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Past and present Cornell University faculty
This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of
Cornell University , an
Ivy League
university located in
Ithaca ,
New York .
Nobel laureates
Peace, Literature, or Economics
Norman Borlaug , father of the
Green Revolution
Chemistry
Peter Debye (Professor of Chemistry, 1940–50; Department Chair) —
Chemistry 1936; National Medal of Science (1965)
Manfred Eigen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–76) — Chemistry 1967
Richard R. Ernst (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 (George Fisher Baker Lecturer of Chemistry, 1933) — Chemistry 1944
Gerhard Herzberg (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1968)
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[5]
[6] — Chemistry 1971
Roald Hoffmann (Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters) — Chemistry 1981;
National Medal of Science (1983)
Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938;
Messenger Lecturer 1959)
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[2] — 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 in 1939
James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) — Chemistry 1946
Henry Taube (Instructor and assistant professor, 1941-1946) — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science (1976)
Vincent du Vigneaud (Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938–67), Professor of Chemistry, 1967–75) — Chemistry 1955;
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1948)
Physics
Hans Bethe
Hannes Alfvén (Distinguished Professor in Engineering) — Physics 1970
Hans Bethe (John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, 1935-2005) — Physics 1967; National Medal of Science (1975)
Richard Feynman (Physics faculty, 1945–50) —
Physics 1965; National Medal of Science (1979)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (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)
[7] — Physics 1973
David Lee (Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996
Anthony James Leggett (Visiting Professor, April 1973, July 1974, Bethe Lecturer, April 1980, visiting scientist, January — August 1983)
[8] — Physics 2003;
Wolf Prize in Physics (2002)
Roger Penrose (Visiting Professor) — Physics 2020
Robert Coleman Richardson (Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996
John Robert Schrieffer (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–75) — Physics 1972;
National Medal of Science (1983)
George Paget Thomson (Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) — Physics 1937
Kip Thorne (Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986-1992; Visiting Senior Research Associate, January — June 1977; Hans Bethe Lecturer, 1986; Yervant Terzian Memorial Lecture, 2016)
[9] — Physics 2017
Kenneth G. Wilson (Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, 1963–88) — Physics 1982;
Wolf Prize in Physics (1980)
Physiology or Medicine
James P. Allison (Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine 2004-2012)
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[11] — Physiology or Medicine 2018,
Wolf Prize in Medicine (2017)
Robert F. 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 1944
Paul Greengard (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) — Physiology or Medicine 2000
Haldan Keffer Hartline (Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940–41) — Physiology or Medicine 1967
Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948–64) — Physiology or Medicine 1968
Har Gobind Khorana (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–80) — Physiology or Medicine 1968; National Medal of Science (1987)
Fritz Albert Lipmann (Research Associate, Medical College, 1939-1941) — Physiology or Medicine 1953; National Medal of Science (1966)
Peter Medawar (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–71) — Physiology or Medicine 1960
Harold E. Varmus (Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine, 2015-)
[12] — 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;
Wolf Prize in Physics (1986), member of the
National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alice Fulton (Professor of Creative Writing) — poetry 1991
Deborah Estrin (Associate Dean and Robert V. Tishman ’37 Professor of
Cornell Tech , 2013-) — computer science 2018; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2009)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Professor, 1985–90) — literary critic (1981);
National Humanities Medal recipient (1998)
Paul Ginsparg (Professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science) — physics 2002
Jon Kleinberg (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 (Faculty 1948-1955) — classicist and philosopher 1990
Athletics
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
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 (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
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
National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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)
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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 Institute ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1939)
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Robert F. Chandler (Professor of Forest Soils) — President of the
University of New Hampshire (1950-1954); Winner of the
World Food Prize , 1988
James Mason Crafts (Chemistry Professor, 1867-1870) — President of
MIT , 1897-1900
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 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
National Academy of Engineering 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
National Academy of Engineering
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Charles De Garmo (Faculty) — President of
Swarthmore College (1891-1898)
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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)
[20] — 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
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)
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Paul Olum (Faculty, 1949-1974; Mathematics Department Chair, 1963-1966) — President of the
University of Oregon , 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
University of Chicago , 2000-2006
Charles Ashmead Schaeffer (Dean of Faculty) — President of the
University of Iowa , 1887-1898
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Benjamin Ide Wheeler (Professor of Greek and Comparative
Philology ) — President of the
University of California , 1899-1919
Roy A. Young (President of
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research of
Cornell University , 1980-1986) — Chancellor of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln , 1976-1980
Engineering and computer science
Computer science
Robert L. Constable (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) — Work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, especially the
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
