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List of Swarthmore College people

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The following is a list of notable people associated with Swarthmore College, a private, independent liberal arts college located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore has graduated 156 classes of students. As of 2022, the College enrolls 1,689 students and has roughly 21,300 living alumni.

As of spring 2022, Swarthmore employs nearly 200 faculty members.

Listed chronologically by year of the award.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate David Baltimore, class of 1960
Nobel laureates
Name Degree/year Award category/year Reason Nobel profile
Christian B. Anfinsen B.S., 1937, chemistry Chemistry, 1972 Ribonuclease/amino acid sequence research [1]
David Baltimore B.S., 1960, chemistry Physiology or Medicine, 1975 Discovery of reverse transcriptase [2]
Howard Martin Temin B.S., 1955, biology Medicine, 1975 Research on tumor viruses' effect on genetic cellular material [2]
Edward C. Prescott B.A., 1962, mathematics Economics, 2004 Real business cycle theory [3]
John C. Mather B.S., 1968, physics Physics, 2006 Discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation [4]
John Hopfield B.A., 1954, physics Physics, 2024 Creation of the Hopfield network [5]

Listed chronologically by year of the grant.

MacArthur Fellows
Name Degree/year/major Field Year Work
Philip Curtin B.A., 1948, history History 1983 Johns Hopkins University professor; researcher of Caribbean/African history and comparative history
John J. Hopfield B.A., 1954, physics Molecular biology 1983 Princeton University professor; computational neurobiology, computing network researcher
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot B.A., 1966, psychology Sociology/education 1984 Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University; researches education, socialization; developed portraiture approach
Jane S. Richardson B.A., 1962, philosophy Biochemistry 1985 Duke University biochemistry professor; proteins researcher, especially three-dimensional structure and means of formation
Michael Schudson B.A., 1969 Journalism and Sociology 1990 Columbia University journalism professor
David Page B.A., 1978, chemistry Biology/medicine 1986 MIT biology professor; director of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; sequenced the Y-chromosome
Ellen Barry B.A., 1975 Criminology/penology 1998 Prison reform advocate; founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the National Network for Women in Prison
Rebecca J. Nelson B.A./B.S., 1982 Plant pathology 1998 Researcher of molecular genetics, crop disease, and crop management; professor of plant pathology at Cornell University
Christopher F. Chyba B.A., 1982, physics Science/international security 2001 Princeton University professor; co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation; former science, technology, and national security adviser to the Clinton administration
Tara Zahra B.A., 1998, history and economics History 2014 University of Chicago professor; European history author; Harvard Society Fellow
Patrick Awuah B.S. 1989, Engineering and B.A. Economics Education 2015 Founder of Ashesi University, Ghana
Njideka Akunyili Crosby B.A. 2004, Art and Biology Art 2017 Visual artist
Elizabeth S. Anderson B.A. 1981, philosophy Philosophy 2019 University of Michigan professor; philosopher specializing in political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy

List of alumni

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Listed in alphabetical order by surname.

Architecture

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Arts, film, theatre, and broadcasting

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Business

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Economics

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Education

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President of Brown University Christina Paxson, class of 1982

Historians

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Humanities and law

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Natural science, medicine, and engineering

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Politics and government

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Psychology

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Sports

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Writers, journalists, and publishers

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College leadership

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Presidents

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Notable professors

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Current faculty

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Former faculty

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References

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  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 Archived December 9, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 Archived December 4, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2004 Archived December 7, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 Archived October 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  6. ^ "Q&A with the Gregory Brothers | C-SPAN.org".
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  8. ^ Foreman, Liza (2008-10-21). "In Normandy, a River Retreat (Published 2008)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
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  16. ^ "Margaret Allen, M.D." United States National Library of Medicine. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
  17. ^ [1] Archived April 6, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ Jon Huberth (Nov 24, 2012). The meaning of Swarthmore - 8 alumni testimonials. Archived from the original on May 18, 2019., from minute 5:16
  19. ^ "Up Again Henderson", Time, May 1, 1939. Accessed October 1, 2007. "As a boy out of Millville, N.J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there."
  20. ^ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1928). "KILLEN, MARY EVELYN (MEREDITH)". Standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem. Vol IV. Kansas-Newton. Vol. 4. Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Pub. Co. pp. 1464–65. Retrieved 18 January 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  21. ^ "Broun, Heywood Hale - March 10, 1918 - September 5, 2001".
  22. ^ "Arthur Chu '08 Uses Game Theory in Notable Jeopardy Performance :: News & Events :: Swarthmore College". 2015-06-03. Archived from the original on 2015-06-03. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  23. ^ "The National Book Foundation". Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2005-04-03.
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  25. ^ Anthony, Ted (2020-04-03). "Anick Jesdanun, longtime AP technology writer, dies at 51". Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  26. ^ "Jennie Keith". Swarthmore College. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2021.