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This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to
Columbia University . For further listing of notable Columbians see: Notable alumni at
Columbia College of Columbia University ;
Columbia University School of General Studies ;
Columbia Law School ;
Columbia Business School ;
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism ;
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation ;
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ;
Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College) ;
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science ;
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ;
Columbia University School of Professional Studies ;
Columbia University School of the Arts ; the
School of International and Public Affairs ; and
Barnard College . The following lists are incomplete.
Nobel laureates
As of the 2023 awards, 103 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia University as alumni or faculty. Among the 103 laureates, 72 are Nobel laureates in natural sciences;
[a] 46 are Columbia alumni (graduates and attendees) and 34 have been long-term academic members of the Columbia faculty; and subject-wise, 33 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject. This list considers Nobel laureates as equal individuals and does not consider their various prize shares or if they received the prize more than once. It includes alumni and faculty of
Barnard College after 1900 and those of
Bard College by 1944, as well as physicians and long-term medical staff of the
Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital .
In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Columbia University (including
emeritus staff ). A name marked with a dagger († ) indicates that this person has already been listed in a previous category (i.e., multiple affiliations).
Fields Medalists
Wolf Prize
Robert Brout —(Ph.D.) Belgian
theoretical physicist ; 2004
Wolf Prize in Physics ; 2010
Sakurai Prize ; significant contributions in elementary particle physics
John Clauser —(M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969) theoretical and experimental
physicist ; 2010
Wolf Prize in Physics ;
Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality
Samuel J. Danishefsky —(postdoctoral fellowship) 1995
Wolf Prize in
Chemistry ;
Danishefsky's diene ,
Danishefsky Taxol total synthesis
Samuel Eilenberg —1986
Wolf Prize in Mathematics;
Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms ,
Eilenberg swindle
Peter Eisenmann —(M.A.) architect; 2010
Wolf Prize in Arts ; work often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde
Harry B. Gray —2004
Wolf Prize in
Chemistry
Leon M. Lederman —(Ph.D.) experimental physicist,
Wolf Prize in Physics ,
National Medal of Science ,
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Karl Maramorosch —(Ph.D. 1949)
virologist ,
entomologist and
plant pathologist ; 1980
Wolf Prize in Agriculture
Gilbert Stork —1995
Wolf Prize in
Chemistry ; 1982
National Medal of Science ,
Willard Gibbs Medal
Chien-Shiung Wu —physics professor and
particle physicist , first woman to head the
American Physical Society and the first woman to become a tenured professor in the physics department; 1978
Wolf Prize in
Physics among other awards
Stephen Smale —2006
Wolf Prize in Mathematics;
National Medal of Science (1975);
Bonner Prize (1975);
Comstock Prize in Physics (1964)
Crafoord Prize
Templeton Prize
ACM Turing Award
Founding Fathers of the United States
Founding Fathers of the United States are the political leaders who signed the
Declaration of Independence or the
United States Constitution , or otherwise participated in the
American Revolution as leaders of the Patriots.
Alexander Hamilton —Founding Father,
American Revolutionary War officer and
aide-de-camp to
George Washington , initiator and co-author of
The Federalist Papers , the first
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury , economist, one of the first U.S.
