This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of

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, an

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located in

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, New York. Cornell's faculty for the 2005–06 academic year included three Nobel laureates, a

Crafoord Prize The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord. The Prize is awarded in partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Crafoord Foun ...

winner, two

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in comput ...

winners, a Fields Medal winner, two Legion of Honor recipients, a

World Food Prize The World Food Prize is an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. Conceived by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nor ...

winner, an Andrei Sakharov Prize winner, three

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

winners, two

Wolf Prize The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for ''"achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of nati ...

winners, four

MacArthur award The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

winners, four Pulitzer Prize winners, two Eminent Ecologist Award recipients, a

Carter G. Woodson Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the h ...

Scholars Medallion recipient, four Presidential Early Career Award winners, 20

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, a recipient of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics. Since 1993, there has been a formal division into three categories. The prizes have b ...

, a recipient of the

Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman. As of 201 ...

, three

Packard Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death ...

grant holders, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, two Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and two NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) early career award winners.

Nobel laureates

Physics *

Hannes Alfvén Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...

(Distinguished Professor in Engineering) — Physics 1970 *

Hans Bethe Hans Albrecht Bethe (; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel ...

(John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, 1935-2005) — Physics 1967; National Medal of Science (1975) *

Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfl ...

(Physics faculty, 1945–50) —

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

1965; National Medal of Science (1979) *

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (; 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991. Education and early life He was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12. By the age of ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1977–83) and Bethe Lecturer in Physics, 1989–90) — Physics 1991 * Brian D. Josephson ( NSF Senior Foreign Scientist Fellow, 1971-1972) — Physics 1973 * David Lee (Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996 *

Anthony James Leggett Sir Anthony James Leggett (born 26 March 1938) is a British-American theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leggett is widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperatu ...

(Visiting Professor, April 1973, July 1974, Bethe Lecturer, April 1980, visiting scientist, January — August 1983) — Physics 2003;

Wolf Prize in Physics The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. ...

(2002) * Roger Penrose (Visiting Professor) — Physics 2020 *

Robert Coleman Richardson Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, ...

(Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996 *

John Robert Schrieffer John Robert Schrieffer (; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theor ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–75) — Physics 1972;

(1983) *

George Paget Thomson Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (; 3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Education and early life Thomso ...

(Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) — Physics 1937 *

Kip Thorne Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. F ...

(Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986-1992; Visiting Senior Research Associate, January — June 1977; Hans Bethe Lecturer, 1986; Yervant Terzian Memorial Lecture, 2016) — Physics 2017 *

Kenneth G. Wilson Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson (June 8, 1936 – June 15, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in leveraging computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase ...

(Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, 1963–88) — Physics 1982;

(1980) Peace, Literature, or Economics *

Norman Borlaug Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1982–88) —

Peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

1970; National Medal of Science (2004) * Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938; Messenger Lecturer 1959) — Peace 1962 *

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1972–74) — Literature 1990 *

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1978–84) —

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

1998;

National Humanities Medal The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the human ...

(2012) *

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...

(Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985; Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts, 1988-1991) —

Literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

1986 *

Richard Thaler Richard H. Thaler (; born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was p ...

(Professor 1978-1995) —

2017; member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) Chemistry *

Peter Debye Peter Joseph William Debye (; ; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Biography Early life Born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije in Maastricht, Netherlands, D ...

(Professor of Chemistry, 1940–50; Department Chair) — Chemistry 1936; National Medal of Science (1965) *

Manfred Eigen Manfred Eigen (; 9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions. Eigen's research helped solve major problems in physical chemistry and ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–76) — Chemistry 1967 *

Richard R. Ernst Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic re ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996-2002) — Chemistry 1991 * Paul Flory (Chemistry faculty, 1948–57) — Chemistry 1974; National Medal of Science (1974) *

Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner ...

(George Fisher Baker Lecturer of Chemistry, 1933) — Chemistry 1944 *

Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge o ...

(George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1968) — Chemistry 1971 *

Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at ...

(Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters) — Chemistry 1981;

(1983) * Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938; Messenger Lecturer 1959) — Chemistry 1954; the bulk of his most influential scientific book ''The Nature of the Chemical Bond'' was completed while he was at Cornell and was published by

Cornell University Press The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage. It was first established in 1869, making it the first university publishing enterprise in t ...

in 1939 * James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) — Chemistry 1946 *

Henry Taube Henry Taube, (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He ...

(Instructor and assistant professor, 1941-1946) — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science (1976) *

Vincent du Vigneaud Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He was recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypep ...

(Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938–67), Professor of Chemistry, 1967–75) — Chemistry 1955; Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1948) Physiology or Medicine *

James P. Allison James Patrick Allison (born August 7, 1948) is an American immunologist and Nobel laureate who holds the position of professor and chair of immunology and executive director of immunotherapy platform at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the Uni ...

(Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine 2004-2012) — Physiology or Medicine 2018,

Wolf Prize in Medicine The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Arts. The ...

(2017) *

Robert F. Furchgott Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems. Early life and education Furchgott ...

(Assistant Professor of biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College, 1940–49) — Physiology or Medicine 1998 * Herbert Spencer Gasser (Medical College, 1931–34) —

Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according ...

1944 *

Paul Greengard Paul Greengard (December 11, 1925 – April 13, 2019) was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) — Physiology or Medicine 2000 *

Haldan Keffer Hartline Haldan Keffer Hartline (December 22, 1903 – March 17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiolog ...

(Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940–41) — Physiology or Medicine 1967 *

Robert W. Holley Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alani ...

(Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948–64) — Physiology or Medicine 1968 *

Har Gobind Khorana Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–80) — Physiology or Medicine 1968; National Medal of Science (1987) *

Fritz Albert Lipmann Fritz Albert Lipmann (; June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in ...

(Research Associate, Medical College, 1939-1941) — Physiology or Medicine 1953; National Medal of Science (1966) *

Peter Medawar Sir Peter Brian Medawar (; 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a Brazilian-British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance have been fundamental to the medical practice of tissu ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–71) — Physiology or Medicine 1960 *

Harold E. Varmus Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center. He was ...

(Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine, 2015-) — Physiology or Medicine 1989; National Medal of Science (2001)

MacArthur awards

* Archie Randolph Ammons (Professor of Creative Writing, 1964–98) — poetry 1981 * William Dichtel (Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 2008-2016) — Chemistry 2015 * Craig Fennie (Assistant Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics) — materials science 2013 * Mitchell J. Feigenbaum (Postdoc 1970-1972, professor, 1982-1988) — physics 1984;

(1986), member of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

* Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) — poetry 1991 * Deborah Estrin (Associate Dean and Robert V. Tishman ’37 Professor of

Cornell Tech Cornell Tech is a technology, business, law, and design campus of Cornell University located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City. It includes the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a joint academic venture between Cornell and the Tec ...

, 2013-) — computer science 2018; member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of ...

(2009) * Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Professor, 1985–90) — literary critic (1981);

recipient (1998) *

Paul Ginsparg Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is a physicist. He developed the arXiv.org e-print archive. Education He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in phy ...

(Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science) — physics 2002 *

Jon Kleinberg Jon Michael Kleinberg (born 1971) is an American computer scientist and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University known for his work in algorithms and networks. He is a recipient of the Nevanl ...

(Tisch University Professor of Computer Science) — computer science 2005 * Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) — chemistry 1993 * Michal Lipson (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2001-2015) — optical physics 2010; member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019) * Robert Parris Moses (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, 2006-) — educator and philosopher (1982) * Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) — plant pathologist (1998) * Sheila Nirenberg (Professor at Weill Medical College) — neuroscience 2013 * Margaret W. Rossiter (Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science) — historian of science 1989 *

Gregory Vlastos Gregory Vlastos (; el, Γρηγόριος Βλαστός; July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a preeminent scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of many works on Plato and Socrates. He transformed the analysis of classical philosophy ...

(Faculty 1948-1955) — classicist and philosopher 1990

Natural sciences and related fields

Mathematics

* William J. Cook (Assistant Professor 1985-1987) — University Professor of the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

, member of the

Fellow,

INFORMS The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger o ...

