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Professor of Theology and comparative religions, University of Chicago: Leslie Hairston: 1979 Chicago alderman Matthew Headrick: 1990 1990 winner of the Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search: Hal Higdon: 1947 Writer and runner, longtime contributor to Runner's World: Maria Hinojosa: 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, radio host ...
In 1976, a group of eight engineers, all former employees of Delhi Cloth & General Mills, led by Shiv Nadar, started a company that would make personal computers. [8] [9] Initially floated as Microcomp Limited, Nadar and his team (which also included Arjun Malhotra, Ajai Chowdhry, D.S. Puri, Yogesh Vaidya and Subhash Arora) started selling teledigital calculators to gather capital for their ...
The James Franck Institute of the University of Chicago conducts interdisciplinary research in physics, chemistry and materials science. Scientists at the institute include those interested in condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, materials chemistry, atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, geophysics, and biophysics.
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American theoretical physicist from Chicago who studies high energy physics. [2] [3] She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American and Chicago Public Schools alumna". [4]
Name Image Graduation date Degree Known for Reference Jack Steinberger: Withdrew chemical engineering: Corecipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino."
Interested in a more permanent situation for the program, community leaders acquired a former elementary school campus in 1961 and enrolled 4,000 students in day and night classes. Further growth led to the construction of its present campus on West Wilson Avenue, opening its doors in 1976, naming the school after U.S. President Truman. [ 2 ]
Murray Gell-Mann – 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics; Henry A. Gleason – ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist; Maria Goeppert-Mayer – developed model for nuclear shell structure at the University of Chicago, for which she received a Nobel in Physics in 1963; George Ellery Hale – solar astronomer, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields ...
[2] [8] In 2006 his life story was recorded by the HistoryMakers of Chicago as part of the oral history archives. [3] White supports students from diverse backgrounds in their careers in physics. [9] In 2010 White was awarded the American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award for his work on the Tevatron experiment and outstanding public ...