Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( WPI ) is a private university in the U.S. in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The university was founded in 1865. Current University President Dennis D. Berkey is.

Former students of WPI

  • Elwood Haynes ( Graduation year 1881), chemist and inventor in the early automobile
  • William Hobbs ( Graduation year 1883), better known geologist of the 19th century
  • Kotaro Shimomura ( Graduation year 1888), chemist, president of Doshisha University and the company's Osaka Gas in Japan
  • Atwater Kent (office 1895/1896 ) founded Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, a company leader in the 1920s in the production of radios ( on the university campus, there is a building called the Atwater Kent Laboratories).
  • John Woodman Higgins ( Graduation year 1896), founder of Worcester Pressed Steel Companyund the Higgins Armory Museum
  • Robert Goddard ( Graduation year 1908), the father of modern rocket-building
  • Gilbert Vernam ( Graduation year 1914), researchers in cryptography
  • William Stevens Lawton (office 1918), United States Army Lieutenant General
  • Burton Marsh, ( Graduation year 1920), an engineer in the Transportation Infrastructures, The Institute of Transportation Engineers gives in his memory the annual price Burton W. Marsh Award.
  • Harold Stephen Black ( Graduation year 1921), the electronics revolutionized by the invention of a negative feedback Amplifiers in 1927
  • Richard T. Whitcomb ( Graduation year 1943), astronauts, scientists
  • Robert Stamp ( Graduation year 1955) inventor of the catalytic converter and former chairman and CEO of General Motors
  • Paul Allaire ( Graduation year 1960 ), former manager of the company Xerox
  • Curtis Carlson ( Graduation year 1967), well known researcher and president of the company SRI International
  • Daniel Robbins (decrease), founder and Chief Architect of the Gentoo Linux project
  • Todd Akin ( Abschlussjahrgang1970 ), Member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the state of Missouri.
  • Michael J. Dolan ( Abschlussjahrgang1975 ), Vice President of ExxonMobil Corporation and the company's president, ExxonMobil Chemical Company
  • Dean Kamen (office 1976), inventor of the insulin pump and founder of the company for Segway Human Transporter
  • Dan Itse ( Graduation year 1980) engineer, inventor, Member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire
  • David Gewirtz ( Graduation year 1982), CNN columnist
  • Nancy Pimental ( Graduation year 1987), chemist, scriptwriter of the animated series South Park and the movie The Sweetest Thing, Jimmy Kimmel followed as host of Win Ben Stein 's Money
  • Dr. Anup K. Ghosh ( Graduation year 1991), electronics engineer and computer scientist, was awarded the National Security Agency Frank Byron Rowlett Award in 2005
  • Andy Ross ( Graduation year 1997) guitarist and vocalist for the rock band OK Go
  • Naveen Selvadurai ( Graduation year 2002), co-founder of Foursquare
  • John W. Geils Jr. ( leaving in 1967 ) founded The J. Geils Band

Elwood Haynes

Richard T. Whitcomb

Curtis R. Carlson

Naveen Selvadurai

A. Atwater Kent

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