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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Edward ThorndikeEdward Lee Thorndike built one of the most influential theories in the history of psychology by watching cats try to escape from wooden boxes.
- Mark GranovetterMark Granovetter stood at the front of Henry Snyder High School in Jersey City, New Jersey, on a day in January 1961. He was the valedictorian of his class…
- William W. FitzhughWilliam Wyvill Fitzhugh IV has spent more than forty years asking a simple question: what does it take for people to survive at the edges of the world?
- B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner died on the 18th of August 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just ten days after receiving a lifetime achievement award from the American…
- Rayner UnwinRayner Unwin was ten years old when he read a manuscript about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, and his opinion determined whether one of the most beloved books…
- Elliot ForbesElliot Forbes entered the world on the 20th of August 1917, into a family that defined Boston's cultural elite. His father Edward Forbes directed Harvard's…
- 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…
- Graham E. FullerGraham E. Fuller spent 27 years inside the American intelligence and diplomatic apparatus, rising to vice-chairman of the National Intelligence Council…
- Richard FoltzRichard Foltz spent several years working across Europe as a musician, film critic, and travel writer before he ever set foot in a university classroom as a…
- Bob Allen (economic historian)Bob Allen was born on the 10th of January 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts, and he would spend his career asking one of the most consequential questions in all…