List of Swarthmore College people

Nobel laureates

Name	Field	Degree and Year of Graduation	Nobel Prize and Year of Award
Christian B. Anfinsen	Chemistry	B.S., 1937	Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1972
David Baltimore	Biology, President of Caltech	B.S., 1960	Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1975
Edward C. Prescott	Economics	B.A., 1962	Nobel Prize in Economics, 2004
Howard Temin	Biology	B.S., 1955	Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1975

MacArthur Fellow ("Genius award")

• 1983 John J. Hopfield - Molecular biologist
• 1985 Jane Richardson - Biochemist
• 1998 Ellen Barry - Attorney
• 1998 Rebecca J. Nelson - Plant Pathologist
• 2001 Christopher Chyba - Time magazine's "Fifty for the Future."

Arts, Film, and Broadcasting

• David Gelber - Executive Producer, 60 Minutes on CBS
• H. C. Robbins Landon - Composer
• Ike Schambelan - Founder, the Theater By the Blind in New York City
• Peter Schickele - Composer (under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach).
• Ben Masten - Radio Personality

Business

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Steps to Wharton Hall (student residence)

• Burt Alper (1991) - CEO, Catchword
• Sherry F. Bellamy (1974) - President & CEO, Bell Atlantic-Maryland
• Mark Benerofe (1981) - Vice-President, Sony Online Ventures
• Peter Cohan (1979) - President, Peter S. Cohan & Associates
• John D. Goldman (1971) - CEO, Richard N. Goldman & Co. Insurance Services, President, San Francisco Symphony
• Samuel L. Hayes III (1957) - Director, Tiffany & Co., Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
• Mickey Herbert (1967) - President and CEO, the Bridgeport Bluefish Baseball Club
• Roger Holstein (1974) - CEO, WebMD
• Gil Kemp (1972) - President and Founder, Home Decorators Collection
• Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (1946) - Billionaire (Forbes 400 Richest in Amherica), Co-founder, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Frederick W. Kyle (1954) - Chairman, BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corporation
• Randall Larrimore (1969) - Former President and CEO, United Stationers Inc., a Fortune 500 company
• Leland S. MacPhail (1939) - President, National League Baseball, General Manager, the New York Yankees
• Thomas B. McCabe (1915) - Chairman, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, President, Scott Paper
• Carl Russo (1979) - President and CEO, Calix, Former Vice President of Optical Strategy Cisco Systems

Education

• Patrick Awuah - Founder, Ashesi University, Ghana's first liberal arts college
• David Baltimore - President of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Nobel Prize winner
• Nancy Y. Bekavac - First female president of Scripps College
• Detlev W. Bronk - Former President, Johns Hopkins University
• Marjorie Garber - Director, the Humanities Center at Harvard University
• Neil R. Grabois - Former President, Colgate University
• Tori Haring-Smith - President, Washington & Jefferson College
• Clark Kerr - First Chancellor, the University of California, Berkeley and 12th President, the University of California.
• David Lewis - Philosopher
• Richard Lyman - Former President (7th), Stanford University
• Robert Prichard - Former President (13th), University of Toronto
• Jerome Schiller - Professor of Philosophy, Washington University
• Helen Magill White - The first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.

Law

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Kohlberg Hall

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1974) - Dean, Georgetown University Law Center (law school)
• Christopher Edley, Jr. (1973) - Dean, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall)
• Frank H. Easterbrook (1970) - Judge, United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Seventh_Circuit
• James C. Hormel (1955) - Former Dean, University of Chicago Law School
• Wilma A. Lewis (1978) - Former United States Attorney, District of Columbia
• Eben Moglen (1980) - Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, General counsel and Board Member at the Free Software Foundation, co-authored the original GNU General Public License
• Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1891) - attorney general, United States from 1919-1921
• Richard D. Parker (1967) - Professor, Harvard Law School
• Jed Rakoff (1964) - United States District Judge
• Dorothy Kathryn Robinson () - Vice President & General Counsel, Yale University
• Charles F. C. Ruff (1960) - Special Prosecutor who investigated President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, defender of Anita Hill during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Counsel to President Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal
• Mary M. Schroeder (1962) - Chief Judge, United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit

Natural Science and Engineering

• Dave Bayer - Math consultant, A Beautiful Mind(feature film)
• Ted Nelson - Computer visionary. Coined the term hypertext
• Frank Oski - Director of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• Nancy Roman - Astronomer. One of "the inspirational women" of NASA.
• Maxine Frank Singer - Biochemist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington since 1988
• Charlotte Moore Sitterly - Astronomer. Identified chemical elements in the sun using spectroscopy.

• Richard Vallee - Pathologist, Columbia University Medical Center, discoverer of cytoplasmic dynein [1]
• Peter J. Weinberger - Computer Scientist. Former head of CS Research at Bell Labs, inventor of the AWK programming language.

Politics

• William H. Brown, Jr. - Parliamentarian, the United States House of Representatives
• Peter_Deutsch - Member, the United States House of Representatives ( D-Florida)
• Michael Dukakis - Former Governor of Massachusetts. 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate.
• Carl Levin - Member, the United States Senate (D-Michigan)
• Eugene M. Lang - Philanthropist
• Alice Paul - Women's suffrage leader from 1913 onwards
• Amos J. Peaslee - US Ambassador to Australia
• Robert Putnam - Proponent of social capital. Professor, Harvard University.
• Chris Van Hollen - Member, the United States House of Representatives (D-Maryland)
• Robert P. George - Member, President's Council on Bioethics. Professor, Princeton University.
• Robert Zoellick - Deputy Secretary of State, State Department. U.S. Trade Representative

Psychology

• Carol Gilligan - Recipient, Grawemeyer Award. Professor, New York University.

Writers, Journalists, & Publishers

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Lang Performing Arts Center

• David G. Bradley - chair of The Atlantic Monthly and National Journal Group, Inc. [2]
• Heywood Hale Broun - Editorialist and Author
• Diane Di Prima - Beat generation Poet
• Jonathan Franzen - Author, Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction [3]
• Robyn Geary - Managing Editor, The Washingtonian
• James A. Michener - Novelist
• Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editorial Director of The Nation
• Drew Pearson - Journalist
• Rudy Rucker - Cyberpunk Novelist. Winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards.

Notable professors

Current Faculty

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Former Faculty

• Solomon Asch, Psychology
• W. H. Auden, Literature
• Frank Aydelotte (President)
• Brand Blanshard, Philosophy
• Daniel J. Boorstin, History
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., Physics
• Nannerl O. Keohane, Political Science
• Wolfgang Köhler, Psychology
• Joseph Leidy, Natural History
• George W. Lewis, Engineering
• Scott Nearing(visiting), Economics
• Camille Paglia
• Maria L. Sanford, History
• Clair Wilcox, Economics