Rockefeller University - Prominent Alumni

Prominent Alumni

• David Albert, physicist and philosopher
• David Baltimore, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 1975 for the discovery of reverse transcriptase. Has served as president of both The Rockefeller University and the California Institute of Technology.
• Michael Bratman, Durfee Professor of philosophy at Stanford University.
• Gerald Edelman, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 1972.
• Barbara Ehrenreich, social commentator and author of the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America.
• Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, who specializes in Aristotle and psychoanalysis.
• Seth Lloyd, physicist
• Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Colombian pathologist who made the world's first attempt of synthetic vaccine for malaria. Recipient of Prince of Asturias Award in 1994.
• Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor, MacArthur Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history.
• Amos Smith, Rhodes-Thompson professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania
• Richard Wolfenden, professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill