to the President during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among inventors, Cornellians include Thomas Midgley Jr. ('11), who invented Freon, and Jon Rubinstein ('78), who is credited with the development of the iPod,
In science, Bill Nye ('77) is known as "The Science Guy". Clarence W. Spicer invented the 'universal joint' for automobiles while a student in 1903.
Eight Cornellians have served as NASA astronauts. Steve Squyres ('81) is the principal investigator on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. In aerospace, Otto Glasser ('40) directed the U.S. Air Force program that developed the SM-65 Atlas, the world's first operational Intercontinental ballistic missile. Yolanda Shea is a research scientist in the Science Directorate at the Langley Research Center.
In literature, Toni Morrison (M.A.'50; Nobel laureate) authored the novel Beloved, Pearl S. Buck (M.A.'25; Nobel laureate) authored The Good Earth, and Thomas Pynchon ('59) wrote canonical works of post-World War II fiction, including Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying …
中文名/译名
SAT EBRW 25%
720
SAT EBRW 75%
770
SAT Math 25th %
760
SAT Math 75th %
790
ACT Composite 25th %
33
ACT Composite 50th %
34
ACT Composite 75th %
35
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