List of Illinois Institute of Technology Alumni - Natural Sciences and Related Fields

Natural Sciences and Related Fields

Name Class year Notability References
Sidney Coleman 1957 Creator of the eponymous Coleman–Mandula theorem
Susan Solomon 1977 Shared in the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which received the award along with former Vice President Al Gore. A senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, she was the first person to explain that manmade chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the ozone layer and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992 at age 36. She was named one of Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in 2008.
Samuel Karlin Was a mathematician and a population geneticist.

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