- Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. - Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely-read writers of popular science of his generation, leading many commentators to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate". Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. - Martin Feldstein
Martin S. Feldstein Professor of Economics Harvard University President and Chief Executive Officer National Bureau of Economic Research - Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize for Economics) in 1998, for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, … - Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was a United States Senator, Ambassador, and eminent sociologist. He was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected with the Democratic Party three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, … - John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908-April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, … - 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. - 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, … - Richard Lewontin
Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the notion of using techniques from molecular biology such as gel electrophoresis to apply to questions of genetic variation and evolution. In a pair of 1966 papers co-authored with J.L. Hubby in the journal "Genetics", … - Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in the school's 371-year history. Her appointment as president was unanimously approved by Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday, Feb. 11, after a highly publicized, yearlong search. - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is most recently the author of Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007) and the host and executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series "African American Lives" and "Oprah's Roots." - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. A former research student of Andrew Wiles, he returned to Princeton to help his advisor complete the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Taylor received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program with Robert Langlands. - Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch physicist. He received his Ph.D. from University of Leiden in 1948 and then became a professor at Harvard University. Bloembergen left The Netherlands in 1945, due to devastation of Europe from World War II, to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University. - Talcott Parsons
Talcott Edgar Frederick Parsons was for many years the best-known sociologist in the United States, and indeed one of the best-known in the world. His work was very influential through the 1950s and well into the 1960s, particularly in America, but fell gradually out of favour from that time on. The most prominent attempt to revive Parsonian thinking, under the rubric "neofunctionalism," has been made by the sociologist Jeffrey Alexander, now at Yale University. - David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University. - Kim B. Clark
Kim B. Clark (born March 20 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah), President of Brigham Young University-Idaho from 2005 to present, Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005, was the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. A member of the Harvard faculty starting in 1978, Clark received his B.A. (1974), MA (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics from Harvard. - Frederick Mosteller
Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 - July 23, 2006, usually known as Frederick Mosteller or Fred) was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department, from 1957 to 1971, and served as the president of several professional bodies including the Psychometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, … - Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his views on imperialism and the origins of conflict in the twentieth century. After attending The Glasgow Academy, he was educated as a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ's College Cambridge University, in 1989, … - Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol holds a three-year appointment, effective February 3, 2006, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as a senior advisor in the social sciences. Skocpol’s research focuses on US politics in historical and comparative perspective. She has studied the development of US social policies and, most recently, changing patterns of voluntary group activity and civic engagement in American democracy. - Willard van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 - December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine was one of the most influential philosophers and logicians of the 20th century. - Nelson Goodman
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Massachusetts - 25 November 1998, Needham, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics. - Robert S. Kaplan
Dr. Robert Kaplan , Chairman- Balanced Scorecard Collaborative & Professor- Harvard Business School; delivered a seminar on Execution as Competitive Advantage: New Strategies for the Information Age at the Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi on February 15, 2005. Amity Business School was the academic partner to bringing this world renowned management guru to ..... - Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann is a former Venezuelan Minister of State and Head of the "Presidential Office of Coordination and Planning" (1992-1993) and actual Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and a Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. - John Winthrop
John Winthrop was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. He was a distinguished mathematician, physicist and astronomer, born in Boston, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Winthrop, was founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He graduated in 1732 at Harvard, where, from 1738 until his death he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. - Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term. Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of culture, … - Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn , whose historical work centers on early American history, the American Revolution, and the Anglo-American world in the pre-industrial era, is Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, emeritus , at Harvard University. He also serves as a Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows and is the Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. - Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline". He also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born and raised in the Portland, Maine area. - Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba is a political scientist who specializes in American and comparative politics. He is currently Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University and was director of the Harvard University Library from 1984 to 2007. He was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2002. - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15 1917 - February 28 2007), was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as the men who surrounded Andrew Jackson. He served as Special Assistant to the President in John F. Kennedy's administration. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, … - Max Theiler
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever. Theiler was born in Pretoria, South Africa, his father Arnold Theiler was a veterinary bacteriologist. He attended Pretoria Boys High School, Rhodes University College, and then University of Cape Town Medical School graduating in 1918. - Robert Keohane
Robert O. Keohane (born 1941) is an American academic and international relations theorist. Keohane helped develop the neoliberal strand of international relations. He is currently a Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. - Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is perhaps best known as the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback and has implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society. - Heisuke Hironaka
Heisuke Hironaka is a Japanese mathematician. After completing his undergraduate studies at Kyoto University, he received his Ph. D. from Harvard while under the direction of Oscar Zariski. He won the Fields Medal in 1970. He is celebrated for proving in 1964 that singularities of algebraic varieties admit resolutions in characteristic zero. This means that any projective variety can be replaced by a similar one (i.e. birationally equivalent) which has no singularities. - Oscar Zariski
Oscar Zariski (born Ascher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts) was a Belarusian-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. - Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce, April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for forty years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. After graduating from Harvard, he became a tutor there (1829), then was appointed professor of mathematics in 1831. He added astronomy to his portfolio in 1842, and remained as Harvard professor until his death. - Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott, FRS (born September 24 1923, died December 20 2005) was a mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He was born in Budapest, grew up in Slovakia, but spent his working life in the United States. His family emigrated to Canada in 1938, and subsequently he served in the Canadian Army in Europe during World War II. He later went to college at McGill University in Montreal, … - Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life" and his monumental seven volume "France and England in North America." These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism. - Clifford Taubes
Clifford Henry Taubes is a professor of mathematics at Harvard who works in gauge field theory and differential geometry. His work on the boundary of the moduli space of solutions to the Yang-Mills equations was used by Donaldson in his proof of Donaldson's theorem. He proved that R<sup>4</sup> has an uncountable number of smooth structures (see also exotic R<sup>4</sup>), and (with Raoul Bott) proved Witten's rigidity theorem.
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