
• I. M. Pei B.Arch. 1940 — architect, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH and Bank of China, Hong Kong
• Steve Russell — creator of the first videogame Spacewar!
• Louis Sullivan — architect
• Robert Taylor 1892 — architect of the Tuskegee Institute and MIT's first black graduate
• Harry Mohr Weese B.Arch. 1938 — architect & historic preservation advocate

[edit] Business and Entrepreneurship

[edit] Computers and Internet

• Joseph Alsop S.B. 1967 — co-founder of Progress Software
• Richard Barry — co-founder of Sycamore Networks
• Carly Fiorina S.M. 1989 — former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
• Cecil H. Green S.B. 1924, S.M. 1924 — Cofounder of Texas Instruments
• William R. Hewlett S.M. 1936 — co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
• Danny Hillis S.B. 1978, S.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1988 — co-founder of Thinking Machines and former Disney fellow
• Mark Horowitz S.B. 1978, S.M. 1978 — founder of Rambus
• Irwin M. Jacobs S.M. 1957, Sc.D. 1959 — co-founder of Qualcomm with Andrew Viterbi, current chairman and former CEO. Former MIT professor (1959-1966)
• Brewster Kahle S.B. 1982 — internet archivist, founder of Alexa
• Mitch Kapor — software entrepreneur, founder of Lotus Corporation
• Steve Kirsch S.B. 1980, S.M. 1980 — inventor of the optical mouse, co-founder of Frame Technology Corporation and founder of Infoseek Corporation
• Pavel Krapivin S.B. 2002 — co-founder of Doostang.com
• Daniel Lewin S.M. 1998 — founder of Akamai
• Jack Little S.B. 1978 — co-founder of The MathWorks, which created and sells MATLAB
• Patrick McGovern S.B. 1960 — founder of IDG/Computerworld
• Robert Metcalfe S.B. 1969— entrepreneur, founder of 3Com; inventor of Ethernet
• Robert Noyce Ph.D. 1953 — integrated circuit pioneer, co-founder of Intel
• Ken Olsen S.B. 1950, S.M. 1952 — founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
• William Poduska S.B. 1960, S.M. 1960, Sc.D. 1962 — computer engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Prime Computer and Apollo Computer
• William A. Porter M.B.A. 1967 — founder of E*TRADE
• Allen Razdow S.B. 1976 — founder of Mathsoft Inc. & inventor of Mathcad
• Alex Rigopulos S.B. 1994, S.M. 1994 - founder of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band
• Larry Roberts S.B. 1961, S.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1963 — Member of design group for original ARPANET, cofounder of Caspian Networks and Packetcom, former CEO of DHL
• Sheldon Roberts S.M. 1949, Sc.D. 1952 — one of the "Traitorous Eight" that founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Co-founder of Amelco which later became Teledyne
• Douglas T Ross S.M. 1954 — founder of SofTech, Inc.
• Ray Stata S.B. 1958, S.M. 1958 — founder of Analog Devices
• Eric Swanson — co-founder of Sycamore Networks
• Andrew Viterbi S.B. 1957, S.M. 1957 — inventor of the Viterbi algorithm and cofounder of Qualcomm
• Philippe Villers S.M 1960 — founder of Computervision, which is now part of Parametric Technology Corporation

[edit] Engineering

• William David Coolidge S.B. 1896 — American physicist who made major contributions to X-ray machines, director of the General Electric Research Laboratory.
• Charles Stark Draper S.B. 1926, S.M. 1928, Sc.D. 1938 — American engineer and inventor, often called "the father of inertial navigation", he was inducted to the National Inventor Hall of Fame in 1981.
• Kazi Zulkader Siddiqui - CEO and Founder of Techcorp Group of Companies in Pakistan, UAE, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and China
• Bowei Lee - CEO of LCY Chemicals, Taiwan

[edit] Manufacturing & Defense

• Morris Chang — Chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) , the largest semiconductor foundry in the world
• Nick DeWolf — co-founder of Teradyne
• Donald Douglas — co-founder of McDonnell Douglas
• John Dorrance — founder of the Campbell Soup Company
• Armand V. Feigenbaum — quality expert
• William Clay Ford, Jr. — Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
• Kenneth Germeshausen — co-founder and the 1st 'G' of the defense contractor EG&G
• Herbert Grier — co-founder and the 2nd 'G' of the defense contractor EG&G
• George Hatsopoulos — founder of Thermo Electron Corporation
• Charles Koch — Co-owner, Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, the largest private company in the US
• David H. Koch — Co-Owner of Koch Industries. Vice-Presidential Candidate for the Libertarian Party
• Jay Last — One of the "Traitorous Eight" that founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Co-founder of Amelco, which became Teledyne
• James McDonnell — co-founder of McDonnell Douglas
• Alan Mulally — President and CEO of Ford Motor Company
• William Emery Nickerson — founder of Gillette, now part of Procter & Gamble
• Willard Rockwell — founder of Rockwell International
• Henry Singleton — founder of Teledyne
• Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. — automobile entrepreneur, CEO of General Motors
• Martin Weinstein — founder of Tyco International
• Uncas Whitaker — founder of AMP Incorporated, now a division of Tyco International

[edit] Finance and Consulting

• Michael Beregovsky — Banker, philanthropist
• Richard Carrion — Chief Executive Officer of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, and of Popular, Inc.
• Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar — founder of Kirloskar Group
• Mark Gorenberg — partner of the venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• Arthur D. Little — entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous management consulting firm in 1886
• Mark Mobius — emerging markets investor and fund manager
• Tom Perkins — founder of VC firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
• John S. Reed — Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange
• Arthur Samberg — Chairman of Pequot Capital Management
• Ed Seykota — Commodity trader
• Jim Simons — mathematician and philanthropist. Founder of Renaissance Technologies hedge fund
• John Thain — CEO of Merrill Lynch, former Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stock Exchange
• Kenichi Ohmae — Former Director of the Japan arm of McKinsey & Company, management consultants

[edit] Health care and Biotechnology

• Paul Levy (S.B., M.C.P. 1974) - President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Neil Pappalardo — founder of Medical Information Technology Inc. (Meditech)
• Robert A. Swanson — cofounder of Genentech
• Ron Williams — CEO of Aetna

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Aditya Birla — Industrialist, deceased
• Colin Angle— co-founder of Irobot
• Joseph Chung — cofounded Art Technology Group with fellow MIT grad Jeet Singh
• Samuel Face — inventor and co-developer of advances in concrete & piezoelectric technologies
• Victor Kwok-king Fung — prominent Hong Kong billionaire businessman and political figure
• Eugenio Garza Sada — Mexican businessman, philanthropist and founder of the Tec de Monterrey (ITESM).
• Arthur Gelb — co-founder, former CEO and former Chair of The Analytic Sciences Corporation
• Helen Greiner — co-founder of Irobot
• David McGrath — founder of TAD Resources, now part of Adecco
• Dana Mead — former CEO and Chair of Tenneco
• Stewart Nelson — founder of System Concepts
• Generoso Pope — business magnate, founder/owner of The National Inquirer
• Michael J. Saylor — founder of MicroStrategy
• Jeet Singh — co-founded Art Technology Group with fellow MIT grad Joseph Chung
• Leelila Strogov — general assignment reporter for Fox 11 News
• Dr. F. Helmut Weymar — Founder of Commodities Corporation

[edit] Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

• Steve Altes — humorist, National Medal of Technology recipient
• Harry Binswanger — philosopher, associate of Ayn Rand
• Idit Harel Capelton - educational psychologist and epistomologist
• Herbert Kalmus 1903 - inventor of Technicolor and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Kealoha (formerly known as Steve Wong 1999) - performance poet (ranked 8th out of over 350 poets at the 2007 National Poetry Slam) and Hawaii's SlamMaster
• Charlie Korsmo 2000 - actor (including Can't Hardly Wait and Dick Tracy (movie))
• Paul Krugman — New York Times columnist, John Bates Clark Medal-winner, PhD (economics)
• Ned Lagin - Lagin played keyboards and synthesizer at a number of the Grateful Dead shows between 1970 and 1975 and on a few mid 1970s albums.
• Hugh Lofting — author of "Dr. Doolittle" (trained at MIT as civil engineer, 1904-05)
• Charles Murray — researcher and co-author of The Bell Curve
• Tom Scott 1966 - winner of Academy Awards for sound mixing for The Right Stuff and Amadeus
• Tom Scholz — founder of the rock group Boston and Scholz Research & Development, Inc., manufacturers of Rockman sound equipment
• John Underkoffler 1988 - science & technology advisor to Steven Spielberg
• Erland Van Lidth De Jeude — Hollywood actor and opera singer
• James Woods 1969 (dropped out) — actor
• Stefano Young — Bass player for House of Kabob
• Khalil Johnson- Singer for CAUTIONED and Bass player forunknown.

