List of Alumni of The University of Cape Town - Sciences

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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