The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement, is an award by the
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
Graduate School Alumni Association to recognize "...distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service..."
History
Named in honor of
Wilbur Lucius Cross
Wilbur Lucius Cross (April 10, 1862 – October 5, 1948) was an American literary critic who served as the 71st governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939.
Biography
Born in 1862 in Mansfield, Connecticut, Cross attended Natchaug School in Wil ...
, the medal is given to a small group of individuals (up to six) annually, and was first awarded in 1966 to Edgar S. Furniss.
Recipients
2022
Virginia R. Domínguez
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Early life
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Philip Ewell
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Veronica Vaida
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Early life and education
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2019
Ruth Garrett Millikan
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2018
Elizabeth W. Easton
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Marianne Mithun
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2017
Douglas Diamond
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Lawrence W. Sherman
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Sherman's use of randomized controlled experiments to study deterrence and crime prevention ...
2016
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Arthur Nozik
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Jonathan Z. Smith
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2013
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2011
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Gree ...
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Stephen Greenblatt
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Fred Greenstein
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Born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1930, Greenstein completed a bachelor's degr ...
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Biography
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2006
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Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. Sh ...
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He was the father of U.S. Repres ...
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Career
Gates holds a B.A. degree in art histo ...
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Richard Rorty
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2002
Linda Gordon
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2001
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
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Early life and education
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Peter Demetz
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1997
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Anne M. Briscoe
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1995
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1994
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After serving with the 10th Mountain ...
Jerome John McGann
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Irving Rouse
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Earl ...
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Giamatti served as Commiss ...
1989
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1988
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Thomas Brennan Nolan
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Pols ...
1984
Louis L. Martz Louis L. Martz (1913–2001) was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University starting in 1971, retiring in 1984. From 1972 to 1978 he was also acting director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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1980
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William G. Moulton
George Heard Hamilton
George Heard Hamilton (1910 – March 29, 2004) was an American art historian, educator, and curator. Hamilton taught art history at Yale University and Williams College, as well as acting as Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and the ...
Laura Anna Bornholdt
Laura Anna Bornholdt (February 11, 1919 – April 16, 2012) was an American historian and academic administrator. She served as a dean or trustee at several prominent colleges and universities and an official at three non-profit organizations pursu ...
Ralph Henry Gabriel
Ralph Henry Gabriel (April 29, 1890 – April 25, 1987) was an American historian. He held the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and was the founding father of the American Studies Association.
Early life and education
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Eliot Herman Rodnick
George Berkeley Young
Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr. Orville Gilbert Brim Jr. (April 7, 1923 – April 15, 2016) was an American social psychologist who conducted research on early childhood and middle age. He was the author of books exploring wikt:ambition, ambition and the nature of and the desire f ...
Amos Niven Wilder
Amos Niven Wilder (September 18, 1895 – May 4, 1993) was an American poet, minister, and theology professor.
Life
Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied for two years at Oberlin College (1913–1915), but volunteered in the AF ...
Constance McLaughlin Green
Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green (August 21, 1897 in Ann Arbor, Michigan – December 5, 1975 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American historian. She who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' Washington, Village and Capital, 1800–1878 ...
Alvin Bernard Kernan
1973
Samuel Miller Brownell
George Wilson Pierson
George Wilson Pierson (October 22, 1904 – October 12, 1993) was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university.Kennedy, Randy "George Pierson, 88 ...
Eleanor Jack Gibson
Eleanor Jack Gibson (7 December 1910 – 30 December 2002) was an American psychologist who focused on reading development and perceptual learning in infants. Gibson began her career at Smith College as an instructor in 1932, publishing her first ...
Preston E. Cloud
Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. (September 26, 1912 – January 16, 1991) was an American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist. He served in the United States Navy (in which he was a bantamweight boxing champion), and led s ...
1972
Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone (January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, ''Jefferson and His Time'', for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history a ...
Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of com ...
Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Che ...
1971
Gladden Whetstone Baker
Ernest Hilgard
Ernest Ropiequet "Jack" Hilgard (July 25, 1904 – October 22, 2001) was an American psychologist and professor at Stanford University. He became famous in the 1950s for his research on hypnosis, especially with regard to pain control. Along wit ...
Bernard Knox
Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox (November 24, 1914 – July 22, 2010Wolfgang Saxon ''The New York Times'', August 16, 2010.) was an English classicist, author, and critic who became an American citizen. He was the first director of the Center ...
Roland Herbert Bainton
Roland Herbert Bainton (March 30, 1894 – February 13, 1984) was a British-born American Protestant church historian.
Life
Bainton was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, and came to the United States in 1902. He received an AB degree fr ...
Bertrand Harris Bronson
Bertrand Harris Bronson (June 22, 1902 – March 14, 1986) was an American academic and professor in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
He was born on June 22, 1902, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. After st ...
Leona Baumgartner
Leona Baumgartner (August 18, 1902 – January 15, 1991) was an American physician. She was the first woman to serve as Commissioner of New York City's Department of Health (1954–1962). She was a strong advocate of health education and a pioneer ...
Melvin Spencer Newman
Melvin Spencer Newman (March 10, 1908 – May 30, 1993) was an American chemist, Ohio State University professor, best known for inventing the Newman projection.
Newman was born in New York City in a Jewish family, the youngest of Mae (née P ...
Lucian Pye
Lucian W. Pye (; October 21, 1921 – September 5, 2008) was an American political scientist, sinologist and comparative politics expert considered one of the leading China scholars in the United States. Educated at Carleton College and Yale Univ ...
1969
George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the Modern synthesis (20th century), modern ...
Murray Barnson Emeneau
Murray Barnson Emeneau (February 28, 1904 – August 29, 2005) was the founder of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Early life and education
Emeneau was born in Lunenburg, a fishing town on the east coast ...
Joshua Lederberg
Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...
1968
James Bliss Austin
William M. Fairbank
William Martin Fairbank (24 February 1917 in Minneapolis – 30 September 1989 in Palo Alto) was an American physicist known in particular for his work on liquid helium.
Career
Fairbank was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and earned an AB from Wh ...
James G. March
James Gardner March (January 15, 1928 – September 27, 2018) was an American political scientist, sociologist, and economist. A professor at Stanford University in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Educat ...
F. S. C. Northrop
Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop (November 27, 1893 in Janesville, Wisconsin – July 22, 1992 in Exeter, New Hampshire) was an American legal philosopher and
influential comparative philosopher.
After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College in 19 ...
1967
Carl Blegen
Carl William Blegen (January 27, 1887 – August 24, 1971) was an American archaeologist who worked at the site of Pylos in Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He directed the University of Cincinnati excavations of the mound of Hisarlik ...
Robert W. Buchheim
Neal E. Miller
Neal Elgar Miller (August 3, 1909 – March 23, 2002) was an American experimental psychologist. Described as an energetic man with a variety of interests, including physics, biology and writing, Miller entered the field of psychology to pursue ...
George Murdock
George Peter ("Pete") Murdock (May 11, 1897 – March 29, 1985), also known as G. P. Murdock, was an American anthropologist who was professor at Yale University and University of Pittsburgh. He is remembered for his empirical approach to ethn ...
Marjorie Hope Nicolson
Marjorie Hope Nicolson (February 18, 1894 – March 9, 1981) was an American literary scholar. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1941 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955.
Early life an ...