Fellow and

SIAM Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Fellow, recipient of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS (2007) *

Eugene Dynkin Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (russian: link=no, Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially sem ...

(Professor) — mathematician * Walter Feit (Professor, 1952–64) — mathematician, co-author of the

Feit–Thompson theorem In mathematics, the Feit–Thompson theorem, or odd order theorem, states that every finite group of odd order is solvable. It was proved by . History conjectured that every nonabelian finite simple group has even order. suggested using ...

William Feller William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian- American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Early life and education Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Cro ...

(Professor 1945-1950) — mathematician, known in

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set ...

; recipient of the

(1969), member of the National Academy of Sciences (1960) * Richard S. Hamilton — mathematician who laid groundwork for the Poincaré conjecture proof *

Allen Hatcher Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to: Buildings * Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee * Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas * Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Unive ...

(Professor, 1985-) — mathematician, proved the

Smale conjecture The Smale conjecture, named after Stephen Smale, is the statement that the diffeomorphism group of the 3-sphere has the homotopy-type of its isometry group, the orthogonal group O(4). It was proved in 1983 by Allen Hatcher. Equivalent statemen ...

(1983) * Kiyosi Itô (Professor 1969-1975) — Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987) and

Kyoto Prize The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...

(1998); member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998) * John Irwin Hutchinson (Professor of Mathematics, 1894-?) — mathematician *

Mark Kac Mark Kac ( ; Polish: ''Marek Kac''; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, " Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the ...

(Faculty 1939-1961) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1965) * Jack Kiefer (Professor of Mathematics 1952-1979) — Fellow of the

and member of the National Academy of Sciences; president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1969-1970) *

Saunders Mac Lane Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909 – 14 April 2005) was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Early life and education Mac Lane was born in Norwich, Connecticut, near where his family lived in Taftville ...

(Professor) — developer of algebra's category theory; recipient of the National Medal of Science (1989) *

Greg Lawler Gregory Francis Lawler (born July 14, 1955) is an American mathematician working in probability theory and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm–Loewner evolution. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1979 under the supe ...

(Professor 2001-2006) — Wolf Prize in Mathematics recipient (2019) *

Kathryn Mann Kathryn Mann is a mathematician who has won the Rudin Award, Birman Prize, Duszenko Award, and Sloan Fellowship for her research in geometric topology and geometric group theory. She is an assistant professor of mathematics at Cornell University. ...

(Assistant Professor 2019-) — mathematician * Justin T. Moore (Professor 2007-) — a set theorist and logician, known for his solution to the problem of constructing an L-space.; recipient of the "Young Scholar's Competition" award in 2006, in Vienna, Austria. *

Marston Morse Harold Calvin Marston Morse (March 24, 1892 – June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the ''calculus of variations in the large'', a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known a ...

(Instructor 1920-1922, Assistant Professor 1922-1925) — mathematician, known for

Morse theory In mathematics, specifically in differential topology, Morse theory enables one to analyze the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold. According to the basic insights of Marston Morse, a typical differentiab ...

in differential topology; recipient of

Bôcher Memorial Prize The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every three years (formerly every five year ...

(1933); National Medal of Science (1964) *

George Nemhauser George Lann Nemhauser (born 1937). is an American operations researcher, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former president of the Oper ...

(Leon C. Welch endowed chair 1970-1983) — president of the

Operations Research Society of America The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger o ...

; member of the

(1986) and recipient of

John von Neumann Theory Prize The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is awarded annually to an individual (or sometimes a group) who has made fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in operat ...

(2012) *

Anil Nerode Anil Nerode (born 1932) is an American mathematician. He received his undergraduate education and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, the latter under the directions of Saunders Mac Lane. He enrolled in the Hutchins College at t ...

(Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics) — mathematician * Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Professor) — mathematician *

Paul Olum Paul Olum (August 16, 1918 – January 19, 2001) was an American mathematician (algebraic topology), professor of mathematics, and university administrator. Early years Born in Binghamton, New York to a father who was a Russian Jew who immigrated ...

(Professor) — mathematician, president of the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

1980-89 *

Joseph Slepian Joseph Slepian (February 11, 1891 – December 19, 1969) was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to the developments of electrical apparatus and theory. Born in Boston, MA of Jewish Russian immigrants, he studied ma ...

(Instructor) — mathematician *

Frank Spitzer Frank Ludvig Spitzer (July 24, 1926 – February 1, 1992) was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, including the theory of random walks, fluctuation theory, percolation theory, the W ...

(Professor 1961-1992) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1981) *

Steven Strogatz Steven Henry Strogatz (), born August 13, 1959, is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study o ...

(Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1994-) — mathematician *

Éva Tardos Éva Tardos (born 1 October 1957) is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Tardos's research interest is algorithms. Her work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient ...

(Professor of Computer Science) — mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of the

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

, 1988; member of the

(2007) *

William Thurston William Paul Thurston (October 30, 1946August 21, 2012) was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds. Thursto ...

(Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003-) — mathematician; Fields Medal winner *

Charles F. Van Loan Charles Francis Van Loan (born September 20, 1947) is an emeritus professor of computer science and the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering at Cornell University,

(Chair of the Department of Computer Science) — mathematician *

Harry Vandiver Harry Schultz Vandiver (21 October 1882 – 9 January 1973) was an American mathematician, known for work in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John Lyon and Ida Frances (Everett) Vandiver. He did not complete a form ...

(instructor of mathematics 1919-1924) — Cole Prize recipient (1931); member of the National Academy of Sciences (1934) *

Karen Vogtmann Karen Vogtmann (born July 13, 1949 in Pittsburg, California''Biographies of Candidates 200 ...

(Professor, 1994-) — mathematician,

Fellow,

Noether Lecture The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences". The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the annual lectures in 1980 as t ...

r (2007), known for Culler–Vogtmann Outer space *

Jacob Wolfowitz Jacob Wolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group Preside ...

(Professor of Mathematics 1951-1970) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974)

Physics

Neil Ashcroft Neil William Ashcroft (27 November 1938 – 15 March 2021) was a British solid-state physicist. Early life and education Ashcroft was born in London on 27 November 1938, and migrated to New Zealand in 1947. He was educated at Hutt Valley High Sc ...

(Professor, 1966-2006) — solid-state physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997) * Robert Bacher (Professor, 1935-1949) —

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

leader and member of Atomic Energy Commission; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1947) *

Robert Brout Robert Brout (; June 14, 1928 – May 3, 2011) was an American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions in elementary particle physics. He was a professor of physics at Université Libre de Bruxelles where he had created, together ...

(Professor, 1953-1961) — recipient of the

(2004) and

Sakurai Prize The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award ($10,000 U ...

(2010) for his significant contributions in elementary particle physics * Dale R. Corson (Professor, 1947-1969, President 1969-1977, Chancellor, 1977-1980) — as President, defused riots and armed stand-off in 1969 * Harold Craighead (Charles W. Lake Professor of Engineering, 1989-) — applied physicist *

Persis Drell Persis S. Drell is an American physicist best known for her expertise in the field of particle physics. She was the director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 2007 to 2012. She was dean of the Stanford University School of Engin ...

(Professor, 1988-2002) — particle physicist; director of the

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Departme ...

(2007-2012), dean of the Stanford University School of Engineering (2014-2017) and provost of Stanford University (2017-) *

Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum m ...

(Professor, 1951–53) — physicist, mathematician; recipient of the

(1981),

Templeton Prize The Templeton Prize is an annual award granted to a living person, in the estimation of the judges, "whose exemplary achievements advance Sir John Templeton's philanthropic vision: harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest quest ...

(2000) etc. *

Mitchell Feigenbaum Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (December 19, 1944 – June 30, 2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. Early life Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pe ...

(Professor) — physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the

Feigenbaum constant In mathematics, specifically bifurcation theory, the Feigenbaum constants are two mathematical constants which both express ratios in a bifurcation diagram for a non-linear map. They are named after the physicist Mitchell J. Feigenbaum. Hist ...

