Tom Anderson living
Jim Simons living
Hedge fund manager, founder of Renaissance Technologies, billionaire financier, mathematician aka "The Quant King", pioneer in quantitative trading (quants), code breaker, philanthropist
1938- (85)
Leonard Michaels
Essayist, short story writer, fictional writer, fiction writer, fabulist writer of fables
1933-2003 (70)
senate.universityofcalifornia.edu
Allan Gotlieb
Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1981-1989, diplomat, civil servant
1928-2020 (92)
international.gc.ca
Donald Davidson
Cartesian philosopher, mathematician
1917-2003 (86)
britannica.com
Theodor W. Adorno
Enlightenment philosopher, sociologist on discrimination, psychologist, co-author of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, pioneer in social/aestheic theory and negative dialectics, Marxist theorist, critical theorist of society, musicologist, music critic, composer
1903-1969 (66)
britannica.com
Daniel Coit Gilman
Educator, pioneer in postgraduate education, academic, co-founder of Sheffield Scientic School at Yale College, Skull & Bones Society at Yale, 2nd president of UC Berkeley, founding president of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), Carnegie Institution (Foundation)
1831-1908 (77)
britannica.com
A. James Gregor
Author, political commentator, politics, fascism, Marxism, national security, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley
Bob Fabry
Computer programmer, founder of Computer Systems Research Group (with DARPA funding), inventor of AT&T Unix file system
Daniel Kammen
Scientist, renewable energy activist
kammen.berkeley.edu
Geoff Nunberg
Linguist, linguistics research professor at UC Berkeley
geoffreynunberg.com
