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Date	1890 - present
Areas Of Involvement	higher education
Notable Alumni	Philip Kaufman • Edith Abbott • Milton Friedman • Saul Bellow • John Paul Stevens • Philip Roth • Norman Maclean • Stephen M. Shortell • John Goodlad • John B. Watson • Robert E. Lucas, Jr. • William H. McNeill • Eugene F. Fama • Ella Flagg Young • Myron S. Scholes • Gary S. Becker • Gilbert Ames Bliss • Fay-Cooper Cole • Wayne C. Booth • George J. Stigler • Robert Sanderson Mulliken • Leonard Bloomfield • William Wilson Morgan • Carl Richard Moore • Liz Cheney • James Comey • Michael Harrington • Edwin Hubble • Claudia Goldin • Lori Lightfoot • Thomas Sowell • Bernie Sanders • Ramsey Clark • Andy Kim • Ed Asner • Carl Sagan • Bruce A. Beutler • James Watson • John M. Jumper • Amy Klobuchar • Philip Glass • Deborah Meier • David Suzuki • Donald Johanson • Nancy Grace Roman • Sara Paretsky • Seymour Hersh • Marshall B. Clinard • Lawrence Kohlberg • Benjamin Mays • Jackson Mac Low • Herbert Charles Brown • Carla Hayden • Luis Alvarez • Lee S. Shulman • Todd Young • Paul Wolfowitz • Robert Coover • Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge • Moungi Bawendi • Emily Greene Balch • Katherine Dunham • Satya Nadella • Ana Castillo • Paul Romer • Daniel C. Tsui • Frank Wilczek • David Brooks • George Steiner • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. • Katharine Graham • Euphemia Lofton Haynes • William Sheldon • Carol Moseley Braun • Florence Ellinwood Allen • Patricia Roberts Harris • James Watson Cronin • John Griggs Thompson • Irwin Rose • Cornelia Maria Clapp • E. Franklin Frazier • Susan Sontag • June Etta Downey • Tsung-Dao Lee • Geoffrey Palmer • Lisel Mueller • William Chandler Bagley • Gabriel Abraham Almond • Dorothy Constance Stratton • Aldrich Ames • David Rockefeller • Isadore Singer • F. Sherwood Rowland • James M. Buchanan • Paul Samuelson • Stephen Leacock • Roger Wolcott Sperry • Shirakawa Masaaki • Eliot Ness • Charles Spurgeon Johnson • John H. Johnson • Harry Markowitz • Jack Steinberger • Jerome Isaac Friedman • Howard S. Becker • Katharine Anthony • Hans Kurath • Owen Chamberlain • Thomas J.J. Altizer • Al Raby
Related People	Enrico Fermi • Philip Kaufman • Michelle Obama • John D. Rockefeller • Edith Abbott • Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer • Henry Ives Cobb • Robert Maynard Hutchins • William Rainey Harper • Julius Rosenwald • Frederick T. Gates • James Rowland Angell