From Philomathean Society

Over the years, we've seen many Philos gain some kind of noteworthiness or another. The Society's history counts among them: seven US Senators, two ambassadors, and an Attorney General, as well as numerous professors, authors, and academics.

According to some vaguely-defined criteria of noteworthiness, ranks of prominent Philos include:

Henry Dilworth Gilpin, 1819
US Attorney General

Robert James Walker, 1819
US Senator from Missouri, Secretary of Treasury, Governor of Kansas and debating nemesis of Henry Clay

George Sharswood, 1828
Founder, University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania

Persifor Frazer, 1862
Professor of Chemistry and Pioneering Chemist/Geologist/Naturalist

Henry Laussat Geyelin, 1877
The first to wear red and blue as the University colors

Eli K. Price, 1881
Founder, Philadelphia Museum of Art

George Wharton Pepper, 1887
US Senator from Pennsylvania, author and chronicler of the Senate

Jasper Yeates Brinton, 1889
US Ambassador to Egypt, architect of the Egyptian court system and Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court

Alfred Bester, 1934
Recipient of the First Hugo Award for a Science Fiction Novel: The Demolished Man (1953), Science Fiction Grand Master (1988), and author of The Stars My Destination (1956)

Carl Kaysen, 1940
Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies and University Trustee Emeritus

Hilary Putnam, 1948
Philosopher, Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic at Harvard University, and past president of the American Philosophical Association