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6 Benefactors
Yale has had many financial supporters, but some stand out by the magnitude of their contributions. Among those who have made large donations commemorated at the university are:
7 Famous alumni
Yale alumni are well represented in the ranks of U.S. presidents, including four of the last six: Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, William Clinton, and George W. Bush. Beginning with Peace Corps founder and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sargent Shriver in 1972, at least one Yale graduate has run on either the Democratic or Republican ticket in every presidential election for the past three decades, and both the Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2004 presidential election were Yale graduates: George W. Bush and John Kerry. In the 2004 Democratic primaries, Joe Lieberman and Howard Dean were also Yale graduates.
7.1 Nobel laureates
- George Akerlof (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001
- Raymond Davis. Physics, 2002.
- John F. Enders (B.A. ca. 1921). Physiology or Medicine, 1954.
- John Fenn (Ph.D. ca. 1940). Chemistry, 2002.
- Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948). Physics, 1954.
- Alfred G. Gilman . Physiology or Medicine, 1994.
- Ernest Lawrence (B.S. 1922, Ph.D. 1925). Physics, 1939. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named for him.
- Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948). Physiology or Medicine, 1958.
- David Lee (Ph.D. 1959). Physics, 1996.
- Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908). Literature, 1930.
- Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935). Chemistry, 1968.
- Dickinson Richards . Physiology or Medicine, 1956.
- William Vickrey (B.S. 1935). Economics, 1996.
- George Whipple (A.B. 1900). Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
- Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D.). Physiology or Medicine, 1995.
7.2 Technology & innovation
- Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project
- Lee DeForest (Ph.D 1899), inventor of the triode
- W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D.), "total quality management" ( TQM) guru
- Irving Fisher (Ph.D.), economist, "father of monetarism"
- J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for Gibb's Phenomenon
- Grace Hopper (Ph.D. 1934), inventor of COBOL programming language
- Art Laffer (B.A. 1963), economist, best known for the " Laffer Curve"
- Paul D. MacCready , "Engineer of the Century," won the Kremer Prize for first human-powered flying machine, pioneer in solar-powered flight
- Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of " category theory"
- Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), videogame developer, created Prince of Persia
- Stanley Milgram (B.A. 1954), psychologist, Milgram experiment, coined the concept " six degrees of separation"
- Samuel Morse (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of Morse code
- John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl programming language
- Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the RSA cryptography, 2002 Turing Award receipient
- Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925), child psychology guru
- Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the cotton gin
