City College of New York
| City College of New York | |
|---|---|
| motto | Respice, Adspice, Prospice |
| founding | 1847 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | New York City , New York , USA |
| president | Robert E. Paaswell (acting) |
| Students | 15,402 |
| Website | www.ccny.cuny.edu |
The City College of New York (also known as City College of The City University of New York , City College , CCNY or City is known) is a state university in New York City in the US state of New York . Founded in 1847 , it is the oldest location of the City University of New York . In the fall of 2008, over 15,000 students were enrolled at City College, the majority of whom have been women for over ten years; the proportion of Master’s students has been between 20 and 30 percent in recent years.
Personalities
Nobel Prize Winner
- Julius Axelrod 1933–1970 Medicine
- Robert Hofstadter 1935–1961 Physics
- Arthur Kornberg 1937–1959 Medicine
- Jerome Karle 1937–1985 Chemistry
- Herbert Hauptman 1937–1985 chemistry
- Kenneth Arrow 1940–1972 Economics
- Leon M. Lederman 1943–1988 Physics
- Robert J. Aumann 1950–2005 Economics
- Arno Penzias 1954–1978 Physics
art
- Alfred Stieglitz 1884 - photographer
- Edward G. Robinson 1914 - actor
- Ira Gershwin 1918 - songwriter
- Ernest Martin 1932 - theater director, artistic director and actor
- Zero Mostel 1935 - actor
- Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) - film writer
- Eli Wallach 1938 (MA) - actor
- Judd Hirsch 1960 - actor
- Sterling Morrison 1970 - musician
- Richard Schiff 1983 - actor
- Ted Daniel - jazz musician
- Luis Guzmán - actor
- Mark DiSalle - screenwriter, director, producer and actor
Literature and journalism
- Upton Sinclair 1897 (BA) - author
- Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) - author
- AM Rosenthal 1949 - Editor of the New York Times
- Walter Mosley 1991 MA - Author
- Mario Puzo - author
- Henry Roth - author
Politics, government and society
- Bernard M. Baruch 1889 - adviser to American presidents
- Felix Frankfurter 1902 - Judge at the US Supreme Court 1939–1962
- Henry Cohen 1943 - Education
- Ed Koch 1945 - Mayor of New York 1978 to 1989
- Daniel Bell - sociologist
- Stephen Bronner - political scientist
- Irving Kristol - sociologist
- Jay Lovestone - CPUS General Secretary 1927–1929, union official
- Colin L. Powell - Former United States Secretary of State 2001-2005
- Julius Rosenberg - Spy
Sports
- Joe Alexander 1942 - football coach
- Red Holzman 1942 - basketball coach
- Maurice Ashley 1993 - chess grandmaster
economy
- Andrew Grove 1960 - Intel
Science and technology
- Solomon Asch - psychologist
- Leon Bankoff - mathematician
- Martin Davis - logician
- Carl Dreher - sound engineer
- George Washington Goethals 1887 - Civil Engineer (Panama Canal)
- Herman Hollerith - inventor of the punch card process
- Robert E. Kahn - Internet
- Solomon Kullback - mathematician
- Seymour Martin Lipset - political scientist and sociologist
- Robert Marshak - physicist, President of City College from 1970 to 1979
- Lewis Mumford - technology historian
- Emil Post - logician
- George Rosen - medical historian and epidemiologist
- Jonas Salk 1934 - vaccine inventor
- Abraham Sinkov - mathematician
- Leonard Susskind 1962 - physicist
literature
- Julian Levinson: City College. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 1: A-Cl. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02501-2 , pp. 502-505.
Web links
Commons : City College of New York - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ City College of New York: City Facts Fall 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( PDF , 2.97 MB), accessed December 28, 2009
Coordinates: 40 ° 49 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 73 ° 57 ′ 2.1 ″ W.