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Watson Lecture: Kip S. Thorne (BS ’62)

Elisha R. Huggins

In MemoriamElisha Rhodes Huggins (PhD Caltech ‘62)1934-2019 Alumnus Elisha (Lish) Huggins passed away on June 18 at the age of 85. Huggins was an undergraduate at MIT and received his Ph.D. degree at Caltech under Richard Feynman in 1962.In his thesis, he investigated...

Mint Green

How Ethan Frey is using cryptocurrency to address climate change by Dan MorrellIllustrated by Valerie ChiangEthan Frey (BS ’99) didn’t find cryptocurrency—it found him. He was at a political conference in Berlin in 2014, and the only guy in the room wearing a suit...

2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards

John I. Castor

John I. Castor

PhD
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67
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Astronomy

Paul Faust

BS
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41
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Chemistry

Leon M. Keer

Leon M. Keer

BS
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56
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MS
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58

Truland H. Carter

(BS ’45)

Walter L. Mudgett

(BS ’50)

Edward J. Chapyak

( BS ’68, PhD ’72 )

Howard A. Booth, Jr.

(BS ’45)

Richard G. Batt

(MS ’58, PhD ’67)

James M. Watkins, Jr.

(BS ’40)

Cmdr. Thomas H. Crowe, USN (ret.)

(ENG ’55)

John F. Whitmore

(BS ’45)

Robert M. Benson

(BS ’43)