David Gelernter, B.A. & M.A. ’76
One could say that Professor David Gelernter is a man of three faces – a pioneer in computer science, an artist with deep cultural roots,
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February 14, 2011
One could say that Professor David Gelernter is a man of three faces – a pioneer in computer science, an artist with deep cultural roots,
Quantum computers. When you first hear the term, it sounds like something out of science fiction. But quantum computers are very real for Jerry Chow,
Sterling Professor of Chemistry Peter Moore never thought he would return to Yale after he earned his Bachelor of Science from Yale College in 1961.
Some Nobel Laureates say that the research finding that led to their Nobel Prize arose from “a stroke of genius.” John Bennett Fenn, the 2003
This “big kid at heart” has achieved many big feats over the last 43 years here at Yale.
James “Jim” Baird, ES ’63, Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has spent his career exploring physics and its connections to chemistry.
Richard (Dick) Shank stepped onto Yale’s campus in July of 1942 as a freshman, a member of the class of 1945. Since then, he has been a Yale professor, a residential college dean, and Yale registrar.
Cheryl Hayashi SM ’88 (Ph.D. ’96), a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, has had a lifelong curiosity about nature, and a Yale campus job feeding a spider colony in a lab eventually propelled her into research on spider silk.
The daughter of a Yale physics professor who would later become master of Silliman College, Jean Bennett TD ’76 was exposed to the Yale academic environment from an early age.
Twenty-five years ago, Thomas Kempner SM ’75 co-founded a hedge fund with $6 million of assets under management. Today, the fund is 2000 times larger