Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Floyd Abrams |
Attorney |
9-Jul-1936 |
|
First Amendment lawyer |
Diane Ackerman |
Author |
7-Oct-1948 |
|
A Natural History of the Senses |
Ilesanmi Adesida |
Educator |
c. 1949 |
|
Dean, College of Engineering, UIUC |
Eric Alterman |
Columnist |
14-Jan-1960 |
|
The Nation columnist |
Joseph A. Alutto |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Provost of Ohio State University |
Gillian Anderson |
Actor |
9-Aug-1968 |
|
Scully on The X-Files |
Stephen B. Ashley |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of The Ashley Group |
Robert Atkins |
Doctor |
17-Oct-1930 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Atkins Diet doctor |
Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
Mario L. Baeza |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Baeza & Co. |
William Bagley |
Educator |
15-Mar-1874 |
1-Jul-1946 |
Opponent of Dewey's progressive education |
George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
Jean-Luc Bélingard |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Ipsen SA |
Nick Berg |
Victim |
2-Apr-1978 |
7-May-2004 |
US contractor, beheaded on Iraq videotape |
Sandy Berger |
Government |
28-Oct-1945 |
2-Dec-2015 |
National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton |
Ann E. Berman |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CFO of Harvard University, 2002-06 |
Edward Bernays |
Business |
22-Nov-1891 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Propaganda |
Henry S. Bienen |
Educator |
5-May-1939 |
|
President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009 |
Carole F. Bitter |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Harold Friedman, Inc. |
Kenneth Blanchard |
Educator |
6-May-1939 |
|
The One Minute Manager |
Jeffrey L. Bleustein |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Harley-Davidson, 1997-2005 |
Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
Robert Boochever |
Judge |
2-Oct-1917 |
9-Oct-2011 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1980-86 |
Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
James L. Broadhead |
Business |
1935 |
|
CEO of FPL Group, 1989-2001 |
Louis Bromfield |
Author |
27-Dec-1896 |
18-Mar-1956 |
Early Autumn |
Joyce Brothers |
Psychologist |
20-Sep-1927 |
13-May-2013 |
Pop psychologist |
William R. Brownfield |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Colombia, 2007-10 |
Susan Brownmiller |
Activist |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Feminist, Against Our Will |
Frank W. Bruno |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Cerberus Global Investments |
Pearl S. Buck |
Author |
26-Jun-1892 |
6-Mar-1973 |
The Good Earth |
Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
Anne M. Busquet |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Former EVP at American Express |
Henry A. Byroade |
Diplomat |
24-Jul-1913 |
31-Dec-1993 |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1973-77 |
Timothy Michael Carney |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Haiti, 1998-99 |
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. |
Business |
8-Jan-1888 |
2-Feb-1976 |
President of DuPont, 1940-48 |
Willis Carrier |
Inventor |
26-Nov-1876 |
7-Oct-1950 |
Created the first air conditioning |
Zachary W. Carter |
Attorney |
19-Mar-1950 |
|
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney |
Steve Carver |
Film Director |
5-Apr-1945 |
|
Lone Wolf McQuade |
Harry Chapin |
Singer/Songwriter |
7-Dec-1942 |
16-Jul-1981 |
Cat's in the Cradle |
Derek Chollet |
Government |
c. 1971 |
|
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Security |
Dane Clark |
Actor |
26-Feb-1912 |
11-Sep-1998 |
Moonrise |
Hansen Clarke |
Politician |
3-Mar-1957 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 13th |
William W. Coblentz |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1873 |
15-Sep-1962 |
Infrared spectroscopy |
Barber Conable |
Politician |
2-Nov-1922 |
30-Nov-2003 |
World Bank President, Congressman |
Joseph Coors, Sr. |
Business |
12-Nov-1917 |
15-Mar-2003 |
Ultraconservative beer baron |
Pete Coors |
Relative |
20-Sep-1946 |
|
Coors scion |
Harry Coover |
Chemist |
6-Mar-1919 |
19-Mar-2011 |
Invented Super Glue |
Ann Coulter |
Pundit |
8-Dec-1961 |
|
Rightwing bombthrower |
S. E. Cupp |
Pundit |
23-Feb-1979 |
|
Losing Our Religion |
Mack David |
Songwriter |
5-Jul-1912 |
30-Dec-1993 |
La vie en rose |
Kenneth T. Derr |
Business |
