List of Bates College people
Name Class Year Notability Degree
Frank Haven Hall Class of 1862 Inventor of the modern braille typographer 1863-64
Edward Hill Class of 1863 Surgeon , founder of Central Maine Medical Center B.A
Hamilton Hatter Class of 1888 African American inventor and academic B.S
John Irwin Hutchinson Class of 1889 Mathematician ; wrote Differential and Integral Calculus ( 1902 ) and Elementary Treatise on the Calculus ( 1912 ) B.S
Herbert Walter Class of 1892 Marine biologist ; founded new biology curriculum at Brown University ; principal biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution B.S
John A. Kenney , Jr Class of 1942 President of National Medical Association ( 1962-1963 ) B.S
George Hammond Class of 1943 Chemist , professor , researcher ; recipient of the Norris Award in 1968 , the Priestley Medal in 1976 , the National Medal of Science in 1994 , and the Othmer Gold Medal in 2003 ; created Hammond 's postulate , a hypothesis in physical organic chemistry which describes the geometric structure of the transition state in an organic chemical reaction B.S
Zanvil Cohn Class of 1948 Cell biologist and immunologist ; National Academy of Sciences trustee ; upon his death was described by the New York Times as being in the forefront of current studies of the body 's defenses against infection B.S
Robert McAfee Class of 1956 President of the American Medical Association ( 1994-1995 ) B.A
Steven M. Girvin Class of 1971 Physicist , known for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems , such as the fractional quantum Hall effect ; professor at Yale University ; Deputy Provost for Research of Yale , 2007-2017 B.A
Notable graduates -- Science
This list of notable people associated with Bates College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Members of the Bates community are known as Batesies or bobcats. This list also includes students of the affiliated Maine State Seminary, Nichols Latin School, and Cobb Divinity School. In 1915, George Colby Chase, the second president of the college, opted that the college include former students-who did not complete the full four year course of study-as alumni in appreciation of their loyalty. Throughout its history, Bates has been the fictional alma mater of various characters in American popular culture. Notable fictional works to feature the college include Ally McBeal (1997), The Sopranos (1999), and The Simpsons (2015). , there are 24,000 Bates College alumni. In 2016, two Bates alumni were featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 listing. Affiliates of the college include 86 Fulbright Scholars, 22 Watson Fellows, and 5 Rhodes Scholars. , the college counts 12 members of the United States Congress-2 Senators and 10 members of the House of Representatives-among its alumni. Edmund Muskie ('36) occupied all offices available in the Maine political system, excluding state senator and United States representative. He narrowly lost the 1968 election to become the 39th Vice President of the United States, placed fourth in his bid for the presidency in 1972, and received public draft calls for the presidential elections of 1976 and 1980.