Curated category
Cornell University alumni
- D. Brainerd HolmesD. Brainerd Holmes studied engineering at Cornell University, receiving a degree in electrical engineering. He first worked for Bell Labs and Western…
- Dominique ThorneDominique Thorne was born on the 5th of November 1997 in Brooklyn, New York, to Trinidadian and Guyanese immigrant parents.
- Cliff EisenCliff Eisen entered the world on the 21st of January 1952 in Toronto. This Canadian musicologist began his formal education at the University of Toronto…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut survived the firebombing of Dresden by hiding in a meat locker three stories underground, surrounded by hanging cadavers.
- Jon KleinbergJon Kleinberg grew up in a household where mathematics and computing were simply the texture of daily life. His father Eugene was a mathematics professor at…
- Junot DíazJunot Díaz was born on the last day of 1968, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Rafael and Virtudes Díaz. He was the third of seven children.
- Harold BloomHarold Bloom was, by the time he died in 2019, probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world. He grew up at 1410 Grand Concourse in…
- Cynthia DworkCynthia Dwork holds a black belt in taekwondo, and it turns out that discipline maps neatly onto her scientific career. Born on the 27th of June, 1958, Dwork…
- Frank RosenblattFrank Rosenblatt died on the 11th of July, 1971 - his 43rd birthday - in a boating accident on Chesapeake Bay. It was the same date he was born, in 1928, in…
- Claudia GoldinClaudia Dale Goldin was born in the Bronx, New York City on the 14th of May 1946. Her father Leon Goldin worked as a data processing manager at Burlington…
- Roger LowensteinRoger Lowenstein grew up in Larchmont, New York, the son of a Columbia University law professor who spent his career writing critiques of American finance.
- Edward Jay EpsteinEdward Jay Epstein died in his Manhattan apartment on the 9th of January 2024, at 88 years old, from COVID-19. He had spent more than half a century making…