List of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute people
This is a list of people associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , including presidents, institute leaders, trustees, alumni, professors and researchers.
For a list of the highest elected student leaders at RPI see: List of RPI Grand Marshals .
Presidents of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Notable alumni
Business
William Gurley (1839), and Lewis E. Gurley, brothers and founders of Gurley Precision Instruments .John J. Albright (1868), businessman and philanthropistWilliam H. Wiley (1866), Civil War artillery commander, co-founder of publisher John Wiley and Sons , and US State RepresentativeJ. Erik Jonsson (1922), co-founder and former president of Texas Instruments Incorporated, and mayor of Dallas George Lewis Capwell Cronin (1925), businessman and founder of the Ecuadorian baseball & soccer team Club Sport Emelec Joseph Gerber (1947), founder of Gerber Scientific [ 1] Sheldon Roberts (1948), member of the "traitorous eight " who created Silicon Valley ; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and AmelcoJohn Rigas , co-founder of Adelphia Communications William Mow (1959), founded apparel maker Bugle Boy in 1977.Nicholas M. Donofrio (1967), director of research at IBM , trusteeNicholas T. Pinchuk (1968) Chairman & CEO of Snap-on Edward Zander (1968), former CEO of Motorola Gary Burrell , founder of Garmin Curtis Priem (1982), NVIDIA co-founder; architect of the first PC video processor and many that followed; trusteeWilliam Meaney (1982) President & CEO of Iron Mountain Marshall Brain (1983), founder of HowStuffWorks.com Sean O’Sullivan (1985), along with three other RPI students (Laszlo Bardos, Andrew Dressel, and John Haller), founded MapInfo on the RPI campusBert Sutherland , manager of Sun Microsystems laboratoriesDan Buckley (1991), president of Marvel Entertainment
Felix Bernard , composer of a Christmas song, Winter Wonderland Julie Berry , children's authorCharles Amos Cummings , architect and historianBobby Farrelly , film director, writer and producer, Dumb and Dumber Shallow Hal There's Something About Mary Fitzedward Hall (1901), OrientalistDavid Hayter , Canadian voice actorNed Herrmann , creator of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument Lily Hevesh , YouTuber and domino artist (attended RPI for less than a year before dropping out to pursue domino art full time)[ 2] Erin Hoffman , game designer and authorTyler Hinman (2006), multiple winner of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament [ 3] Joe Howard, Jr. (1857), reporter and war correspondentJennifer & Kevin McCoy (1994), artists who both graduated from RPI[ 4] Meera Nanda , writer, philosopher of science , and faculty Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi Luis Francisco Peraza (1985), television producer and executive, International Emmy winnerMary Pride (1974), Christian authorSamuel Wells Williams , 19th century linguistWarren Davis (1977), video game designer/programmer (co-creator of Q*bert)[ 5] Zachary Barth , video game designer (founder of Zachtronics), creator of Infiniminer
Invention and engineering
Truman H. Aldrich (1869), civil engineer, also briefly a US State RepresentativeKarthik Bala, co-founder of Vicarious Visions and Velan Studios
Garnet Baltimore (1881), first African-American engineer and Garnet D. Baltimore Lecture Series honoreePeter Bohlin 1958, architect of the famous 5th Avenue Apple StoreVirgil Bogue (1868), chief engineer of Union Pacific Railroad and Western Maryland Railway constructionsBimal Kumar Bose (1932), electrical engineerLeffert L. Buck (1968), civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures, including the Williamsburg Bridge in NYCAlexander Cassatt (1859), civil engineer and railroad executiveGeorge Hammell Cook (1839), state geologist of New JerseyDr. Allen B. Dumont (1924), perfected the cathode-ray tube ; the "father of modern TV "Theodore N. Ely (1896), railroad executiveGeorge Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1881), inventor of the Ferris wheel Lois Graham (1946), the first woman to receive an engineering degree from RPI, and the first woman in the U.S. to receive a PhD in mechanical engineeringFrederick Grinnell (1855), inventor of the modern fire sprinklerWalter Lincoln Hawkins (1931), African-American inventor of plastic telephone wireBeatrice Hicks (1965), co-founder of Society of Women EngineersHenry Wilson Hodge (1885), Director of railroads for the American Expeditionary Force during World War IMarcian Hoff (1958), "father of the microprocessor "Dorothy Hoffman (1949), the first woman to serve as president of any scientific society in the US, elected president of American Vacuum Society in 1974J. Christopher Jaffe (1949), leader in architectural acoustic design; taught acoustics at the Juilliard School , City University of New York , and RensselaerTheodore Judah (1837), visionary of the transcontinental railroadRobert Loewy (1947), aeronautical engineerWilliam Metcalf (1858), steel manufacturing pioneerKeith D. Millis (1938), metallurgical engineer and inventor of ductile ironRalph Peck (1937), geotechnical engineerEmil