[edit] Education

• Joseph Aoun (Ph.D. 1982) - President of Northeastern University
• Larry Bacow (S.B. 1972) - President of Tufts University.
• Merrill J. Bateman (Ph.D. 1965) - Former President of Brigham Young University. Mormon Presiding Bishop.
• William R. Brody (S.B 1965, S.M 1966) - President of Johns Hopkins University
• Jared Cohon (S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1973) - President of Carnegie Mellon University
• William Cooper (Ph.D. 1976) - President of University of Richmond
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson (Ph.D. 1974) - Chairman of the CEA under Clinton. Former dean of the Haas School of Business. Former Dean of the London Business School
• Edwin Eigel (S.B. 1954) - Former President of the University of Bridgeport
• Davis Ellis (Ph.D. 1962) - Former President and Chairman of the Boston Museum of Science
• Norman Fainstein (S.B. 1966, Ph.D. 1971) - Former President of Connecticut College
• Philip Friedman (Ph.D. 1972) - President of Golden Gate University
• Hollis Godfrey 1889 - Former president of Drexel University^[2]
• William Hogan (S.B. 1959, Sc.D. 1965) - Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Shirley Jackson (S.B. 1968, Ph.D. 1973) - physicist, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Martin C. Jischke (S.M., Ph.D. 1968) - Former President of Purdue University
• Chung Liu (S.M., E.E. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) - Former President of National Tsing Hua University
• Modesto Maidique (S.B. 1962, S.M 1964, E.E. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) - President of Florida International University
• John Maeda (S.B., S.M. 1989) - President of Rhode Island School of Design
• Julianne Malveaux (Ph.D. 1980) - President of Bennett College
• James Mannoia (S.B. 1971) - President of Greenville College
• David McClain (Ph.D. 1974) - President of University of Hawaii
• Richard K. Miller (S.M. 1972) - President of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
• Richard Santagati (S.M. 1979) - Former President of Merrimack College
• Nam-Pyo Suh (S.B. 1959, S.M. 1961) - President of KAIST
• George A. Sparks (S.M. 1976) - President of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
• Lawrence H. Summers (S.B. 1975) - Former President of Harvard University
• Lee Trover Todd (S.M. 1970, E.E. 1971, Ph.D. 1974) - President of University of Kentucky
• Hal Varian (S.B. 1969) - Founding dean of the School of Information at UC Berkeley
• Elisabeth Zinser (S.M. 1982) - President of Southern Oregon University

[edit] Science and Technology

• Buzz Aldrin - Second man to walk on the Moon
• Gordon Bell - computer engineer and manager, designer of the DEC PDP and manager of the VAX project.
• Barry Blesser — audio engineer, one-time president of the AES
• Manuel Blum, computer scientist, recipient of the Turing Award in 1995 for his studies in computational complexity theory
• Dan Bricklin — co-inventor of Visicalc, the first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program
• Wen Tsing Chow — missile guidance scientist and digital computer pioneer
• David D. Clark - led the development of TCP/IP -- the protocol that underlies the Internet
• Wesley A. Clark - computing pioneer, creator of the LINC (the first minicomputer)
• Fernando Corbato - Professor at MIT, Turing Award winner of 1990, co-founder of the Multics project
• Peter Denning -Computer scientists, co-founder of the Multics project
• Jack Dennis - Professor at MIT until 1987, co-founder of the Multics project.
• Whitfield Diffie — pioneer of public-key cryptography and the Diffie-Hellman protocol.
• K. Eric Drexler — nanotechnologist
• Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton — former MIT EECS professor, co-founder and is the "E" of the defense contractor giant EG&G, photography pioneer.
• Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992), only child of his inventor father who graduated college; went on to become an inventor with over 80 patents.^[3]
• Farouk El-Baz — Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning, Apollo Program, NASA
• Charles H. Ferguson - Technology policy expert and entrepreneur
• Carl Feynman — computer scientist, son of the physicist Richard Feynman
• Jim Gettys — one of the original developers of X Window, former director of GNOME.
• Bill Gosper — one of the founders of the original hacker community, originator of hashlife
• George Ellery Hale - astronomer
• David A. Huffman — computer scientist known for Huffman coding used in lossless data compression
• Jerome C. Hunsaker - pioneering aeronautical engineer
• William Jeffrey - 13th Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Leonard Kleinrock - computing and Internet pioneer, one of the key group of designers of the original ARPANET
• Loren Kohnfelder - Introduced the term of Public key certificate for Public key cryptography in secure network communication.
• Raymond Kurzweil — inventor and entrepreneur in synthesized-music keyboards, OCR and speech-to-text processing
• Leslie Lamport - Computing pioneer on temporal logic, developer of LaTeX
• Norman Levinson - mathematician
• Hiram Percy Maxim — Inventor of the "Maxim Silencer" and founder of the American Radio Relay League
• Douglas McIlroy - mathematician and engineer, an original developer of UNIX, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Fulvio Melia - physicist, astrophysicist, and author
• Douglas J. Mink - astronomer
• Bradford Parkinson - co-inventor with Ivan Getting of the Global Positioning System
• Alan Perlis - Computer scientist, winner of the first Turing Award in 1966.
• Radia Perlman - Computer scientist, inventor of numerous data networking technologies, dubbed 'Mother of the Internet'
• Jerome Saltzer - MIT EECS professor (1966-1995) and computing pioneer, co-founder of the Multics project, Director of Project Athena
• George W. Santos — Pioneer in bone marrow transplantation
• Bob Scheifler - computer scientist, leader of the X Window System project, architect of Jini
• Oliver Selfridge - computer scientist, father of 'machine perception'
• Oliver R. Smoot - Namesake for Unit of measurement, President of ISO
• Ivan Sutherland - computing and Internet pioneer, one of the key group of original designers of the original ARPANET, Turing Award winner of 1988.
• Andrew Tanenbaum — computer scientist and creator of Minix, the precursor to Linux
• Ray Tomlinson - innovator of email systems, pioneered the use of the @ symbol for email
• Leonard H. Tower Jr. - Free Software activist and software hacker
• Edward Yourdon- computer pioneer, popularized the term Y2K Bug