constitutional lawyers (picture appears on U.S. ten-dollar bill)
John Jay —Founding Father, president of the Continental Congress, co-author of
The Federalist Papers , second
U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs , first chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court , diplomat, architect of
Jay's Treaty with Great Britain
Robert Livingston —Founding Father, drafter of the
Declaration of Independence , first
U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs , U.S. Minister to France, negotiator of the
Louisiana Purchase
Gouverneur Morris —Founding Father, author of large sections of the
Constitution of the United States ,
U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to France ,
United States Senator from New York, creator of the Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
Egbert Benson —Founding Father, member of the
Continental Congresses ; with
Alexander Hamilton , delegate from New York to the
Annapolis Convention ; ratifier of the
United States Constitution ; served in the First and
Second United States Congresses
Presidents of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt —(law, attended 1880 to 1881) (posthumous J.D., class of 1882),
[3] 26th president of the United States (1901–1909); hero of the
Spanish–American War (
Medal of Honor , posthumously awarded 2001);
Nobel Peace Prize recipient;
Governor of New York ;
Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; professional historian, explorer, author
Franklin Delano Roosevelt —(law, attended fall of 1904 to spring 1907) (posthumous J.D., class of 1907),
[3] 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945); consistently ranked as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents in
scholarly surveys ; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the navy
Dwight Eisenhower —34th president of the United States (1953–1961); Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force; president of
Columbia University
Barack Obama —(B.A. 1983) 44th president of the United States (2009–2017);
Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Democratic senator from Illinois (2005–2008); first African-American president of the
Harvard Law Review
Vice presidents of the United States
Presidents and prime ministers (international)
Ashraf Ghani —(M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983)
President of Afghanistan ; finance minister; chancellor of Kabul University
Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali —(M.A.) twice
Prime Minister of Iraq (40th PM); six times
Foreign Minister ; member of both houses of Iraqi Parliament
Kassim al-Rimawi —(M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1956) Prime Minister of
Jordan (1980); Minister on six occasions (from 1962 through 1980)
Giuliano Amato —(M.A., Law 1963) twice
Prime Minister of Italy (72nd and 78th PM); Minister of the Interior; Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hafizullah Amin —(Ph.D. 1962) 2nd General Secretary of the
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and Chairman of the
Revolutionary Council
Nahas Angula —(M.A., MEd) Prime Minister of the
Republic of Namibia (incumbent as of 2010); member of the
National Assembly since 1990
Marek Belka —11th
Prime Minister of Poland ; twice Minister of Finance
Fernando Henrique Cardoso —(faculty) 34th
president of Brazil (1995–2003);
Minister of External Relations (1992–1993); Minister of Finance (1993–1994)
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz —(
Fulbright scholar , research, 1980 through 1981)
Prime Minister of Poland (1996–97);
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2001–05); speaker,
Sejm (lower chamber, Polish parliament) (2005);
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland (1993–95); senator (2007–)
Gaston Eyskens —(MSc 1927) six-time
Prime Minister of Belgium (1949–1950, 1958–1961, 1968–1973)
Mark Eyskens —(M.A. 1957)
Prime Minister of Belgium (1981);
Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–92);
Belgian Minister of Finance ; Belgian Minister of Economic Affairs
Sun Fo —(M.S. 1917) twice
Premier of the Republic of China (1931–32, 48–49);
President of the Legislative Yuan (1932–48);
President of the Examination Yuan (1966–73)
Chen Gongbo —(M.A., Economics, 1925) Chinese politician; president of the
Republic of China (
Nanjing regime ) (1944–1945)
Václav Havel —(visiting artist in residence, 2006); 1st
president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003); last president of
Czechoslovakia (1989–1992)
Jose Ramos Horta —
Nobel Laureate ;
President of East Timor (2007–2012); Prime Minister (2006–2007)
Lee Huan —(M.A.) former
premier of the Republic of China (1989–1990);
ROC Minister of Education (1984–1987)
Toomas Hendrik Ilves —(B.A.) twice
President of Estonia ( 2011–, 2006–11); twice
Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999–2002, 1996–1998);
Member of the European Parliament (2004–2006)
Radovan Karadžić —(M.D. 1975) Serb politician, 1st
president of Republika Srpska (1992–1996), psychiatrist, poet; accused of committing war crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the
Siege of Sarajevo , as well as ordering the
Srebrenica massacre
Wellington Koo —(B.A., Ph.D.) twice
Premier of China (1924; '26–27); interim
President ('26–27); Amb. to the U.S. ('46–56); co-founder
League of Nations , United Nations
Benjamin Mkapa —(M.A.) 3rd
president of Tanzania (1995–2005); twice
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (1984–1990, 1977–1980)
Nwafor Orizu —(M.A.) Acting
President of Nigeria (1965–1966); second
President of the Nigerian Senate (1960–1966) (during the
Nigerian First Republic )
Lucas Papademos —(faculty 1975–84)
Prime Minister of Greece (November 2011–12); economist; former governor,
Bank of Greece (1994–02) and vice president,
European Central Bank (2002–10)
Hans-Gert Pottering —(graduate studies) 23rd
president of
European Parliament (2007–2009)
Mary Robinson —(faculty 2004–) 7th
president of Ireland (1990–1997)
Mikhail Saakashvili —(Law 1994) twice
President of
Georgia (2004–2007, 2008–present); leader of
Rose Revolution
Juan Bautista Sacasa —(M.D.) 66th
president of Nicaragua (1933–1936);
Vice President of Nicaragua (1926–1927)
Salim Ahmed Salim —(M.A.) 5th
Prime Minister of Tanzania ; deputy prime minister of Tanzania (1986–89); Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980–84);
President of the United Nations General Assembly ; 6th Secretary General,
Organization of African Unity
Ernesto Samper —(M.A.) 56th
president of Colombia (1994–98); 17th
Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement (1995–98); 1st
Minister of Economic Development (1990–91)
Mohammad Musa Shafiq —(M.A.)
Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1972–1973);
Foreign Minister of Afghanistan (1971–1972)
Tang Shaoyi —twice
Prime Minister of the Republic of China (1912, 1922); first president,
Shandong University
T. V. Soong —(Ph.D.) twice
Premier of Republic of China (1930 and 1945–1947);
minister of finance (1932–1933); governor,
Central Bank of China (1928–1931)
Charles Robberts Swart —(M.S.)
first
State President of the
Republic of South Africa (1961–1967); last
Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1960–1961); Acting Prime Minister (1958)
Nur Mohammed Taraki —3rd
president and 12th
Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1978–1979)
Chung Un-chan —(faculty 1976–78) 40th
Prime Minister of South Korea
Abdul Zahir —(M.D.)
Prime Minister of Afghanistan ; president of Parliament; ambassador to Italy; ambassador to Pakistan
Zhou Ziqi —(B.A.) former
premier and
President of the Republic of China
Notable alumni and attendees
Notable faculty
See also above at Nobel Laureates ("Alumni" and "Faculty") for separate listing of 41 notable faculty
Alfred Aho —Canadian computer scientist known for co-authorship of the
AWK programming language ; IEEE
John von Neumann Medal (2003)
Anne Marie Albano –professor of medical psychology; known for clinical work and research on
anxiety disorders
Hattie Alexander —professor of pediatrics, microbiologist; known for
Haemophilus influenzae ,
antibiotic resistance
Dimitris Anastassiou —professor of
electrical engineering , developer of
MPEG-2 technology
Edwin Armstrong —professor, winner of the 1941
Franklin Medal and the 1942
Edison Medal , inventor and the Father of FM Radio
Karen Barkey —professor of sociology
Charles A. Beard —(Ph.D. 1904) American historian of the first half of the 20th century
Peter Bearman —professor of sociology
Daniel Bell —(graduate study, 1938–1939) professor of sociology
J. Bowyer Bell —adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, and research associate at the Institute of War and Peace Studies
Jagdish Bhagwati —professor of economics and law, author of In Defense of Globalization
Franz Boas —father of American Anthropology
Sophie Body-Gendrot –French sociologist
C. Louise Boehringer , first female superintendent of schools,
Yuma County and first female to be elected to office in
Arizona .
Lee Bollinger —(J.D.) University President/law professor,
First Amendment scholar,
Affirmative Action advocate
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen —professor of Germanic languages
Geovanny Vicente —associate faculty of strategic communications for professionals
Robert Branner —professor of art history and archeology (1957-1969, 1971-1973)
Ronald Breslow —university professor of chemistry, biology, pharmacology, and engineering;
Priestley Medal (1999);
Perkin Medal (2010)
Alan Brinkley —professor of American history and university provost; son of newscaster
David Brinkley
Zbigniew Brzezinski —
National Security Advisor under the
Carter Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
Richard Bulliet —history professor and Middle East scholar, author of Kicked to Death by a Camel
John Burgess —founder of modern political science
Santiago Calatrava —(honorary doctorate, 2007), architect, sculptor and
structural engineer , designer of
Montjuic Communications Tower and
World Trade Center Transportation Hub
Stephen Cameron —financial analyst and adjunct associate professor (2003–present) and former associate professor (1994–2003) of
International and Public Affairs ; noted for studies on
GED
Gabo Camnitzer —Artist, and educator
Neil W. Chamberlain —business professor and industrial relations scholar
Charles F. Chandler —chemist, first Dean of
Columbia University 's
School of Mines
Kartik Chandran —environmental engineer,
MacArthur Fellowship Recipient 2015
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Partha Chatterjee —anthropologist and scholar of postcolonial nationalism
Thomas J. Christensen —political scientist and interim dean of the
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Richard Clarida —C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and current vice chair of the
Federal Reserve
Hillary Clinton —
First Lady of the United States , United States senator from New York, 67th
United States Secretary of State
George R. Collins —professor of art history (1946-1986)
Lee Saunders Crandall —ornithologist and general curator of the
Bronx Zoo
Hamid Dabashi —cultural and literary critic
Alexander Dallin —history and political science professor, director of Russian Institute
Samuel J. Danishefsky —professor of chemistry, winner of the
Wolf Prize in
Chemistry in 1995/96
Pierre Dansereau —Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology".
