Interesting Facts:

This section is reserved for "interesting" facts on Scripps alumni or Scripps-related history. It will remain a work in progress for some time. Please contact mjhawkins@sio.ucsd.edu if you have information to share.

6% of our alumni have married another Scripps graduate, resulting in 45 marriages.

The oldest alum is 96 years of age. The youngest alum is 23 years old.

453 Scripps alumni are under the age of 45.

679 Scripps alumni are between the ages of 45 and 65.

224 Scripps alumni are between the ages of 65 and 100.

The shortest time to a PhD degree was 2.88 years. Ancel Keys (for whom K-Rations were named) entered the Scripps graduate program in 1927. He received a Master's degree in 1928 and a Ph.D. degree in 1930. Dr. Key's advisor was Francis B. Sumner, a leading American Zoologist (1874 - 1945).

The longest time to a PhD degree was 44.23 years. Wendell Gayman, entered Scripps in 1956, passed his final exam in 1970 and was awarded his Ph.D. degree two weeks before his death at the age of 72.

More Scripps graduate students were born in Los Angeles than any other city in the United States.

More Scripps graduates entered the program with an undergraduate degree from UCSD than from any other university.

The most common last name for a Scripps alum is Johnson, followed by Smith.

The most common first name for a Scripps alumnus is John, followed by Robert and David.

During World War II, Scripps was the only oceanographic graduate program in the United States.