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Encyclopedia > List of Swarthmore College people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Swarthmore College. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ...

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Nobel laureates

Listed chronologically by year of the award. Nobel Prize medal. ...

Name Degree/year Award category/year Reason Nobel profile
Christian B. Anfinsen B.S., 1937 Chemistry, 1972 Ribonuclease/amino acid sequence research [1]
David Baltimore B.S., 1960 Physiology or Medicine, 1975 Discovery of reverse transcriptase [2]
Howard Martin Temin B.S., 1955, biology Medicine, 1975 Research on tumor viruses' effect on genetic cellular material [3]
Edward C. Prescott B.A., 1962, mathematics Economics, 2004 Real Business Cycle Theory [4]
John C. Mather B.S., 1968, physics Physics, 2006 Discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation [5]

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... Ribonuclease (RNase) is an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of RNA into smaller components. ... Peptide sequence or amino acid sequence is the order in which amino acid residues, connected by peptide bonds, lie in the chain. ... David Baltimore (b. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... In biochemistry, a reverse transcriptase, also known as RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, is a DNA polymerase enzyme that transcribes single-stranded RNA into double-stranded DNA. Normal transcription involves the synthesis of RNA from DNA, hence reverse transcription is the reverse of this. ... Howard Martin Temin (December 10, 1934 – February 9, 1994) was a U.S. geneticist. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ... Tumor or tumour literally means swelling, and is sometimes still used with that meaning. ... Genetic material is used to store the genetic information of an organic life form. ... Edward C. Prescott (born 26 December 1940) is an American economist. ... The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (in Swedish Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is a prize awarded each year for outstanding intellectual contributions in the field of economics. ... Real Business Cycle Theory (or RBC Theory) is a macroeconomic school of thought that holds that the business cycle is caused by random fluctuations in productivity. ... John Cromwell Mather (b. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... As the temperature decreases, the peak of the black body radiation curve moves to lower intensities and longer wavelengths. ... Look up anisotropy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation (most often abbreviated CMB but occasionally CMBR, CBR or MBR, also referred as relic radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation discovered in 1965 that fills the entire universe. ...

MacArthur Fellows

Listed chronologically by year of the grant. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...

Name Degree/year/major Field Year Work
Philip Curtin B.A., 1948, history History 1983 Johns Hopkins University professor; researcher of Caribbean/African history and comparative history
John J. Hopfield B.A., 1954, physics Molecular biology 1983 Princeton University professor; computational neurobiology/computing network researcher
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot B.A., 1966, psychology Sociology/education 1984 Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University; researches education, socialization. Developed portraiture approach
Jane S. Richardson B.A., 1986, philosophy Biochemistry 1985 Duke University biochemistry professor; proteins researcher, especially three-dimensional structure and means of formation
David Page B.A., 1987, chemistry Biology/medicine 1986 MIT biology professor; director of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Sequenced the Y-chromosome.
Ellen M. Barry B.A., 1975 Criminology/penology 1998 Prison reform advocate; founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the National Network for Women in Prison
Rebecca J. Nelson B.A./B.S., 1982 Plant pathology 1998 Researcher of molecular genetics, crop disease, and crop management; associate professor of plant pathology at Cornell University
Christopher F. Chyba B.A., 1982, physics Science/international security 2001 Princeton University professor; co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation; former science/technology/national security adviser to the Clinton administration

The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... The Caribbean The History of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... History of Africa is the history of that continent. ... The chronological comparison or commentory between different societies at a given time is called comparative history. ... John Joseph Hopfield is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is a sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ... Jane Richardson Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a professor of biochemistry at Duke University. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ... David C. Page, MD, is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the director of the Whitehead Institute, where he has a laboratory devoted to the study of the Y-chromosome. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Founded in 1984, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rebecca Nelson is a professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture at Cornell University. ... Molecular genetics is the field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. ... Cornell University is a university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

List of Alumni

Listed in alphabetical order by surname.