Arthur Danto —Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy emeritus, art critic
William Theodore de Bary —scholar and translator of East Asian texts, particularly classical Chinese canon
Andrew Delbanco —2012
National Humanities Medal ; director of
American Studies at Columbia University
Emanuel Derman —professor and director of Columbia's
financial engineering program, co-authors of the
Financial Modelers' Manifesto
Donald Dewey —former Economics professor
John Dewey —former Philosophy professor
William Diver —linguistics professor, founder of the
Columbia School of Linguistics
Theodosius Dobzhansky —(researcher, graduate study, professor in population genetics);
National Medal of Science in 1964; the
Franklin Medal in 1973
Andrew Dolkart —architectural historian
Ann Douglas — cultural critic, recipient of the
Beveridge Award and
Merle Curti Award
Karen Duff —
Potamkin Prize winning pathologist
John R. Dunning —
physicist who played key roles in the development of the
atomic bomb
Samuel Eilenberg —winner of the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986
Arnold Eisen —chancellor,
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jon Elster —Robert Merton Professor of Social Science, leading theorist of
rational choice theory ,
Marxism , and
social theory
Niki Erlenmeyer-Kimling —professor of clinical psychiatry
William Maurice Ewing —earth scientist and pioneer
Awi Federgruen , Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Enrico Fermi —
Manhattan Project member,
Nobel laureate
Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003) - economist
Miloš Forman —film director,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ,
Amadeus ,
The People vs. Larry Flynt , two
Academy Awards
Annette Baker Fox —international relations scholar
William T. R. Fox —political scientist and international relations theoretician
David Freedberg —art historian
Ferdinand Freudenstein —Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
Fred W. Friendly —CBS News producer and media scholar
Erich Fromm —noted psychologist
Virginia Page Fortna —American political scientist, recipient of the 2010
Karl Deutsch Award from the
International Studies Association
Zvi Galil (born 1947)—Israeli computer scientist, mathematician, and President of
Tel Aviv University
Patrick X. Gallagher —professor emeritus of mathematics
Herbert J. Gans —professor of sociology; author of Popular Culture and High Culture
Kristine Gebbie —professor of nursing and
Bill Clinton 's first
AIDS Czar
Frank Gehry —
Pritzker Prize -winning architect
Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), President of
Brooklyn College , and Chancellor of the
New School for Social Research
Dorian M. Goldfeld —professor of mathematics
Robert Gooding-Williams —M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of
African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy
Al Gore —Vice President of the United States of America
Benjamin Graham —father of value investing, mentor of
Warren Buffett
Brian Greene —mathematics and physics professor, researcher and author in
String Theory
Victoria de Grazia —professor of history, founding editor of
Radical History Review
Sunil Gulati —professor of economics and chair of the
U.S. Soccer Federation
Joan Dye Gussow —food policy expert
Richard S. Hamilton —Davies Professor of mathematics; awarded
Shaw Prize (2011),
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009),
Clay Research Award (2003),
Veblen Prize (1996)
Georg Friedrich Haas —professor of composition
Gisue Hariri —professor of architecture
Cyril M. Harris —professor of electrical engineering and architect
Carl Hart —first African American tenured sciences professor at Columbia
Ross Hassig —anthropologist and Mesoamerica scholar
Howard Hibbard —Professor of Italian Baroque Art
Roger Hilsman —political scientist, author, and government official
Geovanny Vicente —political strategist, author, Associate Professor of Strategic Communications for professional, award-winning columnist for
CNN
Richard Hofstadter —noted historian
Ralph Holloway —physical anthropologist
Carl Hovde —professor and Dean during the
Columbia University protests of 1968 .
