Oberlin College
Oberlin College is an American university of liberal arts with Oberlin, in the Ohio. Founded in 1833, it shelters in its center the academy of music of Oberlin, a prestigious music school.
Famous former students
- Avery Brooks 1970, actor ( American History X ).
- John Cazale, actor ( the Godfather , Voyage at the end of the hell).
- Elisha Gray, inventor of the Telephone.
- Al Haig, pianist of jazz.
- Charles Martin Hall 1885, inventor of the electrolytic proceeded of extraction of aluminum starting from the Alumina.
- Robert Millikan 1891, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of physics 1923 for its precise details on the value of the load of the electron.
- Liz Phair 1989, type-setter and singer.
- John Wesley Powell, explorer.
- Willard V. Quine 1930, philosopher and logician.
- Roger Wolcott Sperry 1935 and 1937, Neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize of medicine in 1981.
- Wendell Willkie 1915, republican candidate with the presidency in 1940.
- Kong Xiangxi 1906, governor of the Central bank of China (1933-1944), Minister for Finance (1933-1944), and Prime Minister (1938-1939) for the Republic of China.
External bonds
- Oberlin College, the official site
- OberWiki
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