in Denver, graduate of Colorado State University Pueblo) – White House Press Secretary during the presidency of George W. Bush from September 14, 2007, to January 20, 2009 Condoleezza Rice (attended St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village) – U.S. Secretary of State during the presidency of George W. Bush Karl Rove (born in Denver) – Deputy Chief of Staff during the presidency of George W. Bush Kenneth R. Rutherford – co-founder of the Landmine Survivors Network Scott Walker (born in Colorado Springs) – Governor of Wisconsin Byron R. White (born in Fort Collins; raised in Wellington); graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder) – appointed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; served from 1962 until retiring to senior status in 1993; also notable as a football player, both in college at the University of Colorado Boulder (with the Colorado Buffaloes) and professionally in the National Football League (with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Lions) Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics Maurice L. Albertson (1918–2009) – civil engineer and educator Sidney Altman (1939–2022) – molecular biologist; 1989 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the discovery of catalytic properties of ribonucleic acid (RNA) Albert Allen Bartlett (1923–2013) – physicist; opponent of the concept of sustainable growth Arden L. Bement Jr. (born 1932) – metallurgical engineer, scientist; director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Lewis M. Branscomb (born 1926) – physicist; director of the National Bureau of Standards, founder of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (now known as JILA) Mary Babnik Brown (1907–1991) – her hair was used for the Norden bombsight crosshairs Louis George Carpenter – founder of the first Bachelor of Science degree in Irrigation Engineering in the Americas Thomas Robert Čech (born 1947) – biochemist; 1989 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the discovery of catalytic properties of ribonucleic acid (RNA) Edward Uhler Condon (1902–1974) – nuclear physicist; director of the National Bureau of Standards; president of the American Physical Society Eric Allin Cornell (born 1961) – physicist; 2001 Nobel laureate in Physics for creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995 T. Neil Davis (1932–2016) – professor emeritus of geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks; author of several books George Gamow (born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов)) (1904–1968) – theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born 1934) – physicist; 2005 Nobel laureate in Physics for precision