List of Famous Sagittarians

Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. His areas of science include Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, and his research interests include Experimental Atomic Physics, Laser Spectroscopy, and High Precision Measurements. He is the winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Physics, the 2007 Frederic Ives Medal, and the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal. Prof. Kleppner has also been awarded the National Medal of Science (2006). In 2007 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a popular introductory mechanics textbook for advanced students. Kleppner graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in 1953, Cambridge University with a B.A. in 1955, and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1959.

Sarah Grace Perry is an English author. She has had three novels published, all by Serpent's Tail: After Me Comes the Flood, (2014) The Essex Serpent (2016) and Melmoth (2018). Her work has been translated into 22 languages.

Michèle Lamont is a sociologist and is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University. She served as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association from 2016–2017. In 2017, she received the Erasmus Prize and was awarded 3 honorary doctorates. She has 3 children: Gabrielle Lamont-Dobbin, Chloe Lamont-Dobbin, and Pierre Lamont-Dobbin.