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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University) is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. It was founded in 1754...
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Robert A. M. Stern
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful...
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- 1960
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John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937–March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years...
Jon Scieszka
Jon Scieszka ("rhymes with Fresca"; Polish for "path") was born September 8, 1954, in Flint, MI to Louis (elementary school principal) and Shirly (registered nurse). His paternal grandparents, MIchael and Anna, emigrated to America from Poland...
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- 1980
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Charles Green Shaw
Charles Green Shaw (1 May 1892—2 April 1974) was an American painter and writer.
A significant figure in American abstract art, Shaw enjoyed a varied career as a writer and illustrator, poet, modernist painter, and collector. Born to a wealthy...
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John Tufts
John Marshall Tufts was a professor of English Literature at Western Connecticut State University, and a decorated submarine combat veteran in the Pacific Theater in WWII.
Geraldo Rivera
Gerald Rivera (born July 4, 1943) is an American attorney, journalist, writer, reporter and former talk show host. He is known to have an affinity for melodramatic, high-profile stories. Rivera hosts the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large, and...
Mona Simpson
Mona E. Simpson (born Mona Jandali, June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali. She is the...
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Kari Wührer
Kari Samantha Wührer (born April 28, 1967) is an American actress and singer, sometimes credited as Kari Salin.
Wührer was born in Brookfield, Connecticut, the daughter of Karin (née Noble), a payroll accountant, and Andrew Wührer, a police officer...
Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory...
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to receive this award, at 51.
In economics, he is considered...
Simon Kuznets
Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of...
Francis Bitter
Francis Bitter (July 22, 1902 – July 26, 1967) was an American physicist.
Bitter invented the Bitter plate used in resistive magnets (also called Bitter electromagnets). He is the one who thought of using dust to visualize a magnetic field. (Many...
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert A. Millikan (22 March 1868 – 19 December 1953) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of...
Jesse S. Miller
Jesse Stephen Miller (1940 - March 29, 2006) was a psychologist and psychodynamic psychotherapist.
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Columbia University, Miller worked as a salesman in his family's printing business. Later, he started his...
Fleiss, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Fleiss (November 13, 1937 – June 12, 2003) was a professor of biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he also served as head of the Division of Biostatistics from 1975 to 1992. He is known for his...
Jacqueline Barton
Professor Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of her research is transverse electron transport along double-stranded DNA, its implications in...
Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. He is also the namesake of the Cooper pair.
Cooper graduated...
Ali Javan
Ali Mortimer Javan (Persian: علی جوان), born December 26, 1926 in Tehran , Iran is an Iranian-American inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett.
He graduated from Alborz High School, started his...
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi (pronounced /rɑːbi/; 29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
Rabi was born into a traditional Jewish family in...
Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883, Peterhead, Scotland - December 21, 1960, Watsonville, California) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He published his non-fiction under his...
David Eppstein
David Arthur Eppstein (born 1963) is an English-born American professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine and a mathematician. His is known for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics....
Walter Koppisch
Walter Frederic Koppisch (June 6, 1901 – November 2, 1952) was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bisons and New York Giants. He attended Columbia University.
Michael Quarshie
Michael Quarshie (born November 13, 1979 in Erlangen, Germany) is a Finnish American football defensive tackle.
Michael was born in Germany in 1979. After living in Germany for six years and in Ghana for a short period, his family moved to Finland....
Paul Governali
Paul Vincent "Pitchin' Paul" Governali (January 5, 1921 – February 14, 1978) was a professional American football quarterback in the National Football League. An All-American at Columbia University, he was the 1942 recipient of the Maxwell Award for...
John Witkowski
John Joseph Witkowski (born June 18, 1962) was an American football player. John Witkowski was the winner of the 1982 Asa A. Bushnell Cup for leadership, competitive spirit, contribution to the team, and accomplishments on the field, Witkowski holds...
Paul Ferri
The family of Matrix Partnerships has achieved industry record-setting
returns over the last decade. In 2003, Ferri was inducted
into the Private Equity Hall of Fame, citing his work "in
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...
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- 1983
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Kevin DeNuccio
Kevin DeNuccio, president and chief executive officer at Redback,
was formerly the senior vice president of worldwide service provider
operations at Cisco Systems.In this role, he was responsible for all
field activities in the service provider...
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Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005).
Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey,...
Marios Fotiadis
Marios Fotiadis is a Managing Director at Enterprise Partners in the Life Sciences practice. Mr.
Fotiadis joined Enterprise Partners from Advent International where he
worked with the Life Sciences Venture team. Prior to Advent
International,...
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Arno Allan Penzias
Arno joined NEA in 1997 as a Venture Partner from Bell Labs where he
headed its research organization and served as its Chief Scientist. He
currently focuses on novel ways of addressing the world’s energy needs.