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Andreas Huyssen —Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
David Ignatow —poet,
Bollingen Prize -winner
Lawrence R. Jacobs — political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance (CSPG) at the
University of Minnesota
Kenneth T. Jackson —historian of New York City
Hervé Jacquet —professor emeritus of mathematics
Jon Jaques —professional basketball player, assistant basketball coach (Cornell University)
Eric Kandel —neuroscientist, 2000
Nobel laureate ; Biophysicist, uncovered secrets of synapses. Professor Physicians & Surgeons (1974–); research with the Biomedical Engineering department
Thomas Christian Kavanagh —professor of civil engineering
Donald Keene —Japanese studies expert
James Kent —first professor of law at
Columbia College (1793–98), legal scholar and jurist, author of seminal "Commentaries on American Law"; the "Commentaries" treated state, federal, and international law, and the law of personal rights and property
Rashid Khalidi —Middle East historian
Cinta Laura Kiehl — Indonesian actress, singer, model and ambassador of
anti-violence against women and children by the
Indonesian Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection
Philip Kim —professor of applied physics and mathematics
Grayson L. Kirk —former president and instrumental in the founding of the
United Nations Security Council
Kenneth Koch —poet
Masatake Kuranishi —professor emeritus of mathematics
Klaus Lackner —professor of environmental engineering
Serge Lang —former professor of mathematics, recipient of the 1960
Cole Prize , and political activist
Arthur M. Langer —professor of professional practice, academic director of the
M.S. in professional technology program and founder of Workforce Opportunity Services
Jaron Lanier —visiting scholar at the Computer Science department
Leon M. Lederman —
Nobel Laureate , discoverer of
muon neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989); M.A., Ph.D. Columbia
Tsung Dao Lee —physics professor,
Nobel laureate
Rudolph Leibel —Christopher J. Murphy Memorial Professor of Diabetes; Co-discovered the
hormone
leptin , and cloned the
leptin and
leptin receptor genes, which have had a major role in the area of understanding human
obesity .
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Mark Lilla —professor of humanities; historian of ideas
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Konrad Lorenz —psychology professor,
Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
Walther Ludwig —classical studies professor
Nicholas F. Maxemchuk —professor of
electrical engineering
Dusa McDuff —professor of mathematics
Myrtle Byram McGraw —psychologist, neurobiologist, and child development researcher
John Anthony McGuckin —professor of
Byzantine Christian Studies
Rustin McIntosh —former pediatrics professor
Margaret Mead —professor of anthropology
Don Melnick —professor of environmental biology and advisor to the UN on environmental issues
Edward Mendelson —Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
Robert K. Merton —professor of sociology; founder of
sociology of science ;
National Medal of Science
Jacob Millman —professor of
electrical engineering , creator of
Millman's Theorem
C. Wright Mills —professor of sociology
Eben Moglen —Law and the Internet Society, general counsel of
FSF
Sidney Morgenbesser —John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
Robert Mundell —economics professor, 1999
Nobel laureate in Economics
John Hine Mundy —professor of medieval history, former president of the
Medieval Academy of America
Tristan Murail —professor of music composition, French composer
P. T. Narasimhan —theoretical chemist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Mira Nair —director of
Monsoon Wedding , film studies professor
Shree K. Nayar —professor of
computer science , scholar noted for his work in the fields of
Computational Imaging and
Computer Vision
Franz Leopold Neumann —political science professor, Communist spy in Redhead group
Gertrude Fanny Neumark — expert on doping wide-band
semiconductors
Robert S. Neuwirth —Babcock Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; pioneer in the use of gynecological endoscopy
Kimberly Noble –Professor of Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University; American Psychological Association Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Award
Rebecca Oppenheimer —Astronomical instrument builder; pioneer in studying exoplanet and substellar atmospheres; co-discoverer of first known brown dwarf
Robert G. O'Meally —
Grammy Award -nominated producer, professor of English and comparative literature
Kevin O'Rourke —Irish economist, now Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford
John Ordronaux —
Civil War army surgeon, professor of
medical jurisprudence ,
mental health commissioner
Victor Perlo —economics professor,
Soviet spymaster involved in
Harold Ware spy ring and
Perlo group as shown in
Venona list of suspected subversives in the U.S.
