- T. Colin Campbell
T. Colin Campbell is a nutritionist at Cornell University, director of the China Project, and author of "The China Study". He has been a researcher, lecturer, and policy advisor in the field of diet and cancer for nearly forty years. "The China Study" is a study of 6,500 rural Chinese that found a statistical correlation between meat and dairy consumption and the incidence of various diseases and health conditions, including heart disease, … - Steve Squyres
Steven W. Squyres (born 1957) is a professor of astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the solar system such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres is principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He is also a former student of the late Carl Sagan. He was the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award. - Ezra Cornell
Ezra Cornell (January 11, 1807 - December 9, 1874) was an American businessman and, with Andrew Dickson White, was the founder of Cornell University. - Brian Wansink
Brian Wansink (born 1960, Sioux City, Iowa) is an American professor in the fields of marketing and nutritional science. He is best known for his work on consumer behavior and specifically on food psychology and behavior, which focuses on how micro environments (supermarkets, packaging, homes, pantries, and tablescapes) influence what and how much people eat and how much they enjoy it. - Willard Straight
Willard Dickerman Straight was an American investment banker and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture. While a student at Cornell, he joined Delta Tau Delta, edited and contributed to several publications, and helped to organize Dragon Day, an annual architecture students' event. - Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, commonly known as Sandy Weill (born March 16 1933) is a banker, financier and philanthropist. He was formerly the chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup Inc. He served in those positions until October 1 2003 and April 18, 2006 respectively. - Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg is a computer scientist with a reputation for tackling important, practical problems and, in the process, deriving deep mathematical insights. His research spans diverse topics ranging from computer networking analysis and routing, to data mining, to comparative genomics and protein structure. He is best known for his contributions to two aspects of network theory: "small worlds" and searching the World Wide Web. - Hans Bethe
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory developing the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons, … - Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - David J. Skorton
David J. Skorton became Cornell University's 12th president on July 1, 2006 and was formally inaugurated in ceremonies on Cornell's Ithaca campus on September 7, 2006. President Skorton holds faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering on Cornell's Ithaca campus. Cornell University President David J. Skorton - Frank H.T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year. - Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited "The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture" (1907-09), … - Robert H. Frank
Professor Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times. Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. - John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda". - Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu (born January 9, 1952) is an Indian economist. He is the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University. He was born in Calcutta and received his early education there, at St. Xavier's School. In 1969 he moved to Delhi to do his undergraduate studies in Economics from St. Stephen's College and then he went on to the London School of Economics, … - Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937 as "Roald Safran" - Hoffmann is the surname adopted by his stepfather in the years after World War II) is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. - Ratan Naval Tata
"One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India - best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India..." Ratan Tata - Peter J. Katzenstein
Peter Katzenstein (b. February 17, 1945) is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He was educated in his native Germany. Katzenstein has received degrees from the London School of Economics, Swarthmore College, as well as a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Recently, Katzenstein was ranked by "The Economist" as the most influential scholar in international political economy. - John Anderson
John Franklin Anderson (July 4, 1907 - July 11, 1948) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Discus throw. He competed for the United States in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the Discus throw where he won the Gold medal. Anderson graduated from Cornell University in 1929, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. - 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. - Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) for combining electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force. - Robert Purcell
Robert W. Purcell (1912 - 1991) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Purcell was born in Watertown, New York in 1912 and graduated from Cornell University, in 1932 and the Cornell Law School in 1935. He joined the New York City law firm of White & Case after graduating from Law School. He later became counsel and vice chairman of the Allegheny Corporation and its railroads: the Chesapeake & Ohio, and the Nickel Plate. - Sidney Tarrow
Sidney G. Tarrow is a professor of political science and sociology, known for his research in the areas of comparative politics, social movements, political parties, collective action and political sociology. - Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: "V." (1963), "The Crying of Lot 49" (1966), … - Richard Meier
Richard Meier (born October 12 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is an influential, contemporary American architect known for his rationalist designs and the use of the colour white. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, … - Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive. Since 2001, he has been a professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science at Cornell University. The pre-print archive was developed while he was a member of staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990-2001. He has been awarded the P.A.M. (physics astronomy math) Award from the Special Libraries Association, named a Lingua Franca "Tech 20", … - David Ray
David Ray (born May 20, 1932), is an American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir. He is particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry and is the founding editor of "New Letters" magazine and "New Letters On The Air". - Jacob Gould Schurman
Jacob Gould Schurman (May 22, 1854 - August 12, 1942), American educationist, was born at Freetown, Prince Edward Island of Dutch descent, his Loyalist ancestors having left New York in 1784. While a student at Acadia College, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1875, he won the Canadian Gilchrist scholarship in the University of London, from which he received the degree of BA in 1877 and that of MA in 1878, and in 1877-1880 studied in Paris, … - Stephen D. Krasner
Stephen Krasner 's research interests include market failure and distributional conflict in international political economy and the historical practices of sovereignty, especially with regard to domestic autonomy, state building and non-intervention. In 2002 he served as Director for Governance and Development at the National Security Council where he worked on the Millennium Challenge Account, a new foreign assistance program. - Franklin W. Olin
Franklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation. He was born in Woodford, Vermont into a modest family; his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons. After graduating with the class of 1886, he worked in several jobs before founding a blasting powder mill construction business; his first opened in East Alton, … - 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. - Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 - August 28, 1903) was a American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. Other project include the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, Mount Royal Park in Montreal, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts, … - Rem Koolhaas
Remment Koolhaas (born November 17 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas first studied scriptwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the "Haagse Post" before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, … - Jeffrey Sean Lehman
Jeffrey S. Lehman was appointed Cornell University's eleventh president by the Board of Trustees at a special meeting held on campus Saturday, Dec. 14, 2002, and he assumed the presidency on July 1, 2003. He was the first Cornell alumnus to serve as president of the university. In his inaugural address, Lehman characterized Cornell as a blend of beloved and revolutionary elements. - Ken Blanchard
Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard . A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. - Hunter R. Rawlings III
Hunter R. Rawlings III was appointed Cornell University's tenth president on December 10, 1994, and took office on July 1, 1995. His administration saw the restoration of central campus: the transformation of Sage Hall into the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management; the conversion of Tjaden Hall for the Department of Art; and the renovation of Lincoln Hall for music students and faculty. The Laboratory of Ornithology opened a magnificent new building. - Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (June 20, 1906 - June 14, 2000) was a golf course architect who designed (or re-designed) about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world. It has been jokingly said that, "The sun never sets on a Robert Trent Jones golf course." Born in Ince, England, Jones accompanied his parents to the United States at the age of five. - Sarah Thomas
Sarah E. Thomas is an internationally-known university librarian. She has held the office of Bodley's Librarian and Director of University Library Services at the University of Oxford since February 2007. In this position, she is responsible for the operation of the largest university library in the United Kingdom, and one of the major research libraries in the world. Dr Thomas was raised in Haydenville, Massachusetts and studied at Smith College. - Paul de Man
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction. - 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.
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