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

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