Society Alumni Honors

ISEF 1999 alumna Heidi Williams, now an economics professor at Dartmouth, was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow.
ISEF 1999 alumna Heidi Williams, now an economics professor at Dartmouth, was named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation/Wikimedia Commons.

Society Alumni include:

Rhodes Scholars:

  • Michael Fried (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1955), 1959
  • Dwight Eddins (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1957), 1961
  • Paul Bamberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 1963
  • George Barisas (ISEF 1960), 1965
  • William McGrew (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1962), 1965
  • Richard Stearns (ISEF 1962), 1968
  • Paul Viita (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1966), 1970
  • Larry Grisham (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1967), 1971
  • Lane Hughston (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1969; ISEF 1968-1969), 1972
  • Gary Johnson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1967), 1972
  • Robert Rice (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 1973
  • Daryl Koehn (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1973), 1977
  • Eric Lander (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974), 1978
  • Michael Hoffman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1977; ISEF 1977), 1979
  • Brian Greene (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1980; ISEF 1980), 1984
  • Melissa Sydeman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1984), 1988
  • Janice Hudgings (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1987; ISEF 1985), 1991
  • Daniel Fletcher (ISEF 1988), 1994
  • Rebecca Boggs (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1991), 1995
  • Ryan Egeland (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1993; ISEF 1990-1993), 1997
  • Ryan Iwasaka (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1990; ISEF 1988-1990), 1997
  • Lana Israel (ISEF 1993), 1997
  • Neil Hattangadi (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1995; ISEF 1992, 1994-1995), 1999
  • Anna Terry (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1996; ISEF 1993-1996), 2001
  • Raju Raval (ISEF 1996-1997), 2001
  • Courtney Voelker (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1995), 2001
  • Pavan Cheruvu (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1998; ISEF 1998), 2002
  • John Probasco (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1998; ISEF 1996-1998), 2002
  • Heidi Williams (ISEF 1999), 2003
  • Dave Chokshi (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1999), 2003
  • Jeremy England (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1999), 2003
  • Swati Mylavarapu (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2001; ISEF 2000-2001), 2005
  • Eugene Shenderov (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2001), 2005
  • Jeremy Farris (ISEF 1998-2000), 2005
  • Rahul Satija (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2002), 2006
  • Melis Anahtar (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2004; ISEF 2004), 2007
  • Rachel Bayefsky (ISEF 2004), 2009
  • Ashley Nord (ISEF 2002), 2009
  • Matthew Gethers (DCYSC 2001), 2009
  • David Llewellyn (ISEF 2005), 2010
  • Ugwechi Amadi (DCYSC 2002), 2010
  • Jordan Anderson (DCYSC 2002), 2010
  • Matthew Baum (DCYSC 2002), 2010
  • Esther Uduehi (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2007; ISEF 2006-2007), 2011
  • Jared Dunnmon (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2007), 2011
  • Zachary Frankel (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2007), 2011
  • Zujaja Tauqeer (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2007), 2011
  • William Zeng (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2007), 2011
  • Samuel Galler (DCYSC 2002), 2012
  • Allan Hsiao (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2009; ISEF 2008; DCYSC 2004-2005), 2013
  • Aidan Daly (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2009), 2013
  • Katherine Silikowski (DCYSC 2003) 2013
  • Elizabeth Byrne (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2010 2014
  • Sai Gourisankar (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2011), 2015
  • Anisha Gururaj (DCYSC 2006), 2015
  • Ericka Wheeler (ISEF 2010), 2016
  • Emmie Mediate (DCYSC 2006), 2016
  • Christopher Duncan-Lewis (ISEF 2011), 2017
  • Meghan Shea (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2013; ISEF 2011), 2017
  • Alan Yang (ISEF 2011-2012), 2018
  • Francisca Vasconcelos (ISEF 2015-2016), 2020
  • Swathi Srinivasan (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2017; ISEF 2015, 2017), 2021
  • Maya Burhanpurkar (ISEF 2013), 2022
  • Sara Fekri (ISEF 2019), 2023
  • Tassilo Schwarz (ISEF 2017), 2023
  • Adam Martinez (ISEF 2017), 2024
  • Xavier Morales (ISEF 2018), 2024
  • Sydney Barta (BCM 2018), 2026
  • Vivan Chinoda (ISEF 2019–21) ,2026
  • Julie Sieg (ISEF 2022), 2026
  • Sophia Wang (ISEF 2018–20), 2026

