California Institute Of Technology
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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.
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1
Howard Hughes(Film Producer and an Important Figure in the Aviation Industry Who Became Known for His Ecentric Behavior)
Birthdate: December 24, 1905
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Humble, Texas, United States
Died: April 5, 1976
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
2
Linus Pauling(One of the Greatest Scientists of All Time & Winner of Two Nobel Prizes)
Birthdate: February 28, 1901
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, United States
Died: August 19, 1994
3
Frank Capra(One of America's Most Influential Directors During the 1930s)
Birthdate: May 18, 1897
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Bisacquino, Italy
Died: September 3, 1991
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
4
Benoit Mandelbrot
(American Mathematician and Polymath Best Known for Popularizing the Concept of Fractal Geometry)
Birthdate: November 20, 1924
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland
Died: October 14, 2010
5
Charlie Munger(Investor, Businessman and Vice Chairman of ‘Berkshire Hathaway’)
Birthdate: January 1, 1924
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
6
John McCarthy
(Mathematician, Computer scientist, Engineer, University teacher)
Birthdate: September 4, 1927
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Boston
Died: October 24, 2011
7
David Bohm(One of the Most Significant Theoretical Physicists of the 20th Century)
Birthdate: December 20, 1917
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: October 27, 1992
Birthdate: June 1, 1940
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Logan
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Frank Borman
(NASA Astronaut Who was the Commander of 'Apollo 8' Mission)
Birthdate: March 14, 1928
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Gary
Birthdate: January 3, 1929
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: San Francisco
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William Shockley(American Physicist, Inventor and Winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Birthdate: February 13, 1910
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: London, England
Died: August 12, 1989
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Harrison Schmitt
(American Astronaut and the Only Person Without a Background in Military Aviation to Have Walked on the Moon)
Birthdate: July 3, 1935
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Santa Rita, New Mexico, United States
13
Ivan Sutherland
(Computer scientist)
Birthdate: May 16, 1938
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Hastings, Nebraska, United States
14
Adam D'Angelo
(Businessperson)
Birthdate: 1984 AD
Birthplace: United States
15
John Lilly
(Physician, Neuroscientist, Psychoanalyst and Inventor of 'Isolation Tank')
Birthdate: January 6, 1915
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Died: September 30, 2001
Birthdate: October 6, 1950
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Glendale, California, United States
17
Harry Turtledove
(American Author Best Known for His Works: 'Southern Victory', 'Worldwar' and 'Crosstime Traffic')
Birthdate: June 14, 1949
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
18
Donald Knuth(Mathematician and Computer Scientist Known for His Multivolume Series of Books “The Art of Computer Programming”)
Birthdate: January 10, 1938
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Ardem Patapoutian
(Known for his work in characterizing the PIEZO1, PIEZO2, and TRPM8 receptors that detect pressure, menthol, and temperature)
Birthdate: October 2, 1967
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker
(American Geologist Best Known for Co-Discovering the 'Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9')
Birthdate: April 28, 1928
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: July 18, 1997
21
Sidney Gottlieb
(American Chemist and Spymaster Who Headed Project Mkultra)
Birthdate: August 3, 1918
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: March 7, 1999
22
Vernon L. Smith
(Economist, University teacher)
Birthdate: January 1, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Wichita
23
Fei-Fei Li
(Computer scientist)
Birthdate: 1976 AD
Birthplace: Beijing
24
Chester F. Carlson
(Physicist)
Birthdate: February 8, 1906
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington, United States
Died: September 19, 1968
25
Robert Tarjan
(Computer scientist)
Birthdate: April 30, 1948
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Pomona, California
26
L. Sprague de Camp
(Prominent Science Fiction Writer in the 1930s and 1940s)
Birthdate: November 27, 1907
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: November 6, 2000
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Qian Xuesen
(Astronautical engineer)
Birthdate: December 11, 1911
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hangzhou
Died: October 31, 2009
Birthdate: January 26, 1959
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Coral Gables, Florida, United States
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Mark Adler
(Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist)
Birthdate: April 3, 1959
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Miami
Birthdate: July 28, 1970
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Saint Ann, Missouri, United States
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Stephen Wolfram
(Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist, Businessperson, University teacher, Patent inventor, Writer)
Birthdate: August 29, 1959
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: London
32
Frank Oppenheimer
(Physicist, Teacher)
Birthdate: August 14, 1912
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: February 3, 1985
Birthdate: July 31, 1944
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
34
George M. Whitesides
(Chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University)
Birthdate: August 3, 1939
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
35
Amy Mainzer
(American Astronomer Specializing in Astrophysical Instrumentation and Infrared Astronomy)
Birthdate: January 2, 1974
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Mansfield, Ohio, United States
36
Fernando J. Corbató
(Computer scientist)
Birthdate: July 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Oakland, California, United States
Died: July 12, 2019
37
Arthur B. McDonald
(Physicist, University teacher)
Birthdate: August 29, 1943
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Sydney
38
David Ho
(Taiwanese-American Physician Whose Contribution Led to the Understanding and Development of Treatment for HIV Infection)
Birthdate: November 3, 1952
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Taichung, Taiwan
39
Charles Francis Richter
(US Physicist and Seismologist Who Co-Created the Richter Scale for Measuring Earthquake Intensity)
Birthdate: April 26, 1900
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Overpeck, Ohio, United States
Died: September 30, 1985
Birthdate: January 10, 1936
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, United States
41
Peter Shor
(Mathematician, Computer scientist, University teacher)
Birthdate: August 14, 1959
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City
42
Cleve Moler
(Mathematician, Programmer, Engineer, University teacher, Computer scientist)
Birthdate: August 17, 1939
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Salt Lake City
43
Juris Hartmanis
(Computer scientist)
Birthdate: July 5, 1928
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
44
David J. C. MacKay
(Physicist, Computer scientist, Professor)
Birthdate: April 22, 1967
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Stoke-on-Trent
Died: April 14, 2016
Birthdate: June 8, 1936
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Died: June 15, 2013
46
Narendra Karmarkar
(Mathematician)
Birthdate: February 24, 1957
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Howard Martin Temin(American Geneticist, Virologist and Winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
Birthdate: December 10, 1934
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: February 9, 1994
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Joseph Polchinski
(Physicist, Theoretical physicist)
Birthdate: May 16, 1954
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: White Plains, New York, United States
Died: February 2, 2018
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Martin Karplus
(Nobel Prize-Winning Austrian-American Theoretical Chemist)
Birthdate: March 15, 1930
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Birthdate: August 30, 1740
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Connecticut, United States
Died: 1824 AD