Edmund Phelps —economist and
Nobel laureate
Lorenzo da Ponte —first professor of Italian language and literature at Columbia; librettist to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Charles Lane Poor —astronomer
Peter Pouncey — classicist, novelist, college dean 1972–1976, former president of
Amherst College
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin —professor,
Serbian
physicist and
physical chemist whose inventions include the
Pupin coil
Isidor Isaac Rabi —professor, Ph.D. from Columbia (1927),
Nobel Laureate , discoverer of
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Eliezer Rafaeli —founding President of the
University of Haifa
Shivaram Rajgopal Vice Dean for research at Columbia Business School and a professor of accounting and auditing
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. —professor (1940–1947) (B.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1940, Columbia); 1989
Nobel Prize in Physics ,
IEEE Medal of Honor , Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam
spectroscopy
Hyman G. Rickover —developer of the nuclear submarine, master's degree in electrical engineering
Michael Riffaterre —university professor, French & Romance philology, semiotician
Mary Robinson —7th
president of Ireland , professor of practice in
international affairs
Joseph Rothschild —political science and history professor, teacher of Contemporary Civilization
Jeffrey Sachs —head of the United Nations Millennium Project to end poverty, author of
The End of Poverty .
Edward W. Said —university professor, professor of English and comparative literature, Palestinian activist, author of
Orientalism , widely considered founder of Postcolonial studies
Mario Salvadori —architect, structural engineer, professor (1940s–1990s), consultant on
Manhattan Project , inventor of thin concrete shells
Andrew Sarris —film studies professor and auteur theorist
Saskia Sassen —Dutch-American
sociologist noted for analyses of
globalization and international
human migration ; coined the term
global city
Simon Schama —history Professor
James Schamus —film studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, three-time
Academy Award -nominated and
BAFTA Award -winning film screenwriter and producer
Robert Y. Shapiro —chairman of the
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research , president of the
Academy of Political Science , editor of the
Political Science Quarterly
Avinoam Shalem —art historian, 24th director of the
American Academy in Rome
Warner R. Schilling —political scientist and international relations scholar
Marshall D. Shulman —scholar of Soviet studies and the founding director of the Russian Institute
Sonia Sotomayor —lecturer in law,
Columbia Law School (1999–); nominated by President
Barack Obama , on May 26, 2009, to be a justice of the
United States Supreme Court
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak —English professor
Henry Spotnitz —affiliate professor of biomedical engineering
Clifford Stein —professor of
operations research and
industrial engineering
Julian Steward —anthropologist, authority of
Cultural ecology
Joseph Stiglitz —economics professor, 2001
Nobel laureate in Economics
Gilbert Stork —winner of the
Wolf Prize in
Chemistry in 1995/6
Horst Ludwig Störmer —
I.I. Rabi professor of
physics and
applied physics , winner of 1998
Nobel Prize in Physics
Mark Strand —poet, former U.S.
