Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No offense, but that Unc alumni list is pretty lousy and not very academic or smart.
U of Marylnd has
Sergey Brin (Google)
Kevin Plank (Underarmour )
Jim Henson (muppets)
Larry David (Seinfeld )
Brendan Irebe ( oculus virtual reality)
Harry Smith ( invented pulse Dopplar radar)
George Laurer ( invented the universal price code)
Carl Bernstein ( broke watergate)
David Simon (created "The Wire")
Alex Severinsky ( invented the hybrid engine)
Robert Briskman ( launched Sirius Satellite Radio)
Russell Marker ( invented the octane system)
George Dantzig ( solved linear programming)
Robert Fischell (artificial pancreas, implantable defibrillator,
Coronary stents and 200 medical device
Patents)
These are absolute geniuses that have transformed US and world culture and economy.
Also has more Nobel alumni, more Fields medal (math Nobel) alumni more Pulitzer alumni, more academy award alumni, more Emmy winning alumni than Unc.
Plus incoming SAT scores are higher than Unc .
Didn't know this stuff. U.MD needs to advertise this stuff better. It's amazing and should be common knowledge in the DC area. I looked up that Russell Marker fellow and he also invented the first oral contraceptives.
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