* Craig Fennie (Professor) — applied physicist;

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

(2013) *

Michael Fisher Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase t ...

(Professor 1966-1987) — Irving Langmuir Award (1971),

(1980),

Boltzmann Medal The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is a prize awarded to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann Medal is awarded once every three years ...

(1983),

Lars Onsager Prize The Lars Onsager Prize is a prize in theoretical statistical physics awarded annually by the American Physical Society. Prize recipients receive a medal, certificate, and $10,000. It was established in 1993 by Drs. Russell and Marian Donnelly in m ...

(1995), Royal Medal (2005),

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards () are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The categories that make up the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards ...

(2009); Fellow of the

and Member of the National Academy of Sciences * Peter Goldreich (Thomas Gold Lecturer, 1987) — astrophysicist *

Brian Greene Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 19901995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1 ...

(Professor, 1990–95) — theoretical physicist and author, specializing in string theory *

Alan Guth Alan Harvey Guth (; born February 27, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). He is Victor Weisskopf Professor of ...

(1977-1979) — recipient of

Fundamental Physics Prize The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capit ...

(2012) and

Kavli Prize The Kavli Prize was established in 2005 as a joint venture of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Kavli Foundation. It honors, supports, and recognizes scientists for outstan ...

(2014) *

Arthur Kantrowitz Arthur Robert Kantrowitz (October 20, 1913 – November 29, 2008) was an American scientist, engineer, and educator. Kantrowitz grew up in The Bronx and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.Overbye, Dennis"Arthur R. Kantrowitz, Whos ...

(Professor, 1946–56) — physicist and engineer *

Toichiro Kinoshita Tōichirō Kinoshita (, '' Kinoshita Tōichirō ''; b. 23 January 1925 in Tokyo) is a Japanese-American theoretical physicist. Kinoshita studied physics at the University of Tokyo, earning his bachelor's degree in 1947 and then his PhD in 1952. A ...

(Professor, 1955-1995) — Japanese-American theoretical physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and recipient of the

Sakurai prize The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award ($10,000 U ...

(1990) *

M. Stanley Livingston Milton Stanley Livingston (May 25, 1905 – August 25, 1986) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, ...

(Faculty 1934-1938) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1970) *

Richard V. E. Lovelace Richard Van Evera Lovelace is an American astrophysicist and plasma physicist. He is best known for the discovery of the period of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula (Crab pulsar), which helped to prove that pulsars are rotating neutron stars, for d ...

(Professor 1984-); Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000) *

Boyce McDaniel Boyce Dawkins McDaniel (June 11, 1917 – May 8, 2002) was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom ...

(Professor, 1946-1985) —

physicist and synchrotron designer; member of the National Academy of Sciences * Paul McEuen (Professor, 2001-) — physicist, specializes in carbon nanotubes and

graphene Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.

David Mermin Nathaniel David Mermin (; born 30 March 1935) is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Mermin–Wagner theorem, his application of the term " boojum" to superfluidity, his textbook with Neil Ashcroft on sol ...

(Professor) — physicist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and of the

(1988) *

Philip Morrison Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physi ...

(Professor 1946-1964) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1971) *

Yuri Orlov Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding ...

(Researcher of Physics, 1986-) — nuclear physicist; former Soviet dissident; human rights activist * Edward Ott (Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968-1979) — American physicist known for his contributions to the development of chaos theory *

Albert Overhauser Albert W. Overhauser (August 17, 1925 – December 10, 2011) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his theory of dynamic nuclear polarization known as the Overhauser Effect in nuclear ...

(Faculty, 1953-1958) — physicist, known for Overhauser effect; member of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the

; recipient of

(1994) and

Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize The Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize is an annual award given by the American Physical Society "to recognize and encourage outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions to condensed matter physics." It was endowed by AT&T Bell Lab ...

(1975) *

John Reppy John David Reppy (born February 16, 1931) is a physicist and the John L. Wetherill Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He studies the quantum properties of superfluids such as helium. Reppy is also a notable rock climber of lo ...

(Faculty, 1966-2005) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1988) * Bruno Rossi (Associate Professor 1940-1943) — National Medal of Science (1983),

(1987) *

Dennis William Sciama Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He was the PhD ...

(Professor) — physicist * Harold Scheraga (Faculty 1947-1992) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1966) *

(Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) — Nobel Prize, Physics 1937 *

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986–92) — astrophysicist * Watt W. Webb (Engineering Physics Faculty 1961-) — member of the

, the National Academy of Sciences, and the

Robert R. Wilson Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), ...

(Professor) — youngest group leader on the

; first director of

Fermilab Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been opera ...

;

(1973)

Astronomy

* James L. Elliot (Former postdoctoral fellow, Faculty) — astrophysicist; discoverer of the ring system of

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus ( Caelus), who, according to Greek mythology, was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars), grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of ...

while at Cornell; discoverer of the atmosphere of

Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest ...

Riccardo Giovanelli Riccardo Giovanelli (August 30, 1946 – December 14, 2022) was an Italian-born American astronomer. He was an emeritus professor of astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States. Background Born at Praticello, in central I ...

(Professor of Astronomy 1991-) —

Henry Draper Medal The Henry Draper Medal is awarded every 4 years by the United States National Academy of Sciences "for investigations in astronomical physics". Named after Henry Draper, the medal is awarded with a gift of USD $15,000. The medal was established ...

recipient (1989) *

Thomas Gold Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born American astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was ...

(John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy, 1959-2004) — astrophysicist, coined the term " magnetosphere"; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1968) * Martha P. Haynes (Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy) —

recipient (1989), member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000) * Jonathan Lunine (David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences) — Harold C. Urey Prize recipient (1988), member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010), fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the

American Geophysical Union The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members). AGU's a ...

Jean-Luc Margot Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969) is a Belgian-born astronomer and a UCLA professor who specializes in planetary sciences. Career Margot has discovered and studied several binary asteroids with radar and optical telescopes. His discoveries include ( ...

(Assistant Professor) — astronomer, awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society, 2004 * Carl Sagan (David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 1968–96) — space sciences *

Edwin Ernest Salpeter Edwin Ernest Salpeter (3 December 1924 – 26 November 2008,) was an Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist. Life Born in Vienna to a Jewish family, Salpeter emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis. He ...

(James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus, 1948-2008) — astronomer;

(1997), member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967) *

Saul Teukolsky Saul Arno Teukolsky (born August 2, 1947) is a theoretical astrophysicist and a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Caltech and Cornell University. His major research interests include general relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and computa ...

(Professor 1974-) — theoretical astrophysicist and co-author of Numerical Recipes; member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003) *

Aleksander Wolszczan Aleksander Wolszczan (born 29 April 1946) is a Polish astronomer. He is the co-discoverer of the first confirmed extrasolar planets and pulsar planets. Early life and education Wolszczan was born on 29 April 1946 in Szczecinek located in pre ...

(Professor) — discoverer of first

extrasolar planets An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...

and

pulsar planets Pulsar planets are planets that are found orbiting pulsars, or rapidly rotating neutron stars. The first such planets to be discovered were around a millisecond pulsar and were the first extrasolar planets to be confirmed as discovered. History ...

Chemistry

* Héctor D. Abruña (Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) * Geoffrey W. Coates (Tisch University Professor in Chemistry) — member of the

and of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) * Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Professor, 1895-1937) — physical chemist * Thomas Bruice (Professor of Chemistry 1960-1964) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974) *

James Crafts James Mason Crafts (March 8, 1839 – June 20, 1917) was an American chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel–Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Biography James Crafts, the son of Royal Altamo ...

(Professor of Chemistry, 1868–97) — President of

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, 1897-1900 *

Jean Fréchet Jean M.J. Fréchet (born August 1944) is a French-American chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on polymers including polymer-supported chemistry, chemically amplified photores ...

(Professor 1987-1998) — Japan Prize (2013); fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

, and the

, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the

Gordon Hammes Gordon G. Hammes (born 1934 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) is a distinguished service professor of biochemistry, emeritus, at Duke University, professor emeritus at Cornell University, and member of United States National Academy of Sciences. Hammes ...

(Biochemist 1965-1988) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1973) * James L. Hoard (Chemistry Professor 1936-1971) — National Academy of Sciences (1972) * John R. Johnson (Professor 1927-1965) — chemist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1948) *

John Gamble Kirkwood John "Jack" Gamble Kirkwood (May 30, 1907, Gotebo, Oklahoma – August 9, 1959, New Haven, Connecticut) was a noted chemist and physicist, holding faculty positions at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, California Institute of Technol ...

(Professor) — chemist * Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) —

MacArthur Award The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

and

Sloan Fellow The Sloan Fellows program is the world's first mid-career and senior career master's degree in general management and leadership. It was initially supported by a grant from Alfred P. Sloan, the late CEO of General Motors, to his alma mater, MI ...

* Franklin A. Long (Professor and Chairman of Chemistry) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1962) * Jerrold Meinwald (Professor of Chemistry 1960s -) — Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

, Fellow of the

and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recipient of the

(2014) and Chemical Pioneer Award of the

American Institute of Chemists The American Institute of Chemists (AIC) is an organization founded in 1923 with the goal of advancing the chemistry profession in the United States. The institute is known for its yearly awards recognizing contributions of individuals in this fi ...

(1997) * Earl Muetterties (Professor 1973-1978) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1971) *

Gregory Petsko Gregory A. Petsko (born August 7, 1948) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is currentl ...

(Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College 2012-) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995) * Efraim Racker (Professor of Biochemistry) — founder of the biochemistry department at

; member of the

and the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of Warren Triennial Prize (1974),

(1976), Gairdner Award (1980) *

Frank Spedding Frank Harold Spedding (22 October 1902 – 15 December 1984) was a Canadian American chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for ...

(George Fisher Baker assistant professor 1935-1937) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952) *

Benjamin Widom Benjamin Widom (born 13 October 1927) is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. His research interests include physical chemistry and statistical mechanics. In 1998, Widom was awarded the Boltzmann Medal "for his illumin ...

(Professor of Chemistry 1955-)

Biology, ecology, botany, and nutrition

* Louis Agassiz (Lecturer) — zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist * Liberty Hyde Bailey (Professor) — botanist, early progenitor of the

4-H 4-H is a U.S.-based network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development". Its name is a reference to the occurrence of the initial letter H four times i ...

movement, namesake of Bailey Hall; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1917) * Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Professor of History, Human Development, and Gender Studies, 1979-) — scholar in adolescence, body image and eating disorders, and related fields * T. Colin Campbell (Professor) — nutritionist; director of the China Project;author of '' The China Study'' * William Henry Chandler (Professor 1913-1923) — botanist in pomology; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1943) *

Anna Botsford Comstock Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, ''The Handbook of Nature Study'' (1911 ...

— nature studies, appointed first woman assistant professor at Cornell (1899), full professor (1920) *

Thomas Eisner Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the ...

(Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology) — pioneer of

chemical ecology A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wit ...

; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969), recipient of the

(1994) * Rollins A. Emerson (Professor 1914-1942) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1927) * Barton Warren Evermann (Lecturer, 1900–03) — ichthyologist * Martin Gibbs (Professor 1956-1964) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974) *

Jane Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best kn ...

(A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996-2002) — naturalist *

Everett Peter Greenberg Everett Peter Greenberg (born November 7, 1948) is an American microbiologist. He is the inaugural Eugene and Martha Nester Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Microbiology of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is b ...

(Faculty 1978-1988) — American microbiologist who received the Shaw Prize in 2015; member of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the

Donald Griffin Donald Redfield Griffin (August 3, 1915 – November 7, 2003) was an American professor of zoology at various universities who conducted seminal research in animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and sensory biophysics. In 1938, ...

(Professor) — zoologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1960) * Ann Hajek (Professor) — entomologist * Maria Harrison (William H. Crocker Research Chair) — plant biologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019) *

Franz-Ulrich Hartl Franz-Ulrich Hartl (born 10 March 1957) is a German biochemist and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding and is a recipient of the 2011 ...

(Professor 1991-1997) — director of the

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society located in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich. The institute was founded in 1973 by the merger of three formerly independent institutes: the Max Planck ...

in Martinsried, Germany (1997-); recipient of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize (2002),

Gairdner Foundation International Award The Canada Gairdner International Award is given annually by the Gairdner Foundation at a special dinner to five individuals for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science. Receipt of the Gairdner is traditionally considered a ...

(2004), Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2011), Shaw Prize (2012), etc., member of the

(2000) and the National Academy of Sciences (2011) * Charles Frederick Hartt (Professor, 1868-?) — Canadian-American geologist, palaeontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

* Maria Jasin (Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) and of the

(2017); recipient of the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences (2019) * William Tinsley Keeton (Professor) — expert in animal navigation, namesake of William Keeton House *

Graham Kerr Graham Kerr (born 22 January 1934) is an English cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show ''The Galloping Gourmet'' from December 30, 1968 to September 14, 1973. Early life Kerr was born in Brondesbury, London. H ...

(Professor, 1973) — chef, "The Galloping Gourmet" * Simon A. Levin (Professor 1965-1992) — Recipient of the

(2015),

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health, and energy. Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 cash prize and a medallion. The prize is administered by the University of Southern Cal ...

(2014),

(2005) *

Gene Likens Gene Elden Likens (born January 6, 1935) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbro ...

(Professor of Ecology, 1969-1983; Adjunct Professor 1983-) — ecologist; member of

, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; recipient of National Medal of Science (2001),

(1993),

(2016) * John T. Lis (Faculty 1978 -) —

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

(2000), member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) *

Thomas Lyttleton Lyon Thomas Lyttleton Lyon (17 February 1869 – October 7, 1938) was an American soil scientist who wrote on the nitrogen cycle. He was secretary of the American Society of Agronomy from 1907 to 1909. He was a fellow of the American Association fo ...

− Emeritus Professor of Soils Science for the Department of Agriculture; co-winner of the

Howard N. Potts Medal The Howard N. Potts Medal was one of The Franklin Institute Awards for science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named for Howard N. Potts. The first Howard N. Potts Medal was awarded in ...

(1913) * Jerrold Meinwald (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) — chemical ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969) and the

(1987); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970); recipient of the National Medal of Science (2014) *

Gero Miesenböck Gero Andreas Miesenböck (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian scientist. He is currently Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen ...

(Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 1999 — 2004) — recipient of

The Brain Prize The Brain Prize, formerly known as The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize, is an international scientific award honouring "one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to neuroscience and who are ...

(2013) and

(2015) *

John Keith Moffat John 'Keith' Moffat (born 1943) is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago. He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on th ...

—

, former associate professor in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology at Cornell, later deputy provost at

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

, noted for Advanced Photon Source and Time resolved crystallography * Corrie Moreau (Professor 2019-) — myrmecologist /

ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of ...

researcher;

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected ...

, Entomological Society of America Fellow,

Royal Entomological Society The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects. Its aims are to disseminate information about insects and improving communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of Londo ...

Fellow * Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) —

(1998); researcher in crop disease resistance * Karl J. Niklas (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Plant Biology) * Katharine Payne (Researcher at Bio-acoustics Research Program, Lab of Ornithology) — whale and elephant researcher * David Peakall (1968-1975 Laboratory of Ornithology, senior research associate in the Section of Ecology and Systematics in the Biological Sciences Division) * Pinstrup-Andersen Per (Professor of Food Economics 1987-1992, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy 2003-2013, Professor Emeritus and Graduate School Professor 2013-) — recipient of the

(2001) * Donald W. Roberts former Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Plant Pathology * Wendell L. Roelofs (Professor) — recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Award (1977),

Wolf Prize in Agriculture The Wolf Prize in Agriculture is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and the Arts. ...

(1982), National Medal of Science (1983) * Benoît Roux (Professor) — molecular biologist; winner of the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, 1998) from the Royal Society of Canada * W. Mark Saltzman (BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Chair 1996-2002) — member of the

National Academy of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Eng ...

(2014) and of the

(2018) * John C. Sanford (Professor, 1980–98) — inventor of the

gene gun In genetic engineering, a gene gun or biolistic particle delivery system is a device used to deliver exogenous DNA (transgenes), RNA, or protein to cells. By coating particles of a heavy metal with a gene of interest and firing these micro-proje ...

Harold Hill Smith Harold Hill Smith (April 24, 1910 – October 19, 1994) was an American geneticist who first fused a human cell and a plant cell.C. WELDON JONES, IRIS A. MASTRANGELO, HAROLD H. SMITH, H. Z. LIU, AND ROBERT A. MECK (1976). Interkingdom Fusion Betw ...

(Professor) — geneticist * Steven D. Tanksley (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, 1985-) — plant breeding and agronomy researcher; recipient of

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...

Foundation Award, Martin Gibbs Medal of the

American Society of Plant Biologists American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

, the

and the Japan Prize, member of the National Academy of Sciences * Stanley Temple (1975-1976 Research Associate) — avian ecologist *

Helen Turley Helen Turley is a pioneering American winemaker and wine consultant. She is known for bringing several Californian cult wines to the public awareness, and as the owner of a boutique winery, Marcassin Vineyard. She is the recipient of several pre ...

— winemaker *

Herbert John Webber Herbert John Webber (December 27, 1865 – January 18, 1946) was an American plant physiologist, professor emeritus of sub-tropical horticulture, first director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, and the third curator of th ...

(Professor, 1907–12) — plant physiologist, developed the

citrange The citrange (a portmanteau of ''citrus'' and ''orange'') is a citrus hybrid of the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange. The purpose of this cross was to attempt to create a cold hardy citrus tree (which is the nature of a trifoliate), with d ...

* Robert Whittaker (Professor) — vegetation ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975) *

Burt Green Wilder Burt Green Wilder (August 11, 1841 – January 21, 1925) was an American comparative anatomist. Biography Burton Green Wilder was born in Boston to David and Celia Colton Wilder. He graduated at Harvard (Lawrence Scientific School, 1862; medica ...

(Professor of Neurology and Vertebrate Zoology, 1867-1910) — comparative anatomist * Charles Edward Stevens (Chairman of Physiology, Biology and Pharmacology, 1961-1979) — Fulbright Scholar and internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems. * Bruce Wallace (professor of genetics 1958-1981) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1970) * Hao Wu (Faculty 1997-2012 Weill Cornell Medical College) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) * Donald Zilversmit (Professor 1966-1990) — nutritional biochemist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1989)

Medicine

Alexander Gordon Bearn Alexander Gordon Bearn informally Alick Bearn (March 29, 1923 – May 15, 2009), a physician, scientist and author, was professor at Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College. He was a member of the National Academy of Scienc ...

(professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine 1966-1979) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972) and the Institute of Medicine * Edward Boyse (professor of biology 1969-1989) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979) and the

, and fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

* Eugene Floyd DuBois (Faculty at Cornell Medical College) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1933) * James Ewing (Professor of Clinical Pathology, 1899-1939) — pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as

Ewing sarcoma Ewing sarcoma is a type of cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue. Symptoms may include swelling and pain at the site of the tumor, fever, and a bone fracture. The most common areas where it begins are the legs, pelvis, and chest wall. In about ...

* Don W. Fawcett (chair of the Department of Anatomy 1955-1959) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972) *

Duane Gish Duane Tolbert Gish (February 17, 1921 – March 5, 2013) was an American biochemist and a prominent member of the creationist movement. A young Earth creationist, Gish was a former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR ...

(professor of biomedical science) — prominent for his advocacy of creationist theory * Elvin A. Kabat (Instructor of pathology 1938-1941) — immunologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1966) and fellow of the

; president of the

American Association of Immunologists The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is an international scientific society dedicated to furthering the study of immunology. AAI provides its members with a variety of platforms in which to exchange ideas and present the latest immunolo ...

(1965-1966); recipient of the

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemist ...

(1977) and the

(1991) * Robert Foster Kennedy (Professor of Neurology) — one of the first to use electroconvulsive treatment to treat

psychosis Psychosis is a condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real. Symptoms may include delusions and hallucinations, among other features. Additional symptoms are incoherent speech and behavior ...

; first to link

shell shock Shell shock is a term coined in World War I by the British psychologist Charles Samuel Myers to describe the type of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD was termed). It is a react ...

and hysteria * Bruce Lerman (the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College) — cardiologist, Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the

New York Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools, Cornell University and Columbia University. The hospital comprises seven distinct campuses located in the New ...

* C. Walton Lillehei (Lewis Atterbury Stimson professor and chairman of the surgery department 1967-1975) — American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery; recipient of the

Harvey Prize Harvey Prize is an annual Israeli award for breakthroughs in science and technology, as well as contributions to peace in the Middle East granted by the Technion in Haifa. History The prize is named for industrialist and inventor Leo Harvey. T ...

(1996),

(1963),

Lasker Award The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, which was ...

(1955) *

Walsh McDermott Walsh McDermott (October 24, 1909 – October 17, 1981) was an American physician, medical researcher and public health specialist. In his early career, he researched antibiotic agents against tuberculosis and syphilis, earning a Lasker Award for ...

(professor of public health and medicine) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967) and the

* Agnes Claypole Moody — first female appointed a position in the Medical Department * Georgios Papanikolaou (Researcher at Department of Anatomy, Medical College, 1913-?) — inventor of the

Pap smear The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear (AE), cervical smear (BE), cervical screening (BE), or smear test (BE)) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in t ...

test for cervical cancer * Stephen J. Roberts — Chairman of the Department of Large Animal Medicine, Obstetrics and Surgery, 1965-1966 and 1969-1972 * Juan Rosai (James Ewing Alumni Professor of Pathology (1991-1999, later Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the Weill Cornell Medical College) — author and editor of a main textbook in

surgical pathology Surgical pathology is the most significant and time-consuming area of practice for most anatomical pathologists. Surgical pathology involves gross and microscopic examination of surgical specimens, as well as biopsies submitted by surgeons and ...

; discoverer of several entities such as Rosai-Dorfman disease and

desmoplastic small round cell tumor Desmoplastic small-round-cell tumor (DSRCT) is an aggressive and rare cancer that primarily occurs as masses in the abdomen. Other areas affected may include the lymph nodes, the lining of the abdomen, diaphragm, spleen, liver, chest wall, skull, ...

* Alexander Rudensky (Tri-Institutional Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College 2008-) — recipient of the

in Polyarthritis (2017); member of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) and the

(2015) * Tom Shires (Chair of Surgery, 1975–91) — trauma surgeon; use of saline solution in

shock Shock may refer to: Common uses Collective noun *Shock, a historic commercial term for a group of 60, see English numerals#Special names * Stook, or shock of grain, stacked sheaves Healthcare * Shock (circulatory), circulatory medical emergen ...

* Daniel Stern (Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College) — studied early child development * Ashutosh Tewari (Professor of

Urology Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and '' -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive org ...

and

Public Health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

) * Theodore H. Schwartz (Professor of Neurosurgery) *Madelon Lubin Finkel, Professor of Clinical Healthcare policy, Healthcare Policy and Research * Carl J. Wiggers (assistant professor 1911-1918) — recipient of Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951)

Geology and geography

* Heinrich Ries (Professor, 1898-?) — economic geologist * Ralph Stockman Tarr (Professor, 1897-?) — geographer

Engineering and computer science

Engineering

*Lynden Archer (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering) — member of the

(2018) *Henry G. Booker (Professor of Electrical Engineering 1948-1965) — member of the National Academy of Sciences (1960) *Lance Collins (engineer), Lance Collins (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, 2010-2020) *Susan Daniel (Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) *Mark E. Lewis (engineer), Mark E. Lewis (Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering) *Chekesha Liddell (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering) * Michal Lipson (Professor 2001-2014) — MacArthur Award, research into nanotech applications to optics *Carlo Montemagno (Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering 1995-2001, Director of Biomedical Engineering) — Father of Bionanotechnology *Christopher Ober (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering) *Richard D. Robinson (engineer), Richard D. Robinson (Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering) *Peter C. Schultz (Materials Science Visiting Professor 1978-1984) — co-inventor of the fiber optics now used worldwide for telecommunications; member of the

, inductee to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2000) *William R. Sears — notable aeronautical engineer and educator; member of the National Academy of Sciences, the

, and the

*Huili Grace Xing (William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering) *Fengqi You (Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor)

Computer science

*Robert L. Constable (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) — Work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, especially the Nuprl, Nuprl system *Richard W. Conway (Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management) – industrial engineering, simulation, scheduling theory, PL/C and other programming languages and dialects for instructional use, first director of the Office of Computing Services *Carla Gomes (Professor of Computer Science) — Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability *

(Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science, 2001-) — developer of the arXiv e-print archive, MacArthur Award *David Gries (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) — author of ''The Science of Programming'' (1981), 4 national education awards *Joseph Halpern (Professor of Computer Science) — computer scientist; recipient of the Gödel Prize (1997), member of the

(2019) *Juris Hartmanis (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) -

recipient, 1993; member of the

(1989) *John Hopcroft (IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science, Emeritus) — Turing Award recipient (1986), IEEE John von Neumann Medal recipient (2010), member of the

(1989) and of the National Academy of Sciences (2009) *

(Tisch University Professor of Computer Science) — MacArthur Award and Nevanlinna Prize, member of the

(2007), the

(2008) and the National Academy of Sciences (2011) *Trevor Pinch (Chair of Science and Technology Studies Department) — Chair of the Science and Technology Studies department *Theodore Paul Wright (Acting President, 1951) — aeronautical engineer and educator *Dexter Kozen (Professor of Computer Science) — computer scientist specializing in dynamic logic (digital electronics), dynamic logic *David Shmoys (Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering) — ACM Fellow and Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, INFORMS Fellow, and recipient of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (2013) *Gerard Salton (Professor of Computer Science) — father of information retrieval; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship (1962), American Society for Information Science, ASIS Award for Best Information Science Paper (1970), Best Information Science Book (1975), the first Gerard Salton Award (named in his honor) for Outstanding Contributions to Information Retrieval (1983), the

Senior Science Award (1988), the ASIS Award of Merit (1989); Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Fellow *Fred B. Schneider (Samuel B Eckert Professor of Computer Science) — member of the

(2011) *

(Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science) — Recipient of the

(1988), the George B. Dantzig Prize (2006) and the Gödel Prize (2012); Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the

, the

; Fellow of the

and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) *Robert Tarjan (Assistant Professor of Computer Science 1973-1974) — computer scientist and mathematician, known for discovering several graph theory, graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm; co-inventor of splay trees and Fibonacci heaps; Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University; recipient of Turing Award (1986) *Tim Teitelbaum (Professor of Computer Science) – known for his early work on Integrated development environment, integrated development environments (IDEs), Structure editing, syntax-directed editing, and Dynamic Algorithms, incremental computation *David P. Williamson (Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering) — Editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics; recipient of the

(2000) and the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (2013)

Social sciences and policy management

Economics

* Francine D. Blau (Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) — received her Bachelor of Science, B.S. in industrial and labor relations in 1966 from Cornell * Kaushik Basu (Carl Marks Professor of Economics) — Indian economist; chief economist of the World Bank; fellow of the Econometric Society * Marco Battaglini (Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics) — Fellow of the Econometric Society * Lawrence Blume (Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics) — Fellow of the Econometric Society * Morris Copeland (Professor of Economics) — President of the American Economic Association * David Easley (Professor of Economics) — Fellow of the Econometric Society and recipient of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (2011) * George M. von Furstenberg (Assistant Professor of Economics) — economist best known for monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance * John Williams Mellor (Professor of Agricultural Economics, Economics, and Asian Studies; Director of the Comparative Economics Program and the Center for International Studies) * Louis Hyman Economic historian * Charles Henry Hull (1864-1936) (Professor of American History) — economist and historian. Edited ''The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty'' (1899). * Jeremiah Jenks (Professor of Economics, 1891-1912) — President of the American Economic Association (1906). * John D. Kasarda — earned a bachelor of science degree in applied economics from Cornell in 1967 and masters of business administration degree in Organizational Theory from Cornell in 1968; developer of the aerotropolis concept, which defines the role of airports and aviation-driven economic development in shaping 21st-century urban growth and form; directs the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School * James Laurence Laughlin (Professor, 1890–92) — founded the Federal Reserve System * Emmett J. Rice (Professor, 1954–60) — former Governor of the Federal Reserve System * Thomas Sowell (Professor, 1965-1969) — economist;

(2002) * Holbrook Working (Professor) — economic theorist on hedge (finance), hedging, futures contract, futures prices, market maker behavior, and storage *Brian Wansink (Professor and John S. Dyson Endowed Chair in the Applied Economics and Management Department) -- famously discredited food scientist who was discovered to have repeatedly falsified scientific journal articles * Allyn Young (Professor, 1913-1920) President of the American Economic Association

Psychology

* Daryl Bem (Professor of Psychology) — social psychologist, creator of self-perception theory * Sandra Bem (Professor) — psychologist; created Bem Sex Role Inventory; studies gender roles * Stephen J. Ceci (Professor) — researcher of children's courtroom testimony * Michael J. Freeman (visiting assistant professor) — behavior sciences * Thomas Gilovich (Professor of Psychology) — researcher of decision making and behavioral economics * Paulina Kernberg (Professor of Psychiatry, 1978-2006) — child psychiatrist and authority on personality disorders * Lee C. Lee (Professor of Human Development) — researcher in developmental psychology and Asian-American identity and history * Kurt Lewin (Professor) — founder of modern social psychology * Neal E. Miller — American experimental psychologist and a recipient of the

(1964) * Ulrich Neisser (Professor) — studied intelligence and memory * Robert Morris Ogden (1877-1959) — Cornell University graduate, Professor of Psychology, and Cornell's Dean of Arts and Sciences, 1923-1945 * David A. Pizarro (Professor of Psychology) * Ritch Savin-Williams (Professor) — sexual orientation researcher * Edward B. Titchener (Professor) — psychologist; inventor of structuralism * Eleanor J. Gibson (Professor of Psychology) — perception and developmental psychology; fellow of the

; member of the National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the

(1992) * James J. Gibson (Professor of Psychology) — perception, member of the National Academy of Sciences * Robert Sternberg (Professor of Human Development) — President of the American Psychological Association; Professor of Psychology and Provost at Oklahoma State University, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University; IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University; known for Triarchic theory of intelligence, Triangular theory of love and The Three-Process View; Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the

and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Anthropology, sociology, other social sciences

*Yutaka Tsujinaka (visiting fellow, 1989-1991) — professor of political science * John Adair (anthropologist), John Adair (Professor, 1948-1960) — anthropologist * Benedict Anderson (Professor Emeritus of International Studies) — author of ''Imagined Communities'' * Walter Berns (Professor, 1959-1969) — Constitutional law and political philosophy professor; recipient of

in 2005 * Fred Buttel (Professor of Rural Sociology) — sociologist * John Collier (anthropologist), John Collier — visual anthropologist * Dian Fossey (Visiting Research Associate, 1980) — anthropologist whose murder was recreated in the film ''Gorillas in the Mist'' * Betty Friedan (Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, ILR School's Institute for Women and Work, 1998-2006) — feminist, author of ''The Feminine Mystique'' * Rose Goldsen — pioneer in studying the effects of television and popular culture * Charles F. Hockett (Professor 1946-1982) — linguist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974) * Jay Jasanoff (Professor, 1978-1998) — Indo-European linguistics specialist * Bronisław Malinowski (Lecturer, 1933) — founder of social anthropology * George McGovern (Visiting Lecturer, 1990) — Democratic Nominee for U.S. President (1972) and Senator from South Dakota (1963–81). Taught on US Foreign Policy. * John V. Murra (1968–82) — professor of anthropology, with a focus on the Inca Empire * Alan Nussbaum (Professor of Linguistics, 1997-) — Indo-European linguistics, Indo-European linguist and Classics, classical philologist * Richard Swedberg (Professor of Sociology, 2002-) — Swedish economic sociologist * Mark P. Talbert — senior lecturer of hotel management, and subject of a viral YouTube video publicly criticizing an unknown student who was yawning loudly in one of his classes * Sidney Tarrow (Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) — researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology * James D. Thompson (Professor) — sociologist * Bassam Tibi (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2004-) — political scientist of Islamic countries * Meredith Small (Professor, 1998-) — anthropologist and primatologist, author of several books on child development, including ''Our Babies, Ourselves'' * Adam T. Smith (Professor, 2011-) — anthropologist researching the history and societies of the South Caucasus * Barbara Wertheimer (Associate Professor, 1977-1983) — co-ounder and director of the Institute for Women and Work at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations School.

Humanities

Philosophy

* Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor, 1986–89) — African Studies philosopher and novelist;

(2012) * Max Black * Allan Bloom (Professor, 1963–70) — philosophy and government, author of ''Closing of the American Mind'', recipient of the

(1992) * Richard Boyd (Professor) — philosopher * Judith Butler — philosophy 2003-2007; Andrew White Professor at Large * Edwin Arthur Burtt (Professor) — Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy in 1941, author of works on philosophy * Harold F. Cherniss (Professor) — author and expert on the philosophy of Ancient Greece * Morris Raphael Cohen (Lecturer) — Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar * James Edwin Creighton (Professor) — philosopher * Werner J. Dannhauser (Professor, 1968–92) – political philosophy, expert on Nietzsche and on Judaism and politics * Terence Irwin * Anthony Kenny * Norman Kretzmann * Norman Malcolm (Professor, 1947–58) — Ludwig Wittgenstein scholar * Evander Bradley McGilvary (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Ethics, 1899-1905) — philosophical scholar * John Rawls (Professor) — philosopher; author of ''A Theory of Justice'', ''Political Liberalism'', and ''The Law of Peoples'';

(1999); namesake of Asteroid 16561 Rawls * Sydney Shoemaker (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy) — philosopher and metaphysician * Jason Stanley * Brian Weatherson (Associate Professor of Philosophy) — philosopher, metaphysician

Literature

* M. H. Abrams — author of the ''Mirror and the Lamp''; literary critic; fellow of the

; recipient of

(2013) * Frederick Ahl (Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature) — classics scholar * Charles Edwin Bennett (Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin, 1892-?) — classicist * Thomas G. Bergin (Professor of Romance Languages) — author and translator * Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (Professor of North European Languages, 1874 to 1880) — author * Hiram Corson (Professor) — professor of literature * Jonathan Culler (Professor) — literary critic and theorist * Louis Dyer (Acting Professor of Greek, 1895–96) — educator and author * Roberto González Echevarría (Faculty 1971-1977) — literature critic; member of the

and recipient of the

(2010) * Max Farrand (Professor) — author of American historical subjects * Emily Fridlund — author of ''History of Wolves'' * Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) — poet, fiction writer, MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Award (1991) * Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Professor, 1985–90) — Afro-American Studies scholar; MacArthur Fellow (1981) * Robert Kaske (Professor, 1963–74; Avalon Professor in the Humanities, 1974–89) — scholar of medieval literature * Victor Lange (Professor) — professor of modern languages * Alison Lurie (Professor of Creative Writing, 1968-) — fiction writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction * Paul de Man (Professor) — Professor of Comparative Literature * Vladimir Nabokov (Professor of European and Russian Literature, 1948–58) — author of the novel ''Lolita'' * Adrienne Rich (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) — feminist poet * Noliwe Rooks — (W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature) — interdisciplinary scholar *Edgar Rosenberg (professor), Edgar Rosenberg (Professor, 1965-2002) — Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 * William Sale Jr. (Goldwin Smith Professor of English, 1959; professor emeritus, 1968)Caputi, Anthony ''et al.'
"Cornell University Faculty Memorial Statement."
Cornell University. Retrieved 19 December 2019. * Nathaniel Schmidt (Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures) — American oriental studies, orientalist * William De Witt Snodgrass (Professor, 1955–57) — poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry * Melanie Thernstrom (Professor) — author and freelance journalist * Alvin Toffler (Professor) — writer, sociologist, and futurist; ''Future Shock'' * Helena Maria Viramontes (Professor of English) — Chicano, Chicana fiction writer * Wendy Wasserstein (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2005–06) — Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

History

* Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture), Felix Adler (Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1874–76) — early 20th-century Jewish rationalist and social reformer * Glenn C. Altschuler — Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies; Weiss Presidential Fellow; Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University * Carl L. Becker (John Wendell Anderson Professor of History, 1917–41) — historian; namesake of Cornell West Campus#House system, Carl Becker House * Martin Bernal, (1972-2001) — professor of modern Chinese history; author of ''Black Athena'' * Sherman Cochran — Hu Shih Professor Emeritus of Chinese history * David Brion Davis (Professor of History, 1955-1969) — 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner; scholar of slavery and American intellectual history;

(2014) * Anthony Grafton (Professor) — a leading scholar of the Renaissance * D.G.E. Hall — Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian History * Charles Henry Hull (1864-1936) — Professor of American History, Dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, Arts and Sciences College * Donald Kagan (Professor 1960-1969) — classicist;

(2002) * Michael Kammen (Professor of History) — 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner; U.S. Constitution scholar * Bernard Lewis (Professor 1986-1990) — recipient of

(2006), the

(1978) * Benzion Netanyahu (Professor of History 1971-1975) — Professor emeritus of history at

; father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu * Walter LaFeber (Stephen H. Weiss, Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow of History, 1958-2006) — U.S. foreign policy historian * Fredrik Logevall — (John S. Knight Professor of International Studies) — 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner * Hunter R. Rawlings III — 10th President of Cornell University * Goldwin Smith (Professor of English and Constitutional History, 1868–71) — historian; university reformer; namesake of Goldwin Smith Hall * Carl Stephenson (historian), Carl Stephenson (Professor of Medieval history, 1930-54?) — early 20th-century medievalist * John Szarkowski (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1983–89) — photography curator, historian, and critic * Eric Tagliacozzo — historian of modern Southeast Asia * Herbert Tuttle (Professor of international law) — 19th-century historian, author * Andrew Dickson White — first president of Cornell University; first president of the American Historical Association * O. W. Wolters — twentieth-century historian of early Southeast Asia

Music

* Malcolm Bilson (Professor) — music historian * David Borden (Director, Digital Music Program) — composer of minimalist music * Donald Byrd — jazz trumpeter and educator * Adolf Dahm-Petersen — voice specialist and teacher of artistic singing * Karel Husa (Professor, 1954-1992) — composer best known for his ''Music for Prague 1968''; won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his ''String Quartet No. 3'' * Hunter Johnson (composer), Hunter Johnson (Professor) — composer * Alejandro L. Madrid (Professor) — musicologist and ethnomusicologist — recipient of the Dent Medal (2017) * Wynton Marsalis (AD White Professor-at-Large, 2015-2021) — Classical and Jazz musician, composer * James Thomas Quarles — organist and music educator * Steven Stucky — Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

Architecture and design

* Esra Akcan — Michael A. McCarthy Professor * Bristow Adams (Professor, 1914–45) — journalist, professor, forester, illustrator * Buckminster Fuller (Professor) — architect and inventor, known for work with geodesic domes * Colin Rowe (Professor, 1970s) — architectural historian and theoretician * Romaldo Giurgola (Professor) — architect, winner of the AIA Gold Medal * Oswald Mathias Ungers (Professor, 1968-1976) — architect