Arts, film, theatre, and broadcasting

Peter Bart, an American born July 24, 1932, has been the editor-in-chief of Variety since 1989. ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ... Reverend Al Carmines, born Alvin Allison Carmines, Jr. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Street Fight is an Academy Award-nominated documentary about Cory Bookers ultimately unsuccessful 2002 run against Sharpe James for mayor of Newark, New Jersey by filmmaker Marshall Curry. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... David Dye is a longtime Philadelphia radio personality whose music enthusiasm has captivated listeners of World Cafe since 1991. ... World Cafe is a two-hour long nationally syndicated radio program that originates from WXPN, a non-commercial radio station on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ... Judith Edelman (born on November 11, 1964 in Manhattan) is a contemporary American bluegrass/folk musician. ... Not to be confused with a BBC news magazine program of the same name. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... Acronym used as a postnomial designating an individual who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. ... Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. ... Stephen Lang is a film actor from New York City, New York, who started in theatre on Broadway. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... For other uses, see Gods and Generals (disambiguation). ... Gettysburg may refer to: Battle of Gettysburg, a battle during the American Civil War that took place at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 1-3 in 1863. ... Tombstone most commonly means a headstone marking the grave of a deceased person. ... Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (born March 6, 1926) is a musicologist. ... Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a Chinese-language wuxia (chivalric and martial arts) 2000 Academy Award winning film. ... Y tu mamá también (literally And your mother, too, released in English-speaking markets under the original Spanish title) is a 2001 Mexican film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. ... Focus Features is the art house films division of Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distrubutor for foreign films. ... Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the major American film studios that has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los Angeles... Beth Littleford (born 17 July 1968 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a comedienne and television personality best known for her work on The Daily Show from 1996-2000. ... Dana Lyons is a folk music and alternative rock musician from Olympia, Washington. ... Marianne McKenna B.Arch, OAA, FRAIC, OAQ is a Canadian architect and partner in the form Payne, Webb, Kuwabara, McKenna and Blumberg (formed in 1987). ... Riba is the (Arabic: ربا ) term for intrest, the charging of which is forbidden by the Quran here, among other places: And that which you give in gift (loan) (to others), in order that it may increase (your wealth by expecting to get a better one in return) from other... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Martin McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a contemporary Irish playwright. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Peter Schickele (born Johann Peter Schickele, July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, perhaps best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P. D. Q. Bach. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... P. D. Q. Bach is a fictional composer invented by musical satirist Professor Peter Schickele. ... Kenneth Turan is an American film critic, currently writing for the Los Angeles Times. ... Robert Chapman Turner (1913 - 2005) was an American potter known for his functional pottery, sculptural vessels and inspired teaching. ... Paul Williams (born May 19, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) created the rock music magazine Crawdaddy! in 1966 in New York City, and had to end it in 2003 due to financial difficulties. ... Crawdaddy! was the first U.S. magazine of rock music criticism. ...

Business

Steps to Wharton Hall (student residence).

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Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $68. ... Peter Cohan is an American businessman Education Cohan earned a B.A. in art history in 1979 and a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1980 from Swarthmore College. ... John Theurer Diebold (June 8, 1926 – December 26, 2005) was a pioneer and early champion of widespread uses of computing and automated technology. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Logo. ... Tiffany & Co. ... Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... 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A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, or reputation to a charitable cause. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... United Stationers NASDAQ: USTR is the largest wholesale distributor of office products in North America, with sales in excess of $4 billion. ... The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 United States corporations as measured by gross revenue. ... The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League, is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada and the worlds oldest extant professional team sports league. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, 49 Name New York Yankees (1913–present) New York Highlanders (1903-1912) Baltimore Orioles (1901-1902) (Also referred to as... Thomas Bayard McCabe (1893–1982), a graduate of Swarthmore, served as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. ... The Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. ... The Scott Paper Company is a USA based corporation which manufactures mostly paper based consumer products. ... Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. ... T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW is an independent global investment management firm and mutual fund manager based in Baltimore, Maryland. ... 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Education

Ashesi University is a private, secular, liberal arts college located in Accra, Ghana, that opened in March of 2002, founded by Patrick Awuah, a graduate of Swarthmore College and Haas School of Business. ... A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. ... David Baltimore (b. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Nobel Prize medal. ... Nancy Bekavac is the sixth president of Scripps College. ... Scripps College is a liberal arts womens college in Claremont, California. ... Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897-1975) was President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1949 to 1953 and President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Neil R. Grabois (b. ... Colgate in fall. ... Washington and Jefferson College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college located in Washington, Pennsylvania. ... Hope College is a medium-sized (3,200 undergraduates), private, residential liberal arts college located in downtown Holland, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Michigan. ... Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–1958) and the 12th President of the University of California (1958–1967). ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is a sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. ... Harvard Graduate School of Education The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is considered by many as one of the top education schools in the United States. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Richard Wall Lyman (born 1923) was a U.S. educator and historian. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ... Professor Robert S. Prichard is a lawyer, economist, and academic. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Helen Magill White (1853-1944) was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... Oglethorpe University is a private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ...

