Famous movie stars Jodie Foster and jennifer beals both graduated from Yale University College of Arts. Meryl Streep graduated from Yale Theatre Academy. Edward Harrison Norton, a movie star, graduated from the history department of Yale University. Kevin Trilling, a famous columnist of Time magazine, is a Yale alumnus.
Among many academic elites in Yale University, 13 scholars have won the Nobel Prize. Garin Kupmans, an economist who has written works on mathematical economic theory, discusses the conditions for the economy to play its best role; George Ballard, a cell biologist, developed a tissue preparation method and found several cell structures. Chemist Lars Onsager put forward the theory of irreversible chemical process; Physicist Murray gherman put forward the theoretical knowledge about subatomic particles completely; Sinclair lewis, a writer, whose important works include Main Street, Babbitt, arrowsmith and Elmer Gantney. Microbiologist john enders successfully cultivated poliovirus on the culture of non-nerve tissue; Physicist Ernest Lawrence invented the first high-energy particle accelerator-jujube cyclotron; Physiologist Dickinson Richards improved and used cardiac catheter technology; Joshua lederberg, a geneticist, discovered the organization and recombination mechanism of bacterial genetic material. Edward Tatum, a biochemist, studied the ways in which gene mutations affect the nutritional requirements of some bacteria, yeasts and molds. Physicist willis lamb Jr made quantum electrodynamics more accurate through experiments; Microbiologist Max Taylor successfully studied yellow fever. Biologist Sydney Altman proved that RNA can catalyze chemical reactions in cells.