spectroscopy and the optical frequency comb technique Deborah S. Jin (born 1968) – physicist; created the first fermionic condensate in 2003 Herbert Kroemer (born 1928) – physicist and electrical engineer; 2000 Nobel laureate in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics Matthew Meselson (born 1930) – geneticist and molecular biologist Margaret Mary Murnane (born 1959) – physicist and creator of ultra-high-speed lasers Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (1912–1985) – nuclear physicist and educator Tim Samaras (1957–2013) – engineer and storm chaser; starred on the Discovery Channel's documentary reality television series Storm Chasers; he died in Oklahoma City's EF3 wedge tornado on May 31, 2013, with his twenty-four-year-old son, Paul, and forty-five-year-old TWISTEX colleague Carl Young of South Lake Tahoe, California Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла) (1856–1943) – inventor and engineer; ran a laboratory in Colorado Springs between 1899 and 1900 to conduct high-voltage, high-frequency experiments Carl Edwin Wieman (born 1951) – physicist; 2001 Nobel laureate in Physics for creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995 Other notable people Gavin Arthur (1901–1972) – astrologer, sexologist, grandson of President Chester A. Arthur Emily Gibson Braerton (1884–1966) (lived in Denver) – historian; vice president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution (1950–1953) John Brown (1817-1889) - mountain man and trader in and around Pueblo from 1841 to 1849 Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud Eisenhower (lived in Denver) – married West Point graduate and future U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower in 1916 in her Lafayette Street home; was a military wife before becoming the First Lady of the United States (1953–1961) Neil Gorsuch (born 1967) – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Lars Grimsrud (born 1956) – aerospace engineer and performance automobile enthusiast Samuel Hartsel (1834–1918) – pioneer rancher in Park County; founder and namesake of Hartsel Marvin Heemeyer (1951–2004) – automobile muffler-repair shop owner killed in his rampage in Granby John J. Hoover (died 1880) – murderer lynched by a mob in Fairplay in Park County as he awaited transport to the state penitentiary Sheldon Jackson (1834–1909) – Presbyterian missionary in Denver and Fairplay and later Alaska Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) – sociologist who founded the concept of action theory Elizabeth Prann (born 1985) – reporter, anchor (Fox News) Renee Rabinowitz (1934–2020) – psychologist and lawyer Joy-Ann Reid (born 1970) – national correspondent (MSNBC) Rick Reilly (born 1958) – sportswriter, author, screenwriter (Leatherheads'') and commentator (ESPN) Teresita Sandoval (1811-1894) -