H. Praeger (1915), designer of Shea and Dodger Stadiums, Tappan Zee Bridge , Arecibo Telescope and a renovation of the White House [ 6] George Brooke Roberts (1849), civil engineer, 5th president of the Pennsylvania RailroadWashington Roebling (1857), chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge Mortimer Rogoff (1943), first to patent an Electronic navigational chart and setup industry standardsJames Salisbury (1844), physician and inventor of the Salisbury Steak Steven Sasson (1973), engineer and inventor of the digital camera Robert "RJ" Scaringe (2005), CEO & Founder of Rivian [ 7] Massood Tabib-Azar , chemical engineerRaymond Tomlinson (1963), inventor of the email systemDavid L. Noble (1940), inventor of the floppy diskAlan M. Voorhees (1947), city planner and traffic forecaster; former Rensselaer trustee; principal supporter for the Voorhees Computing Center at RensselaerJohn Alexander Low Waddell (1871), civil engineer and prolific bridge builderRobert H. Widmer (1938), aeronautical engineer and designer of the B-58 supersonic bomber[ 8] [ 9] John F. Schenck (1961), physician and co-inventor of the first clinically viable high-field MRI scanner at General Electric [ 10]
Military
William L. Haskin (1861), U.S. Army brigadier general[ 11] Harold J. Greene (1980), major general, U.S. Army, highest ranking casualty of War in AfghanistanArthur L. McCullough , U.S. Air Force generalArio Pardee Jr. (1858), Union Army veteran who attained the rank of brigadier general by brevetL. Scott Rice (1980), major general, U.S. Air Force; commander of Massachusetts Air National Guard Thomas R. Sargent III , vice admiral, U.S. Coast Guard; Vice Commandant 1970–1974Walter L. Sharp , General, U.S. Army; Commander of United Nations Command , Commander of ROK-US Combined Forces Command and Commander of U.S. Forces Korea (2008–2011); former Director of the Joint Staff (2005–2008)Franklin Guest Smith , Union Army veteran who attained the rank of brigadier general[ 12] Blake Wayne Van Leer , (1953), Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy . Lead SeaBee program and lead the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze .Peter D. Vroom (1862), Inspector General of the U.S. Army[ 13] [ 14] Arthur E. Williams , lieutenant general, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Chief of Engineers in 1992Ronald J. Zlatoper (1963), Chief of Naval Personnel; Battle Group Commander in Desert Storm and Desert Shield; former Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense; trusteeChristopher E. van Avery , Commander, U.S. Navy, geopolitical analyst and writer. Critic of and contributor to the U.S. military's current Principles of War .
Politics and public service
J. Frank Aldrich (1877), U.S. Representative from IllinoisTruman H. Aldrich (1869), U.S. Representative from Alabama (1896–1897)Myles Brand (1964), president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association William Beidelman , Union Army Second Lieutenant, Second Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania George R. Dennis , United States Senator from Maryland Francis Collier Draper (1854), Toronto lawyer, Toronto Police ChiefThomas Farrell (1912), Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project Nariman Farvardin (1983), Provost of the University of Maryland Lincoln D. Faurer (1964), director of the National Security Agency and chief, Central Security Service, 1981–1985Richard Franchot , U.S. Representative from New York (1861–1863)Arthur J. Gajarsa (1962), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , trusteeNaeem Gheriany , Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, LibyaThomas J. Haas (1983), current president of Grand Valley State University [ 15] John Hammond , US Representative from New York , iron manufacturer[ 16] Walter F. Lineberger , U.S. State Representative of California , 1917–1921Richard Linn (1965), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit George Low , manager of NASA 's Apollo 11 project ; President of RPI (1976–1984); namesake of RPI's Low Center for Industrial InnovationHani Al-Mulki (MA, PhD), former Prime Minister of Jordan John Olver (1958), Massachusetts State Representative (D) since 1991Ely S. Parker , Civil War statesman, author of Appomattox Courthouse agreementClarkson Nott Potter (1843), U.S. Representative from New York, surveyor, lawyer, and president of the American Bar Association [ 17] Mark Shepard (1994), Vermont State Senator Clement Hall Sinnickson , U.S. State Representative from New Jersey, 1875–1879Peter G. Ten Eyck , New York State RepresentativeTony Tether (1964), director of DARPA , 2001–2009W. Aubrey Thomas , U.S. State Representative from Ohio, 1900–1911De Volson Wood (1857), first president of the American Society for Engineering Education [ 18]
Science and technology
