Notable Alumni

Neil Leslie Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (Class of 1958)

January 24, 1941

American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, he has sold over 135 million records worldwide since the start of his career in the 1960s.

Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle (Class of 1933)

June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013

World-renowned chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985 for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg (Class of 1936)

March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007

Pioneering biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in "Physiology or Medicine" in 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

Paul Berg

Paul Berg (Class of 1943)

June 30, 1926

Ground-breaking biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 in recognition of his contributions to research on nucleic acids.