- James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin (August 7, 1726 - November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both the colonial council (senate) and house and was President of the state's constitutional convention. After independence he was governor of Massachusetts. His grandfather "(Pierre Boudouin)" was a Huguenot refugee from France. Pierre took his family first to Ireland, then to Portland, Maine, …
- Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme. Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1987; he teaches at Princeton University and is an Honorary Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.
- David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, he is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history." Among his most well-known books are "The Path Between the Seas", "Truman", "John Adams", and his most recent volume, "1776" (a "New York Times" and Amazon bestseller).
- Daniel Bell
Daniel Bell (born 10 May 1919 in New York) is a sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University. He graduated from City College of New York with a B.A. in sociology. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the past, Bell taught sociology at Columbia University. He is also known for his contributions as an editor to "The Public Interest Magazine", …
- Emilio Bizzi
Emilio Bizzi is a neuroscientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his MD from the University of Rome in 1958 and his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1968. He joined MIT as a Research Associate in 1966, was appointed Associate Professor in 1969, and tenured in 1972. He was Director of the Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology, …
- Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes came to UCSD in 1992 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. He subsequently became Chairman of the Department of Physics and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He became Chancellor in July 1996. Dynes is also active in the national scientific arena and in San Diego civic organizations. source
- Ira Katznelson
Ira Katznelson (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1969) is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory, as well a political and social history. He returned in the Fall 1994 to Columbia, where he had been an assistant and associate professor from 1969-1974.
- Mary Sue Coleman
Mary Sue Coleman (born October 2, 1943 in Kentucky) is the current president of the University of Michigan, having served since 2002. Coleman previously was president of the University of Iowa. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Grinnell College, …
- James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) in Denver, Colorado is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. From 1961 to 1987 he was a professor of government at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. (1959) and masters degree (1957) from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands (1952). He is a former Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime (1966), …
- Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro, Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, J.D., Yale Law School, 1987, is Sterling professor of political science and Henry R. Luce director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, now called the MacMillan Center. His research interests center on sociological aspects of economics and political theory. In particular, he has written extensively on theories of justice, democracy, and resource distribution, …
- Henry Draper
Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20 1882) was an American doctor and astronomer. Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope in the winter of 1839-1840. Draper's mother was Antonia Coetana de Paiva Pereira Gardner, daughter of the personal physician to the Emperor of Brazil.
- David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom is an economist and demographer. He is currently the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of its Program on the Global Demography of Aging. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on the effect of health and demography on economic development, particularly the demographic dividend.
- Richard Sennett
Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. Sennett is married to sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen. Sennett has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, …
- Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941)is an acclaimed biographer and literary critic. The first volume his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad. He is currently Professor of English and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. He was Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities from January 2004-August 2006.
- T. N. Srinivasan
T. N. Srinivasan (b. 1933) is the Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. He was formerly chairman of the department of economics at Yale University. He was a special adviser to the Development Research Center at the World Bank from 1977 to 1980, and has taught at numerous academic institutions over the past four decades, including MIT, Stanford University, and the Indian Statistical Institute.
- Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University.
- Peter Agre
Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American medical doctor and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Eric Maskin
Eric Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist. He is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He attended Harvard University where he received his A.B. and Ph.D.. He has worked in diverse areas of economic theory, such as game theory, the economics of incentives, and contract theory. He is particularly well known for his papers on mechanism design/implementation theory and dynamic games.
- Gerald Holton
Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. As a student of Percy Williams Bridgman, he obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1948. In 1979 Holton received a Sc.D. from Bates College. His chief interests are in the history and philosophy of science, in the physics of matter at high pressure, and in the study of career paths of young scientists.
- Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.
- Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin (1967 – 1970) and Rice University (1970 – 1985). Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob and Ann Raffel Hackerman, immigrants from regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively.
- James A. Johnson
James A. Johnson is a United States Democratic Party political figure. He was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale's failed 1984 presidential bid and chaired the vice-presidential selection process for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Johnson has long been one of Washington's most prominent leaders, holding leadership positions in business, the arts, and politics.
- David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977, after receiving his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID, both of which are widely used. Past chair of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, …
- Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich is professor for astronomy and the history of astronomy at Harvard University; in 1992-93 he chaired Harvard's History of Science Department. His research included solar and stellar atmosphere astronomy, and concentrated on the history of astronomy; he has published numerous papers and books, and has served in several professional societies.
- Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg (born June 2, 1926) is one of the best-known and most distinguished of Holocaust historians. His three-volume, 1,273-page "The Destruction of the European Jews" is regarded as the seminal study of the Nazi Final Solution. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 26, 2005.
- Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (born 1942) is an American civil engineering professor at Duke University where he specializes in failure analysis. He is a prolific author, having written a dozen books - most notably "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design" (1985) - including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware.
- Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi (born 1946) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Levi graduated with a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and completed a Ph.D. degree in government at Harvard University in 1974. Since then, she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, …
- Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, short-story writer and critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.
- Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell (born 1934) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation on August 4, 1998. Dr. Colwell has an undergraduate degree in bacteriology and an M.S. in genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington. In 2004, she received an honorary Sc.D. from Bates College.
- Aaron Wildavsky
Aaron Wildavsky (31 May1930 - 4 September1993) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management. A native of Brooklyn in New York, Wildavsky was the son of two Ukrainian immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he served in the U.S. Army and then won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Sydney for 1954-55.
- Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (born Mildred Spiewak on November 11 1930 in The Bronx, New York) is an Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dresselhaus received her undergraduate degree at Hunter College in New York, and carried out postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge on a Fulbright Fellowship and Harvard University.
- Martin Lipton
Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a major law firm in the United States. He specializes in advising major corporations on mergers and acquisitions. Lipton and his firm are generally credited with having invented the poison pill, a common takeover defense used by public companies in the US to delay and deter hostile tender offers and other unsolicited acquisitions. Lipton, together with Sullivan & Cromwell's George Kern and Skadden, Arps, …
- Edward Shils
Edward Shils (1911-1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the world's most influential sociologists. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy. His work was honoured in 1983 by being awarded the Balzan Prize. In "1979", he was selected by the National Council on the Humanities to give the Jefferson Lecture, …
- Ken Kennedy
American computer scientist Ken Kennedy (August 12,1945 - February 7,2007) was a professor at Rice University, and the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial software systems for programming parallel computers, including an automatic vectorizer for Fortran 77, an integrated scientific programming environment, compilers for Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran, …
- Bernard Chazelle
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, most of his work is in computational geometry, where he has found many of the best-known algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as many useful complexity results, …
- Henry F. Schaefer III
Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.
- John Shoven
John B. Shoven , 59, is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He is also a Senior Fellow by Courtesy of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department (1986-89), Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (1988-93) and Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1993-98).
- Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French (April 20 1850 - October 7 1931) was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity, work he did in his 20s. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him. He is a professor at Brown University. Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a B.A. in 1951, …
- Thomas Kailath
Professor Kailath has been instrumentally involved in the electronics industry for more than forty years.