 The list of BCC alumni includes prominent scientists , such as Dr. Hugh Dryden , associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) during the early U.S. space exploration program and missions to the Moon in the 1960s , theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler , who coined the term black hole and received the 1997 Wolf Prize in Physics , Martin Rodbell , who received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of G @-@ proteins , and Abel Wolman , the nationally famous " father " of chlorinated drinking water and a National Medal of Science recipient who brought the Baltimore metropolitan areas public water supply system to be among the best in the country , Alexander Ashley Weech ( Class of 1913 ) , a pioneer pediatrician and scientist who treated the first patient in the U.S. with an antibiotic ( 1935 ) and was awarded the John Howland Medal ( 1977 ) . Notable writers such as Leon Uris , author of the novel Exodus , inspiring the motion picture , Pulitzer Prize @-@ winning poet Karl Shapiro , and Pulitzer Prize @-@ winning author , New York Times columnist , and host of the Masterpiece Theatre anthology programs on PBS , Russell Baker are also alumni . Businessmen , who have graduated from the school , include David M. Rubenstein , co @-@ founder of The Carlyle Group , and David T. Abercrombie , namesake and co @-@ founder of Abercrombie & Fitch . 
