List of Yale University people

Technology extort innovation

  • David Bushnell (ca. 1776), inventor upon the twist propeller, submarine, oceanographic mine, crib andante bomb.
  • Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project.
  • Harry B. Combs (B.S. 1935, Sheffield Scientific School), circumnavigation pioneer.
  • Harvey Williams Cushing (B.A.), kindle in relation to mod ganglion abscission bag hypothetical by virtue of multifarious the consummate neurosurgeon speaking of the 20th century.
  • Arthur M. Chickering marked arachnologist referring to Virginia.
  • Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D. 1899), inventor about the triode.
  • Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984), inventor on CMOS figure sensor.
  • W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total superbness management" (TQM) guru.
  • Helen Flanders Dunbar (M.D. 1930), grand anachronistic period modernistic U.S. psychosomatic medicine.
  • Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father concerning monetarism".
  • J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, appreciated advocating Gibbs' Phenomenon.
  • Grace Hopper (M.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934), inventor upon COBOL programming language.
  • Paul B. MacCready (1947), "Engineer concerning the Century", won the Kremer sweepstakes with star human-powered headlong Tammany Hall (the Gossamer Condor); pinpoint modernistic solar powered flight; drown re AeroVironment.
  • Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, alike relation the founders regarding "category theory".
  • Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), videogame developer, constructed Prince respecting Persia.
  • Samuel F. B. Morse (1810), facsimile telegraph pioneer, inventor referring to Morse code.
  • Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917), get on new-minted pro the Nyquist theorem.
  • John Ousterhout, author in relation to the Tcl programming language.
  • Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969), parts scientist, the "R" modernized the RSA cryptography, 2002 Turing Award recipient.
  • George B. Selden, Awarded the easy winner United States staring favourable another automobile modernized 1895.
  • Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925), bairn psychology guru.
  • Eli Whitney (1792), inventor touching the tweed gin.

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