attorney of Paul Manafort's Virginia criminal trial Nate Shinagawa (2005) – Vice Chair of Tompkins County Legislature; 2012 candidate for U.S. Congress Svante Myrick (2009) – Mayor of Ithaca, New York (2012–present); one of the youngest mayors in U.S. history Jacques P. Lerner (1987) - D.C. Office of the Attorney General trial attorney (1994-2012); D.C. Departmemt of For-Hire Vehicles general counsel (2012-2017) and senior policy advisor (2017-2019); Mobility Research Partners LLC founding partner (2019) Science and engineering Elias Judah Durand (1893) – mycologist and botanist; foremost expert on discomycetes Thomas Hall (1893) – inventor of the four-valve steam engine (patents #584,023, #979,002, #1,013,549, #1,050,213) John B. MacHarg (1893) – inventor of lantern slide mounting apparatus sold to Eastman Kodak (patents #2,153,149, #2,256,399) Eads Johnson (1899) – marine engineer, naval architect, and diesel power pioneer with numerous patents John V. Miller (1899) – brother-in-law and personal aide of Thomas Edison; member of Yale senior society Wolf's Head Alan MacDonald (1905) – designed the first American concrete ship in 1917–1918 Ralph E. Chapman (1911) – Inventor of underwater welding torch (patents #1,286,227, #1,324,337, #1,687,081) Oswald C. Brewster (1918) – Manhattan Project engineer Robley C. Williams (1931) – first President of the Biophysical Society (1958–1960); developed process for coating mirrors by evaporation in a vacuum Wilbur R. LePage (1933) – electrical engineering pioneer and educator; helped develop the proximity fuze in World War II LaRoy B. Thompson (1942) – physically assembled the first atomic bomb dropped at Bikini Island in 1946 and made practice run in B-29 bomber Robert L. Trimpi (1948) – NASA Langley Research Center engineer on Project Mercury, Viking program, Apollo program, and Space Shuttle program; inventor of the wind tunnel capable of simulating atmospheric re-entry conditions for spacecraft Thomas J. Kelly (1951) – chief engineer of the Apollo Lunar Module; NASA Director of Space Programs (1972–1976) Peter T. Schurman (1952) – holder of more than 50 patents in plastics machinery and packaging; inventor of the double-wall carrying case; founder of the Plastic Forming Co.; grandson of Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell University's third president and U.S. Ambassador to China and Germany Donald P. Greenberg (1955) – visual graphics pioneer; founding director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization; Professor of Computer Graphics at Cornell University; recipient of Steven Anson Coons Award Richard M. Ehrlich (1959) – professor of medicine and physician; president