List of Stuyvesant High School People - Physics

Physics

Stuyvesant has also produced a steady stream of physicists, including a number of major figures in the field:

• Joseph File (1940) Fermi Award
• Marshall Rosenbluth (1942) theory of liquids, fusion; Fermi Award, United States National Academy of Sciences (University of California, San Diego, emeritus)
• Rolf Landauer (1943) physics of computation; elected in 1988 to the United States National Academy of Sciences, IBM Fellow (Thomas J. Watson Research Center) (d. 1998)
• Leo Sartori (1945) high energy physics, relativity; negotiator for SALT II disarmanent talks (University of Nebraska).
• Charles Zemach (1947) theoretical physics, (Los Alamos National Laboratory, retired)
• Paul C. Martin (1948) statistical physics; elected in 1979 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University)
• Edward Posner (1950)

Edward Posner was a mathematician and an academic administrator, not a physicist. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) (d. 1993)

• Elihu Lubkin (1950) relativity, entropy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Elihu Lubkin is at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, not MIT
• Jacob Towber (1950) (DePaul University in Chicago, emeritus)
• Arthur Yelon (1951) professor emeritus, Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal.
• Michael Lieber (1953) (University of Arkansas)
• Nathaniel Queen (1956) chaos, particle physics (University of Birmingham)
• Monroe Rabin (1957) high energy physics (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Ralph Menikoff (1965) fluid dynamics (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Technology]]), 1998 Lawrence Award

• Brian Greene (1980) string theory, mirror symmetry, author of The Elegant Universe; Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar (Columbia University)
• Lisa Randall (1980) high energy physics, Randall–Sundrum model, 2004 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Harvard University)
• Keith Dienes (1982) string theory (CERN).
• Chetan Nayak (1988) professor of physics UC Santa Barbara, quantum hall effect and quantum computation, 1st place winner of the 47th Westinghouse Science Talent Search for writing a variational principle for the already unified field theory (geometrodynamics) at 15 years old.