Curated category
Stanford University alumni
- John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck once stole bacon from a local produce market to survive. During the Great Depression, he and his first wife lived on fish and crabs he…
- Mike KriegerMichel Krieger was born on the 4th of March, 1986, in São Paulo, Brazil, and by the time he turned 32, he had helped build one of the most-used platforms on…
- Margaret L. KingMargaret L. King entered Sarah Lawrence College in 1963 and graduated with a history degree in 1967. Her academic journey continued at Stanford University…
- Carl WiemanCarl Wieman grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, in a family with an unusual range of intellectual passions. His paternal grandfather, Henry Nelson Wieman, was a…
- Eric Allin CornellEric Allin Cornell was born on the 19th of December, 1961, in Palo Alto, California, to parents who were finishing graduate degrees at Stanford University.
- Sally RideSally Kristen Ride was born on the 26th of May, 1951, in Santa Monica, California, and died on the 23rd of July, 2012, having spent more than 343 hours in…
- Do KwonDo Kwon was born in Seoul, South Korea, on the 6th of September 1991. He attended Daewon Foreign Language High School before earning a Bachelor of Science in…
- Dario AmodeiDario Amodei was born in San Francisco, California, in 1983. His father Riccardo worked as an Italian-American leather craftsman.
- Jensen HuangJensen Huang founded Nvidia at age 30 in a Denny's restaurant booth in East San Jose, California, and has led the company every single day since the 5th of…
- Hans MoravecHans Peter Moravec was born on the 30th of November 1948, and he grew up to ask a question that most scientists would not dare put on paper: what happens…
- Sam AltmanSam Altman got his first computer at age eight: an Apple Macintosh. Within a few years he was disassembling it to examine the hardware inside.
- Richard D. WolffRichard David Wolff was born on the 1st of April 1942 in New Rochelle, New York. His parents had fled Nazism to escape Germany during World War II.
- Victor Davis HansonVictor Davis Hanson grew up on a farm outside Selma, California, in the San Joaquin Valley, on land his family had worked since the 1870s.
- Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoySharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was seventeen years old and already filing investigative reports for a local English-language newspaper in Karachi.