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award Winners:

Breakthrough Prize:

  • Eric S. Lander (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974), 2013 in Life Sciences
  • John H. Schwarz (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 2014 in Physics
  • Jacob Lurie (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1996, ISEF 1994, 1995), 2015 in Mathematics
  • Kip Thorne (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 2016 in Fundamental Physics
  • David N. Spergel (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1978), 2018 in Fundamental Physics
  • Katherine Bouman (ISEF 2005), 2020 in Fundamental Physics
  • Eric Adelberger (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 2020 in Fundamental Physics
  • Charles Bennett (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 2023 in Fundamental Physics
  • David Liu (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1990), 2025 in Life Sciences

Enrico Fermi Award Winners:

  • Seymour Sack (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1946), 2003
  • Andrew Sessler (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 2013

Fields Medal Recipients:

  • Paul Cohen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1966 award in Mathematics
  • David Mumford (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 1974 award in Mathematics

MacArthur Foundation Fellows:

National Academy of Engineering Inductees:

  • Eberhardt Rechtin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1943), 1968
  • William Agnew (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1943), 1974
  • Frederick Brooks (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 1976
  • Donald Knuth (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1981
  • George Turin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1947), 1985
  • John Armstrong (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1987
  • Alan Goldman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 1989
  • Andrew Sessler (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 1990
  • Charles Thacker (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 1994
  • Robert Sproull (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1964), 1997
  • Raymond Kurzweil (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1965), 2001
  • F. Tom Leighton (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974; 1972-1973 ISEF), 2004
  • Ilan Kroo (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974), 2005
  • Michael Lesk (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2005
  • Mark Barteau (ISEF 1993), 2006
  • Edwin Chandross (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1951), 2007
  • Leroy Hood (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 2007
  • Ann Lee (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1979), 2007
  • Jon Kleinberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1989), 2008
  • Anthony Kurtz (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1947), 2008
  • Mark Drela (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1978), 2009
  • Andrew Jackson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1989), 2009
  • Jennifer Elisseeff (ISEF 1989 & 1991), 2010
  • Roderic Pettigrew (ISEF 1967), 2010
  • James K. Baker (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1963; ISEF 1963), 2014
  • Thomas Edgar (ISEF 1963), 2014
  • Gregory Fenves (ISEF 1974), 2014
  • Kristina Johnson (ISEF 1975), 2016
  • Grant Stokes (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1977; ISEF 1976), 2016
  • Whitfield Diffie (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2017
  • Edward Frank (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974), 2018
  • John Langford (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1975, ISEF 1974), 2018
  • Lisa Su (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1986), 2018
  • James Bellingham (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1979), 2021
  • Andres Garcia-Abarca (ISEF 1987), 2021

National Academy of Sciences Inductees:

