Alumni & Friends
Notable Alumni
| Photo | Name | Time at I-House | Accomplishments |
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Luis Alvarez (1911-1988) | 1965 | SB'32, SM'34, PhD'36; Nobel laureate in physics, 1968 |
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James Cronin | 1954 | SM'53, PhD'55; University Professor Emeritus in Physics; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1980 |
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Luther H. Foster | 1940-1941, 1949 | AM'41, PhD'51; Former President of Tuskegee Institute (1953-1981) |
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Thomas Frank | 1988-89 | AM'89, PhD'94; Author, journalist, and columnist for the Wall Street Journal |
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Martin Gardner (1914-2010) | 1934 | AB'36; Former author and columnist of 'Mathematical Games" in the magazine Scientific American |
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Katharine Graham (1917-2001) | 1965 | AB'38; Former chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History, 1998 |
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Nathan Hare | 1954-55 | AM'57, PhD'62; Author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar, then dubbed "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis" by the New York Times |
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Warren E. Henry (1903-2001) | 1938-41 | PhD'41; Physicist and professor in magnetism and superconductivity; developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships in World War II; his demonstration of the proof of non-interacting paramagnetic ions is used in a number of physics texts |
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Donald Hopkins | 1963 | MD'66; Director of health programs at the Carter Center; former Deputy Director of International Health, Centers for Disease Control; recipient of the MacArthur fellowship award |
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Chimere Ikoku (d. 2002) | 1949-51 | SM'52, PhD'64; Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria; pan-Africanist; anti-apartheid advocate |
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Tsung-Dao Lee | 1946-49 | PhD'50; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957 |
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Omar Ramadhan Mapuri | 1984 | AM'85; Minister of Education and Minister for Home Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania |
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Robert Mulliken (1896-1986) | 1956 | PhD'21; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1966 |
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Sara Paretsky | 1968 | AM'69, MBA'77, PhD'77; Author of V.I. Warshawski detective novels |
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Marjorie Holloman Parker (1917-2006) | 1938 | AM'51, PhD'51; Presidential appointee to City Council in Washington, D.C. |
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Roderick W. Pugh | 1946-49 | PhD'49; Clinical Psychologist; diplomat, American Board of Professional Psychology |
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David Rockefeller | 1938-39 | PhD'40; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); University trustee |
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Bernard Sahlins | 1941 | AB'43; Co-founder of comedy troupe Second City |
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Myron Scholes | 1962 | MBA'64, PhD'70; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1997 |
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Thomas Sowell | 1959 | PhD'68; Economist; Winner of the National Humanities Medal, 2002; Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1980-present) |
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George Stigler (1911-1991) | 1933 | PhD'38; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1982 |
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Daniel Tsui | 1961 | SM'63; PhD'67; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1998 |
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Chen Ning Yang | 1945-48 | PhD'48; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957 |