student, but was drafted into the Army in 1943 Parvinder Singh (PHARM: Ph.D. 1967), chairman of Ranbaxy in 1993 until his death in 1999; the market capitalization of the company went up from Rs.3.5 to over Rs. 7300 Crores during this period Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali (SPH 1966), one of the first female doctors in Malaysia, and later the wife of Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Dr. Homer Stryker (MED: MD 1925), founder of Stryker Corporation Dr. William Erastus Upjohn (MED: MD 1875), inventor of the first pill that dissolved easily in the human body Christine Iverson Bennett (MED: MD 1907), medical missionary who worked in Arabia during WWI Larry Nassar (BS 1985), convicted serial child molester and a former USA Gymnastics national team doctor and osteopathic physician at Michigan State University Richard C. Vinci, retired United States Navy admiral and former commander of the United States Navy Dental Corps Military George H. Cannon (BS 1938), United States Marine Corps officer and World War II Medal of Honor recipient killed during the First Bombardment of Midway. John P. Coursey (BS 1937), United States Marine Corps aviator during World War II and late Brigadier general Francis C. Flaherty (BS 1940), United States Navy officer and World War II Medal of Honor recipient killed during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Edward C. Peter II (MS 1955), United States Army lieutenant general Samuel C. Phillips (MS 1950), director of the Apollo program from 1964 to 1969, director of the National Security Agency from 1972 to 1973, commander of Air Force Systems Command from 1973 to 1975. Oliver Lyman Spaulding, U.S. Army brigadier general Charles Frederick Taylor (1858; did not graduate), Union Army colonel killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg Richard C. Vinci, retired United States Navy admiral and former commander of the United States Navy Dental Corps Miscellaneous honors Uwem Akpan (MFA 2007), Nigerian author; Jesuit priest; won Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for "Say You're One of Them" W. Brian Arthur (MA 1969), Lagrange Prize in Complexity Science 2008; Schumpeter Prize in Economics 1990; Amitava Bhattacharjee (M.A.) of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University. Winner of 2022 James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics: "For seminal theoretical investigations of a wide range of fundamental plasma processes, including magnetic reconnection, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, dynamo action, and dusty plasmas, and for pioneering contributions to