Fine arts and photography

* Michael Ashkin — sculptor * Jacqueline Livingston (Professor of Photography and Art (?-1978) — feminist photographer * Alison Lurie (Professor of Literature, 1970-) — Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Languages

* Herbert Deinert — Emeritus Professor of German Studies

Media

Journalism, film, television, theatre

* John Cleese (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1999-2006; Provost’s Visiting Professor, 2006-) — comedian and actor * David Feldshuh — playwright * John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) — journalist and documentary filmmaker

Government, law, business

* Iajuddin Ahmed (Visiting Professor, 1984) — President of Bangladesh, 2002–09 *Ifeoma Ajunwa — organizational behavior, law * Alfred C. Aman, Jr. (Professor, 1977–91) — Dean of Suffolk University Law School and Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Indiana University School of Law * G. Robert Blakey professor of law and director of the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime (1973–80) — author of the RICO statute and chief counsel to House Select Committee on Assassinations * Herbert W. Briggs (Professor of Government 1929-1969)- prominent in international law * George W. Casey Jr. (Distinguished Senior Lecturer) — Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 2007–11; Commander of Multi-National Force — Iraq, 2004–07 * Michael J. Freeman (inventor), Michael J. Freeman (Assistant Professor) — inventor; business consultant, behavior sciences * Andrew Hacker (Professor) — political scientist; questioned race, class, and gender in American society * Harry George Henn * Robert C. Hockett * Charles Evans Hughes (Professor, Law School, 1891–93) — Governor of New York, 1907–10; U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1910–16; U.S. Presidential candidate, 1916; U.S. Secretary of State, 1921–25; Chief Justice of the United States, 1930-41 * Irving Ives (Trustee; Dean of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945–47) — U.S. Senator from New York, 1947–59; namesake of Ives Hall * William A. Jacobson, attorney, Cornell Law School professor, and blogger * Robert Jarrow (Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management) — expert on derivative securities; co-developer of Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework and Jarrow-Turnbull model * George McTurnan Kahin (Professor of Government, 1951–88) — expert on Southeast Asia and critic of the Vietnam War * Alfred E. Kahn (Robert J. Thorne, Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy; Trustee; Dean of Arts & Sciences) — advisor to President Jimmy Carter on deregulation; economist * Milton R. Konvitz — head of Liberian codification project * Cynthia McKinney (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) — U.S. Representative from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, 1993-2003, 2005-2007 * Edwin Barber Morgan (Trustee, 1865–74) — U.S. Representative from New York, 1853–59; Director of American Express * Robert Parris Moses (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, 2006-) — a leader of the Civil Rights Movement; creator of the Algebra Project; MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur "genius" * John Nesheim — venture capitalist, teaches classes on entrepreneurship * Frances Perkins (Lecturer of Industrial & Labor Relations (?-1965) — United States Secretary of Labor, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933-45); first female United States Cabinet, U.S. Cabinet member * Richard Neustadt (Professor of Public Administration, 1952?-54?) — politics, political scientist specializing in the President of the United States, United States presidency; advised presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton * Clinton Rossiter (Professor of Government, 1946–70) — political scientist * Frederick A. Sawyer (Professor) — Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1873–74; Senator from South Carolina, 1968–73 * Martin Shefter (Professor of Government, 1986-) — political scientist * Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr. (Professor of Law, 1945-1950), constitutional and commercial law expert and author; Harvard Law School professor (1950-1970) * Lynn Stout — Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law

Education

* Arthur S. Adams (University Provost 1946-1948) — President of the University of New Hampshire (1948-1950); President of the American Council on Education (1950-1961) * Charles Kendall Adams (University President, 1885-1892) — President of the University of Wisconsin, 1892-1901 * John L. Anderson (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1971-1976) — President of the Illinois Institute of Technology (2007-2015), Provost and University Vice President of Case Western Reserve University (2004-2007), Dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (1996-2004); member of the

and Fellow of the

and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science * Elisha Andrews (Faculty 1888-89) — President of Denison University (1875–79) and Brown University (1889-1898); chancellor of the University of Nebraska (1900-1909) * Sanford Soverhill Atwood (University Provost 1955-1963) — President of Emory University (1963-1977) * Sarah Gibson Blanding (Dean of Human Ecology, 1941–46) — President of Vassar College, 1946-1964 * Detlev Bronk (Professor of Physiology at Cornell University Medical College 1939-1941) — President of Johns Hopkins University and of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1939) * Robert F. Chandler (Professor of Forest Soils) — President of the University of New Hampshire (1950-1954); Winner of the

, 1988 * James Mason Crafts (Chemistry Professor, 1867-1870) — President of

, 1897-1900 * Cornelis de Kiewiet, Cornelis W. de Kiewiet (University Provost 1948-1951; Acting President 1949-1951) — President of the University of Rochester (1951-1961) * Lloyd Hartman Elliott (Professor of Educational Administration) — President of the University of Maine (1958-1965) and George Washington University (1965-1988) * Thomas Eugene Everhart, Thomas E. Everhart (Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dean of Engineering 1979-1984) — Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1984-1987), president of the California Institute of Technology (1987-1997); member of the

and foreign fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering * W. Kent Fuchs (University Provost, 2009-2014) — President of the University of Florida, 2015- * Richard H. Gallagher (Faculty 1967-1978) — President of Clarkson University (1988-1995) and member of

* Charles De Garmo (Faculty) — President of Swarthmore College (1891-1898) * Theodore L. Hullar (Faculty, 1979-1984, 1997-) — Chancellor of UC Riverside(1985-1987) and UC Davis (1987-1994) * Harry Burns Hutchins (Law Faculty 1887-1894) — President of the University of Michigan, 1909-1920 * William Rea Keast (Professor, Department Chair, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1951-1965) — President of Wayne State University, 1965-1971 * David C. Knapp (University Provost, 1974-1978) — President of the University of Massachusetts (1978-1990) * Asa S. Knowles (Vice President for University Development, 1948-1951) — President of the University of Toledo (1951-1958) and of Northeastern University (1959-1975) * Edward H. Litchfield (Dean of School of Business) — twelfth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1956-1965) * Carolyn Martin (University Provost, 2000-2008) — Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, 2008-2011; president of Amherst College, 2011- * Alan G. Merten (Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Johnson School) — President of George Mason University (1996-2012) * John Niland (Assistant Professor 1970-1972) — Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of New South Wales, Australia (1992-2002) *

(Faculty, 1949-1974; Mathematics Department Chair, 1963-1966) — President of the

, 1980-1989 * Russell K. Osgood (Dean and Professor of Law, 1988-1998) — President of Grinnell College 1998-2010 * Robert A. Plane (Chemistry Professor; University Provost 1969-1973) — President of Clarkson University (1974-1985) and of Wells College (1991-1995) * Don Michael Randel (University Provost, Dean of Arts & Sciences) — President of the

, 2000-2006 * Charles Ashmead Schaeffer (Dean of Faculty) — President of the University of Iowa, 1887-1898 * Benjamin Ide Wheeler (Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology) — President of the University of California, 1899-1919 * Roy Young (educator), Roy A. Young (President of Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research of

, 1980-1986) — Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1976-1980

Athletics

* Bob Blackman (American football), Bob Blackman (Head Coach, Football, 1977–82) — member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Charles E. Courtney (Head Coach, Rowing, 1883-1920) — rower and rowing coach * Melody Davidson (Head Coach, Women's Ice Hockey) — head coach of the Canada women's national ice hockey team, Canadian national women's hockey team and the Canadian 2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey team * Hilary Gehman (Head Coach, Women's Rowing) — two-time Olympian; six-time member of the U.S. national rowing team * Edward Moylan (Head Coach, Tennis and Squash, 1962–72) — tennis player * Nicole Ross (born 1989) — Olympic foil fencer * Michael Slive (Director of Athletics) — Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, 2002–present * Phil Sykes (field hockey), Phil Sykes (Interim Head Coach, Field Hockey, 2003) — U.S. Olympic field hockey defender *Al Walker (born 1959) - former basketball player and college coach, now a scout for the Detroit Pistons of the NBA