- 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, … - Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910), was a British-Canadian historian and journalist. He was born at Reading, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford. He threw his keen intellect and trenchant style into the cause of university reform, the leading champion of which was another fellow of University College, … - 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, … - Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist. He is considered to be the founder of quantum theory, and therefore one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. - Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", … - 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), … - Alice Cook
Alice Hanson Cook (November 28, 1903 - February 7, 1998) was an activist and professor at Cornell University in the United States. At Cornell, the Alice Cook House residential college was named in her honor. Her varied life experiences included social worker, YWCA secretary, labor educator, post WWII advisor in Germany on reconstituting German labor unions, professor, university ombudsman, world acclaimed researcher, and to the very end, an activist. - Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. - Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, … - 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. - Morris Bishop
Morris Gilbert Bishop was an American scholar, historian, biographer, author, and humorist. He was associated with Cornell University as alumnus, Professor of Romance Literature, and University Historian. Bishop wrote the preeminent history of the university, "A History of Cornell." He also wrote biographies of Pascal, Champlain, La Rochefoucauld, Petrarch, and St. Francis, as well as his 1928 book, … - 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". - Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose English stylist for the novels he composed in the United States. He is also noted for having made significant contributions to lepidoptery and creating a number of chess problems. Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, … - 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. - 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. - Robert R. Wilson
Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 - January 16, 2000) was an American physicist who was a group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and an architect of Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was also the director from 1967-1978. Wilson was born in Frontier, Wyoming, in 1914. In 1932 he arrived at Ernest O. Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, … - Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara is Robert W. Purcell Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Parker Center for Investment Research at Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management. Her research and teaching interests are in financial institutions, particularly the structure of the securities market. - Walter Lafeber
Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor and a Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is one of the nation’s most distinguished historians of United States Foreign Relations. The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him. - Steven Stucky
Steven Stucky (born November 7, 1949 Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American composer. He has written commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. He is Professor of music composition at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Consulting Composer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where he has been the resident composer since 1988, … - Bruno Rossi
Bruno B. Rossi (April 13, 1905 - November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics in the 1960s. Rossi was born in Venice. After receiving the doctorate degree from the University of Bologna, … - 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", … - Bristow Adams
Bristow Adams was an American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945. Adams also founded the Stanford Chaparral, the oldest humor magazine in the west, in 1899. - Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann. He joined Cornell University in 1963 in the Department of Physics as a junior faculty member, becoming a full professor in 1970. His brother David is also a Professor at Cornell in the department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. - Bill Nye
William Sanford Nye (b. November 27, 1955), also known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy," is an American television program host, scientist, and mechanical engineer. - Allan Bloom
Allan David Bloom (14 September, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana - 7 October, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss, and became famous for criticism of contemporary American higher education in his bestselling 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind". In 2000, years after Bloom's passing, Saul Bellow, … - 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, … - Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner (March 23, 1954) is the Director of Labor Education Research at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is a leading authority on successful strategies in labor union organizing, and on the effects of outsourcing and offshoring on workers and worker rights. - 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. - Richard Hurd
Richard Hurd is a professor of labor relations and Director of Labor Studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Hurd has a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University. Prior to his appointment at Cornell, Hurd was an economic policy fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hurd's research focus is on the modern labor movement, organizing strategies, and organizational change in unions. - Yale Patt
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. - John Rawls
John Rawls (February 21, 1921 - November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of "A Theory of Justice" (1971), "Political Liberalism", "Justice as Fairness: A Restatement", and "The Law of Peoples". He is widely considered one of the most important English-language political philosophers of the 20th century, … - 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. - Don Michael Randel
Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is a prominent American musicologist, the fifth president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has previously served as the twelfth president of the University of Chicago, as Provost of Cornell University, and as Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. In his academic work, Randel specializes in the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. - 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. - Peter Debye
Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije (March 24 1884 - November 2 1966) was a Dutch physical chemist. He later legally changed his name to Peter Joseph William Debye. - George Lincoln Burr
George Lincoln Burr (January 30 1857 - 1938) was a U.S. historian, diplomat, author, and educator, best known as a Professor of History and Librarian at Cornell University, and as the closest collaborator of Andrew Dickson White, the first President of Cornell. Burr was born in Oramel, New York and entered the Cortland Academy in 1869, where he first met Andrew Dickson White, who was guest speaker for its 50th anniversary. - John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is a renowned theoretical computer scientist. He received his bachelor's degree from Seattle University in 1961 and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1962 and 1964, respectively. He then worked for three years at Princeton University. He has since been based at Cornell University, where he is currently the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science. - Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison, (born 7 November 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey - died 22 April 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor, Emeritus and Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Morrison grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from its public schools. He earned his B.S. in 1936 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and in 1940 he earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of California, Berkeley, … - Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 - 1927) was an American ornithologist and illustrator. Fuertes decided to concentrate on painting birds as a career after meeting Elliott Coues in 1894 while on a trip to Washington, D.C. with the Cornell University Glee Club. He travelled to many countries in pursuit of birds, including Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and Ethiopia. And, in 1899, he accompanied E. H. Harriman on his famous exploration of the Alaska coastline. - David Lee
David Morris Lee (born January 20, 1931) is a physicist whose work on low-temperature helium-3 won him the Nobel Prize in 1996.
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