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:
“Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained, is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert some judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of critic.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“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)
“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)