Paul Ginsparg (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
National Academy of Engineering (2019)
Juris Hartmanis (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) -
Turing Award recipient, 1993; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (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
National Academy of Engineering (1989) and of the
National Academy of Sciences (2009)
Jon Kleinberg (Tisch University Professor of Computer Science) — MacArthur Award and
Nevanlinna Prize , member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), the
National Academy of Engineering (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
David Shmoys (Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering) —
ACM Fellow and
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),
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
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Science Award (1988), the ASIS Award of Merit (1989);
ACM Fellow
Fred B. Schneider (Samuel B Eckert Professor of Computer Science) — member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2011)
Éva Tardos (
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science) — Recipient of the
Fulkerson Prize (1988), the
George B. Dantzig Prize (2006) and the
Gödel Prize (2012); Member of the
National Academy of Sciences , the
National Academy of Engineering , the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society 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 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 environments (IDEs) ,
syntax-directed editing , and
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
Fulkerson Prize (2000) and the
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (2013)
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)
[23] — member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2018)
Henry G. Booker (Professor of Electrical Engineering 1948-1965) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1960)
Lance Collins (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, 2010-2020)
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Susan Daniel (Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Lov Grover (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Zygmunt Haas (Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
David A. Hammer (Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering)
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Mark E. Lewis (Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering)
Chekesha Liddell (Professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Hod Lipson (Professor of Mechanical 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 (Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering)
Britney Schmidt (Associate professor of astronomy, earth, and atmospheric sciences)
Peter C. Schultz (Materials Science Visiting Professor 1978-1984) — co-inventor of the
fiber optics now used worldwide for
telecommunications ; member of the
National Academy of Engineering , 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
National Academy of Engineering , and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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)
Government, law, business
Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes
Iajuddin Ahmed (Visiting Professor, 1984) — President of
Bangladesh , 2002–09
Ifeoma Ajunwa — organizational behavior, law
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Alfred C. Aman, Jr. (Professor, 1977–91) — Dean of
Suffolk University Law School and
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 (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 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 , 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 "genius"
John Nesheim — venture capitalist, teaches classes on entrepreneurship
Frances Perkins (Lecturer of Industrial & Labor Relations (?-1965) —
U.S. Secretary of Labor , 1933-45); first female
U.S. Cabinet member
Richard Neustadt (Professor of Public Administration, 1952?-54?) —
political
scientist specializing in the
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)
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Lynn Stout — Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business Law
Jessica Chen Weiss — Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies
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Humanities
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
Romaldo Giurgola (Professor) — architect, winner of the
AIA Gold Medal
Valerio Olgiati (Guest Professor, 2005) — architect and professor
Colin Rowe (Professor, 1970s) — architectural historian and theoretician
Oswald Mathias Ungers (Professor, 1968-1976) — architect
Raphael Zuber (assistant, 2005) — architect
Fine arts and photography
History
Goldwin Smith
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
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;
National Humanities Medal (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
Arts and Sciences College
Donald Kagan (Professor 1960-1969) — classicist;
National Humanities Medal (2002)
Michael Kammen (Professor of History) — 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner; U.S. Constitution scholar
Bernard Lewis (Professor 1986-1990) — recipient of
National Humanities Medal (2006), the
Harvey Prize (1978)
Benzion Netanyahu (Professor of History 1971-1975) —
Professor emeritus of history at
Cornell University ; father of
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
Walter LaFeber (
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 (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 — 20th century historian of early
Southeast Asia
Languages
Literature
M. H. Abrams — author of the Mirror and the Lamp ; literary critic; fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; recipient of
National Humanities Medal (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
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the
National Humanities Medal (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 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
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Edgar Rosenberg (Professor, 1965-2002) — Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973
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William Sale Jr. (Goldwin Smith Professor of English, 1959;
professor emeritus , 1968)
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Nathaniel Schmidt (Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures) — American
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) —
Chicana fiction writer
Wendy Wasserstein (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2005–06) —
Tony Award and
Pulitzer Prize -winning playwright
Music
Philosophy
Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor, 1986–89) — African Studies philosopher and novelist;
National Humanities Medal (2012)
Max Black
Allan Bloom (Professor, 1963–70) — philosophy and government, author of
Closing of the American Mind , recipient of the
National Humanities Medal (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 ;
