List of City College of New York People - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

• Solomon A. Berson 1938 – medical scientist at Mt. Sinai Hospital who would probably have won a Nobel with his colleague Rosalyn Yalow had he not died prematurely
• Julius Blank – engineer, member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
• Charles DeLisi 1963 (BA) – scientist, "Father of the Human Genome Project"
• Joel S. Engel 1957 – scientist and electrical engineer instrumental in mobile phone technology
• Adin Falkoff – engineer, computer scientist, co-inventor of the APL language interactive system
• Mitchell Feigenbaum 1964 – mathematical physicist
• Richard Felder 1962 – engineering professor, coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes
• Jeffrey Flier 1969 – dean, Harvard Medical School
• Wolcott Gibbs – distinguished chemistry professor at the Free Academy
• Seymour Ginsburg 1948 – distinguished computer science professor
• George Washington Goethals 1887 – civil engineer, supervised the construction and opening of the Panama Canal
• Joseph Goldberger – Started in engineering; transferred to Bellevue Hospital Medical School. Discovered that B vitamin deficiency was cause of pellagra; paved way for Elvehjem to narrow cause to vitamin B₃
• Dan Goldin – served as the 9th and longest-tenured administrator of NASA.
• Andrew S. Grove 1960 – ChE. Founder and Former Chairman of Intel Corp. Dr. Grove donated $26 Million, the largest gift ever received by the City College of New York.
• Gary Gruber 1962 – physicist, testing expert, educator, author
• Herman Hollerith – early computer pioneer, invented Key punch
• Robert E. Kahn – Internet pioneer, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2004
• Michio Kaku – CCNY professor; theoretical physicist and co-founder of string field theory
• Gary A. Klein 1964 – research psychologist, known for pioneering the field of naturalistic decision making
• Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneer
• Solomon Kullback – Mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer
• Arthur J. Levenson – Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army, National Security Agency official, cryptographer, mathematician
• Michael A. Liguori 1979 – listed among the New York area's 100 best primary care doctors by New York Magazine
• Valentino Mazzia (1922–1999), forensic anesthesiologist.
• Albert Medwin 1949 BSEE – engineer and inventor, developed CMOS integrated circuit technology
• Irving Millman 1948, microbiologist and virologist
• Lewis Mumford – historian of technology; author of The City in History
• Karl J. Niklas – professor of plant biology at Cornell University.
• Paul Pimsleur - professor, applied linguist, inventor of the Pimsleur Method
• Charles Lane Poor – noted astronomer
• Martin Pope 1939 – physical chemist, Davy Medal winner (2006), known for pioneering work in electronic process in organic crystals and polymers, particularly discoveries in area of ohmic contacts
• Emil Post – distinguished professor of mathematics at CCNY
• Jacob Rabinow – an engineer and an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of mechanical, optical and electrical devices. Mainly in defense systems, and eventually became Chief of the Electro-Mechanical Ordnance Division at NBS. Scientific achievements: Among them are the President's Certificate of Merit (1948), the Industrial R&D Scientist of the Year Award (1960), the IEEE's Harry Diamond Award (1977), and the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1998). He published his book, Inventing for Fun and Profit, in 1989
• Maurice M. Rapport 1940, biochemist; identified the neurotransmitter serotonin
• Haskell Reich – physicist and scientist for IBM Research. He did his undergraduate degree at City College, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955, joining the research team of Dr. Richard Garwin at Watson Labs.
• Saul Rosen 1941 (BS Mathematics) – early computer pioneer, mathematician, engineer, and professor
• Howard Rosenblum 1950 BSEE – NSA Engineer; developer of the STU (Secure Telephone Unit)
• Jack Ruina 1944 BSEE – former director of ARPA
• Mario Runco Jr. 1974 – astronaut.
• Jonas Salk 1934 – inventor of the Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine)
• Philip H. Sechzer 1934 – anesthesiologist, pioneer in pain management; inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Arthur Schlesinger 1958- Research Microbiologist
• Abraham Sinkov – Mathematician; NSA (National Security Agency) cryptology pioneer
• David B. Steinman 1906 – engineer; bridge designer (designed the Mackinac Bridge) and founded the National Society of Professional Engineers; the CCNY engineering building is named for him (Class 1906)
• Leonard Susskind 1962 – physicist, string theory
• Edgar Villchur (B.A.; M.S. 1940) - American inventor, educator, writer, and founder of Acoustic Research
• Milton Zaslow 1942 – cryptologist, ranking National Security Administration (NSA) official
• Mark Zemansky 1921 - physicist, textbook author, Professor of Physics at City College of New York from 1925 until he became an Emeritus Professor of Physics in 1967
• Benjamin W. Zweifach 1931 – Professor Emeritus Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego