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Date 1855 - present
Areas Of Involvement public education
Notable Alumni Katherine Amelia Towle • Saul Perlmutter • Butler W. Lampson • Owen Chamberlain • Biruté Galdikas • Russell Westbrook • Ali Wong • Maulana Karenga • Judith Heumann • Jaylen Brown • Steve Wozniak • Kelly Marie Tran • Michael Milken • Gary Ruvkun • Kary Mullis • Chris Burden • Eric Schmidt • Richard Serra • Michael Ovitz • Byron Haskin • Carol W. Greider • Robert Penn Warren • Susan Wojcicki • Venki Ramakrishnan • John F. Hartwig • Ralph Bunche • Joseph Acaba • Thomas J. Sargent • Todd Gitlin • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero • Thomas Robert Cech • Robert B. Laughlin • Julian Seymour Schwinger • Patty Hearst • Peter Snell • Frances Arnold • Diane Johnson • Richard R. Schrock • Andrew Z. Fire • Houston A. Baker, Jr. • Thérèse Bonney • Iva Toguri D’Aquino • Lawrence R. Klein • Charles P. Thacker • William F. Sharpe • Crown Prince Haakon • E. Mavis Hetherington • Carleton Washburne • Richard F. Heck • Yuan T. Lee • Horace Welcome Babcock
Related People Bill Walton • Mario Savio • I. Michael Heyman • Katherine Amelia Towle • John Wooden • Frederic Ward Putnam • Edward W. Gifford

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