List of Stuyvesant High School people

This article lists notable people associated with Stuyvesant High School in New York City, organized into rough professional areas and listed in order by their graduating class. == Significant awards == Alumni who have won significant awards in their fields of endeavor include: James Cagney (1918) – 1942 Academy Award for Best Actor for Yankee Doodle Dandy Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1924) – 1949, 1950 Academy Award for Best Director for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve Joshua Lederberg (1941) – 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Peter Lax (1943) – 1987 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2005 Abel Prize Robert Fogel (1944) – 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Elias Stein (1949) – 1999 Wolf Prize in Mathematics Paul Cohen (1950) – 1966 Fields Medal Roald Hoffmann (1954) – 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Richard Axel (1963) – 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tim Robbins (1976) – 2003 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River Eric S. Lander (1974) – 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences == Mathematics == Peter Lax (1943) – fluid dynamics, differential equations; elected 1970 to the United States National Academy of Sciences, 1987 Wolf Prize, 1992 Steele Prize, 2005 Abel Prize (New York University, emeritus) Bertram Kostant (1945) – lie groups and representation theory; elected in 1978 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) D. J. Newman (1947) – analytic number theory, long-time editor of problems section in the American Mathematical Monthly (Temple University, emeritus) Harold Widom (1949) – integral equations, symplectic geometry (University of California, Santa Cruz), 2007 Wiener Prize Elias Stein (1949) – harmonic analysis; 1974 elected to United States National Academy of Sciences, 1993 Schock Prize, 1999 Wolf Prize, 2002 Steele Prize (Princeton University) Paul Cohen (1950) – logic, Banach algebras, 1964 Bôcher Prize, 1966 Fields Medal, elected 1967 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (Stanford University) Neil R. Grabois (1953) – commutative algebra (president, Colgate University) Jeff Rubens (1957) – probability and statistics, co-editor of The Bridge World (Pace University) Melvin Hochster (1960) – commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, invariant theory; 1980 Cole Prize, elected in 1992 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (University of Michigan) James Lepowsky (1961) – lie theory (Rutgers University) Peter Shalen (1962) – low-dimensional topology, Kleinian groups, hyperbolic geometry (University of Illinois at Chicago) Robert Zimmer (1964) – ergodic theory, dynamical cocycles (president of University of Chicago) Richard Arratia (1968) – probability, combinatorics (USC) David Harbater (1970) – algebraic geometry; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, in 1994 Invited Lecturer to the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1995 Cole Prize (University of Pennsylvania) Paul Zeitz (1975) – ergodic theory (University of California, San Francisco) Jon Lee (1977) – mathematical optimization (G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan) Noam Elkies (1982) – elliptic curves; youngest person ever to win tenure at Harvard; his musical compositions have been performed by major symphony orchestras (Harvard University) Dana Randall (1984) – discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science (Georgia Tech) Elizabeth Wilmer (1987) – Markov chains (Oberlin College) Michael Hutchings (1989) – topology, geometry (University of California, Berkeley) Aleksandr Khazanov (1995) – Math Olympiad; Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist; Curry Fellowship; skipped college and became a PhD student at Pennsylvania State University Michael Develin (1996) – combinatorics, geometry; American Institute of Mathematics Fellow (University of California, Berkeley) == Physics == 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.

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List of Stuyvesant High School people

This article lists notable people associated with Stuyvesant High School in New York City, organized into rough professional areas and listed in order by their graduating class. == Significant awards == Alumni who have won significant awards in their fields of endeavor include: James Cagney (1918) – 1942 Academy Award for Best Actor for Yankee Doodle Dandy Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1924) – 1949, 1950 Academy Award for Best Director for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve Joshua Lederberg (1941) – 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Peter Lax (1943) – 1987 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2005 Abel Prize Robert Fogel (1944) – 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Elias Stein (1949) – 1999 Wolf Prize in Mathematics Paul Cohen (1950) – 1966 Fields Medal Roald Hoffmann (1954) – 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Richard Axel (1963) – 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tim Robbins (1976) – 2003 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River Eric S. Lander (1974) – 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences == Mathematics == Peter Lax (1943) – fluid dynamics, differential equations; elected 1970 to the United States National Academy of Sciences, 1987 Wolf Prize, 1992 Steele Prize, 2005 Abel Prize (New York University, emeritus) Bertram Kostant (1945) – lie groups and representation theory; elected in 1978 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) D. J. Newman (1947) – analytic number theory, long-time editor of problems section in the American Mathematical Monthly (Temple University, emeritus) Harold Widom (1949) – integral equations, symplectic geometry (University of California, Santa Cruz), 2007 Wiener Prize Elias Stein (1949) – harmonic analysis; 1974 elected to United States National Academy of Sciences, 1993 Schock Prize, 1999 Wolf Prize, 2002 Steele Prize (Princeton University) Paul Cohen (1950) – logic, Banach algebras, 1964 Bôcher Prize, 1966 Fields Medal, elected 1967 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (Stanford University) Neil R. Grabois (1953) – commutative algebra (president, Colgate University) Jeff Rubens (1957) – probability and statistics, co-editor of The Bridge World (Pace University) Melvin Hochster (1960) – commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, invariant theory; 1980 Cole Prize, elected in 1992 to the United States National Academy of Sciences (University of Michigan) James Lepowsky (1961) – lie theory (Rutgers University) Peter Shalen (1962) – low-dimensional topology, Kleinian groups, hyperbolic geometry (University of Illinois at Chicago) Robert Zimmer (1964) – ergodic theory, dynamical cocycles (president of University of Chicago) Richard Arratia (1968) – probability, combinatorics (USC) David Harbater (1970) – algebraic geometry; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, in 1994 Invited Lecturer to the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1995 Cole Prize (University of Pennsylvania) Paul Zeitz (1975) – ergodic theory (University of California, San Francisco) Jon Lee (1977) – mathematical optimization (G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan) Noam Elkies (1982) – elliptic curves; youngest person ever to win tenure at Harvard; his musical compositions have been performed by major symphony orchestras (Harvard University) Dana Randall (1984) – discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science (Georgia Tech) Elizabeth Wilmer (1987) – Markov chains (Oberlin College) Michael Hutchings (1989) – topology, geometry (University of California, Berkeley) Aleksandr Khazanov (1995) – Math Olympiad; Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist; Curry Fellowship; skipped college and became a PhD student at Pennsylvania State University Michael Develin (1996) – combinatorics, geometry; American Institute of Mathematics Fellow (University of California, Berkeley) == Physics == 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.

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