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J. Christopher Jaffe (1949), leader in architectural acoustic design; taught acoustics at the
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Juilliard School, City University of New York, and Rensselaer
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Theodore Judah (1837), visionary of the transcontinental railroad
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Robert Loewy (1947), aeronautical engineer William Metcalf (1858), steel manufacturing pioneer
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Keith D. Millis (1938), metallurgical engineer and inventor of ductile iron
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Ralph Peck (1937), geotechnical engineer
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Emil H. Praeger (1915), designer of Shea and Dodger Stadiums, Tappan Zee Bridge, Arecibo Telescope
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and a renovation of the White House
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George Brooke Roberts (1849), civil engineer, 5th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
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Washington Roebling (1857), chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge
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James Salisbury (1844), physician and inventor of the Salisbury Steak
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Steven Sasson (1973), engineer and inventor of the digital camera
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Robert "RJ" Scaringe (2005), CEO & Founder of Rivian Massood Tabib-Azar, chemical engineer
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Raymond Tomlinson (1963), inventor of the email system
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David L. Noble (1940), inventor of the floppy disk
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Alan M. Voorhees (1947), city planner and traffic forecaster; former Rensselaer trustee; principal
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supporter for the Voorhees Computing Center at Rensselaer
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John Alexander Low Waddell (1871), civil engineer and prolific bridge builder
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Robert H. Widmer (1938), aeronautical engineer and designer of the B-58 supersonic bomber
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John F. Schenck (1961), physician and co-inventor of the first clinically viable high-field MRI
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scanner at General Electric
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Military William L. Haskin (1861), U.S. Army brigadier general
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Harold J. Greene (1980), major general, U.S. Army, highest ranking casualty of War in Afghanistan
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Arthur L. McCullough, U.S. Air Force general
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Ario Pardee, Jr. (1858), commander during the civil war
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L. Scott Rice (1980), major general, U.S. Air Force; commander of Massachusetts Air National Guard
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Thomas R. Sargent III, vice admiral, U.S. Coast Guard; Vice Commandant 1970–1974
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Walter L. Sharp, General, U.S. Army; Commander of United Nations Command, Commander of ROK-US
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Combined Forces Command and Commander of U.S. Forces Korea (2008–2011); former Director of the
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Joint Staff (2005–2008)
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Blake Wayne Van Leer, (1953), Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy. Lead SeaBee program and lead
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the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze.
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Arthur E. Williams, lieutenant general, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Chief of Engineers in 1992
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Ronald J. Zlatoper (1963), Chief of Naval Personnel; Battle Group Commander in Desert Storm and
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Desert Shield; former Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; trustee
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Politics and public service J. Frank Aldrich (1877), U.S. Representative from Illinois
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Truman H. Aldrich (1869), U.S. Representative from Alabama (1896–1897)
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Myles Brand (1964), president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
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George R. Dennis, United States Senator from Maryland
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Francis Collier Draper (1854), Toronto lawyer, Toronto Police Chief
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Thomas Farrell (1912), Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project
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Nariman Farvardin (1983), Provost of the University of Maryland
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Lincoln D. Faurer (1964), director of the National Security Agency and chief, Central Security
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Service, 1981–1985
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Richard Franchot, U.S. Representative from New York (1861–1863)
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Arthur J. Gajarsa (1962), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
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trustee
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Naeem Gheriany, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Libya
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Thomas J. Haas (1983), current president of Grand Valley State University
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John Hammond, US Representative from New York, iron manufacturer
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Walter F. Lineberger, U.S. State Representative of California, 1917–1921
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Richard Linn (1965), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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George Low, manager of NASA's Apollo 11 project; President of RPI (1976–1984); namesake of RPI's
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Low Center for Industrial Innovation
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Hani Al-Mulki (MA, PhD), former Prime Minister of Jordan
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John Olver (1958), Massachusetts State Representative (D) since 1991
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Ely S. Parker, Civil War statesman, author of Appomattox Courthouse agreement
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Clarkson Nott Potter (1843), U.S. Representative from New York, surveyor, lawyer, and President of
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the American Bar Association
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Mark Shepard (1994), Vermont State Senator
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Clement Hall Sinnickson, U.S. State Representative from New Jersey, 1875–1879
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Peter G. Ten Eyck, New York State Representative Tony Tether (1964), director of DARPA, 2001–2009
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W. Aubrey Thomas, U.S. State Representative from Ohio, 1900–1911
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De Volson Wood (1857), first president of the American Society for Engineering Education
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Science and technology David Adler (1956), physicist Don L. Anderson (1955), geophysicist
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James Curtis Booth (1832), chemist James Cantor (1988), neuroscientist, sex researcher
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Ronald CollΓ© (1972), nuclear physicist at NIST
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George Hammell Cook (1839), state geologist of New Jersey
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Edgar Cortright (1949), former NASA official
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Ebenezer Emmons (1826), geologist, author of Natural History of New York (1848) and American
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Geology
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Asa Fitch (1827), entomologist Alan Fowler (1951), physicist, NAS member
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David Ferrucci (1994), computer scientist, developed IBM Watson AI Jeopardy player
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Claire M. Fraser (1977), President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research
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Jeffrey M. Friedman, discovered leptin, a key hormone in the area of human obesity
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Ivar Giaever (1964), shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries on tunneling phenomena
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in semiconductors; Institute Professor of Science
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Morton Gurtin (1955), mathematical physicist James Hall (1832), geologist and paleontologist
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Jon Hall (1977), Executive Director of Linux International
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Peter E. Hart, group senior vice president of the Ricoh company; artificial intelligence innovator
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Edward C. Harwood, economist
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Hermann A. Haus (1951), optical communications researcher, pioneer of quantum optics
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Eben Norton Horsford (1838), "father of food science" and author, discovered baking powder
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Douglass Houghton (1829), Michigan's first state geologist; namesake of a Michigan city, county,
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and lake
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Robert Kennicutt (1973), astronomer Nimai Mukhopadhyay, physics Richard Klein (1966), astronomer
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David Korn (1965), computer programmer who created the Korn Shell
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Richard Mastracchio (1987), NASA astronaut, flew on STS-106 Atlantis, 2000
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Mark T. Maybury, Chief Scientist of U.S. Air Force Pat Munday (1981), environmentalist
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Heidi Jo Newberg (1987), professor of astrophysics at RPI
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James "Kibo" Parry, satirist, Usenet personality, and typeface designer
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Henry Augustus Rowland (1870), first president of the American Physical Society; Johns Hopkins
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University's first physics professor
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Mark Russinovich, Windows software engineer Peter Schwartz, futurist and writer
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Robert C. Seacord, computer security specialist and author
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Kip Siegel (1948), physicist, professor of physics at the University of Michigan
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Andrew Sears, computer science professor at UMBC
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Marlan Scully, physicist known for work in quantum optics
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George Soper (1895), managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, later the
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American Cancer Society