<p>Self explanatory. No particular reason for this other than my own curiosity.</p>
<p>To get the list started:</p>
<p>UCSD - Sally Ride (certainly one of the more recognizable names anyway)
Cambridge - Stephen Hawking</p>
<p>UCLA- Field medalist Terrence Tao</p>
<p>political theorist Hannah Arendt; former U.S. Attorneys General John Ashcroft, Ramsey Clark, and Edward H. Levi; current U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL); former Vice President of Taiwan and the Kuomintang Lien Chan; current Governor of New Jersey and former U.S. Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ); current judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals Richard Posner, Frank Easterbrook, and Douglas Ginsberg; current U.S. Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and former head of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz; Nobel Prize-winning economists Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Robert Lucas; Nobel Prize-winning writers Saul Bellow and J.M. Coetzee; novelists Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Ellison, Philip Roth, and Thornton Wilder; Nobel Prize-winning modernist poet and dramatist T. S. Eliot; essayist, award-winning novelist, film maker, poet, and activist Susan Sontag; Nobel Prize-winning physicists Albert Michelson, Robert Millikan, Arthur Compton, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; Nobel Prize-winning physicist and developer of the first nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi; astronomer and pioneer of physical cosmology Edwin Hubble; astronomer and highly successful science popularizer Carl Sagan; prominent philosophers Allan Bloom, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Pippin, Rudolph Carnap, Leszek Kolakowski, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, and Leo Strauss; internet celebrity Tucker Max; influential philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey; philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel Prize-winning writer Bertrand Russell; mathematician Andr</p>
<p>^^^
Not really what I was looking for, but thanks for your response</p>
<p>greg graffin-life scienses professor and member of the band bad religion</p>
<p>Elie Weisel teaches at BU...I'm not sure in what capacity, but still</p>
<p>georgetown, madeline albright</p>
<p>Mostafa El-Sayed, just won the National Medal of Science and has a spectroscopy rule named after him.</p>
<p>A bunch of EAS professors won the Nobel Prize last year with Al Gore for all that climate change crap...but I don't pay attention to that stuff so I don't know their names.</p>
<p>List what university the person is associated with if you can. I just looked up Mostafa El-Sayed and he appears to be on faculty at GaTech, but is also associated with Cal.</p>
<p>William and Mary has some who are names in their field... but this guy is the weirdest. He is visiting:</p>
<p>Benjamin B. Bolger - Sociology (his resume follows...)
1992 - Muskegon Community College, A.A.
1994 - University of Michigan, B.A. in sociology, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1997 - University of Oxford, M.Sc sociology
1998 - University of Cambridge, M.Phil sociology and politics of modern society
2000 - Stanford University, A.M. education
2001 - Columbia University, M.A. politics and education
2002 - Columbia University, M.S. real estate development
2002 - Harvard University, M.Des.S. real estate
2004 - Brown University, M.A. development studies
2004 - Dartmouth College, M.A. liberal studies
2007 - Brandeis University, M.A. coexistence and conflict
2007 - Skidmore College, M.A. liberal studies
2008 - Harvard University, D.Des Design</p>
<p>i mean... a masters (or two) in "liberal studies"... that sounds very useful /sarcasm</p>
<p>What would one hope to accomplish by having so many masters degrees!?! That list is laughable. The only smart decision he made was going to Cambridge after Oxford since everyone knows the former is a far superior institution. He probably realized that his masters from Ox was useless ;)</p>
<p>Historically or currently?</p>
<p>Some famous ones we've had are Robert Oppenheimer, Luis Alvarez, Melvin Calvin, Owen Chamberlain, Hans Albert Einstein (Einstein's son), Theodore Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Alfred Kroeber, Ernest Lawrence, G.N. Lewis, and Glenn Seaborg.</p>
<p>Some big people here now are Vaughan Jones, Brad Delong, George Smoot, Jean Frechet, Kenneth Ribet, and David Card. I've had the last three as professors =)</p>
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Theodore Kaczynski (the Unabomber)
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<p>No: he applied for a job at Berkeley, and was turned down because in the section where it says "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" his reply was honest: YES -- MURDER. He had murdered his advisor at Stanford.</p>
<p>From wikipedia (so take with a grain of salt):</p>
<p>"Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American mathematician and social critic who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings. Kaczynski was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was considered a genius at a young age. He attended Harvard University, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan specializing in geometric function theory. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at age 25, but resigned two years later. In 1971, he then moved to a remote cabin in Lincoln, Montana. From 1978 to 1995, Kaczynski sent bombs to targets including universities and airlines."</p>
<p>So maybe that's why Cal is sometimes called Berserkeley...</p>
<p>Charles Moskos (well he passed away this year) - Creator of "Don't ask Don't Tell", Former advisor to Pres. Bill Clinton</p>
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greg graffin-life scienses professor and member of the band bad religion
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Whoa, I had no idea Greg Graffin taught now. It would be amazing to take a class with him.</p>
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From wikipedia (so take with a grain of salt):</p>
<p>"Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American mathematician and social critic who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings. Kaczynski was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was considered a genius at a young age. He attended Harvard University, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan specializing in geometric function theory. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at age 25, but resigned two years later. In 1971, he then moved to a remote cabin in Lincoln, Montana. From 1978 to 1995, Kaczynski sent bombs to targets including universities and airlines."</p>
<p>So maybe that's why Cal is sometimes called Berserkeley...
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<p>Oops, you know you are right. Sorry about that. I got the unabomber mixed up in my head with the following guy:</p>
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<p>Theodore Streleski was a graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his former faculty advisor, the professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball peen hammer in August 1978. Shortly after the murder, Streleski turned himself in to the authorities, claiming he felt the murder was justifiable homicide because de Leeuw had withheld departmental awards from him and demeaned Streleski in front of his peers. Streleski described how at one point, de Leeuw had insulted his shoes.</p>
<p>Streleski had been pursuing his doctorate in the mathematics department for nineteen years and he felt that the Stanford faculty was unfairly withholding his degree. Streleski also confessed to having the names of de Leeuw's colleagues on a "hit list".</p>
<p>During his trial Streleski told the court he felt the murder was "logically and morally correct." Streleski was convicted of second degree murder and he served seven years in prison for his actions.</p>
<p>Streleski was eligible for parole on three occasions, but turned it down as the conditions of his parole required him to not set foot on the Stanford campus. Upon his release in 1985, he said, "I have no intention of killing again. On the other hand, I cannot predict the future."
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<p>And what I said was reported in the Chronicle -- i.e. that he applied to Berkeley to be a professor.</p>
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<p>I think this would make anyone homicidal.</p>
<p>lol. I can't believe that they didn't kick him out for lack of progress.</p>
<p>Stanford doesn't kick anyone out =P</p>