National Humanities Medal (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
Media
Journalism, film, television, theatre
John Cleese
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
Natural sciences and related fields
Astronomy
Carl Sagan
James L. Elliot (Former postdoctoral fellow, Faculty) — astrophysicist; discoverer of the ring system of
Uranus while at Cornell; discoverer of the atmosphere of
Pluto
Riccardo Giovanelli (Professor of Astronomy 1991-) —
Henry Draper Medal recipient (1989)
Thomas Gold (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) —
Henry Draper Medal 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
Jean-Luc Margot (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 (James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus, 1948-2008) — astronomer;
Crafoord Prize (1997), member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1967)
Saul Teukolsky (Professor 1974-) — theoretical
astrophysicist and co-author of
Numerical Recipes ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (2003)
Aleksander Wolszczan (Professor) — discoverer of first
extrasolar planets and
pulsar planets
Biology, ecology, botany, and nutrition
Jane Goodall
Louis Agassiz (Lecturer) — zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist
Liberty Hyde Bailey (Professor) — botanist, early progenitor of the
4-H 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 — nature studies, appointed first woman assistant professor at Cornell (1899), full professor (1920)
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[34]
Thomas Eisner (Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology) — pioneer of
chemical ecology ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1969), recipient of the
National Medal of Science (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)
[35] — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1974)
Jane Goodall (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996-2002) — naturalist
Everett Peter Greenberg (Faculty 1978-1988) — American microbiologist who received the
Shaw Prize in 2015; member of the
National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Donald Griffin (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 (Professor 1991-1997) — director of the
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany (1997-); recipient of
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize (2002),
Gairdner Foundation International Award (2004),
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2011),
Shaw Prize (2012), etc., member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (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
Robert W. Howarth (Professor), American biogeochemist
Maria Jasin (Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (2015) and of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (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 (Professor, 1973) — chef, "The Galloping Gourmet"
Simon A. Levin (Professor 1965-1992) — Recipient of the
National Medal of Science (2015),
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2014),
Kyoto Prize (2005)
Gene Likens (Professor of Ecology, 1969-1983; Adjunct Professor 1983-) — ecologist; member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ,
National Academy of Sciences ,
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ; recipient of National Medal of Science (2001),
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1993),
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
John T. Lis (Faculty 1978 -) —
Guggenheim Fellow (2000), member of the
National Academy of Sciences (2015)
Thomas Lyttleton Lyon − Emeritus Professor of Soils Science for the Department of Agriculture; co-winner of the
Howard N. Potts Medal (1913)
Jerrold Meinwald (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) — chemical ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969) and the
American Philosophical Society (1987); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970); recipient of the National Medal of Science (2014)
Gero Miesenböck (Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Genetics; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience 1999 — 2004)
[36] — recipient of
The Brain Prize (2013) and
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)
John Keith Moffat —
Guggenheim Fellow , former associate professor in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology at Cornell, later deputy provost at
University of Chicago , noted for
Advanced Photon Source and
Time resolved crystallography
Corrie Moreau (Professor 2019-) —
myrmecologist /
ant researcher;
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ,
Entomological Society of America Fellow,
Royal Entomological Society Fellow
Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) —
MacArthur Fellow (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
World Food Prize (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 (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 (2014) and of the
National Academy of Engineering (2018)
John C. Sanford (Professor, 1980–98) — inventor of the
gene gun
Harold Hill Smith (Professor) — geneticist
Steven D. Tanksley (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, 1985-) — plant breeding and
agronomy researcher; recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award,
Martin Gibbs Medal of the
American Society of Plant Biologists , the
Wolf Prize in Agriculture and the
Japan Prize , member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Stanley Temple (1975-1976 Research Associate) — avian ecologist
Helen Turley — winemaker
Herbert John Webber (Professor, 1907–12) — plant physiologist, developed the
citrange
Robert Whittaker (Professor) — vegetation ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975)
Burt Green Wilder (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)
[37]
[38] — 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)
Chemistry
Héctor D. Abruña (Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry)
[39] — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (2018)
Geoffrey W. Coates (Tisch University Professor in Chemistry) — member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the
National Academy of Sciences (2017)
[40]
[41]
Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Professor, 1895-1937) — physical chemist
[42]
Thomas Bruice (Professor of Chemistry 1960-1964)
[43] — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1974)
James Crafts (Professor of Chemistry, 1868–97) — President of
MIT , 1897-1900
Jean Fréchet (Professor 1987-1998) —
Japan Prize (2013); fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science , the
American Chemical Society , and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , member of the
National Academy of Sciences and the
National Academy of Engineering
Gordon 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 (Professor) — chemist
Stephen Lee (Professor of Solid State Chemistry) —
MacArthur Award and
Sloan Fellow
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 , Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science , recipient of the
National Medal of Science (2014) and Chemical Pioneer Award of the
