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Kamala Harris's father, Donald J. Harris, [8] is a Stanford University professor of economics (emeritus) who arrived in the United States from Jamaica in 1961, for graduate study at UC Berkeley, and received a PhD in economics in 1966. [9] Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan met in 1962 and were married in 1963.
Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, U.S. senator, and former California governor, together with his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 from typhoid fever just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son ...
Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. [ 1] Harris was raised in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, attending the University College of the West Indies before earning a Bachelor's degree from the ...
Mark Lemley (A.B. 1988), professor at Stanford Law School, expert in patent law. David Lang (B.A.), professor of composition at the Yale School of Music. Lisa Lowe (A.B. 1977), professor of American Studies at Yale University. Jitendra Malik (Ph.D. 1985), computer science professor at UC Berkeley.
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [ 1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [ 2] Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous ...
Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term "bioorthogonal chemistry" [ 2] for chemical reactions compatible with living systems. Her recent efforts include synthesis of chemical tools to study cell surface ...
Christina Curtis is an American scientist who is a Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science and an Endowed Scholar at Stanford University [1] [3] where her research investigates the evolution of tumors. [4] She is director of Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the ...
Ben Barres. Benjamin Arthur Barres (September 13, 1954 – December 27, 2017) [ 2] was an American neurobiologist at Stanford University. [ 3] His research focused on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system. Beginning in 2008, he was chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School of Medicine.