Alto. Jon Huntsman, Jr., former governor of Utah and U.S Ambassador to China Merrill Newman, (born 1928) Palo Alto Channing House resident, former United States Army officer, Korean War veteran, noted for his 2013 arrest in North Korea. Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State Thomas T. Riley, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary Byron Sher (born 1928), served in the California State Senate from 1996 to 2004, California State Assembly from 1980 and 1996 and a professor emeritus at Stanford Law School. Sarah Wallis (1825–1905) The first President of the California Woman Suffrage Educational Association. Ron Wyden, United States Senator Religion Indradyumna Swami (formally Brian Tibbitts) ISKCON Guru and a sannyasi for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, born and raised in Palo Alto. John Duryea, former Palo Alto Catholic priest excommunicated by the church in the 1970s and author of his autobiography. Gerrit W. Gong, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), raised in Palo Alto. Scientists Richard R. Ernst, Nobel laureate in chemistry, worked at Varian Associates in Palo Alto Gene F. Franklin, control engineer and NASA scientist. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, author, college professor. Attended Cubberly High School and while there built an atom smasher in his parents' garage. Brian Kobilka, Nobel laureate in chemistry, lives in Palo Alto Pamela Melroy, astronaut, second woman to command a space shuttle mission Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), Iranian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Ida Shepard Oldroyd, conchologist and curator (1856–1940) Perley Ason Ross, physicist who worked on essential problems in the behaviour of X-rays Robert Spinrad (1932–2009), computer pioneer as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. William Shockley, Nobel laureate in physics and eugenicist Sidney Dean Townley, astronomer and geodeticist, Stanford University professor emeritus. Writers Athletes Davante Adams NFL Player and wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders. East Palo Alto resident and Palo Alto High School graduate. Harris Barton (born 1964), All Pro NFL offensive lineman Matt Biondi (born 1965), swimmer, won a total of 11 Olympic medals (8 gold), born in Palo Alto Hunter Bishop (born 1998), baseball player Nick Bravin (born 1971), Olympic fencer Jim Harbaugh, football player, head coach of Stanford, the San Francisco 49ers and Michigan, Palo Alto High School class of 1982 Tony Hargain, NFL player Phil Hellmuth, professional poker player,