Notable International House Alumni
![Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/luis_alvarez.jpg?mtime=1519402622)
Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)
1965
SB’32, SM’34, PhD’36; Nobel laureate in physics, 1968; National Medal of Science: Physical Sciences, 1963
![Hastings K. Banda (1898-1997)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/HK_Banda_2.jpg?mtime=)
Hastings K. Banda (1898-1997)
Summer 1933
PhB’31; President of Malawi (1966-94)
![Walter Fred Berns, Jr. (1919-2015)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/Walter_Berns.jpg?mtime=1595620788)
Walter Fred Berns, Jr. (1919-2015)
1951
AM’51, PhD’53; Faculty, 1984, 1989; National Humanities Medal, 2005
![R. Darrell Bock (1927-2021)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/R._Darrell_Bock.png?mtime=1634227311)
R. Darrell Bock (1927-2021)
1951-52
SB’49, AM’50, PhD’52; Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development; known for his influential work on educational metrics and his many contributions to the statistical framework known as item response theory (IRT).
![Alberto Pedro Calderón (1920-1998)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/Alberto_Calderon.jpg?mtime=1595623222)
Alberto Pedro Calderón (1920-1998)
1949, 1950, 1960
PhD’50; National Medal of Science: Mathematics & Computer Science, 1991; Partial Differential Equations Contributions To Studies Of Harmonic Analysis Pure Mathematics
![A.W. Clausen (1923-2013)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/CLAUSEN.jpg?mtime=)
A.W. Clausen (1923-2013)
1943-44
President and CEO of the Bank of America (1970-81) and President of the World Bank (1981-86)
![James Watson Cronin (1931-2016)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/james_cronin.jpg?mtime=1519402585)
James Watson Cronin (1931-2016)
1954
SM’53, PhD’55; University Professor Emeritus in Physics; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1980; National Medal of Science: Physical Sciences, 1999
![Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/fermi.jpg?mtime=)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
1940 & 1942
Nobel laureate in Physics, 1938
![Thomas Frank](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/thomas_frank.jpg?mtime=1519402447)
Thomas Frank
1988-89
AM’89, PhD’94; Author, journalist, and columnist for the Wall Street Journal
![Martin Gardner (1914-2010)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/martin__gardner.jpg?mtime=1519402421)
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)
1934
AB’36; Former author and columnist of ‘Mathematical Games” in the magazine Scientific American
![Mary Ann Glendon](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/Mary_Ann_Glendon_ambassador.jpg?mtime=1595619953)
Mary Ann Glendon
1959
AB’59, JD’61, MCL’63; National Humanities Medal 2005
![John B. Goodenough](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/John_B_Goodenough.jpg?mtime=1594411989)
John B. Goodenough
1946-51
SM’50, PhD’52; Nobel laureate in Chemistry 2019; Credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery; Awards: 2011 National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize in 2001 and the Enrico Fermi Award in 2009
![Katharine Meyer Graham (1917-2001)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/katharine_meyer_graham.jpg?mtime=1519402381)
Katharine Meyer Graham (1917-2001)
1936-38
AB’38; Former chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History, 1998; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002
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
![Warren E. Henry (1909-2001)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/warren_e_henry.jpg?mtime=1519402303)
Warren E. Henry (1909-2001)
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
![Deane R. Hinton (1914-2015)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/hinton.jpg?mtime=)
Deane R. Hinton (1914-2015)
1942-43
AB’43; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1981-83), Pakistan (1983-86), Costa Rica (1987-90), and Panama (1990-94)
![James Hoge](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/hoge.jpg?mtime=)
James Hoge
1958-59
AM’59; Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times (1958-84) and Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Watch (2010-13)
![Donald Hopkins](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/donald_hopkins.jpg?mtime=1519402252)
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
![James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/Langston_Hughes.jpg?mtime=1594415112)
James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
1949
Author, Poet, Playwright; Leader of the Harlem Renaissance
![Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. (1920-2001)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/hummel2-228x300.jpg?mtime=)
Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. (1920-2001)
1947-49
AM’49; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1977-81) and the People’s Republic of China (1981-85)
![Chimere Ikoku (1928-2002)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/chimere__ikoku.jpg?mtime=1519404004)
Chimere Ikoku (1928-2002)
1949-51
SM’52, PhD’64; Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria; pan-Africanist; anti-apartheid advocate
![(George William) Senteza Kajubi (1926-2012)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/senteza_kajubi.jpg?mtime=1519403206)
(George William) Senteza Kajubi (1926-2012)
1952-1955
SM’55; Director, National Institute of Education at Makerere University College (1964-77) and first African Fulbright Scholar to the United States
![Frances O. Kelsey (1914-2015)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey.png?mtime=)
Frances O. Kelsey (1914-2015)
1939-41
PhD’38, MD’50; Pharmacologist responsible for detecting Thalidomide danger
![Zalmay Khalilzad](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/khalilzad.jpg?mtime=)
Zalmay Khalilzad
PhD’79; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003-05), Iraq (2005-07), and the United Nations (2007-09)
![Tsung-Dao Lee](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/tsung_dao_lee.jpg?mtime=1519402185)
Tsung-Dao Lee
1946-49
PhD’50; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957
![Omar Ramadhan Mapuri](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/omar_ramadhan_mapuri.jpg?mtime=1519402157)
Omar Ramadhan Mapuri
1984
AM’85; Minister of Education and Minister for Home Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania
John Payne Mitchell
1955
PhD’55; former Director, General Civil Services of Liberia and the first African student to earn a PhD from the University of Chicago
![Robert Mulliken (1896-1986)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/robert_mulliken.jpg?mtime=1519402117)
Robert Mulliken (1896-1986)
1956
PhD’21; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1966
Sara Paretsky
1968
AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77; Author of V.I. Warshawski detective novels
![Marjorie Holloman Parker (1916-2006)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/marjorie_holloman_parker.jpg?mtime=1519402019)
Marjorie Holloman Parker (1916-2006)
1938
AM’51, PhD’51; Presidential appointee to City Council in Washington, D.C.
![Roderick W. Pugh (1919-2010)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/roderick_w_pugh.jpg?mtime=1519401960)
Roderick W. Pugh (1919-2010)
1946-49
PhD’49; Clinical Psychologist; Diplomat, American Board of Professional Psychology
![David Rockefeller (1915-2017)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/david_rockefeller.jpg?mtime=1519401915)
David Rockefeller (1915-2017)
1938-39
PhD’40; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); University trustee
![Bernard Sahlins (1921-2013)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/bernie_sahlins.jpg?mtime=1519401801)
Bernard Sahlins (1921-2013)
1941
AB’43; Co-founder of comedy troupe Second City
![Ray Scherer (1919-2000)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/scherer2.jpg?mtime=)
Ray Scherer (1919-2000)
1946-47
AM’47; NBC correspondent and Vice President of RCA (1975-86)
![Myron Scholes](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/myron_scholes.jpg?mtime=1519401700)
Myron Scholes
1962
MBA’64, PhD’70; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1997
![Thomas Sowell](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/thomas_sowell.jpg?mtime=1519401744)
Thomas Sowell
1959
PhD’68; Economist; Winner of the National Humanities Medal, 2002; Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1980-present)
![George Stigler (1911-1991)](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/george_stigler.jpg?mtime=1519401643)
George Stigler (1911-1991)
1933-36
PhD’38; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1982; National Medals of Science: Behavioral & Social Science, 1987
![Daniel Tsui](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/daniel_tsui.jpg?mtime=1519401506)
Daniel Tsui
1961
SM’63; PhD’67; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1998
![Chen Ning Yang](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/ihouse/i/alumni/chen_ning_yang.jpg?mtime=1519401435)
Chen Ning Yang
1946-50
PhD’48; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957; National Medals of Science: Behavioral & Social Science, 1986