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Date 1865 - present
Areas Of Involvement higher education
Notable Alumni Freeman Dyson • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Thorstein Veblen • Toni Morrison • Tsai Ing-wen • Ratan Tata • Claudia Goldin • Bruce Ames • Leonard Leo • Vera Rubin • Ruth Westheimer • Rem Koolhaas • John J. Mearsheimer • Gillian Anderson • Jane Lynch • Harold Bloom • Richard Meier • Gilles Brassard • Gabby Giffords • Francis Fukuyama • Thomas Midgley, Jr. • Sanford I. Weill • Jill Tarter • Peter Eisenman • John J. Hopfield • Steve Reich • Keith Olbermann • Margaret Bourke-White • Eric Betzig • Pearl S. Buck • Robert Schenkkan • Barbara McClintock • Irene Rosenfeld • Janet Reno • Diane Ackerman • Monir Farmanfarmaian • Mark Kirk • Thomas Pynchon • Ann Coulter • Florence Kelley • Mae Jemison • Paul Wolfowitz • M. Carey Thomas • David Thouless • George Wells Beadle • Junot Díaz • William F. Friedman • W.E. Moerner • Lee Teng-hui • Arthur Ashkin • Edmund Muskie • William H. McNeill • Theobald Smith • Edward Bernays • Alice Evans • Robert F. Engle • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Steven Weinberg • David Starr Jordan • Robert William Fogel • June Etta Downey • Frank Hyneman Knight • William Chandler Bagley • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Sheldon Glashow • Douglas Osheroff • Robert William Holley • Pietro Belluschi • Gerard K. O’Neill • Edmund M. Clarke • George Jean Nathan • George Robert Stibitz • Willis Carrier
Related People Andrew Dickson White • Ezra Cornell

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