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.
Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
Gordon Moore03 January 1929, American
Businessman
William Shockley13 February 1910, American
Physicist
David Bohm20 December 1917, American
Scientist
Robert C. Merton31 July 1944, American
Economist
Charles H. Townes28 July 1915, American
Physicist
Robert Woodrow Wilson10 January 1936, American
Physicist
Kenneth G. Wilson08 June 1936, American
Physicist
William Alfred Fowler09 August 1911, American
Nuclear Physicist and Astrophysicist
Edwin McMillan18 September 1907, American
Physicist
Arnold Orville Beckman10 April 1900, American
Chemist
Donald A. Glaser21 September 1926, American
Physicist & Molecular Biologist
James Rainwater09 December 1917, American
Physicist
Bob Lazar26 January 1959, American
Film processor
Donald Knuth10 January 1938, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Historian of
Sidney Gottlieb03 August 1918, American
Chemist, Psychiatrist
Frank Borman14 March 1928, American
Air force officer, Test pilot, Astronaut,
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Harrison Schmitt03 July 1935, American
Geologist, Politician, Astronaut
Benoit Mandelbrot20 November 1924, French, Polish, American
Mathematician, Economist, Professor, Scientist,
Harry Turtledove14 June 1949, American
Novelist
Qian Xuesen11 December 1911
Astronautical engineer
Fei-Fei Li1976 AD, American
Computer scientist
Ivan Sutherland16 May 1938, American
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer,
Eugene Merle Shoemaker28 April 1928, American
Astronomer, Geologist, Physicist
Eric W. Weisstein18 March 1969, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Non-fiction writer
L. Sprague de Camp27 November 1907, American
Writer
Vernon L. Smith01 January 1927, American
Economist, University teacher
Narendra Karmarkar1957 AD, American
Mathematician, Scientist
Mark Adler03 April 1959, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist
Robert Tarjan30 April 1948, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Peter Shor14 August 1959, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
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Arthur B. McDonald29 August 1943, Canadian
Physicist, University teacher
David J. C. MacKay22 April 1967, British
Physicist, Computer scientist, Professor
Serge Lang19 May 1927, French, American
Mathematician
Amy Mainzer02 January 1974, American
astronomer
George M. Whitesides03 August 1939, American
Chemist, University teacher
Cleve Moler17 August 1939, American
Mathematician, Programmer, Engineer, University
Seth Shostak20 July 1943, American
Astronomer, Radio personality
Bruce Ames16 December 1928, American
Biochemist, University teacher, Chemist
John McCarthy04 September 1927, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Alexei Filippenko25 July 1958, American
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University teacher
John Lilly06 January 1915, American
Neuroscientist