Discover the notable alumni of California Institute Of Technology. The list includes people like William Shockley, Kip Thorne, Gordon Moore, David Bohm & Robert C. Merton. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as scientists, writers, intellectuals & academics, inventors & discoverers and engineers etc.
Bob Lazar26 January 1959, American
Conspiracy Theorist
Donald Knuth10 January 1938, American
Computer Scientist
Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
William Shockley13 February 1910, American
Physicist
Gordon Moore03 January 1929, American
Businessman
David Bohm20 December 1917, American
Scientist
Robert C. Merton31 July 1944, American
Economist
Charles H. Townes28 July 1915, American
Physicist
Kenneth G. Wilson08 June 1936, American
Physicist
Robert Woodrow Wilson10 January 1936, American
Physicist
Arnold Orville Beckman10 April 1900, American
Chemist
Donald A. Glaser21 September 1926, American
Physicist & Molecular Biologist
William Alfred Fowler09 August 1911, American
Nuclear Physicist and Astrophysicist
Edwin McMillan18 September 1907, American
Physicist
James Rainwater09 December 1917, American
Physicist
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Frank Borman14 March 1928, American
Air force officer, Test pilot, Astronaut,
Eugene Merle Shoemaker28 April 1928, American
Geologist
Harrison Schmitt03 July 1935, American
Geologist
Benoit Mandelbrot20 November 1924, French, Polish, American
Mathematician, Economist, Professor, Scientist,
Harry Turtledove14 June 1949, American
Novelist
Fei-Fei Li1976 AD, American
Computer scientist
Sidney Gottlieb03 August 1918, American
Chemist, Psychiatrist
Adam D'Angelo1984 AD, American
Businessperson
Qian Xuesen11 December 1911
Astronautical engineer
Ivan Sutherland16 May 1938, American
Computer scientist
Eric W. Weisstein18 March 1969, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Non-fiction writer
David Brin06 October 1950, American
Scientist
Eric Betzig13 January 1960, American
Physicist
L. Sprague de Camp27 November 1907, American
Writer
Vernon L. Smith01 January 1927, American
Economist, University teacher
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Peter Shor14 August 1959, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Narendra Karmarkar24 February 1957, American
Mathematician
Robert Tarjan30 April 1948, American
Computer scientist
George M. Whitesides03 August 1939, American
Chemist, University teacher
Serge Lang19 May 1927, French, American
Mathematician
Cleve Moler17 August 1939, American
Mathematician, Programmer, Engineer, University
Carolyn S. Shoemaker24 June 1929, American
Astronomer
Mark Adler03 April 1959, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist
Simon Ramo07 March 1913, American
Engineer
David J. C. MacKay22 April 1967, British
Physicist, Computer scientist, Professor
Amy Mainzer02 January 1974, American
astronomer
Arthur B. McDonald29 August 1943, Canadian
Physicist, University teacher
Martin Karplus15 March 1930, Austrian, American
Chemist
Charles Francis Richter26 April 1900, American
Seismologist
Michael Rosbash07 March 1944, American
Geneticist
Fernando J. Corbató01 July 1926, American
Computer scientist
David Bushnell30 August 1740, American
Inventor
Bruce Ames16 December 1928, American
Biochemist, University teacher, Chemist
Matthew Meselson24 May 1930, American
Geneticist
Max Mathews13 November 1926, American
Musical Artist
Walter Munk19 October 1917, Austrian, American
Oceanographer
Edward Gibson08 November 1936, American
Astronaut
Seth Shostak20 July 1943, American
Astronomer, Radio personality
Allan Sandage18 June 1926, American
Astronomer
Charles P. Thacker26 February 1943, American
Computer scientist
John R. Pierce27 March 1910, American
Engineer
William Hayward Pickering24 December 1910, New Zealander
Engineer and physicist
Juris Hartmanis05 July 1928, Latvian, American
Computer scientist
Leonard Herzenberg05 November 1931, American
Immunologist
John P. Craven30 October 1924, American
Scientist
Daniel G. Nocera03 July 1957, American
Chemist
John McCarthy04 September 1927, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky24 April 1919, German, American
Physicist
Samuel W. Alderson21 October 1914, American
Inventor
Leon W. Johnson13 September 1904, American
Military Officer
Edward N. Hall04 August 1914, American
Developer
Alexei Filippenko25 July 1958, American
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University teacher
Alfred G. Knudson09 August 1922, American
Physician
Frank B. Jewett05 September 1879, American
Engineer
Roger Angel07 February 1941, British, American
Astronomer
Robert H. Widmer17 May 1916, American
Aeronautical engineer
Gerry Neugebauer03 September 1932, American
Astronomer
Thomas H. Stix12 July 1924, American
Physicist
John Lilly06 January 1915, American
Neuroscientist
Ira Sprague Bowen21 December 1898, American
Physicist
Maurice M. Rapport23 September 1919, American
Biochemist
Leon Knopoff01 July 1925, American
Geophysicist
Ted Taylor11 July 1925, Mexican, American
Physicist
David Schramm25 October 1945, American
Educator
Chester F. Carlson08 February 1906, American
Physicist
Halton Christian Arp21 March 1927, American
Astronomer