- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
- Thomas Gold
Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was an Austrian astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, and geophysics.
- Thomas Eisner
Thomas Eisner is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He is a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and is one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He is author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and 7 books.
- 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.
- Richard Hamilton
Richard Streit Hamilton is professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning supervised his thesis. Hamilton has taught at UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and Cornell University. Hamilton is best known for having invented the Ricci flow, which Grigori Perelman employed in his proof of the Thurston geometrization conjecture and the Poincaré conjecture.
- Hans Neurath
Hans Neurath (1909-2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry and the founding chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- Antonio Gotto
Dr. Gotto has served as National President of the American Heart Association, as a member of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council, and on the National Diabetes Advisory Board. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2000 Distinguished Alumnus award from Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
- Fotis Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos (born in Heraklion,Crete, Greece) is a prominent Greek biologist. Kafatos received his Bachelor's degree at Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1965). He was Assistant Professor and later Professor and Chairman of the department of Cellular and Developmental Biology of Harvard University, Professor of Biology at the University of Athens and at the University of Crete, …
- Frederica de Laguna
Frederica ("Freddy") de Laguna was an American anthropologist. Her parents, Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, were, respectively, Spanish-American and, in Frederica's own words, "Connecticut Yankee." Both received Doctorates from Cornell and would later teach philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. On her father's side she also had French, German, and Italian ancestry. She is most noted for her work with the Tlingit and Athapaskan peoples, …
- David J. Thouless
David J. Thouless (born in 1934 in Bearsden, Scotland) is a condensed matter physicist and Wolf Prize winner. Thouless earned his PhD at Cornell University under Hans Bethe. He was a professor of mathematical physics at Birmingham University in the United Kingdom before becoming a professor of physics at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1980. Thouless has made many theoretical contributions to the understanding of extended systems of atoms and electrons, …
- David J. Stevenson
David J. Stevenson (born September 2,1948) is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well-known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand the internal structure and evolution of planets and moons.
- Walter Feit
Walter Feit (October 261930 - July 292004) was a mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. He was born in Vienna and left for England in 1939. He moved to the United States in 1946 where he became an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, and became a professor at Cornell in 1952, and at Yale in 1964. His most famous result is his joint, with John G. Thompson, …
- William E. Gordon
William E. Gordon (born January 8 1918) is a physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey, he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1953. He was a faculty member at Cornell University from 1953 - 1966. He joined the faculty Rice University in 1966, serving as Dean of Science and Engineering, Dean of Natural Sciences, and Provost and Vice President.
- Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. international best seller; Good Benito ; The Diagnosis , which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion .
- Malcolm Beasley
Malcolm Beasley is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He is known for his research related to superconductivity. He has served on the Jan Hendrik Schön commission, where he helped determine that Schön fabricated his data. Beasley attended Cornell University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in engineering physics in 1962 and his PhD in 1968. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols (June 1, 1869- April 29, 1924) was a U.S. educator and physicist. He was born in Leavenworth County, Kansas, and received his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 1888. After working for a year in the Chemistry Department at Kansas State, he matriculated to graduate school at Cornell University, where he received degrees in 1893 and 1897. He also studied at the University of Berlin and Cambridge University.
- Harlan James Smith
Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924-October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Paul and Anna McGregor Smith. While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search". From 1943 until the end of World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, performing weather observation. Following the war he attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1949.
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-born physicist. Rabi was born in Rymanów, Galicia, Austrian Empire (now Poland), and was brought to the United States as a child the following year. He achieved a Bachelor of Chemistry degree from Cornell University in 1919, continuing his studies at Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in 1927. A fellowship enabled him to spend the next two years in Europe working with such eminent physicists as Niels Bohr, …
- Albert Overhauser
Albert W. Overhauser (born August 17, 1925 in San Diego, California) is an American physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his theory of dynamic nuclear polarization, also known as the Overhauser Effect. Overhauser attended high school in San Francisco at Lick-Wilmerding High School and began his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley in 1942.
- Edward Leamington Nichols
Edward Leamington Nichols was an American physicist. He was born of American parentage at Leamington, England, and received his education at Cornell University, graduating in 1875. After Studying at Leipzig, Berlin, and Göttingen (Ph.D., 1879) he was appointed fellow in physics at Johns Hopkins. He then spent some time in the Thomas Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., …
- Donald Zilversmit
Donald Berthold Zilversmit (born 1919) is a U.S. nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator. He is Emeritus Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Zilversmit was born in Hengelo, Netherlands, the son of Herman and Elizabeth (DeWinter) Zilversmit. He began studies at Utrecht University but escaped before the German invasion in World War II. He came to the United States in 1939 to finish his studies at the University of California, …
- Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg , PC , CC , FRSC , FRS ( December 25 , 1904 a March 3 , 1999 ) was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist , and Nobel Laureate in chemistry . Born in Germany , he fled to Canada in 1935, where he continued his distinguished scientific career. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy .
- Charles Arntzen
Charles J. Arntzen , PhD, is pioneer in the development of plant-based vaccines for disease prevention in humans and animals and served as founding director of the Biodesign Institute from January 2001 through May 2003. He was appointed to the Florence Ely Nelson Presidential Endowed Chair at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2000 and as Regents’ Professor in 2004. Dr. Arntzen is charting a new path for making the vaccines of tomorrow.