[edit] Alumni Nobel laureates

Name	Degree	Degree Year	Award Year	Award	Citation	Notes
George Akerlof	Ph.D.	1966	2001	Economics	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	[4]
Robert Aumann	S.M.	1952	2005	Economics	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"	[5]
Sid Altman	S.B.	1960	1989	Chemistry	"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"	[6]
Kofi Annan	S.M.	1972	2001	Peace	"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"	[7]
Elias James Corey	S.B., Ph.D.	1948, 1951	1990	Chemistry	"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"	[8]
Eric Cornell	Ph.D.	1990	2001	Physics	"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"	[9]
Richard Feynman	S.B.	1939	1965	Physics	"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"	[10]
Andrew Z. Fire	Ph.D.	1983	2006	Medicine/Physiology	"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"	[11]
Murray Gell-Mann	Ph.D.	1951	1969	Physics	"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"	[12]
Leland H. Hartwell	Ph.D.	1964	2001	Medicine/Physiology	"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"	[13]
H. Robert Horvitz	S.B.	1968	2002	Medicine/Physiology	"for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"	[14]
Henry W. Kendall	S.B., Ph.D.	1948, 1951	1990	Physics	"for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics"	[15]
Lawrence Klein	Ph.D.	1944	1980	Economics	"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"	[16]
Robert B. Laughlin	Ph.D.	1979	1998	Physics	"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"	[17]
Robert C. Merton	Ph.D.	1970	1997	Economics	"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"	[18]
Robert S. Mulliken	S.B.	1917	1966	Chemistry	"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"	[19]
Robert Mundell	Ph.D.	1956	1999	Economics	"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"	[20]
Charles Pedersen	S.M.	1927	1987	Chemistry	"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"	[21]
William D. Phillips	Ph.D.	1976	1997	Physics	"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"	[22]
Burton Richter	S.B., Ph.D.	1952, 1956	1976	Physics	"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"	[23]
John Robert Schrieffer	S.B.	1953	1972	Physics	"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"	[24]
William Shockley	Ph.D.	1936	1956	Physics	"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"	[25]
George F. Smoot	S.B., Ph.D.	1966, 1970	2006	Physics	"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"	[26]
Joseph Stiglitz	Ph.D.	1966	2001	Economics	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	[27]
Carl E. Wieman	S.B.	1973	2001	Physics	"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"	[28]
Robert Burns Woodward	S.B.	1936	1965	Chemistry	"for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"	[29]