American Institute of Chemists (1997)
Earl Muetterties (Professor 1973-1978) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1971)
Gregory Petsko (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
Cornell University ; member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
National Academy of Sciences ; recipient of Warren Triennial Prize (1974),
National Medal of Science (1976), Gairdner Award (1980)
Frank Spedding (George Fisher Baker assistant professor 1935-1937) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1952)
Benjamin Widom (Professor of Chemistry 1955-)
Geology and geography
Mathematics
William J. Cook (Assistant Professor 1985-1987) — University Professor of the
University of Waterloo , member of the
National Academy of Engineering ,
American Mathematical Society Fellow,
INFORMS Fellow and
SIAM Fellow, recipient of the
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS (2007)
Eugene Dynkin (Professor) — mathematician
Walter Feit (Professor, 1952–64) — mathematician, co-author of the
Feit–Thompson theorem
William Feller (Professor 1945-1950) — mathematician, known in
probability theory ; recipient of the
National Medal of Science (1969), member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1960)
Richard S. Hamilton — mathematician who laid groundwork for the Poincaré conjecture proof
Allen Hatcher (Professor, 1985-) — mathematician, proved the
Smale conjecture (1983)
Kiyosi Itô (Professor 1969-1975) —
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987) and
Kyoto Prize (1998); member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1998)
John Irwin Hutchinson (Professor of Mathematics, 1894-?) — mathematician
Mark Kac (Faculty 1939-1961) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1965)
Jack Kiefer (Professor of Mathematics 1952-1979) — Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the
National Academy of Sciences ; president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1969-1970)
Saunders Mac Lane (Professor) — developer of algebra's
category theory ; recipient of the National Medal of Science (1989)
Greg Lawler (Professor 2001-2006) —
Wolf Prize in Mathematics recipient (2019)
Kathryn Mann (Assistant Professor 2019-) — mathematician
Amy McCune (Professor) — evolutionary biologist and Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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 (Instructor 1920-1922, Assistant Professor 1922-1925) — mathematician, known for
Morse theory in
differential topology ; recipient of
Bôcher Memorial Prize (1933); National Medal of Science (1964)
George Nemhauser (Leon C. Welch endowed chair 1970-1983) — president of the
Operations Research Society of America ; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (1986) and recipient of
John von Neumann Theory Prize (2012)
Anil Nerode (Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics) — mathematician
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (Professor) — mathematician
Paul Olum (Professor) — mathematician, president of the
University of Oregon 1980-89
Joseph Slepian (Instructor) — mathematician
Frank Spitzer (Professor 1961-1992) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1981)
Steven Strogatz (Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1994-) — mathematician
Éva Tardos (Professor of Computer Science) — mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of the
Fulkerson Prize , 1988; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2007)
William Thurston (Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003-) — mathematician;
Fields Medal winner
Charles F. Van Loan (Chair of the Department of Computer Science) — mathematician
Harry Vandiver (instructor of mathematics 1919-1924) —
Cole Prize recipient (1931); member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1934)
Karen Vogtmann (Professor, 1994-) — mathematician,
American Mathematical Society Fellow,
Noether Lecturer (2007), known for
Culler–Vogtmann Outer space
Jacob Wolfowitz (Professor of Mathematics 1951-1970) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1974)
Medicine
Alexander Gordon Bearn (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
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and fellow of the
Royal Society
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
Don W. Fawcett (chair of the Department of Anatomy 1955-1959) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1972)
Duane Gish (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
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; president of the
American Association of Immunologists (1965-1966); recipient of the
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1977) and the
National Medal of Science (1991)
Robert Foster Kennedy (Professor of Neurology) — one of the first to use
electroconvulsive treatment to treat
psychosis ; first to link
shell shock 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
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 (1996),
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1963),
Lasker Award (1955)
Walsh McDermott (professor of public health and medicine)
[44] — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1967) and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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 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 ; discoverer of several entities such as
Rosai-Dorfman disease and
desmoplastic small round cell tumor
Alexander Rudensky (Tri-Institutional Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College 2008-)
[45]
[46] — recipient of the
Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2017); member of the
National Academy of Sciences (2012) and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
Tom Shires (Chair of Surgery, 1975–91) — trauma surgeon; use of saline solution in
shock
Daniel Stern (Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College) — studied early child development
Ashutosh Tewari (Professor of
Urology and
Public Health )
Theodore H. Schwartz (Professor of
Neurosurgery )
Madelon Lubin Finkel , Professor of Clinical
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)
Physics
Freeman Dyson
Neil Ashcroft (Professor, 1966-2006) — solid-state physicist and member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1997)
Robert Bacher (Professor, 1935-1949) —
Manhattan Project leader and member of
Atomic Energy Commission ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1947)
Robert Brout (Professor, 1953-1961) — recipient of the
Wolf Prize in Physics (2004) and
Sakurai Prize (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 (Professor, 1988-2002) — particle physicist; director of the
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2007-2012), dean of the
Stanford University School of Engineering (2014-2017) and provost of Stanford University (2017-)
Gene Dresselhaus (Professor) — Condensed matter physicist, 2022
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient
Freeman Dyson (Professor, 1951–53) — physicist, mathematician; recipient of the
Wolf Prize in Physics (1981),
Templeton Prize (2000) etc.
