The list of Rice University people includes notable alumni, former students, faculty, and presidents of
Rice University.
Alumni
The names of Distinguished Alumni Award recipients is available online[1] (the list is arranged alphabetically and includes recipients of other Rice University awards)
Selected Rice Alumni
Howard Hughes, former aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director
Eva Hoffman, 1967, author, Lost in Translation, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, The Secret: A Novel, After Such Knowledge
Elizabeth Moon, 1968, author, The Deed of Paksenarrion, Winning Colors
Joyce Carol Oates (attended), author; Princeton creative writing professor; dropped out of English PhD program after publishing in Best American Short Stories
John Morgan, 1968, mathematician, 2013 National Academy of Sciences
Harold E. Rorschach Jr., professor of physics at Rice (1952–1993), was the chairman of the physics department three times and principal investigator of the NASA interdisciplinary laboratory at Rice
Dorry Segev, Israeli-born Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
William Sidis (1898–1944)
child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, author, researcher, and student and teacher at Rice
Namita Gupta Wiggers, 1989, expert in the field of contemporary craft, curator, educator and writer
Sam McGuffie, 2013, member of the 2018 U.S. Olympic men's bobsleigh team as a push crewman for the four man bobsled and brakeman for the two-man bobsled
Roger Penrose, former Rice University’s Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics,[117] awarded 2020 in
physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity[118]
Robert Woodrow Wilson, senior scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; awarded 1978 in
physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
^Dooley, Tara. "Khan inspires Muslims with election to council." Houston Chronicle. Saturday, December 13, 2003. Religion p. 1.
NewsBank Record Number: 3716921. Available from the
Houston Public Library website with a library card.
^"Hector Ruiz". Notable Names Data Base. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
^(This footnote was copied from
the "08:47, 28 September 2021" revision of the Wikipedia article about "Tandem Computers" [oldid=1047016237]) : "Tandem History: An Introduction". Center magazine, vol 6 number 1, Winter 1986, a magazine for Tandem employees.
^(This footnote was "also" copied from
the "08:47, 28 September 2021" revision of the Wikipedia article about "Tandem Computers" [oldid=1047016237]) : "Tracing Tandem's History", NonStop News, vol 9 number 1, January 1986, a newsletter for Tandem employees.
^JADE BOYD.
"Rice names Curl 'University Professor'". Rice University. Retrieved 16 July 2009. Bob was teaching an undergraduate course in chemistry the semester he and Rick Smalley were awarded the Nobel Prize
^This ['old'] version of a "footnote" was copied from [the "ref" tag for] the first footnote in the "
Latest revision as of 19:48, 16 August 2022" version of the article about the "Rice Institute Computer":
There were two major purposes in designing the Rice machine. The first was to provide a platform on which members of the Rice community could do research that would have been impossibly time-consuming without access to a computer. This was, in fact, the major reason that the project was started:
Zevi Salsburg wanted a machine as powerful as Los Alamos's MANIAC II to simulate fluid flow. He did not, however, have any desire to move to Los Alamos, and therefore needed a computer to be built at Rice.
The other goal of the machine was to do research into how computers should be built. In the years following John von Neumann's death, the Atomic Energy Commission became quite interested in funding computer research: Salsburg's request came at a time when the AEC's goals could be better met by funding the development of a new system than by offering to build a copy of MANIAC II or to buy a stock IBM computer.
Chronology
Towards the end of 1956, Zevi Salsburg, John Kilpatrick, and Larry Biedenharn, all Rice professors, decided they needed a computer "like the one at Los Alamos." [...] The Rice Computer was designed not only to do research into how best to build computers, but to get work done for faculty members as well. [...] Salsburg investigated the packing of spheres in N-dimensional space to represent fluid flow. [...]
The list of Rice University people includes notable alumni, former students, faculty, and presidents of
Rice University.
Alumni
The names of Distinguished Alumni Award recipients is available online[1] (the list is arranged alphabetically and includes recipients of other Rice University awards)
Selected Rice Alumni
Howard Hughes, former aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director
Eva Hoffman, 1967, author, Lost in Translation, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, The Secret: A Novel, After Such Knowledge
Elizabeth Moon, 1968, author, The Deed of Paksenarrion, Winning Colors
Joyce Carol Oates (attended), author; Princeton creative writing professor; dropped out of English PhD program after publishing in Best American Short Stories
John Morgan, 1968, mathematician, 2013 National Academy of Sciences
Harold E. Rorschach Jr., professor of physics at Rice (1952–1993), was the chairman of the physics department three times and principal investigator of the NASA interdisciplinary laboratory at Rice
Dorry Segev, Israeli-born Marjory K. and Thomas Pozefsky Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
William Sidis (1898–1944)
child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, author, researcher, and student and teacher at Rice
Namita Gupta Wiggers, 1989, expert in the field of contemporary craft, curator, educator and writer
Sam McGuffie, 2013, member of the 2018 U.S. Olympic men's bobsleigh team as a push crewman for the four man bobsled and brakeman for the two-man bobsled
Roger Penrose, former Rice University’s Edgar Odell Lovett Professor of Mathematics,[117] awarded 2020 in
physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity[118]
Robert Woodrow Wilson, senior scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; awarded 1978 in
physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
^Dooley, Tara. "Khan inspires Muslims with election to council." Houston Chronicle. Saturday, December 13, 2003. Religion p. 1.
NewsBank Record Number: 3716921. Available from the
Houston Public Library website with a library card.
^"Hector Ruiz". Notable Names Data Base. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
^(This footnote was copied from
the "08:47, 28 September 2021" revision of the Wikipedia article about "Tandem Computers" [oldid=1047016237]) : "Tandem History: An Introduction". Center magazine, vol 6 number 1, Winter 1986, a magazine for Tandem employees.
^(This footnote was "also" copied from
the "08:47, 28 September 2021" revision of the Wikipedia article about "Tandem Computers" [oldid=1047016237]) : "Tracing Tandem's History", NonStop News, vol 9 number 1, January 1986, a newsletter for Tandem employees.
^JADE BOYD.
"Rice names Curl 'University Professor'". Rice University. Retrieved 16 July 2009. Bob was teaching an undergraduate course in chemistry the semester he and Rick Smalley were awarded the Nobel Prize
^This ['old'] version of a "footnote" was copied from [the "ref" tag for] the first footnote in the "
Latest revision as of 19:48, 16 August 2022" version of the article about the "Rice Institute Computer":
There were two major purposes in designing the Rice machine. The first was to provide a platform on which members of the Rice community could do research that would have been impossibly time-consuming without access to a computer. This was, in fact, the major reason that the project was started:
Zevi Salsburg wanted a machine as powerful as Los Alamos's MANIAC II to simulate fluid flow. He did not, however, have any desire to move to Los Alamos, and therefore needed a computer to be built at Rice.
The other goal of the machine was to do research into how computers should be built. In the years following John von Neumann's death, the Atomic Energy Commission became quite interested in funding computer research: Salsburg's request came at a time when the AEC's goals could be better met by funding the development of a new system than by offering to build a copy of MANIAC II or to buy a stock IBM computer.
Chronology
Towards the end of 1956, Zevi Salsburg, John Kilpatrick, and Larry Biedenharn, all Rice professors, decided they needed a computer "like the one at Los Alamos." [...] The Rice Computer was designed not only to do research into how best to build computers, but to get work done for faculty members as well. [...] Salsburg investigated the packing of spheres in N-dimensional space to represent fluid flow. [...]