Curated category
Harvard University alumni
- Richard PoirierRichard Poirier entered the world on Gloucester, Massachusetts, the 9th of September 1925. His academic journey began at Amherst College before he moved to…
- Paul WerbosPaul John Werbos was born on the 4th of September 1947 in the United States. He began his academic journey as a social scientist rather than an engineer or…
- Jan NattierJan Nattier earned her PhD in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies from Harvard University in 1988. She taught at the University of Hawaii between 1988 and 1990.
- Peter Hedström (sociologist)Peter Hedström arrived in the world on the 14th of July 1955. His birthplace was the small town of Norsjö in Sweden. This northern Swedish setting marked the…
- Emi NakamuraEmi Nakamura graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 2001. Her senior thesis carried the title An Economy with Monetary Business Cycles.
- Retha WarnickeRetha Marvine Warnicke was born in 1939 and grew up to become a central figure at Arizona State University. She graduated from Evansville Central High School…
- John LindowJohn Frederick Lindow entered the world on the 23rd of July 1946. He was born in Washington, D.C., to Wesley Lindow and Eleanor Niemetta.
- Daniel HeartzDaniel Heartz entered the world on the 5th of October 1928. He grew up in a time that would shape his future approach to music history.
- Natalie PortmanNatalie Hershlag was born on the 9th of June 1981, in Mount Scopus, Jerusalem. Her birth took place at Hadassah Medical Center to Jewish parents.
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on the 14th of May 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up in a Reform Jewish household with three sisters named Arielle…
- Roger SessionsRoger Huntington Sessions entered the world on the 28th of December 1896 in Brooklyn, New York. His family lineage traced back to Samuel Huntington, a…
- Stuart DreyfusStuart Dreyfus was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He grew up there before moving to pursue higher education. His early life set the stage for a career that…
- Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi Ho was born on the 1st of March 1934 in Shanghai, China. He left his home at age fifteen during the year 1949 to finish high school in Hong Kong.
- Stith ThompsonStith Thompson was born in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky on the 7th of March 1885. He grew up as the son of John Warden and Eliza McClaskey.
- Bill GatesIn 1970, a group of students at Lakeside School in Seattle gathered around a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal. Bill Gates was one of them.
- Jaan PuhvelJaan Puhvel was born in Tallinn, Estonia on the 24th of January 1932. His family fled their home country following the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states…
- David LandesDavid Saul Landes entered the world on the 29th of April 1924. He began his higher education journey at City College of New York in 1942.
- Arthur MendelArthur Mendel entered the world on the 6th of June 1905 in Boston. He grew up in a city rich with musical history before he ever stepped into a concert hall.
- Wilbur Kitchener JordanWilbur Kitchener Jordan grew up in the quiet town of Lynnville, Indiana. He left that small community to attend Oakland City College.
- Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, on the 15th of May 1915. His family consisted of upwardly mobile Jewish immigrants from Poland who had prospered…
- James TobinJames Tobin entered the world on the 5th of March 1918 in Champaign, Illinois. His father Louis Michael Tobin worked as a journalist at the University of…
- Paul NitzePaul Henry Nitze was born on the 16th of January 1907 in Amherst, Massachusetts. His parents were both of German descent and his father worked as a professor…
- Harrison SchmittHarrison Hagan Schmitt entered the world on the 3rd of July 1935 in Santa Rita, New Mexico. He grew up nearby in Silver City and graduated from Western High…
- Gilbert N. LewisG. N. Lewis was born in 1875 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where a street now bears his name as G.N. Lewis Way off Summer Street.
- Leon BotsteinLeon Botstein arrived in New York City at the age of two, having been born in Zürich on the 14th of December 1946. His parents were Polish-Jewish physicians…
- Richard GombrichRichard Francis Gombrich was born on the 17th of July 1937 into a family that bridged two distinct cultural spheres. His mother Ilse Gombrich worked as a…
- Roger NollRoger Noll was born on the 13th of March 1940. This date marks the start of a life that would reshape how economists view professional sports.
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Arnold Kaufmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on the 1st of July 1921. He grew up as a Lutheran child in a city that would soon become…
- Hilary PutnamHilary Whitehall Putnam arrived in the world on the 31st of July 1926, within a hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His father Samuel worked as a scholar of…
- Hubert DreyfusHubert Lederer Dreyfus entered the world on the 15th of October 1929 in Terre Haute, Indiana. His parents were Stanley S. and Irene (Lederer) Dreyfus.
- Gerald HoltonGerald James Holton was born on the 23rd of May 1922, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father worked as an attorney specializing…
- Gregory NagyGregory Nagy was born on the 22nd of October 1942 in Budapest. He began his higher education journey at Indiana University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts…
- Julian SimonJulian Lincoln Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey, on the 12th of February 1932. He grew up in a Jewish family that migrated to Newark as part of a wave of…
- Gilbert PlassGilbert Norman Plass stood at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago in 1942. He worked as an associate physicist during those critical…
- Walter LippmannWalter Lippmann was born on the 23rd of September 1889 on New York's Upper East Side. He grew up as the only child in a wealthy family with German-Jewish…
- Vincent CroninVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin entered the world on the 24th of May 1924 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. His father was A.J.
- Bob Allen (economic historian)Robert Carson Allen was born on the 10th of January 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts. He began his academic journey at Carleton College in Minnesota where he…
- Brown MeggsBrown Moore Meggs was born on the 20th of October 1930 in Los Angeles. His father Charles Winfield Meggs worked as an art director for Paramount Pictures and…
- George SteinerFrancis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His right arm withered from birth yet his mother insisted he use…
- Lee SmolinLee Smolin was born on the 6th of June 1955 in New York City. His father Michael worked as an environmental and process engineer while his mother Pauline…