[edit] Alumni astronauts

Name	Degree	Year	Mission
Buzz Aldrin	Sc.D- Aeronautics/Astronautics	1963	Gemini 12, Apollo 11
Dominic Antonelli	S.B. - Aeronautics/Astronautics	1989
Jerome Apt	Ph.D - Physics	1976	STS-37, STS-47, STS-59, STS-79
Kenneth Cameron	S.B., S.M. - Aeronautics/Astronautics	1978, 1979	STS-37, STS-56, STS-74
Gregory Chamitoff	Ph.D. - Aeronautics/Astronautics	1992	STS-124, Expedition 17, Expedition 18
Franklin Chang-Diaz	Sc.D. - Nuclear Engineering	1977	STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111
Philip K. Chapman	S.M., Ph.D.	1964, 1967	1967
Catherine Coleman	S.B. - Chemistry	1983	STS-73, STS-93
Timothy Creamer	S.M.	1992
Charles Duke	S.M. - Aeronautics/Astronautics	1964	Apollo 16
Anthony England	S.B., S.M., Ph.D. - Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences	1965, 1965, 1970	STS-51-F
Edward Fincke	S.B., S.B. - Aeronautics/Astronautics, Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences	1989	Soyuz TMA-4, Expedition 9
John Grunsfeld	S.B. - Physics	1980	STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125
Terry Hart	S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1969	STS-41-C
Frederick Hauck	S.M. - Nuclear Engineering	1966	STS-7, STS-51-A, STS-26
Wendy Lawrence	S.M. - Ocean Engineering	1988	STS-67, STS-86, STS-91, STS-114
Mark C. Lee	S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1980	STS-30, STS-47, STS-64, STS-81
William B. Lenoir	S.B., S.M., Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering	1961, 1962, 1965	STS-5
Michael Massimino	S.M., S.M., Mechanical Engineer, Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering	1988, 1988, 1990, 1992	STS-109, STS-125
Ronald McNair	Ph.D. - Physics	1976	STS-41-B, STS-51-L
Pamela Ann Melroy	S.M. - Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences	1984	STS-92, STS-112, STS-120
Edgar Mitchell	Sc.D. - Aeronautics/Astronautics	1964	Apollo 14
Nicholas Patrick	S.M., Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering	1990, 1996	STS-116
Russell Schweickart	S.B., S.M. - Aeronautics/Astronautics	1956, 1963	Apollo 9
David Scott	S.M., Engineer in Aeronautics/Astronautics	1962, 1962	Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15
William Shepherd	S.M., Ocean Engineer	1978, 1978	STS-27, STS-41, STS-52, Soyuz TM-31, Expedition 1, STS-102
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper	S.B., S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1984, 1985	STS-115, STS-126
Daniel Tani	S.B., S.M. - Mechanical Engineering	1984, 1985	STS-108, STS-120, Expedition 16, STS-122
Robert Thirsk	S.M., M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Management	1978, 1998	STS-78
Janice Voss	S.M., Ph.D. - Electrical Engineering, Aeronautics/Astronautics	1977, 1978	STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99
Neil Woodward	S.B.	1984

[edit] Sports

• Thomas Pelham Curtis 1894 - won Gold Medal in 110m hurdles at the inaugural Olympic Games
• Johan Harmenberg - epee fencer, gold medal winner in the 1980 Olympics, world champion
• Larry Kahn — tiddlywinks champion
• Linda Muri 1985, three-time world champion rower
• Jeff Sagarin 1970 — sports statistician
• Henry Steinbrenner 1927 - hurdler in the 1928 Summer Olympics, father of George Steinbrenner
• Jason Szuminski 2000 - major league pitcher
• Steve Tucker 1991 - two-time member of the US Olympic rowing team

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Csaba Csere — automotive journalist, editor of Car and Driver
• Ray Magliozzi — radio personality (Car Talk)
• Tom Magliozzi — radio personality (Car Talk)
• Princess Ubol Ratana - of Thailand
• Ellen Spertus - Named "Sexiest Geek Alive"
• Randal Pinkett - Winner of Television Show "The Apprentice"

[edit] Fictional Alumni

• Tony Stark - wealthy industrialist and alter ego of Iron Man
• James Rupert Rhodes - close friend of Tony Stark and alter ego of War Machine
• Bo Peterburg - wealthy industrialist and philanthropist...and a bicyclist

[edit] References

v • d • e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Academics Academics · School of Architecture and Planning · Sloan School of Management · Division of Health Sciences and Technology · OpenCourseWare Research Broad Institute · Center for Theoretical Physics · Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems · MIT Libraries · Lincoln Laboratory · McGovern Institute for Brain Research · Media Lab · Picower Institute for Learning and Memory · Plasma Science and Fusion Center · Research Laboratory of Electronics · MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab People Alumni · Faculty · Presidents · Institute Professors Culture History of MIT · Traditions and activities · MIT in popular culture · Athena · Brass Rat · Hacks · The Tech · TMRC · Tech Squares · MIT $100K · Mystery Hunt Campus Campus · Chapel · Green Building · Infinite Corridor · Kresge Auditorium · MIT Museum · Stata Center · Wiesner building · Graduate Residences · Undergraduate Residences · Fraternities and Sororities