Notable Courant Alumni
This is a small selection of Courant's alumni:
- Anjelina Belakovskaia (Masters in Finance 2001), U.S. Women's Chess Champion.
- Anita Borg (PhD 1981), founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
- Charles Epstein (PhD 1983), hyperbolic geometry
- Corwin Hansch (PhD 1944), statistics
- Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
- Barbara Keyfitz (PhD 1970), Director of the Fields Institute
- David Korn (PhD 1969), creator of the Korn shell,
- Sergiu Klainerman (PhD 1978), Professor at Princeton
- Morris Kline (PhD 1936), NYU Professor (1938–1975)
- Martin Kruskal, (PhD 1952) National Medal of Science, co-discoverer of solitons and the inverse scattering method for solving KdV
- Peter Lax (PhD 1949), recipient of the Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
- Chen Li-an, (PhD 1968) Taiwanese Minister of Defence
- Louis Nirenberg (PhD 1949), Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science, Chern Medal
- Brian J. McCartin (PhD 1981), recipient of the 2010 Chauvenet Prize,
- Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMS, professor emeritus at Courant Institute
- Stanley Osher (PhD 1966), Level Set method, professor at University of California, Los Angeles
- George C. Papanicolaou (PhD 1969), professor at Stanford University
- Susan Mary Puglia (BA in Computer Science and Math), Vice President at IBM
- Gary Robinson, software engineer noted for anti-spam algorithms
- Shmuel Weinberger (PhD 1982), topology and geometry, Professor at University of Chicago
- Jacob Wolfowitz (PhD 1942),
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