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Peter Agre
M.D., SOM 1974
Shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 |
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William Foxwell Albright
PhD, A&S 1916
Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls; renowned scholar
in Semitics and Near Eastern Studies |
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Virginia Apgar
MPH, SPH '59
Developed Apgar score used to assess health of
newborns |
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Dominic Argento
T.C. PEAB '50 and '51, B.M. PEAB '51, M.M. PEAB '54
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer |
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John Astin
BA, A&S 1952
Actor (movie, television, and stage); best-known for his role as
Gomez in The Addams Family |
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Russell Baker
BA, A&S 1947
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times;
host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre |
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John Barth
BA, A&S 1951
MA, A&S 1952
Novelist; professor |
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Manuel Barrueco
B.M., PEAB '75
Grammy Award-winning guitarist |
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Jeffrey Blitz
B.A., A&S '90 , M.A. '91
Writer/director of "Spellbound" and "Rocket Science" |
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Wolf Blitzer
MA, SAIS 1972
Journalist; CNN anchor
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Michael Bloomberg
BS, ENG 1964
108th mayor of the city of New York;
founder of Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News, Bloomberg
Radio |
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Carter Brey
B.M., PEAB '76
Principal cellist, New York Philharmonic; soloist |
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Leroy Burney
MPH, SPH '32
U.S. Surgeon General 1956-61; first federal official to
publicly identify cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer |
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R. Nicholas Burns
M.A., SAIS 1980
Under secretary of state for political affairs beginning in
March 2005; previously ambassador to NATO, ambassador to
Greece and, during the Clinton administration, State
Department press spokesman |
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Rachel Carson
MA, A&S 1932
Biologist; ecologist; author |
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Iris Chang
MA, A&S '71
Author |
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Po Ya Chang
MPH, , SPH '74
Taiwan public official and minister of health |
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George Comstock
Dr.P.H., , SPH '65
Pioneer of tuberculosis control and treatment |
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Denton A. Cooley
MD, SOM 1944
World-renowned cardiac surgeon; performed first successful
human heart transplant in the U.S. and the first
implantation
of a total artificial heart in a human |
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Richard Ben Cramer
BA, A&S 1971
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author |
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Wes Craven
MA, A&S 1964
Horror film director; best-known for Nightmare on Elm
Street and the Scream trilogy |
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Caleb Deschanel
B.A., A&S '66
Five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer |
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John Dewey
PhD, A&S 1884
American philosopher, social critic and
educator |
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Sheila Dixon
M.S., EDUC '83
First woman mayor of Baltimore |
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Louise Erdrich
MA, A&S '70
Author |
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Robert W. Fogel
PhD, , A&S '63
Nobel Prize in Economics 1993 |
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Nancy Grasmick
Ed.D., EDUC '80
First woman state superintendent of
schools in Maryland |
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Michael Griffin
B.S. physics, A&S 1971; M.S. applied physics, ENG 1983
NASA administrator beginning in April 2005 |
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D.A. Henderson
MPH, , SPH '60
Led WHO effort that eradicated smallpox |
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Michael Hersch
B.M., PEAB '95, M.M., PEAB '97
Composer, first prize in American Composers Awards (1996) |
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Sheng-Mou Hou
MPH, , SPH '98
Taiwan minister of health |
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Terry Keenan
B.A., A&S '83
Business correspondent for Fox News Channel |
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Michele Kelemen
M.A. SAIS 1993
Diplomacy correspondent for National Public
Radio |
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Murray Kempton
BA, A&S 1939
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York journalist |
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Jeong H. Kim
BS, ENG '82; MS, ENG '89
President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs |
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Alexander Langmuir
MPH, , SPH '40
Founded U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service |
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Victor A. McKusick
MD, SOM 1946
Medical geneticist; author of Mendelian Inheritance in
Man, the definitive source of information on human
genes
and genetic disorders |
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James McPherson
PhD, A&S 1963
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author |
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Kweisi Mfume
MLA, SCS (now A&S) 1984
Former President, National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) |
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Merton Miller
PhD, A&S 1952
U.S. economist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
(1990) |
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Walter Murch
B.A., A&S '65
Two-time Oscar-winning film editor and sound mixer |
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Caryle Murphy
MA, SAIS 1987
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for international
reporting
for The Washington Post
|
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Tommy Newsom
B.M., PEAB '52
Composer, arranger, performer, winner of two Emmys and assistant conductor of the "Tonight Show" band |
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Antonia Novello
MA, SPH 1982
Physician and former surgeon general under President
George H. W. Bush (1990-1993) |
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P.J. O'Rourke
M.A. Writing Seminars, A&S 1970
Journalist, political satirist and author |
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Samuel J. Palmisano
BA, A&S 1973
Chairman of the board and chief executive officer, IBM
Corp. |
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Awadagin Pratt
Performer's Certificate, PEAB 1989
Graduate Performance Diploma, PEAB 1992
Pianist; winner of the Naumburg International Piano
Competition,
1992 |
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Seth Riggs
T.C., PEAB '54
Vocal coach to pop and movie stars and opera singers |
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Martin Rodbell
BA, , A&S '49
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1994 |
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Kathleen Schalch
MA, SAIS '88
NPR business reporter |
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Joanne Silberner
BA, A&S '77
NPR health policy correspondent |
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Hamilton O. Smith
MD '56
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1978 |
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Alfred Sommer
MHS, SPH '73
Discovered link between vitamin A deficiency and
child mortality, establishing vitamin A as a
cost-effective means of reducing child deaths in
the developing world |
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Frederick Jackson Turner
Ph.D. history, A&S 1890
Influential historian, best known for the Frontier
Thesis |
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Andre Watts
Artist Diploma, PEAB 1972
World-renowned concert pianist |
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John A. Wheeler
B.S., WSE '31
PhD, A&S '33
Physicist who helped develop nuclear fission, studied
general relativity and coined the term "black hole." |
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Jody Williams
MA, SAIS 1984
Founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines (ICBL); winner of Nobel Peace Prize
(1997)
|
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Woodrow Wilson
PhD, A&S 1886
28th President of the United States (1913-1921);
winner of Nobel Prize in Peace (1919) |
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Abel Wolman
A&S 1913, ENG 1915
World-renowned water treatment expert; invented modern
water treatment techniques |
Key to Abbreviations
A&S = Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
BUS = Carey Business School
EDUC = School of Education
ENG = Whiting School of Engineering
PEAB = Peabody Institute
SAIS = Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
SCS = School of Continuing Studies
SOM = School of Medicine
SPH = Bloomberg School of Public Health
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