4-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Chevron, 1989-99 |
C. Diddy |
Performance Artist |
23-Dec-1971 |
|
World Air Guitar Champion, 2003 |
Herbert D. Doan |
Business |
5-Sep-1922 |
16-May-2006 |
CEO of Dow Chemical, 1962-71 |
Michael J. Dolan |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2001-03 |
Ellen Albertini Dow |
Actor |
16-Nov-1918 |
4-May-2015 |
Rapping Granny in The Wedding Singer |
Thomas J. Downey |
Politician |
28-Jan-1949 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1975-93 |
E. Linn Draper, Jr. |
Business |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
CEO, American Electric Power, 1993-2003 |
Ken Dryden |
Hockey |
8-Aug-1947 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer, Canadian MP |
Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
Author |
19-Jul-1875 |
18-Sep-1935 |
Harlem Renaissance influence |
Michael J. Durham |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Former CFO, American Airlines |
Dan Duryea |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
7-Jun-1968 |
The Little Foxes |
Robert Dutkowsky |
Business |
2-Jan-1955 |
|
CEO of Tech Data |
Dr. Dean Edell |
Radio Personality |
c. 1941 |
|
Syndicated call-in radio doctor |
Eric S. Edelman |
Diplomat |
1951 |
|
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
Herb Edelman |
Actor |
5-Nov-1933 |
21-Jul-1996 |
Stan Zbornak on The Golden Girls |
Dave Edgerton |
Business |
26-May-1927 |
|
Co-Founder of Burger King |
Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
David Einhorn |
Business |
20-Nov-1968 |
|
Hedge fund manager, Greenlight Capital |
Lewis M. Eisenberg |
Activist |
c. 1942 |
|
Granite Capital International Group |
Susan E. Engel |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Lenox Group, 1996-2007 |
Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
Ralph E. Erickson |
Attorney |
3-Oct-1928 |
|
Deputy US Attorney General, 1972-73 |
Dana Fabe |
Judge |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Alaska Chief Justice |
Jessie Redmon Fauset |
Novelist |
27-Apr-1882 |
30-Apr-1961 |
Comedy: American Style |
Chuck Feeney |
Business |
23-Apr-1931 |
|
Duty Free Shoppers |
Glenn W. Ferguson |
Educator |
28-Jan-1929 |
20-Dec-2007 |
University president, Ambassador to Kenya |
Anthony G. Fernandes |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Phillip Services, 1999-2002 |
Bob Filner |
Politician |
4-Sep-1942 |
|
Mayor of San Diego, 2012-13 |
Hal Fishman |
Journalist |
25-Aug-1931 |
7-Aug-2007 |
Los Angeles TV news anchor |
Art Fleming |
Game Show Host |
1-May-1924 |
25-Apr-1995 |
Original Jeopardy! host |
Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
Leo Frank |
Victim |
17-Apr-1884 |
17-Aug-1915 |
Innocent man, lynched by mob |
J. P. Freire |
Journalist |
c. 1982 |
|
Managing Editor, The American Spectator |
Albert Fried, Jr. |
Business |
19-Mar-1930 |
|
Albert Fried & Company |
Daniel Fried |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Asst. Secy. of State for European Affairs |
Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
William Friedman |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1891 |
12-Nov-1969 |
Cryptography pioneer |
Francis Fukuyama |
Author |
27-Oct-1952 |
|
The End of History and the Last Man |
H. Laurance Fuller |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Amoco, 1991-98 |
Robert G. Funari |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Crescent Healthcare |
Allen Funt |
Film/TV Producer |
16-Sep-1914 |
5-Sep-1999 |
Producer and host of Candid Camera |
Robert F. Furchgott |
Scientist |
4-Jun-1916 |
19-May-2009 |
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
Walter J. Galvin |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CFO of Emerson Electric |
Frank Gannett |
Business |
15-Sep-1876 |
3-Dec-1957 |
Founder, Gannett publishing empire |
Manuel A. Garcia III |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Burger King franchisee |
William H. Gass |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1924 |
|
The Tunnel |
Michael Gershon |
Scientist |
c. 1936 |
|
Gut neurobiology |
Chris Gibson |
Politician |
13-May-1964 |
|
Congressman, New York 20th |
Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman from Arizona, 2007-12 |
Douglas H. Ginsburg |
Judge |
25-May-1946 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Joscelyn Godwin |
Historian |
16-Jan-1945 |
|
Historian of the esoteric |
Kenneth A. Goldman |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CFO of Siebel Systems, 2000-06 |
Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
Harvey Golub |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of American Express, 1993-2001 |
Bill Gordon |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1918 |
16-Feb-2010 |
Designed Arecibo radio telescope |
Harold Gould |
Actor |
10-Dec-1923 |
11-Sep-2010 |
Martin Morganstern on Rhoda |
Everardo Goyanes |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Liberty Energy Holdings |
Lawrence G. Graev |
Attorney |
c. 1944 |
|
O'Sullivan Graev & Karabell |
Greg Graffin |
Musician |
6-Nov-1964 |
|
Bad Religion frontman |
Paul Graham |
Computer Programmer |
13-Nov-1964 |
|
Y Combinator |
Wilson Greatbatch |
Inventor |
6-Sep-1919 |
27-Sep-2011 |
Implantable pacemaker |
Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
Patrick W. Gross |
Business |
15-May-1944 |
|
Co-Founder, American Management Systems |
Byron Grote |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CFO of BP |
Leroy Grumman |
Business |
4-Jan-1895 |
4-Oct-1982 |
Co-Founder, Grumman Aircraft |
Gilbert Gude |
Politician |
9-Mar-1923 |
7-Jun-2007 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1967-77 |
Raj L. Gupta |
Business |
23-Dec-1945 |
|
CEO of Rohm and Haas |
Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory of cosmology |
Stephen Hadley |
Government |
13-Feb-1947 |
|
National Security Advisor, 2005-09 |
Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
Laurens Hammond |
Inventor |
11-Jan-1895 |
3-Jul-1973 |
Hammond Organ |
William Hanley |
Playwright |
22-Oct-1931 |
25-May-2012 |
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground |
Stephen Hardis |
Business |
1935 |
|
CEO of Eaton, 1995-2000 |
Myra M. Hart |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Co-Founder of Staples |
Jeff Hawkins |
Inventor |
1-Jun-1957 |
|
Inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo |
Nan Hayworth |
Politician |
14-Dec-1959 |
|
Congresswoman, New York 19th |
Morton Heilig |
Inventor |
22-Dec-1926 |
14-May-1997 |
Early virtual reality pioneer |
Henry Heimlich |
Doctor |
3-Feb-1920 |
17-Dec-2016 |
Heimlich maneuver |
Evert Henkes |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Shell Chemical, 1998-2003 |
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. |
Politician |
25-Jun-1903 |
13-Sep-1960 |
US Senator from Missouri, 1951-60 |
Dan Hesse |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Sprint Nextel |
Steven J. Heyer |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Starwood Hotels, 2004-07 |
Catherine Hicks |
Actor |
6-Aug-1951 |
|
Annie Camden on 7th Heaven |
William A. Higinbotham |
Physicist |
25-Oct-1910 |
10-Nov-1994 |
Physicist, Tennis for Two |
Laura Z. Hobson |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1900 |
28-Feb-1986 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
John H. Holdridge |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1924 |
12-Jul-2001 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86 |
Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
W. Stull Holt |
Historian |
2-Oct-1896 |
12-Oct-1981 |
Treaties Defeated by the Senate |
Edward M. House |
Diplomat |
26-Jul-1858 |
28-Mar-1938 |
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson |
William J. Hudson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of AMP Inc, 1993-98 |
Russell A. Hulse |
Physicist |
28-Nov-1950 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
Clifford Irving |
Hoaxer |
5-Nov-1930 |
|
Howard Hughes autobiography hoax |
Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
Mae C. Jemison |
Astronaut |
17-Oct-1956 |
|
First African-American woman in space |
Curt Johnson |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Billionaire chairman of JohnsonDiversey |
Helen Johnson-Leipold |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Johnson Outdoors |
Edith H. Jones |
Judge |
7-Apr-1949 |
|
5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Thomas W. Jones |
Business |
1949 |
|
President of TIAA-CREF, 1993-97 |
David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
Brian D. Josephson |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Discovered the Josephson Effect |
Paul L. Joskow |
Economist |
c. 1946 |
|
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
Nancy J. Karch |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Former Partner, McKinsey & Co. |
Barbara Milano Keenan |
Judge |
c. 1949 |
|
Justice, Virginia Supreme Court |
Florence Kelley |
Activist |
12-Sep-1859 |