David Adler (1956), physicistDon L. Anderson (1955), geophysicist James Curtis Booth (1832), chemistJames Cantor (1988), neuroscientist, sex researcherRonald Collé (1972), nuclear physicist at NIST George Hammell Cook (1839), state geologist of New JerseyEdgar Cortright (1949), former NASA officialEbenezer Emmons (1826), geologist, author of Natural History of New York (1848) and American Geology Asa Fitch (1827), entomologistAlan Fowler (1951), physicist, NAS memberDavid Ferrucci (1994), computer scientist, developed IBM Watson AI Jeopardy playerClaire M. Fraser (1977), President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research Jeffrey M. Friedman , discovered leptin , a key hormone in the area of human obesityIvar Giaever (1964), shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries on tunneling phenomena in semiconductors ; Institute Professor of ScienceMorton Gurtin (1955), mathematical physicistJames Hall (1832), geologist and paleontologist Jon Hall (1977), Executive Director of Linux International Peter E. Hart , group senior vice president of the Ricoh company ; artificial intelligence innovatorEdward C. Harwood , economistHermann A. Haus (1951), optical communications researcher, pioneer of quantum opticsEben Norton Horsford (1838), "father of food science" and author, discovered baking powder Douglass Houghton (1829), Michigan 's first state geologist ; namesake of a Michigan city, county, and lakeRobert Kennicutt (1973), astronomerNimai Mukhopadhyay , physicsRichard Klein (1966), astronomerDavid Korn (1965), computer programmer who created the Korn Shell Richard Mastracchio (1987), NASA astronaut, flew on STS-106 Atlantis, 2000Mark T. Maybury , Chief Scientist of U.S. Air ForcePat Munday (1981), environmentalistHeidi Jo Newberg (1987), professor of astrophysics at RPIJames "Kibo" Parry , satirist, Usenet personality, and typeface designerHenry Augustus Rowland (1870), first president of the American Physical Society ; Johns Hopkins University's first physics professorMark Russinovich , Windows software engineerPeter Schwartz , futurist and writerRobert C. Seacord , computer security specialist and authorKip Siegel (1948), physicist, professor of physics at the University of Michigan Andrew Sears , computer science professor at UMBC Marlan Scully , physicist known for work in quantum opticsGeorge Soper (1895), managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, later the American Cancer Society Chauncey Starr (1935), pioneer in nuclear energyJohn L. Swigert Jr. (1965), astronaut, member of Apollo 13 ; recipient of 1970 Presidential Medal of Freedom ; elected to U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado , 1982Dennis Tito (1964), millionaire and the first space tourist to pay for his own ticketMichael Tuomey (1835), state geologist of South Carolina and AlabamaChris Welty (1995), computer scientistGregory R. Wiseman , NASA astronautChris Wysopal , also known as Weld Pond (1987), member of the hacker think tank L0pht Heavy Industries , founder of Veracode
Sports
John Carter (1986), NHL forward 1986–1993Kevin Constantine (1980), NHL head coach of the San Jose Sharks 1993–1995, the Pittsburgh Penguins 1997–2000, and the New Jersey Devils 2001–2002; recipient of USA Hockey 's Distinguished Achievement AwardErin Crocker (2003), NASCAR driverDon Cutts (1974), NHL and International Hockey League (1945–2001) goaltender 1974–1984Oren Eizenman (born 1985), Israeli-Canadian ice hockey playerAndrew Franks (2015), NFL placekicker for the Miami Dolphins since 2015.Tim Friday (1985), NHL defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings 1985–1986Ken Hammond (1985), NHL defenseman 1985–1993Michael E. Herman (1962), President of the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball 1992–2000Joé Juneau (1991), NHL forward 1991–2004, selected to the 1993 NHL All-Rookie Team, top scorer at the 1992 Winter Olympics while playing for the Canadian Olympic hockey teamJason Kasdorf (2016), NHL goalie for the Buffalo Sabres since 2016.Neil Little (1994), NHL scout for the Philadelphia Flyers organization; Goaltending Coach for the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League 2007–2008; AHL goaltender 1994–2005; won the '97–98 and '04-05 Calder Cup with the Philadelphia Phantoms; inducted into the Philadelphia Phantoms Hall of Fame in 2006Andrew Lord (2008), professional ice hockey playerMike McPhee (1982), NHL forward 1983–1994; won the '85–86 Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens ; played in the 1989 NHL All Star GameMatt Murley (2002), NHL forward 2003–2008Kraig Nienhuis (1985), NHL forward 1985–1988Adam Oates (1985), co-head coach of the New Jersey Devils 2014–2015; Head Coach of the Washington Capitals 2012–2014; Assistant Coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning 2009–2010 and the New Jersey Devils 2010–2012; NHL forward 1985–2004; played in the 1991–1994 and 1997 NHL All Star Games; inducted into the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame as a player in 2012Matt Patricia (1996), Senior football advisor New England Patriots Brian Pothier (2000), NHL defenseman 2000–2010Daren Puppa (1985), NHL goaltender 1985–2000, played in the 1990 NHL All Star GameBrad Tapper (2000), head coach of the Adirondack Thunder of the ECHL ; NHL forward for the Atlanta Thrashers 2000–2003Graeme Townshend (1989), head coach of the Jamaican Men's National Ice Hockey Team ; Player Development Coordinator for the San Jose Sharks 2004–2008, NHL forward 1990–1994
Faculty
Past
Current
References
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