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:
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art and the art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry—yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)