17-Feb-1932 |
Founder of National Consumers League |
Robert D. Kennedy |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
CEO of Union Carbide, 1986-95 |
Donald M. Kerr |
Government |
c. 1941 |
|
Deputy Director, US National Intelligence |
Mark D. Ketchum |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Newell Rubbermaid |
Alan Keyes |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1950 |
|
Illinois carpetbagger |
William Kilberg |
Attorney |
12-Jun-1946 |
|
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
Lawrence A. Kimpton |
Educator |
7-Oct-1910 |
1-Nov-1977 |
Chancellor, University of Chicago, 1951-60 |
Albert Kingsbury |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1863 |
28-Jul-1943 |
Kingsbury thrust bearing |
Mark Kirk |
Politician |
15-Sep-1959 |
|
US Senator from Illinois |
Steven Knapp |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, George Washington University |
Charles F. Knight |
Business |
1936 |
|
CEO of Emerson Electric, 1973-2000 |
Goodwin Knight |
Politician |
9-Dec-1896 |
22-May-1970 |
Governor of California, 1953-59 |
Lester B. Knight |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Allegiance Corporation, 1996-99 |
Milton R. Konvitz |
Educator |
12-Mar-1908 |
5-Sep-2003 |
Cornell Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations |
C. Everett Koop |
Government |
14-Oct-1916 |
25-Feb-2013 |
US Surgeon General, 1982-89 |
Kenneth P. Kopelman |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
Jules B. Kroll |
Business |
18-May-1941 |
|
Kroll Inc., K2 Global, Kroll Bond Ratings |
Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
Arthur Laurents |
Playwright |
14-Jul-1918 |
5-May-2011 |
West Side Story |
Charles R. Lee |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Verizon, 2000-02 |
Carl Leubsdorf |
Journalist |
17-Mar-1938 |
|
Dallas Morning News |
William E. Leuchtenburg |
Historian |
28-Sep-1922 |
|
FDR scholar |
Sara Levinson |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
President of NFL Properties, 1994-2000 |
Huey Lewis |
Musician |
5-Jul-1950 |
|
Huey Lewis and The News |
Eric Lichtblau |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
NY Times reporter |
Robert Jay Lifton |
Psychiatrist |
16-May-1926 |
|
The Nazi Doctors |
Fritz Lipmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1899 |
24-Jul-1986 |
Carbohydrate oxidation |
Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
Katharine C. Lyall |
Business |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
President of the UW System, 1992-2004 |
Jane Lynch |
Actor |
14-Jul-1960 |
|
Cheerleading coach on Glee |
Bill Maher |
Talk Show Host |
20-Jan-1956 |
|
Politically Incorrect |
Rachel P. Maines |
Scholar |
8-Jul-1950 |
|
The Technology of Orgasm |
Rob Manfred |
Baseball |
28-Sep-1958 |
|
Commissioner of Baseball |
Robert Mao |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of 3Com |
Ed Marinaro |
Actor |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
Hill Street Blues |
Abraham Maslow |
Psychologist |
1-Apr-1908 |
8-Jun-1970 |
Hierarchy of Needs |
Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
Charles G. McClure |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of ArvinMeritor |
William T. McCormick, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of CMS Energy, 1985-2002 |
Drew R. McCoy |
Historian |
c. 1949 |
|
The Elusive Republic |
Michael C. McFarland |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, College of the Holy Cross |
James W. McLamore |
Business |
30-May-1926 |
8-Aug-1996 |
Co-Founder of Burger King |
Alan G. McNally |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Harris Bank, 1993-2002 |
William H. McNeill |
Historian |
31-Oct-1917 |
8-Jul-2016 |
The Rise of the West |
John J. Mearsheimer |
Political Scientist |
14-Dec-1947 |
|
Conventional Deterrence |
John Megna |
Actor |
9-Nov-1952 |
5-Sep-1995 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
John A. Mellowes |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Charter Manufacturing |
Richard H. Melton |
Diplomat |
8-Aug-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1989-93 |
George R. Merrell |
Diplomat |
13-Jul-1898 |
1962 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1951-52 |
Philip Merrill |
Publisher |
28-Apr-1934 |
10-Jun-2006 |
Capital Gazette Communications |
Thomas Midgley |
Chemist |
18-May-1889 |
2-Nov-1944 |
Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
Irene R. Miller |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Akim, Inc. |