- Carl Sagan
As you can see I'm not that into myspace. It really only exists because I'm too lazy to click the delete account button. I really only check it once a week or so. If you really want to get a hold of me use facebook...
- Edward M. Scolnick
Edward Scolnick works closely with principal investigator Pamela Sklar towards identifying risk genes for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. From 1982-2003, Ed served as president of Merck Research Laboratories; executive vice president for science and technology at Merck & Company, Inc; executive director and vice president in the department of virus and cell biology and senior vice president for basic research at Merck Research Laboratories.
- Samuel O. Thier
Samuel O. Thier served as president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System from 1996-2002. From 1994-1997 he was president of Massachusetts General Hospital, and was Brandeis University’s president during the previous three years. He served six years as president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and eleven years as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, where he was Sterling Professor.
- Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph E. Gomory Ralph E. Gomory Ralph E. Gomory has been President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since June 1989. Dr. Gomory received his B.A. from Williams College in 1950, studied at Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1957. Dr. Gomory was Higgins Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Princeton University, 1957-59.
- Lennard A. Fisk
Lennard A. Fisk Chairman, Space Studies Board Lennard A. Fisk is the Thomas M. Donahue Collegiate Professor of Space Science at the University of Michigan, where from 1993-2003 he was Chair of the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences. Prior to joining the University in July 1993, Dr. Fisk was the Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Frank Drake
Dr. Frank Drake is the Director of the SETI Institute's Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and also serves on the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute as Chairman Emeritus. In 1960, as a staff member of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, he conducted the first radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences where he chaired the Board of Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council (1989-92).
- Kathryn Olesko
Kathryn Olesko Director, Master of Arts in German and European Studies Associate Professor of History Professor Olesko's research focuses on the social history of science and technology in Germany, with special emphasis on how rational beliefs and actions relate to daily life, local cultures, and personal and professional identities. Her work, in addition, covers issues in historical methodology, everyday life, gender, and industrialization.
- Gerald F. Combs
GERALD F. COMBS , Jr. , Ph.D. Center Director Dr. Combs was named Center Director, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, in January, 2002. He came to Grand Forks from Ithaca, NY, where he was a Professor of Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, having been on that faculty since 1975.
- Judy L. Meyer
Judy L. Meyer (Ecology) Dr. Judy Meyer is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. She holds a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Zoology from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Cornell University. A member of the faculty at UGA since 1977, she is an aquatic ecologist who has published over 125 scientific papers on her research on rivers and streams in Georgia and North Carolina.
- Hans Neurath Lecturers
Hans Neurath Lecturers In 1983, ZymoGenetics and the Department of Biochemistry established the annual Hans Neurath Lectureship which has brought luminaries to the School of Medicine for two decades (see roster of Neurath Lecturers below).
- Harriet B. Creighton
Dr. Creighton in Peru Harriet B. Creighton, our former Editor, is on sabbatical leave from Wellesley College until September, 196o. She has a Fulbright Lectureship and will lecture at the University of Cuzco in Peru, on plant genetics. She will also be engaged in research on maize cytogenetics. Dr. Creighton will travel in the Andean countries and visit Research Stations operated by the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock , America's most distinguished cytogeneticist, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 16, 1902. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in 1923 and earned her M.A. in 1925 and her Ph.D. in 1927, also from Cornell. McClintock served as a graduate assistant in the Department of Botany from 1924-27 and in 1927, following completion of her graduate studies, was appointed Instructor, a post she held until 1931.
- H.R. Shepherd
H.R. Shepherd , D.Sc. - Founding Chairman H.R. Shepherd brings to the Institute over 40 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. A world-recognized expert on aerosol medications, he holds several patents on aerosol products and authored Aerosols: Science and Technology , the first definitive text on the potential of aerosol medications. Before starting the Institute, H.R. Shepherd served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Armstrong Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Abe Ghanbari
Dr. Abe Ghanbari is Vice President of engineering at Dielectric Systems, Inc. He has 18 years of extensive management experience in semiconductor processing equipment industry. He is recognized in his field for innovation in plasma technologies and product development. Dr. Ghanbari is widely published and has been granted more than 6 patents. He has lectured extensively worldwide, including an invitation under the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council.
- Steven Tanksley
Dr. Steven Tanksley Professor Dr. Steven D. Tanksley is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell University. He is one of two scientists (along with Professor Yuan Longping) to share the prestigious 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for "innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple."
- Dave Dickey
Dave Dickey specializes in training US personnel who are assigned to work and live in Asia, and Asians who are assigned to the US. In addition to his general training and consulting work, he has extensive experience in Japanese and English language instruction, and in providing intercultural business training for Japanese managers. Dave received a B.A. degree in Asian Studies from Cornell University.
- Sergey Lopatin
Dr. Sergey Lopatin is a Director at KLA-Tencor Corporation in San Jose, CA. He collaborated with Stanford University on correlation of stress and texture evolution during self- and thermal annealing of electroplated Cu films, and evidence of dislocation loops as a driving force for self-annealing. Dr. Lopatin co-authored with Stanford University two papers which received best paper awards at IITC in San Francisco in 2000 and 2001.