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...past eighteen years, Harvard has placed first 14 times, a record unparalleled by any other university, even MIT and Caltech. In the other four years, Harvard consistently placed in the top five. Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies, instructor for the intense first-year Math 55 and a three-time Putnam Fellow, ascribes this performance to the quality of the math students that matriculate at Harvard, laughing that “the people who can take the most credit for that is the admissions office...
When he got to Caltech as an undergraduate and saw that academic statistics was a viable career, he says, baseball remained at the forefront of his budding statistical mind. “Baseball helped me understand statistics and relate it to a system I knew well,” he says. As a professor now, Morris still uses baseball examples in lectures to illustrate ideas...
...founded the school’s graduate program in astronomy and spent more than 1,000 nights observing the skies from the Hale telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. He wrote, on average, eight and a half papers per year during his time at Caltech...
Along with his Caltech colleague Maartin Schmidt, Greenstein made significant strides in understanding quasars, the most distant stellar formations visible from the Earth...
Kirshner, who teaches Science A-35, “Matter in the Universe,” first met Greenstein as an undergraduate astronomy concentrator during one of Greenstein’s visits to Harvard. Kirshner met up with Greenstein again during his own graduate studies at Caltech...