  • Ronald Breslow (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1948), 1966
  • Paul J. Cohen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1967
  • Kenneth Wiberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 1967
  • Martin Karplus (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1947), 1967
  • Andrew Streitwieser (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 1969
  • Gerald Edelman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1946), 1969
  • Michael Tinkham (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 1970
  • Roald Hoffmann (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1944), 1972
  • James Bjorken (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1973
  • Ben Mottelson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1944), 1973
  • Kip Thorne (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 1973
  • Stephen L. Adler (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1957), 1975
  • Leon N. Cooper (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1947), 1975
  • Donald Knuth (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1975
  • David Mumford (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 1975
  • Gary Felsenfeld (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1947), 1976
  • Walter Gilbert (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 1976
  • Richard Zare (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1957, ISEF 1957), 1976
  • Richard Lindzen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1977
  • James Gunn (ISEF 1957), 1977
  • Sheldon Glashow (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1977
  • Carl Wunsch (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 1978
  • Leo Kadanoff (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 1978
  • Paul Martin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1948), 1979
  • Stephen Berry (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1948), 1980
  • George Clark (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 1980
  • James Serrin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1944), 1980
  • Gordon Baym (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1982
  • Bertrand Halperin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 1982
  • Leroy Hood (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1982
  • Saul Sternberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1982
  • Alar Toomre (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 1983
  • Murray Rosenblatt (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1943), 1984
  • Howard Berg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1984
  • Lubert Stryer (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1954), 1984
  • John Hall (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1984
  • Paul Richards (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1985
  • Mary-Dell Chilton (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1985
  • Eric Davidson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1954), 1985
  • Richard Dickerson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 1985
  • Robert Solovay (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1986
  • Daniel Kleppner (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1986
  • Shlomo Sternberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1951), 1986
  • Robert Axelrod (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 1986
  • Donald Crothers (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1954), 1987
  • Harvey Lodish (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 1987
  • John Mather (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 1988
  • Dana Scott (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1988
  • Carver Mead (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 1989
  • Philip Hanawalt (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 1989
  • Andrew Sessler (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1945), 1990
  • Walter Kamb (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1947), 1990
  • Frank Wilczek (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1967), 1990
  • Jane Richardson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 1991
  • Susan Solomon (ISEF 1972), 1992
  • Melvin Hochster (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 1992
  • Alexandra Navrotsky (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 1993
  • Paul Modrich (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1964), 1993
  • Eric Adelberger (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1994
  • Richard Stanley (ISEF 1962), 1995
  • Corey Goodman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1968), 1995
  • William Happer (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1996
  • Eric Lander (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974), 1997
  • John Schwarz (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 1997
  • Charles Bennett (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 1997
  • James Tumlinson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1997
  • Michael Gimbrone (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 1997
  • Paul Steinhardt (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1970), 1998
  • Charles Gross (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 1998
  • Roger Tsien (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1968), 1998
  • William Bardeen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1958), 1999
  • Douglas Lilly (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1946), 1999
  • Douglas Rees (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1970), 2000
  • Robert Kraichnan (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1944), 2000
  • Kenneth Ribet (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1965), 2000
  • Frederick Brooks (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 2001
  • Jeffrey Lagarias (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1967), 2001
  • Robert Cava (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1969), 2001
  • Ronald Vale (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1976), 2001
  • Dennis Carson (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1962), 2003
  • James Vaupel (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1963), 2004
  • George Yancopoulos (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1976), 2004
  • Paul Chaikin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1962), 2004
  • Wayne Hubbell (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2005
  • Edward Solomon (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1964), 2005
  • David Spergel (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1978), 2007
  • Wayne Yokoyama (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1970), 2007
  • Allen Goldman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1954), 2007
  • Lisa Randall (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1980), 2008
  • Frank Leighton (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1974), 2008
  • Michael Botchan (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2008
  • Michael Greenberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1972), 2008
  • Allan Gibbard (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 2009
  • Jon Kleinberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1989), 2011
  • James McCammon (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1965), 2011
  • Joseph Harris (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1968), 2011
  • James Demmel (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1972), 2011
  • Yuan Chang (ISEF 1977), 2012
  • William Bialek (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1977), 2012
  • James Bardeen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 2012
  • Alvin Roth (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1968), 2013
  • Mark Cane (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2013
  • Vamsi Mootha (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1989), 2014
  • John Preskill (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1971), 2014
  • Eric D’Asaro (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1972), 2014
  • Alfred Goldberg (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 2015
  • Nancy Andrews (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1976), 2015
  • Noam Elkies (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1982), 2017
  • Mary Hatten (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1967), 2017
  • Nadarajan Chetty (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1997), 2018
  • Sarah Roberts Elgin (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1963), 2018
  • Jack Griffith (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 2018
  • Feng Zhang (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2000), 2018
  • Arlene Sharpe (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1971), 2018
  • Dalton Conley (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1986), 2018
  • Dianne Newman (ISEF 1987, 1988), 2019
  • Barry Simon (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1962), 2019
  • Rosina Bierbaum (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1970), 2019
  • Roger Falcone (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1970), 2019
  • Jacob Lurie (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1996, ISEF 1994, 1995), 2020
  • Jeffrey Ullman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 2020
  • David Knipe (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1968), 2021
  • David Liu (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1990), 2021
  • Elizabeth Buffalo (ISEF 1987), 2022
  • Gordon Freeman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1969), 2022
  • Joel Moore (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1991), 2022
  • Jennifer Elisseeff (ISEF 1991, ISEF 1989), 2023
  • David Glass (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1988), 2024
  • Harold Hwang (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1988), 2024
  • John Johnson (ISEF 1961), 2024
  • Jeffrey Lagarias (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1967), 2024
  • Daniel Kammen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1980), 2025
  • Mark Anderson (ISEF 1978), 2026
  • Laura Attardi (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1984), 2026
  • Michale Fee (ISEF 1981), 2026
  • George Fuller (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1965, ISEF 1965), 2026
  • Andrew Gelman (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1982), 2026
  • Christopher Skinner (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1989, ISEF 1988, 1989), 2026

