Sciences
- Professor Allan McLeod Cormack (Medicine, 1979)
- Hilary Deacon, is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch specialising in the ‘emergence of modern humans’ and African archaeology.
- Emanuel Derman, noted Goldman Sachs financial engineer and author of My Life As A Quant
- Jonathan M. Dorfan, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
- George Ellis, cosmologist. Collaborator with Stephen Hawking and winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize
- Sir Aaron Klug (Chemistry, 1982)
- Paul Maritz, former Microsoft executive, and VMware CEO.
- Sydney Harold Skaife, was an eminent South African entomologist and naturalist.
- Richard van der Riet Woolley, was a British astronomer who became Astronomer Royal.
- Chris Pinkham, former Vice President, IT Infrastructure at Amazon.com and Founder of Nimbula, a startup funded by Sequoia Capital
- Willem Van Biljon, former co-founder of Mosaic Software that was acquired by S1 Corporation and Founder of Nimbula, a startup funded by Sequoia Capital
- Stanley Skewes, number theorist most famous in popular mathematics for his bound for the point of changeover in magnitude between the number of primes up to a certain number and an important approximation of this, which was for many years the largest finite number ever legitimately used in a research paper.
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Famous quotes containing the word sciences:
“All the sciences are now under an obligation to prepare for the future task of philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the rank order of values.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)