military academies. In addition, the University of Colorado Boulder has graduated two heads of state, Mongolian president Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and two associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Wiley Rutledge and Byron White. Japanese-American astronaut Ellison Onizuka and Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla are also alumni.
== Notable accomplishments at CU ==
First to create a new form of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate, just seven hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
First to observe a "fermionic condensate" formed from pairs of atoms in a gas.
First to observe the catalytic properties of RNA which are now foundational to modern biology.
Developed the "FluChip" to aid physicians in diagnosing respiratory illness and differentiating between three types of influenza and other viruses that cause similar symptoms.
First place in the 2002 and 2005 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. At these first two Solar Decathlon …