National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees:

National Medal of Science Recipients:

  • Paul Cohen (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 1967 award in Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Donald Knuth (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 1979 award in Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Roald Hoffmann (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1955), 1983 award in Chemistry
  • Richard Zare (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1957, ISEF 1957), 1983 award in Chemistry
  • Ronald Breslow (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1948), 1991 award in Chemistry
  • Leo Kadanoff (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 1999 award in Physical Sciences
  • Susan Solomon (ISEF 1972), 1999 award in Chemistry
  • Daniel Kleppner (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1950), 2006 award in Physical Sciences
  • Lubert Stryer (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1954), 2006 award in Biological Sciences
  • James Gunn (ISEF 1957), 2008 award in Physical Sciences
  • David Mumford (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1953), 2009 award in Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Leroy Hood (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 2011 award in Biological Sciences
  • Robert Axelrod (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2012 award in Behavioral and Social Science

National Medal of Technology and Innovation Recipients:

  • Frederick Brooks (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949), 1985 award in Computer Science
  • David Thompson (ISEF 1971-1972), 1991 award in Aerospace
  • Raymond Kurzweil (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1965, ISEF 1965), 1999 award in Communication and Information
  • Carver Mead (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1952), 2002 award in Manufacturing
  • Marcian Hoff (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1954), 2009 award in Computer Science
  • George Carruthers (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1957), 2011 award in Aerospace
  • Mary Shaw (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2012 award in Computer Science
  • David Huang (ISEF 1981), 2022 award in Medicine
  • Mary Dell Chilton (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1956), 2023 award in Biological Sciences
  • Kristina M. Johnson (ISEF 1975), 2025 award in Photonics and Nanoelectronics
  • Feng Zhang (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 2000, ISEF 1998-1999), 2025 award in Biological Engineering

Nobel Prize Winners:

Sloan Research Fellows:

  • 245 Society Alumni have been named Sloan Research Fellows

The Turing Award recipients:

  • Richard Stearns, (ISEF 1962), 1993
  • Fred Brooks, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1949) 1999
  • Alan Kay, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961) 2003
  • Charles Thacker, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 2009
  • Whitfield Diffie, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1961), 2015
  • Jeffrey Ullman, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 2020
  • Richard Sutton, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1959), 2024
  • Charles Bennett, (Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø 1960), 2025

 

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