Historians

Pamela Kyle Crossley, a leading historian of modern China, is author of Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World (Princeton University Press, 1990); The Manchus (Blackwells Publishers, 1997); A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (University of California Press, 1999). ... Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Andre Gunder Frank (Berlin, February 24, 1929 – Luxembourg, April 23, 2005) was a German economic historian and sociologist who was one of the founders of the Dependency theory and the World Systems Theory in the 1960s. ... Roosevelt University downtown campus (Auditorium Building) Roosevelt University   Roosevelt University is a four-year, private institute of higher education with full service campuses in Chicagos Loop and northwest suburban Schaumburg. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ... Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ... Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is located in New Brunswick, Piscataway, Camden and Newark, New Jersey. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ...

Humanities and Law

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... Marjorie Garber is a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of books, most notably ones about sexuality. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... Allan Gibbard (b. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Michael Hardt is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. ... {{ otheruses4|Empire (Book)|novels|Empire (2006 novel)]] or [[Empire (1987 novel) }} Cover of the Swedish edition (Imperiet) Empire is a text written by Marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. ... Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary philosopher teaching at Princeton University who has published widely in Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the philosophies of Language and Mind. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... David K. Lewis David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered to have been one of the leading analytic philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Alexander Nehamas is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton University. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Post-Normal Science is a concept developed by Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome Ravetz, attempting to characterise a methodology of inquiry that is appropriate for cases where facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent. It is primarily seen in the context of the debate over global warming... Saïd Business School (SBS) is the business school of the University of Oxford in England, located on Park End Street in Oxford. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Oglethorpe University is a private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ... Washington University in St. ... Peter Unger is a modern philosopher, and professor at New York University. ... 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The University of Chicago Law School, having recently celebrated its centennial in the 2002-2003 school year, has established itself as a high profile part of the University of Chicago. ... Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University. ... United States Attorneys (also known as federal prosecutors) represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. ... ... Eben Moglen Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... 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Natural Science, Medicine, and Engineering

Dave Bayer is american mathematician. ... A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. ... ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. ... Focal plane Longitudinal sections In optics, spherical aberration is an image imperfection that occurs due to the increased refraction of light rays that occurs when rays strike a lens or mirror near its edge, in comparison with those that strike nearer the center. ... The Mauna Kea Observatory, an institute of the University of Hawaii, is considered one of the most important land-based observatories in the world for its isolated, unobstructed views of space without interference from man-made light sources. ... Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five volcanic peaks that together form the island of Hawaii. ... Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area  Ranked 43rd  - Total 10,931 sq mi (29,311 km²)  - Width n/a miles (n/a km)  - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)  - % water 41. ... EG&G logo EG&G is a defense contractor and provider of management and technical services. ... Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT and the head of MITs Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab spun out of the popular MIT Media Lab. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Aerial view of the lab and surrounding area. ... Aerial view of the lab and surrounding area. ... John Joseph Hopfield is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. ... Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The American Philosophical Society is a discussion group founded as the Junto in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. ... Martin Felix Krafft (b. ... Debian is a project based around the development of a free, complete operating system through the collaboration of volunteers from around the world. ... John Cromwell Mather (b. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center. ... Holbrook Mann MacNeille (May 11, 1907–September 30, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission before becoming the first Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society. ... In June of 1941, the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) superseded the committee structure [of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)]. The OSRD projects gave the United States and Allied troops more powerful and more accurate bombs, more reliable detonators, lighter and more accurate weapons, safer and more... Shield of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. ... Ted Nelson at OpenTech, London, 2005 Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. ... In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), branch or perform on request. ... The Johns Hopkins University is an internationally prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Nancy Grace Roman was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925 to music teacher Georgia Smith Roman and geophysicist Irwin Roman. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is recognized as the lead United States agency for protecting the public health and safety of people by providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. ... CDC is an abbreviation which can mean any of the following: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Communicable Disease Control Community of Democratic Choice, a group of nine Eastern-European states Change data capture, in data warehousing Clock Domain Crossing, or simply clock-crossing in computing Cedar City Regional Airport... The Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) is a foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 to support scientific research. ... Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly (September 24, 1898 – March 3, 1990) was an American astronomer. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... watecs ... The Sun (Latin: Sol) is the star at the center of the Solar System. ... Extremely high resolution spectrogram of the Sun showing thousands of elemental absorption lines (fraunhofer lines) Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between radiation (electromagnetic radiation, or light, as well as particle radiation) and matter. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Dynein is one of the motor proteins (also called molecular motors) in biological cells that is able to convert the chemical energy contained in ATP into the mechanical energy of movement. ... Peter J. Weinberger is a computer scientist who worked at AT&T Bell Labs and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK programming language (he is the W in AWK). ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) was the main research and development arm of the United States Bell System. ... AWK is a general purpose computer language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is a United States non-profit medical research institute based in Chevy Chase, Maryland and originally founded by the aviator and engineer Howard Hughes in 1953. ... The Circadian rhythm is a name given to the internal body clock that regulates the (roughly) 24 hour cycle of biological processes in animals and plants. ...

