These are some suggestions of people with connections to Tompkins County. NOTABLE PEOPLE Simeon DeWitt: surveyor general of NY and developer of Ithaca Ezra Cornell: philanthropist Andrew Dickson White: educator and philanthropist Burt Green Wilder: professor of zoology at Cornell and scientific investigator Anna Botsford Comstock: developer of nature study program at Cornell David Start Jordan: entomologist and president of U of Indiana, and Stanford University; Cornell student Martha Van Rensselaer: developer of Home Economics at Cornell Flora Rose: developer of Home Economics at Cornell Hans Bethe: physicist, Manhattan Project and Cornell; Nobel Prize winner Roald Hoffman: chemist, Nobel Prize winner David Lee: physicist, Nobel Prize winner Robert Richardson, physicist, Nobel Prize winner Archie Ammons: poet, McArthur Genius Award winner CU teacher and other awards Alison Lurie: novelist, CU teacher, Pulitzer Prize winner Karl Husa: composer, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Kammen, historian (of early New York and many other books) Pulitzer Prize winner and other awards Carl Sagan Samuel Parker: minister, missionary for the ABCFM, opened the Pacific Northwest to missionaries William R. "Daddy" George founder of the George Jr. Republic Carl Carmer Author "Genesse Fever", "Listen for a Lonesome Drumb --