Great Thinkers & Leaders
Eli Whitney, Maryam Mirzakhani, Steve Jobs, & Bill Gates
Great Leaders in Cyber and STEM
What are their major contributions? How do these contributions impact STEM and Cyber?
Eli Whitney
December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825
- Field(s) of contribution: STEM
- Major contribution(s): American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin
- Contribution(s) that impact STEM and Cyber: Impacted the Industrial Revolution and turned cotton into a profitable crop
- Graduated from Yale University
- Father of four children
Steve Jobs
February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
- Field(s) of contribution: Cyber
- Major contribution(s): An American information technology entrepreneur and inventor
- Contribution(s) that impact STEM and Cyber: Innovations with microcomputers
- Co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
- Was adopted
Bill Gates
October 28, 1955 - present
- Field(s) of contribution: Cyber
- Major contribution(s): Microsoft; An American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer
- Contribution(s) that impact STEM and Cyber: Entrepreneur of the personal computer
- Authored & co-authored several books
- May be the richest man in the world
Maryam Mirzakhani
May 1977 - present
- Field(s) of contribution: STEM
- Major contribution(s): Understanding the symmetry of curved surfaces; ergodic theory; hyperbolic geometry; and symplectic geometry
- Contribution(s) that impact STEM and Cyber: Several contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
- Works at Stanford University
- 1st Woman & 1st Persian with a Fields (Mathematics) Medal