Politics

The office of the Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives is an office managed, supervised and administered by a non-partisan Parliamentarian appointed by the Speaker. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... The Center for American Progress is a progressive American political policy research and advocacy organization. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article deals with politician Peter R. Deutsch. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Floridas Twentieth Congressional District is a U.S. congressional district in Florida. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. ... The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he leads courses on constitutional interpretation and civil liberties. ... A controversial entity, created by George W. Bush, whose purpose is to regulate (or, at least, tell the president how he ought to regulate) biotechnology and biomedical research. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability, citing reliable sources, so as to avoid it being considered... The Genocide Intervention Network (or GI-Net) is a non-profit organization that envisions a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocidal violence. ... James Catherwood Hormel, born January 1, 1931 in Austin, Minnesota, is a philanthropist and heir to the fortune of George Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods (producers of SPAM and other meat products). ... Carl Milton Levin (born June 28, 1934) is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan and is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... Eugene M. Lang or Gene Lang (New York City, 1919–) is a Hungarian-born philanthropist who founded REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951. ... A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, or reputation to a charitable cause. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... Alice Paul, 1901. ... The term womens suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that was intended to guarantee equal rights under the law for Americans regardless of sex. ... Robert David Putnam (born January 9, 1941 in Rochester, New York) is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University, well-known for his writings on civic engagement, civil society, and social capital, a concept of which he is probably the leading exponent. ... Social capital is a core concept in business, economics, organizational behaviour, political science, and sociology, defined as the advantage created by a persons location in a structure of relationships. ... Bowling Alone: Americas Declining Social Capital (1995) is an essay by Robert D. Putnam. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Dr. Antoinette M. Sayeh is a politician in Liberia and since January 2006, Minister of Finance under Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. ... William Cameron Sproul (September 16, 1870–March 21, 1928) was Governor of Pennsylvania 1919 to 1923. ... List of Pennsylvania Governors The office of Pennsylvania governor was created by the states Constitution of 1790. ... Christopher Chris Van Hollen, Jr. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33... Mary Alexander Molly Yard (July 6, 1912 - September 21, 2005) was a dynamic American feminist of the late 20th century. ... The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist group, founded in 1966, with 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. ... Robert B. Zoellick Robert Bruce Zoellick (IPA: ) (born July 25, 1953) is an American politician and (effective July 1, 2007) the eleventh president of the World Bank. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ...

Psychology

Isabel Myers, along with her mother Katherine Briggs, is the co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. ... Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality indicator designed to assist individuals to identify their significant personal preferences. ... Carol Gilligan (1936– ) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. ... The Grawemeyer Award is a prestigious and lucrative award presented each year by the University of Louisville in the state of Kentucky, United States. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ...

