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Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni

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José Raúl Capablanca

Cuban chess player (1888-1942)

Langston Hughes

American writer and social activist (1901–1967)

Irving Langmuir

American chemist and physicist (1881–1957)

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist (born 1951)

Edward Calvin Kendall

American chemist (1886-1972)

Alvin Eliot Roth

American economist, professor

American electronic music pioneer and inventor (1934-2005)

Robert C. Merton

American economist (1944-)

American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)

Edwin Howard Armstrong

American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)

Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)

American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)

Rudolf E. Kálmán

Hungarian-born American electrical engineer

Hyman G. Rickover

United States admiral; Father of the Nuclear Navy (1900–1986)

Jeffrey David Ullman

American computer scientist (born 1942)

Nathaniel Lord Britton

American botanist and geologist (1859-1934)

American businessperson

Gregory H. Johnson

American astronaut

American astronaut

American politician (1769–1828)

Michael J. Massimino

astronaut, engineer

Eugene H. Trinh

Vietnamese-American astronaut

Taiwanese businessman

athletics competitor (1890–1965)

William G. Gregory

American astronaut

British-American business magnate

American and Soviet intelligence officer (1913–2006)

Kevin P. Chilton

United States general and astronaut

American film director (1900–1945)

Jaqueline Barton

American chemist

Stephen Schneider

American climatologist (1945–2010)

Nigerian electrical engineer

Edward Lawry Norton

engineer (1898-1983)

Joseph Frederick Engelberger

American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur (1925–2015)

Turkish-American astronomer (born 1975)

Peter Cooper Hewitt

(1861-1921) American electrical engineer who invented the first mercury-vapor lamp

Herbert L. Anderson

American physicist (1914-1988)

American climatologist

American mathematician (1926-2016)

American software engineer

Italian and American businessman (1949–2026)

Palestinian politician and human rights defender (born 1964)

American geologist (1852-1906)

William Zebina Ripley

American academic (1867–1941)

John Stone Stone

American electrical engineer (1869–1943)

David B. Steinman

American civil engineer

American geologist (1857–1949)

American mathematician

William H. Woodin

American politician (1868–1934)

Daniel C. Drucker

American mechanical engineer (1918-2001)

British-American computer scientist

Suspension bridge engineer (1872–1943)

American engineer (born 1956)

Iranian electrical engineer

Hamilton Castner

American chemist (1858–1899)

Vikram S. Pandit

Mubashir Hassan

Pakistani engineer and politician

Peter Glaser (1923-2014)

American chemist and cosmetics company founder (1906–1998)

Charles Gordon Curtis

American engineer (1860–1953)