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
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