City College of New York

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The City College of New York (also known as City College of The City University of New York, City College, CCNY, or City ) is a state university in New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest site of the City University of New York. In fall 2008, over 15,000 students were enrolled at City College, including over ten years slightly predominantly women; the proportion of Master's students was in the past years 20-30 percent.

Famous people

Nobel Laureate

• Julius Axelrod 1933-1970 Medicine
• Robert Hofstadter Physics 1935-1961
• Arthur Kornberg Medical 1937-1959
• Jerome Karle 1937-1985 Chemistry
• Herbert Hauptman 1937-1985 Chemistry
• Kenneth Arrow 1940-1972 Economics
• Leon M. Lederman 1943-1988 Physics
• Robert J. Aumann 1950-2005 Economics
• Arno Penzias 1954-1978 Physics

Art

• Alfred Stieglitz 1884 - Photographer
• Edward G. Robinson in 1914 - Actors
• Zero Mostel 1935 - Actor
• Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS ) - Film Author
• Eli Wallach 1938 ( MA) - Actor
• Judd Hirsch in 1960 - Actors
• Sterling Morrison 1970 - Musicians
• Richard Schiff in 1983 - Actors

• Ted Daniel - Jazz Musicians
• Luis Guzmán - Actor
• Mark DiSalle - screenwriter, director, producer and actor

Literature and journalism

• Upton Sinclair in 1897 (BA ) - Author
• Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA ) - Author
• A.M. Rosenthal 1949 - editor of the New York Times
• Walter Mosley 1991 MA - Author

• Mario Puzo - Author
• Henry Roth - Author

Politics, Government and Society

• Bernard M. Baruch 1889 - advisor to U.S. President
• Felix Frankfurter, 1902 - Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962
• Henry Cohen 1943 - Education
• Ed Koch 1945 - mayor of New York from 1978 to 1989

• Daniel Bell - sociologist
• Stephen Bronner - political scientist
• Irving Kristol - sociologist
• Jay Lovestone - General Secretary of the CPUSA 1927-1929, union official
• Colin L. Powell - Former United States Secretary of State 2001-2005
• Julius Rosenberg - The Spy

Sports

• Red Holzman 1942 - Basketball Coach
• Maurice Ashley 1993 - African-American chess player

Economy

• Andrew Grove 1960 - Intel

Science and Technology

• Solomon Asch - Psychologist
• Leon Bankoff - Mathematician
• Martin Davis - logician
• Carl Dreher - sound engineer
• George Washington Goethals 1887 - Civil Engineering ( Panama Canal )
• Herman Hollerith - inventor of the punch-card method
• Robert E. Kahn - Internet
• Solomon Kullback - Mathematician
• Robert Marshak - Physicist, 1970-1979 President of the City College
• Lewis Mumford - historian Technology
• Emil Post - logician
• Jonas Salk 1934 - vaccine inventor
• Abraham Sinkov - Mathematician