Mitchell Feigenbaum (Professor) — physicist whose pioneering studies in
chaos theory led to the discovery of the
Feigenbaum constant
Craig Fennie (Professor) — applied physicist;
MacArthur Fellow (2013)
Michael Fisher (Professor 1966-1987) —
Irving Langmuir Award (1971),
Wolf Prize in Physics (1980),
Boltzmann Medal (1983),
Lars Onsager Prize (1995),
Royal Medal (2005),
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009); Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Peter Goldreich (Thomas Gold Lecturer, 1987) — astrophysicist
Brian Greene (Professor, 1990–95) — theoretical physicist and author, specializing in
string theory
Alan Guth (1977-1979) — recipient of
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) and
Kavli Prize (2014)
Arthur Kantrowitz (Professor, 1946–56) — physicist and engineer
Toichiro Kinoshita (Professor, 1955-1995) — Japanese-American theoretical physicist; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1991) and recipient of the
Sakurai prize (1990)
M. Stanley Livingston (Faculty 1934-1938) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1970)
Richard V. E. Lovelace (Professor 1984-); Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000)
Boyce McDaniel (Professor, 1946-1985) —
Manhattan Project physicist and
synchrotron designer; member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Paul McEuen (Professor, 2001-) — physicist, specializes in
carbon nanotubes and
graphene
David Mermin (Professor) — physicist; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1991) and of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)
Philip Morrison (Professor 1946-1964) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1971)
David A Muller (Professor) – applied physicist
Yuri Orlov (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 (Faculty, 1953-1958) — physicist, known for
Overhauser effect ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; recipient of
National Medal of Science (1994) and
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1975)
John Reppy (Faculty, 1966-2005) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1988)
Bruno Rossi (Associate Professor 1940-1943) — National Medal of Science (1983),
Wolf Prize in Physics (1987)
Dennis William Sciama (Professor) — physicist
Harold Scheraga (Faculty 1947-1992) — member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1966)
George Paget Thomson (Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) — Nobel Prize, Physics 1937
Kip Thorne (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986–92) — astrophysicist
Watt W. Webb (Engineering Physics Faculty 1961-) — member of the
National Academy of Engineering , the
National Academy of Sciences , and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Robert R. Wilson (Professor) — youngest group leader on the
Manhattan Project ; first director of
Fermilab ;
National Medal of Science (1973)
Social sciences and policy management
Anthropology, sociology, other social sciences
Betty Friedan
Yutaka Tsujinaka (visiting fellow, 1989-1991) — professor of political science
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
National Humanities Medal in 2005
Fred Buttel (Professor of Rural Sociology) — sociologist
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
ILR School 's Institute for Women and Work, 1998-2006)
[47] — 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.
[48]
John V. Murra (1968–82) — professor of anthropology, with a focus on the
Inca Empire
Alan Nussbaum (Professor of Linguistics, 1997-) —
Indo-European linguist and
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
Industrial and Labor Relations School .
[49]
Economics
Francine D. Blau (
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) — received her
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;
National Humanities Medal (2002)
Holbrook Working (Professor) — economic theorist on
hedging ,
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
Samuel B. Bacharach (McKelvey-Grant Professor Emeritus), Director of the Smithers Institute
Daryl Bem (Professor of Psychology) —
social psychologist , creator of
self-perception theory
Sandra Bem (Professor) —
psychologist ; created the
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
National Medal of Science (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
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences ; recipient of the
National Medal of Science (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
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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