Poet Laureate ,
Bollingen and
Pulitzer Prize -winner
Bjarne Stroustrup —creator of the
C++ programming language
Man-Chung Tang —professor of civil engineering and former chairman of
American Society of Civil Engineers
Alan M. Taylor —economist
Marco Tedesco —Climatologist
Edward Lee Thorndike —father of American experimental psychology
Robert Thurman —Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, father of actress
Uma Thurman
Charles Tilly —professor of sociology
William York Tindall —James Joyce scholar
Adam Tooze —historian
Oliver Samuel Tonks —lecturer of
Ancient Greek
Olivier Toubia —Glaubinger Professor of Business
Charles Hard Townes —professor and Nobel Prize-winning
physicist who helped to invent the
laser
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Joseph F. Traub —founding chairman of the
computer science department at Columbia
Lionel Trilling —literary scholar
Harold Clayton Urey —professor,
Nobel Laureate (1934), extensive development in the
Manhattan Project , discoverer of
Deuterium
Carl Van Doren —
Pulitzer Prize -winning biographer
Charles Van Doren —English professor whose national disgrace was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film
Quiz Show
Mark Van Doren —
Pulitzer Prize -winning poet
Vladimir Vapnik —professor of computer science and co-developer of
Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory
Geovanny Vicente — associate professor of strategic communications and
CNN columnist
Kenneth Waltz —political science professor and noted neorealism scribe
Duncan Watts —professor of sociology and author of "Six Degrees" and "Small Worlds"
Sheldon Weinig —professor of operations research and industrial engineering and founder of
Materials Research Corporation
Maxine Weinstein
David Weiss Halivni —rabbi, founder of
Union for Traditional Judaism and developer of source-critical analysis of the
Talmud
Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former
Haganah sniper.
Nancy Wexler —Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
Harrison White —professor of sociology
Enos Wicher —professor and
Soviet spy named in
Venona list of suspected subversives in the U.S., stepfather of
State Department
Soviet spy
Flora Wovschin
Peter Woit —mathematics professor, skeptic of
string theory
Michael Wood — professor of English and comparative literature, holds endowed chair of English at Princeton
Howard Wriggins —political science and international relations professor, also U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
Chien-Shiung Wu —physics professor, first woman to head the
American Physical Society and winner of the
Wolf Prize in
Physics in 1978
David Tannor (born 1958),
theoretical chemist , visiting professor, Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the Department of Chemical Physics at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
Mihalis Yannakakis —professor of
computer science , scholar noted for his work in the fields of
Computational complexity theory ,
Databases
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi —Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History at Culture and Society
Shou-Wu Zhang , former professor of mathematics; specializes in
number theory and
arithmetical algebraic geometry ; winner of the
Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and
Fields Medal finalist
Theodore Zoli —adjunct professor of civil engineering and structural engineer
University professors
Richard Axel ,
molecular biology and
neuroscience , 1999
Jagdish Bhagwati ,
economics and
law , 2001
Martin Chalfie ,
biology , 2013
[10]
Ruth DeFries ,
sustainable development , 2016
Michael W. Doyle ,
international affairs ,
law , and
political science , 2015
Nabila El-Bassel ,
social work , and
public health , 2019
[11]
Wafaa El-Sadr ,
public health , 2013
[10]
Saidiya Hartman , English and comparative literature, 2020
[12]
Wayne Hendrickson ,
biochemistry and
molecular biophysics
Eric R. Kandel ,
neurobiology , behavior and learning, 1983
Rosalind E. Krauss ,
art history , 2005
Jeffrey Sachs ,
economics , 2016
Simon Schama ,
history and
art history
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ,
English and
comparative literature , 2007
[13]
Joseph Stiglitz ,
economics , 2001
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic ,
biomedical engineering , 2017
University professors emeriti
Former university professors
Jacques Barzun ,
cultural history
Ronald Breslow ,
organic chemistry , 1992
Samuel Eilenberg ,
mathematics , 1974
R. Kent Greenawalt ,
jurisprudence and
constitutional law , 1991
Louis Henkin ,
international law , 1981
Donald Keene ,
Japanese Studies , 1988
Grayson L. Kirk , University President, 1953–68
Robert K. Merton ,
sociology , 1974
Robert A. Mundell ,
economics
Ernest Nagel ,
philosophy
Isidor Isaac Rabi ,
physics , 1964
Michael Riffaterre ,
semiotics , theory of
literature and
French literature , 1982
Edward Said ,
comparative literature ,
literary theory , and
cultural studies , 1992
Meyer Schapiro ,
art history
Sol Spiegelman ,
genetics and
microbiology
Fritz Stern ,
history , 1992
Lionel Trilling ,
literature , 1970
Jeremy Waldron ,
law , 2005, left Columbia in 2006
Others
Notes
^ The total number of laureates in natural sciences: Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
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