A long-time skeptic
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Alex Dickinson
Alex’s leadership draws upon his successful career as a serial entrepreneur. Previously,
Alex was CEO and later chairman of Ethentica, a venture-backed company
that—in partnership with its investors Philips Electronics NV and
Hewlett-Packard...
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger (b. February 5, 1926 New York City) to a prominent media and publishing family, is himself an American publisher and businessman. He succeeded his father, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and maternal grandfather as publisher...
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- 1951
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Lotfi Asker Zadeh
Lotfali Askar-Zadeh (Azerbaijani: Lütfəli Əsgərzadə, Persian: لطفعلیعسکرزاده, born February 4, 1921), better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh, is a mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California,...
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- 1949
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Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience....
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- 1925
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Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience....
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- 1927
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is known best among scholars for his theoretical and empirical...
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Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
Rafiq Abdus Sabir
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, an American doctor convicted of supporting terrorism, had agreed to provide medical treatment to insurgents wounded in the US-led Invasion of Iraq.
Born in New York, Sabir was raised by his mentally-ill mother after his father...
James W. Gerard
James Watson Gerard (August 25, 1867 - September 6, 1951) was a U.S. lawyer and diplomat.
Gerard was born in Geneseo, N. Y. He graduated from Columbia in 1890 and from New York Law School. He was chairman of the Democratic campaign committee of New...
Alex Mindt
Alex Mindt is an American writer. He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. His short stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, Fiction, The Literary Review, The Sun, and Willow Springs, among other publications, and in 2006 he won...
David Dodd
David LeFevre Dodd (August 23, 1895 – September 18, 1988) was an American educator, financial analyst, author, economist, professional investor, and in his student years, a protégé of, and as a postgraduate, close colleague of Benjamin Graham at...
Stephen Larsen
H. Stephen Larsen is a psychologist and author who, with his wife Robin Larsen, was on the founding board of advisors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, and also founded the Center for Symbolic Studies, to carry on with the work of Joseph Campbell....
Frank Hogan
Frank Smithwick Hogan (January 17, 1902 Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut - April 2, 1974 New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Dubbed "Mr. Integrity" due to his perceived honesty and incorruptibility, he was D.A...
Margaret Clapp
Margaret Antoinette Clapp (April 10, 1910 - 1974) was an American scholar and educator.
She was born in East Orange, New Jersey and graduated from East Orange High School in 1926 and Wellesley College in 1930. She taught English literature at the...
Walter Mossberg
Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American journalist who is the principal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
He is a native of Warwick, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brandeis University and the Columbia University...
Hugh Downs
Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a retired American broadcaster, television host, producer, and author. He served as anchor of 20/20, host of The Today Show, announcer for the Tonight Show with Jack Paar, host of the Concentration game...
Bernard Redmont
Bernard Sidney Redmont received an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1939 and was awarded the school’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He began his work in the profession of journalism at the old...
Michael Rumaker
Michael Rumaker is an American author (born March 5, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA), to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970).
Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his...
Marvin Herzog
Marvin (Mikhl) I. Herzog (born September 13, 1927; Toronto, Canada) is a Yiddish language Professor at Columbia University.
He is the Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddish Atlas Project at Columbia University, which publishes, in conjunction...
Mel Gussow
Melvyn (Mel) Hayes Gussow (pronounced GUSS-owe; born December 19, 1933 – died April 29, 2005) was an influential American theater critic who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years.
Gussow, who was born in New York City to parents Don and Betty...
Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen (b. June 9, 1938 in New York City) is an American composer. Wuorinen is a prolific composer in all genres and a high profile proponent of contemporary music. In 1970, Wuorinen became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize...
Charles Saxon
Charles David Saxon (November 13, 1920-December 6, 1988) was an American cartoonist.
Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Columbia University in 1940. He worked as an editor at Dell Publishing and served as a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps during...
Thomas Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was governor of New York (1943 – 1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he...
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his writing,...
David Shapiro
David Shapiro (born January 2, 1947) is an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. Shapiro has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism. He was first published at the age of thirteen, and his first book was...
Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced /ˈmoʊɡ/ to rhyme with "vogue") (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
A native of New York City, Robert Moog attended the...
José Ramos Horta
José Manuel Ramos-Horta (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈʁɐmuz ˈoɾtɐ]), GCL (born 26 December 1949) is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace...
Jason Epstein
Jason Wolkow Epstein (born January 26, 1928) is an American editor and publisher.
A 1949 graduate of Columbia College, Epstein was hired by Bennett Cerf at Random House, where he was the editorial director for forty years. He was responsible for the...