Howard P. Milstein |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Chairman of Emigrant Bank |
Stephan Minikes |
Attorney |
29-Aug-1938 |
24-Sep-2011 |
US Ambassador to the OSCE, 2001-05 |
Jeffrey H. Miro |
Attorney |
1942 |
|
Partner, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn |
John Moody |
Journalist |
c. 1953 |
|
Fox News senior VP |
Robert Moog |
Inventor |
23-May-1934 |
21-Aug-2005 |
Invented the synthesizer |
James C. Morgan |
Business |
27-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Applied Materials, 1977-2003 |
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
Government |
11-May-1891 |
6-Feb-1967 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45 |
Robert Morris, Jr. |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1965 |
|
Author of 1988 Huge Internet Worm |
Toni Morrison |
Author |
18-Feb-1931 |
|
Beloved |
John R. Mott |
Activist |
25-May-1865 |
31-Jan-1955 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
Robert J. Mrazek |
Politician |
6-Nov-1945 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1983-93 |
J. Patrick Mulcahy |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Energizer, 1986-2005 |
Steven Muller |
Educator |
22-Nov-1927 |
19-Jan-2013 |
President of Johns Hopkins, 1972-90 |
Cameron Munter |
Diplomat |
1954 |
|
US Ambassador to Serbia |
Thomas S. Murphy |
Business |
31-May-1925 |
|
CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, 1966-90 |
Ed Muskie |
Politician |
28-Mar-1914 |
26-Mar-1996 |
US Senator from Maine, 1959-80 |
Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
John Naisbitt |
Author |
15-Jan-1929 |
|
Megatrends |
George Jean Nathan |
Author |
14-Feb-1882 |
8-Apr-1958 |
American Mercury |
Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
Ronald E. Nehring |
Judge |
c. 1947 |
|
Justice, Utah Supreme Court |
Gerry Neugebauer |
Astronomer |
3-Sep-1932 |
|
Infrared astronomy |
Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
Joe Nieuwendyk |
Hockey |
10-Sep-1966 |
|
General Manager, Dallas Stars |
Lucio A. Noto |
Business |
1938 |
|
CEO of Mobil, 1994-99 |
John A. Notte, Jr. |
Politician |
3-May-1909 |
7-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1961-63 |
Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
Bill Nye |
TV Personality |
27-Nov-1955 |
|
Bill Nye the Science Guy |
Vicki A. O'Meara |
Attorney |
13-May-1957 |
|
Chief Legal Officer at Pitney Bowes |
Lubna Olayan |
Business |
1955 |
|
Prominent Saudi businesswoman |
Keith Olbermann |
Pundit |
27-Jan-1959 |
|
Countdown |
James R. Olin |
Politician |
28-Feb-1920 |
29-Jul-2006 |
Congressman from Virginia, 1983-93 |
Douglas D. Osheroff |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1945 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
David M. Oshinsky |
Historian |
1944 |
|
Polio: An American Story |
Margaret Osmer-McQuade |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Qualitas International |
Gerald M. Ostrov |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Bausch & Lomb |
Peter Ostrum |
Actor |
1-Nov-1957 |
|
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
R. R. Palmer |
Historian |
11-Jan-1909 |
11-Jun-2002 |
The Age of the Democratic Revolution |
Thomas L. Pangle |
Scholar |
29-Nov-1944 |
|
Leo Strauss: An Introduction |
Landon Parvin |
Government |
3-Jul-1948 |
|
Speechwriter for Reagan, Bush, Schwarzenegger |
David J. Paterson |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Bowater |
James B. Peake |
Government |
18-Jun-1944 |
|
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
William D. Perez |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Wrigley |
Charles A. Peters |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Senior EVP at Emerson Electric |
Tom Peters |
Author |
7-Nov-1942 |
|
In Search of Excellence |
Ethan Phillips |
Actor |
8-Feb-1955 |
|
Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager |
Samuel R. Pierce |
Politician |
8-Sep-1922 |
31-Oct-2000 |
US Secretary of HUD, 1981-89 |
Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky |
Scholar |
1943 |
|
Political scientist |
Lew Platt |
Business |
11-Apr-1941 |
8-Sep-2005 |
CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99 |
Seth P. Plattus |
Attorney |
c. 1961 |
|
CAO of Cerberus Capital Management |
Brenda Gayle Plummer |
Historian |
20-Oct-1946 |
|
Haiti and the United States |
Jerry I. Porras |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford |
Alvin F. Poussaint |
Doctor |
15-May-1934 |
|
Child-rearing expert |
Henry F. Pringle |
Historian |
23-Aug-1897 |
7-Apr-1958 |
Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography |
Robert A. Profusek |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Partner, Jones Day |
Sharon Prost |
Judge |
24-May-1951 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
Thomas Pynchon |
Novelist |
8-May-1937 |
|
Gravity's Rainbow |
Jennifer J. Raab |
Educator |
c. 1956 |
|
President, Hunter College |
Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
Daniel R. Raichel |
Scientist |
1935 |
22-Dec-2006 |
Acoustics expert |
Christopher Reeve |
Actor |
25-Sep-1952 |
10-Oct-2004 |
Superman |
Steve Reich |
Composer |
3-Oct-1936 |
|
Minimalist composer, Different Trains |
G. Frederick Reinhardt |
Diplomat |
21-Oct-1911 |
23-Feb-1971 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1961-68 |
Eugene A. Renna |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
EVP at Exxon Mobil, 2001-02 |
Janet Reno |
Government |
21-Jul-1938 |
7-Nov-2016 |
US Attorney General, 1993-2001 |
Henry S. Reuss |
Politician |
22-Feb-1912 |
12-Jan-2002 |
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1955-83 |
Michelle Rhee |
Activist |
25-Dec-1969 |
|
DC Public Schools Chancellor, 2007-10 |
Christopher Rich |
Actor |
16-Sep-1953 |
|
Miller Redfield on Murphy Brown |
Maria C. Richter |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Former Managing Director, Morgan Stanley |
David B. Rickard |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CFO of CVS Caremark |
Laura Riding |
Poet |
16-Jan-1901 |
2-Sep-1991 |
A Survey of Modernist Poetry |
Timothy M. Ring |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of C. R. Bard |
Chuck Robb |
Politician |
26-Jun-1939 |
|
US Senator from Virginia, 1989-2001 |
Kenneth Roberts |
Novelist |
8-Dec-1885 |
21-Jul-1957 |
Northwest Passage |
Paul Robeson, Jr. |
Activist |
2-Nov-1927 |
26-Apr-2014 |
Son of Paul Robeson |
Irene B. Rosenfeld |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Kraft Foods |
Clinton Rossiter |
Historian |
18-Sep-1917 |
11-Jul-1970 |
Constitutional Dictatorship |
Vera Rubin |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1928 |
|
Structure of galaxies |
Joanna Russ |
Author |
22-Feb-1937 |
29-Apr-2011 |
The Female Man |
Robert L. Ryan |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CFO of Medtronic, 1993-2005 |
Peter M. Sacerdote |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
Gene Saks |
Theater Director |
8-Nov-1921 |
28-Mar-2015 |
The Odd Couple |
William D. Sanders |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of LaSalle Partners, 1968-89 |
Dick Schaap |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1934 |
21-Dec-2001 |
Flashing Before My Eyes |
Vivian Schiller |
Business |
13-Sep-1961 |
|
CEO of NPR, 2009-11 |
Nancy M. Schlichting |
Administrator |
1954 |
|
Henry Ford Health System |
Wolfgang Schoellkopf |
Business |
22-Jul-1932 |
|
CFO of First Fidelity Bancorp, 1990-96 |
Kurt Schrader |
Politician |
19-Oct-1951 |
|
Congressman, Oregon 5th |
Leah Ward Sears |
Judge |
13-Jun-1955 |
|
Georgia Chief Justice |
Robert W. Selander |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Mastercard |
Melville Shavelson |
Film Director |
1-Apr-1917 |
8-Aug-2007 |
Yours, Mine and Ours |
Cary Sherman |
Lobbyist |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of the RIAA |
David J. Silbey |
Historian |
16-Jun-1968 |
|
A War of Frontier and Empire |
Arthur M. Siskind |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former News Corporation executive |
Robert Smigel |
Actor |
7-Feb-1960 |
|
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog |
Abbie J. Smith |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
Accounting Professor, University of Chicago |
Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
Jimmy Smits |
Actor |
9-Jul-1955 |
|
L.A. Law |
Andrew Ross Sorkin |
Journalist |
19-Feb-1977 |
|
The New York Times |
Jonathan Sperber |
Historian |
26-Dec-1952 |
|
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 |
Elmer Sperry |
Inventor |
12-Oct-1860 |
10-Jun-1930 |
Gyroscopic compass |
Gayatri Spivak |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak? |
Warren R. Staley |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Cargill |
Theresa M. Stone |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Treasurer of MIT |
William Strunk |
Author |
1-Jul-1869 |
26-Sep-1946 |
Elements of Style |
Kathleen Sullivan |