Writers, Journalists, & Publishers

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This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Peter Bart, an American born July 24, 1932, has been the editor-in-chief of Variety since 1989. ... Variety is a daily newspaper for the entertainment industry. ... David G. Bradley has chaired, edited, and owned several publishing and news firms. ... The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... Heywood Hale Broun (March 10, 1918 – September 5, 2001 was an American sportswriter and commentator. ... Ben Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is the chief theatre critic of the New York Times. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... ESPN.com logo ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. ... First Fruits are a religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest. ... The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced left-of-center perspective. ... Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) was a writer and investigative reporter at The New York Times newspaper until October 2006, when he resigned to become an investigative reporter with Condé Nasts forthcoming business magazine, Portfolio -- which plans to mail out its premier issue in late April 2007. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Informant is a 1997 cable movie produced by Showtime starring Cary Elwes and Timothy Dalton. ... Conspiracy of Fools is a book by Kurt Eichenwald detailing the Enron scandal. ... Image:DianediPrima1954. ... “Beats” redirects here. ... Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. ... The Corrections is a novel of social criticism by American author Jonathan Franzen. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... The Washingtonians were a temperance group from early in the history of the United States. ... Justin Hall, 2007 Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist), and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly left-liberal periodical devoted to politics and culture. ... The Atlantic redirects here; for the ocean, see Atlantic Ocean. ... The quarterly fiction magazine founded and published by Francis Ford Coppola. ... “NPR” redirects here. ... Selected Shorts is a one-hour radio program, hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York’s Symphony Space. ... Dr. Josef Joffe Josef Joffe is editor and publisher of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an... DIE ZEIT (pronounced , in English, literally The Time, more idiomatically The Times) is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism. ... A McLean, Virginia native, Cynthia (Cindi) Leive became Editor in Chief of Glamour magazine in May 2001. ... Glamour Magazine is a monthly womens magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. ... Helen Reimensnyder Martin (1868-1939) was an American author. ... James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. ... Victor S. Navasky (b. ... The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly left-liberal periodical devoted to politics and culture. ... The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961. ... Drew Pearson Drew Pearson (December 13, 1897–September 1, 1969), born in Evanston, Illinois was one of the most prominent American newspaper and radio journalists of his day. ... Rudy Rucker, Fall 2004, photo by Georgia Rucker. ... Berlins Sony Center reflects the global reach of a Japanese corporation. ... Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933) is an American novelist. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... Sevenspotted Lady Beetles mating In biology, mating is the pairing of opposite-sex or hermaphroditic internal fertilization animals for copulation and, in social animals, also to raise their offspring. ... William Saletan is the chief national correspondent at Slate. ... Categories: Magazines stubs | Microsoft subsidiaries | Websites | The Washington Post ... For other uses, see the New Republic disambiguation page. ...

Notable professors

Current faculty

James Kurth is the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics. ... Nathaniel Deutsch is an American religious scholar. ... Donna Jo Napoli is an author of childrens and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist with work in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis... Raymond F. Hopkins is an American political science professor and expert on food politics and food policy. ... Kenneth J. Gergen is a notable American psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. ... Barry Schwartz is an American sociologist. ... Gerald Levinson (b. ...

Former faculty

Solomon E. Asch (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. ... Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) (IPA: ; first syllable of Auden rhymes with law), who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. ... Frank Aydelotte (1880 - 1956) was a U.S. educator. ... Percy Brand Blanshard (August 27, 1892, Fredericksburg, Ohio – 1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason. ... Daniel J. Boorstin. ... Bruce Cumings is an historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. ... Rush Dew Holt (born October 15, 1948) is an American politician and the current U.S. Representative for New Jerseys 12th Congressional District (map). ... Nannerl Overholser Keohane is an American political scientist. ... Wolfgang Köhler (Reval (now Tallinn), Estonia, January 21, 1887 - New Hampshire, June 11, 1967) was a German gestalt psychologist. ... Joseph Leidy (1823–1891) was an American paleontologist. ... George William Lewis (1882 - July 1948) was the Director of Aeronautical Research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in until he retired in 1947. ... Judith Moffett (born 1942) is an American science fiction writer. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Helen and Scott Nearing. ... Maria L. Sanford (NSHC statue) Maria Louise Sanford (December 19, 1936 – April 21, 1920) was an American educator. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kenneth Neal Waltz (born 1924) is a member of the faculty at Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations (IR) alive today. ...

National Awards and Honors (since the 1970's)

135 Fulbright Scholarships ...


25 Rhodes Scholarships Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil John Rhodes. ...


8 Marshall Scholarships The official logo of the Marshall Scholarship is a blended image of the US and UK flags. ...


13 Luce Scholarships It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with The Henry Luce Foundation. ...


1 Insight Fellowship


68 Watson Fellowships The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a grant that enables graduating seniors to pursue a year of independent study outside the United States. ...


21 Truman Scholarships President Harry S. Truman The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a federal scholarship granted to U.S. college juniors for demonstrated leadership potential and a commitment to public service. ...


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