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 was born on the 14th of July 1955 in Norsjö, a small town in northern Sweden. Few would have predicted that this particular sociologist would…
- 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 Warnicke believes that Anne Boleyn was not born in 1501, as most historians long assumed, but in the summer of 1507.
- John LindowJohn Frederick Lindow was born in Washington, D.C., on the 23rd of July 1946, the son of a banker and a schoolteacher. He would go on to spend decades at the…
- 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 Portman was born on the 9th of June 1981, in Jerusalem, at Hadassah Medical Center. She has spent most of her life navigating two worlds: the…
- Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on the 14th of May 1984 in White Plains, New York, and by his mid-twenties he had built the largest social network in human…
- 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 E. Dreyfus grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana, and went on to leave a mark on three distinct fields: industrial engineering, mathematics, and the study…
- Yu-Chi HoYu-Chi Ho was born on the 1st of March, 1934, in Shanghai, and by the time he was fifteen, the world had already rerouted his life once.
- 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 GatesBill Gates was born on the 28th of October, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, and by age 31 he had become the world's youngest-ever billionaire.
- Jaan PuhvelJaan Puhvel was born in Tallinn, Estonia, on the 24th of January 1932, into a country that would not stay his home for long.
- David LandesDavid Saul Landes spent decades at Harvard asking a question that made many scholars uncomfortable: why did some nations grow rich while others stayed poor?
- 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 stood at a lectern in a University of Chicago classroom on the 2nd of January, 1932, and later said that was the exact moment he was born as…
- James TobinJames Tobin was born on the 5th of March, 1918, in Champaign, Illinois, the son of a journalist credited with inventing "Homecoming" 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 stepped off the Moon's surface in December 1972 and boarded the Lunar Module just before his commander, Gene Cernan.
- Gilbert N. LewisGilbert Newton Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 41 times, and he never won it once. On the 23rd of March 1946, a graduate student found…
- 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 Kaufmann arrived at Princeton University in 1947 as a young philosopher with a freshly minted Harvard doctorate, a dissertation completed in under a…
- Hilary PutnamHilary Putnam was a philosopher who changed his mind for a living. He arrived at Harvard in 1965, organized campus protests, taught courses on Marxism, and…
- Hubert DreyfusHubert Dreyfus walked into the RAND Corporation in 1964 with a commission that seemed routine: review the latest work in artificial intelligence.
- 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 Upper East Side of New York City on the 23rd of September 1889, and by the time he died eighty-five years later, he had done…
- Vincent CroninVincent Archibald Patrick Cronin entered the world on the 24th of May 1924 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. His father was A.J.
- 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 dropped out of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. That might seem like an unlikely starting point for one of the most provocative…