List of Williams College People - Science, Technology, and Engineering

Science, Technology, and Engineering

• Robert Grant Aitken 1892, American astronomer, director of Lick Observatory, compiled comprehensive catalog of double stars.
• John M. Darby 1831, botanist, created first catalogue of flora of the southeastern United States.
• Chester Dewey 1810, botanist.
• Alexander L. Fetter 1958, Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Materials and former Chair of the Physics Department, Stanford University (1985–1990).
• Louis Fieser 1920, Harvard chemistry professor and inventor.
• J.T. Gulick (1855–1859) Evolutionary biologist.
• Ralph E. Gomory 1950, President of the Alfred P. Sloan foundation and Director of Research for IBM.
• Chapman Grant 1910, biologist and herpetologist, grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant
• G. Stanley Hall 1867, the father of American Psychology and the first American to be awarded a Ph.D. in Psychology.
• William Higinbotham 1932, American physicist credited with creating the first video game.
• Daniel Kleppner 1953, American physicist, Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Winner of the 2006 National Medal of Science, the 2005 Wolf Prize in Physics, and the 2007 Lester Ives Medal
• Todd Lowe 1992, Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz. Lowe Lab.
• Edward Morley 1860, who co-performed the Michelson-Morley experiment, one of the most famous experiments in the history of physics.
• Lewis Morris Rutherfurd 1834, astronomer and pioneering astrophotographer.
• Ethan Zuckerman 1993, a co-founder of Tripod, founder of Geekcorps, and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.