Legal Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
Jack W. Szostak |
Scientist |
9-Nov-1952 |
|
First artificial chromosome |
Ratan N. Tata |
Business |
28-Dec-1937 |
|
Chairman of Tata Group |
Allan R. Tessler |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Epoch Investment Partners |
Samuel O. Thier |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
Andrew H. Tisch |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Loews Corporation |
James S. Tisch |
Business |
2-Jan-1953 |
|
CEO of Loews |
Paul H. Todd, Jr. |
Politician |
22-Sep-1921 |
18-Nov-2008 |
Congressman from Michigan, 1965-67 |
Robert I. Toll |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Co-Founder of Toll Brothers |
Franchot Tone |
Actor |
27-Feb-1905 |
18-Sep-1968 |
Advise and Consent |
Paul R. Tregurtha |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of Mormac Marine Group |
Charles H. Twining |
Diplomat |
1-Nov-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1991-95 |
Richard Tyson |
Actor |
13-Feb-1961 |
|
Kindergarten Cop |
William vanden Heuvel |
Diplomat |
14-Apr-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN Europe, 1977-79 |
Thorstein Veblen |
Economist |
30-Jul-1857 |
3-Aug-1929 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
Les C. Vinney |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Steris, 2000-07 |
William T. Vollmann |
Author |
28-Jul-1959 |
|
An Afghanistan Picture Show |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
Charles V. Wait |
Business |
28-May-1951 |
|
CEO of Adirondack Trust |
Padmasree Warrior |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
CTO of Cisco |
Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
Paul Francis Webster |
Songwriter |
20-Dec-1907 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
Sanford I. Weill |
Business |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
CEO of Citigroup, 1998-2003 |
Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Randi Weingarten |
Labor Leader |
1957 |
|
President, United Federation of Teachers |
Stephen H. Weiss |
Business |
c. 1935 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Co-Founder, Weiss, Peck & Greer |
E. B. White |
Author |
11-Jul-1899 |
01-Oct-1985 |
Charlotte's Web |
John P. White |
Government |
27-Feb-1937 |
|
US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1995-97 |
Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
George A. Wiley |
Activist |
26-Feb-1931 |
8-Aug-1973 |
Founder, National Welfare Rights Organization |
Ralph D. Winter |
Religion |
? |
|
US Center for World Mission |
Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
Jerry M. Woodall |
Inventor |
c. 1938 |
|
Inventor of the red LED |
Mary Woronov |
Actor |
8-Dec-1943 |
|
Eating Raoul |
Peter Yarrow |
Singer |
31-May-1938 |
|
The Peter in Peter, Paul, and Mary |
Douglas C. Yearley |
Business |
c. 1936 |
8-Oct-2007 |
CEO of Phelps Dodge, 1989-99 |
John B. Ziegler |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Former executive, GlaxoSmithKline |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Henry Carter Adams |
Economist |
31-Dec-1851 |
11-Aug-1921 |
Public Debts |
Felix Adler |
Educator |
13-Aug-1851 |
24-Apr-1933 |
Ethical Culture |
A. R. Ammons |
Poet |
18-Feb-1926 |
25-Feb-2001 |
Sphere |
Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
Carl Becker |
Historian |
7-Sep-1873 |
10-Apr-1945 |
Everyman His Own Historian |
Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
Allan Bloom |
Philosopher |
14-Sep-1930 |
7-Oct-1992 |
The Closing of the American Mind |
Jack Bogle |
Business |
8-May-1929 |
|
Founder, The Vanguard Group |
Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
Robert O. Bowen |
Novelist |
7-May-1920 |
9-Jun-2003 |
The Weight of the Cross |
Robert F. Chandler |
Educator |
22-Jun-1907 |
23-Mar-1999 |
International Rice Research Institute |
John Cleese |
Comic |
27-Oct-1939 |
|
Monty Python |
Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
David Brion Davis |
Historian |
16-Feb-1927 |
|
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture |
Peter Debye |
Physicist |
24-Mar-1884 |
2-Nov-1966 |
Studied molecular structure, dipoles |
Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
William F. Durand |
Engineer |
5-Mar-1859 |
9-Aug-1958 |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
Freeman Dyson |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1923 |
|
Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study |
Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
