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

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