and technology, Rice alumni include 14 NASA astronauts; Robert Curl, Nobel laureate discoverer of fullerene; Robert Woodrow Wilson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation; Matthew Sands, physicist and co-author of The Feynman Lectures on Physics; David Eagleman, celebrity neuroscientist and NYT bestselling author; and NASA former Apollo 11 and 13 warning systems engineer and motivational speaker Jerry Woodfill.
In business and entrepreneurship, Rice alumni include:
Thomas H. Cruikshank, the former CEO of Halliburton
John Doerr, billionaire and venture capitalist
Howard Hughes, film producer and aviator
Fred C. Koch, chemical engineer and entrepreneur
Elizabeth Avellán, co-founder of Troublemaker Studios
Tim and Karrie League, founders of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Drafthouse Films
Brian Armstrong, founder and CEO of Coinbase
Burt McMurtry, Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Ali Koç, President of Fenerbahçe SK football club, Turkish Union of Clubs, …