Dian Fossey |
Anthropologist |
16-Jan-1932 |
26-Dec-1985 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
Richard H. Gallagher |
Engineer |
17-Nov-1927 |
30-Sep-1997 |
Finite element method |
Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
James M. Goldgeier |
Scholar |
c. 1961 |
|
America Between the Wars |
Bill Gordon |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1918 |
16-Feb-2010 |
Designed Arecibo radio telescope |
Harold Gould |
Actor |
10-Dec-1923 |
11-Sep-2010 |
Martin Morganstern on Rhoda |
Greg Graffin |
Musician |
6-Nov-1964 |
|
Bad Religion frontman |
Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
25-Jun-1936 |
|
Social organizations in insects |
Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
Charles Evans Hughes |
Politician |
11-Apr-1862 |
27-Aug-1948 |
US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate |
Kiyoshi Ito |
Mathematician |
7-Sep-1915 |
10-Nov-2008 |
Ito Calculus |
David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
Donald Kagan |
Historian |
1-May-1932 |
|
The Great Dialogue |
Steven T. Katz |
Author |
12-Aug-1944 |
|
Professor of Religion |
Graham Kerr |
Chef |
22-Jan-1934 |
|
The Galloping Gourmet |
Harvey Klein |
Doctor |
c. 1937 |
|
Cornell University Medical College |
Milton R. Konvitz |
Educator |
12-Mar-1908 |
5-Sep-2003 |
Cornell Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations |
Walter LaFeber |
Historian |
30-Aug-1933 |
|
The New Empire |
Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
Fredrik Logevall |
Historian |
1963 |
|
Embers of War |
Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
Alison Lurie |
Novelist |
3-Sep-1926 |
|
Foreign Affairs |
Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
John McWhorter |
Linguist |
c. 1963 |
|
Linguist, social critic |
John Mendelsohn |
Biologist |
31-Aug-1936 |
|
Cancer researcher |
Adolf Meyer |
Psychiatrist |
13-Sep-1866 |
17-Mar-1950 |
Commonsense Psychiatry |
Steven Muller |
Educator |
22-Nov-1927 |
19-Jan-2013 |
President of Johns Hopkins, 1972-90 |
Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
Bill Nye |
TV Personality |
27-Nov-1955 |
|
Bill Nye the Science Guy |
George Papanicolaou |
Scientist |
13-May-1883 |
19-Feb-1962 |
Pap smear |
James R. Patton, Jr. |
Attorney |
27-Oct-1928 |
|
Founder, Patton Boggs |
Dexter Perkins |
Historian |
20-Jun-1889 |
12-May-1984 |
The Monroe Doctrine |
Don Michael Randel |
Educator |
9-Dec-1940 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 2000-06 |
John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
Emmett J. Rice |
Economist |
21-Dec-1919 |
10-Mar-2011 |
Federal Reserve Governor, 1979-86 |
Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
19-Feb-2013 |
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
Clinton Rossiter |
Historian |
18-Sep-1917 |
11-Jul-1970 |
Constitutional Dictatorship |
Joanna Russ |
Author |
22-Feb-1937 |
29-Apr-2011 |
The Female Man |
Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
Edwin E. Salpeter |
Astronomer |
3-Dec-1924 |
26-Nov-2008 |
Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography |
Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
William R. Sears |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1913 |
12-Oct-2002 |
Airfoil engineer |
David J. Silbey |
Historian |
16-Jun-1968 |
|
A War of Frontier and Empire |
Joseph T. Sneed |
Judge |
21-Jul-1920 |
9-Feb-2008 |
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1973-87 |
W. D. Snodgrass |
Poet |
5-Jan-1926 |
13-Jan-2009 |
Heart's Needle |
Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
William Strunk |
Author |
1-Jul-1869 |
26-Sep-1946 |
Elements of Style |
James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
Robert J. Swieringa |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Dean of Johnson School at Cornell |
Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
Shibley Telhami |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Middle East scholar |
Brian Tierney |
Scholar |
1-May-1922 |
|
Origins of Papal Infallibility |
Edward Titchener |
Psychologist |
11-Jan-1867 |
3-Aug-1927 |
Structural psychology |
Alvin Toffler |
Author |
4-Oct-1928 |
27-Jun-2016 |
Future Shock |
Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
Gregory Vlastos |
Philosopher |
27-Jul-1907 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Influential scholar of ancient philosophy |
Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
15-Jun-2013 |
Second-order phase transitions |