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5 September 11 and Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant is a quarter-mile from the former site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed on September 11, 2001 attacks. The school was evacuated during the ordeal and the students were temporarily relocated to Brooklyn Tech starting September 21 while the Stuyvesant building was used as one of several bases of operations by rescue and recovery workers. Normal classes resumed three weeks later on October 9. The following is a list of the Stuyvesant alumni who were killed during the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center:
Richard Ben-Veniste '60 was on the 9/11 Commission.
In the months after 9/11, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant, a '93 alum, and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after 9/11 and turn them into a series of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11th – The View from a High School at Ground Zero.
6 Notable alumni
6.1 Scientists/mathematicians
- Richard Axel '63 — scientist, winner of 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Steven Bellovin '68 — AT&T Bell Labs, Internet security authority
- Bram Cohen '93 — author of Bittorrent
- Paul Cohen '50 — mathematician, shared the 1966 Fields Medal, won National Medal of Science in 1968
- Noam D. Elkies '82 — mathematician and musician
- Joseph File '40 — winner, Enrico Fermi Award
- Bob Frankston '66 — co-creator of Visicalc, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Robert Fogel '44 — economist, winner of 1993 Nobel Prize in economics
- Ronald J. Grabe '62 — astronaut
- Brian Greene '80 — mathematician, physicist, String theorist, author of The Elegant Universe
- Roald Hoffmann '55 — chemist, winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
- Edward M. Kosower '45 — 1996 Rothschild Prize in Chemistry (one of Israel's highest prizes in science)
- Eric Lander '74 — head of the Human Genome Project, MacArthur Fellow
- Raymond Lau '89 — software programmer ( Stuffit), research scientist
- Joshua Lederberg '41 — geneticist, winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine, Medal of Science (1989)
- Marshall Rosenbluth '41 — Nuclear scientist, Albert Einstein Award, Enrico Fermi Award, and National Medal of Science
- Steve Rothman '65 — One of the inventors of the VAX computer family, Digital Equipment
- Nicholas P. Samios, PhD '49 — physicist; Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
- Michael Silverstein '62 — MacArthur Fellow
- Thomas Sowell '48 — economist
- Elias Stein '49 — mathematician, winner of 1999 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
