This list of Clark University people features alumni, including currently matriculating students and alumni that are graduates or non-matriculating students of Clark University and faculty. Alumni Academia Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. – father of Buzz Aldrin (DSc 1969), worked with Robert Goddard on his theories of rocketry (1915) Mildred Allen – physicist (PhD Physics 1922) Adelbert Ames, Jr. – research professor at Dartmouth College, pioneered the study of physiological optics Clarence Barber – Canadian economist (MA 1941) Jill Beck – president of Lawrence University, spent a summer as a Radio City Rockette while an undergraduate at Clark (BA Philosophy and Art History) Gwen Bell – co-founder and president of the Computer Museum (PhD Geography 1967, DSc 1994) Samuel Flagg Bemis – two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (LHD 1937) Moti Bodek – Tel Aviv University & Bezalel Academy of Art and Design professor (MPA 1995) Hermon Carey Bumpus – Fifth president of Tufts College (now Tufts University) (LLD 1909) Frederic Lister Burk (1862–1924), Canadian-born American educator, educational theorist, superintendent, educational reformer, and university president (Ph.D. 1898) Alexander Francis Chamberlain – anthropologist Pinkhos Churgin (1894–1957), Israeli first President of Bar-Ilan University Levi L. Conant – mathematician (no degree awarded; scholar of mathematics at Clark from 1890 to 1891) V. Raymond Edman – President of Wheaton College (Illinois) (MA, PhD 1933) Rona M. Fields – psychologist and author (MA 1965) John H. Flavell – Stanford University Professor (MA Psychology 1952, Phd 1955) E. Franklin Frazier – sociologist (MA) Yair Galily – Israeli sociologist (MSc Communications, 1996) Arnold Gesell – Yale professor known for his contributions to child psychology (PhD Psychology 1906) Henry H. Goddard – psychologist (PhD Psychology 1899) Robert H. Goddard – rocket engineer, invented the modern day rocket (MA Physics 1910, PhD Physics 1911, DSc 1945) Thomas F. Goreau – marine biologist and authority on coral reef ecology Frederick Grinnell – cell biologist, bio-ethicist, shortlist 2010 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (BA Chemistry 1966) Clarence N. Hickman – rocket scientist and recipient of the Medal for Merit, known as the "Father of Scientific Archery" and for his involvement in the development of the bazooka (DSc 1946) John Irwin Hutchinson – mathematician (no degree awarded; scholar and fellow in Mathematics at Clark from 1890 to 1892) Grayson L. Kirk – President of the Council on Foreign Relations and president of Columbia University during the student protests of 1968 (LLD 1953)