Yale Technology & Innovation
by Sylviastel | created - 29 Aug 2014 | updated - 29 Aug 2014 | PublicStudents, graduates and or faculty from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut who have achieved in technology and or innovation. David Bushnell (circa 1776) inventor of the screw propellor, submarine, naval mine, and time bomb. Harry B. Combs (BS 1935); Sheffield Scientific School, aviation pioneer. Harvey Williams Cushing (BA); pioneer of modern brain surgery & Considered by many the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century. Arthur M. Chickering; noted archaeologist of Virginia. Lee De Forest (BS 1896, Ph.D. 1899) inventor of the triode. Eric Fossum (Ph.D. 1984) inventor of the CMOS image sensor. W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928) total quality management (TQM) guru. Helen Flanders Dunbar (MD 1930) important early figure in US psychosomatic medicine. Henry Levitt Ellsworth (BA 1810); first commissioner for US Patent Office, founder of the US Department of Agriculture. Irving Fisher (BA 1888, Ph.D. 1891) economist, father of monetarism. J. Willard Gibbs (BA 1858, PhD. 1863) mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for the Gibbs phenomenon. Grace Hopper (MA 1930, Ph.D. 1934), inventor of the COBOL programming language. Saunders MacLane (BA 1930) mathematician, founder of the category theory with others. Aaron Marcus (BFA MFA 1969) first graphic designer in the world to work with computer graphics. Samuel F.B. Morse (BA 1810) telegraph pioneer; inventor of the Morse code. Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the Nyquist theorem. John Ousterhout (BS 1975) creator of the Tel programming language. Ronald Rivest (BS 1969) computer scientist, the R" in the RSA cryptography; 2002 Turing Award recipient. George B. Shelden awarded the first US patent for an automobile in 1895. Eli Whitney (BA 1792) inventor of the cotton gin.
1. Joseph P. Allen
Joseph P. Allen was born on June 27, 1937 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He is known for Armageddon (1998), Mission to Mars (2000) and Horizon (1964).
Ph.D. 1965; NASA astronaut with 2 STS mission experiences.
2. Francis Collins
Self | Religulous
Dr Francis Collins was the director of the Human Genome Project (the international initiative to decode the DNA instruction manual that's inside each of our cells) in the USA from 2003 until 2008. His PhD was in quantum mechanics (the physics of atoms and subatomic particles), but he later ...
Ph.D. 1974; director of the human genome project
3. Paul B. MacCready
Self | Nova
Paul B. MacCready was born on September 29, 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is known for Nova (1974), The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978) and 20/20 (1978). He was married to Judy MacCready. He died on August 28, 2007 in Pasadena, California, USA.
(BA 1947) engineer of the century, won the Kremer prize for the first human powered flying machine "The Gossamer Condor;" pioneer in solar powered flight; founder of Aero Vironment.
4. Jordan Mechner
Writer | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Jordan Mechner is an American video game developer, designer and screenwriter from New York City known for creating the Prince of Persia video game franchise. It spawned a 2010 live action film by Disney, a Lego set and books. He also developed the 1984 video game Karateka for the Apple II and the ...
BA 1985; videogame developer, created Prince of Persia.
5. Benjamin Spock
Self | Not for Women Only
Benjamin Spock was born on May 2, 1903 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is known for Not for Women Only (1968), Valentine's Day (1964) and The Art Linkletter Show (1963). He was married to Mary Morgan and Jane Cheney. He died on March 15, 1998 in La Jolla, California, USA.
BA 1925; child psychology expert
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