- 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 Gilpin
Robert Gilpin is a scholar of international political economy and the professor emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is holding the Eisenhower professorship. Gilpin specializes in political economy and international relations, especially the effect of multinational corporations on state autonomy. - 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. - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London (where his Ghanaian father was a law student) but moved as an infant to Ghana, where he grew up. He was educated at Cambridge University in England, where he took both BA and PhD degrees in philosophy. His dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics; once revised, these arguments were published by Cambridge University Press as Assertion and Conditionals . - Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton (sometimes Anthony T. Grafton) (born 21 May 1950) is a Jewish American historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. He is noted for his wide learning, and in particular for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he took his A.B. and Ph.D. in rapid succession. - Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron (born October 13, 1953) is a professor of law and philosophy at the New York University School of Law. He also holds a visiting professorship at Victoria University in his native New Zealand. Waldron is a liberal in both the general and American senses of the word, and a normative legal positivist. He has written extensively on the analysis and justification of private property, the political and legal philosophy of John Locke, … - 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. - Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", … - 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 . - Livingston Farrand
Livingston Farrand, M.D., LL.D. (June 14, 1867 - November 8, 1939) was an American physician, anthropologist, psychologist, public health advocate and academic administrator. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received in undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D.. He attended the universities of Cambridge and Berlin. - Norman Malcolm
Norman Malcolm (1911 - 1990) was an American philosopher. He was born in Selden, Kansas. After earning a Harvard doctorate, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1940. During his first term at Cambridge in 1938, he met Ludwig Wittgenstein and attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophical foundations of mathematics throughout 1939. Malcolm remained one of Wittgenstein's closest friends, and his memoir of his time with Wittgenstein, published in 1958, … - Robert Stalnaker
Robert Culp Stalnaker is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work concerns, among other things, the philosophical foundations of semantics, pragmatics, philosophical logic, decision theory, game theory, the theory of conditionals, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Along with Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and Alvin Plantinga, … - Gregory Vlastos
Gregory Vlastos (July 27, 1907 - October 12, 1991) was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was born in Istanbul, to a Scottish mother and a Greek father, where he received a Bachelor of Arts from Robert College before moving to Harvard University where he received a PhD in 1931. After teaching for several years at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, he moved to Cornell University in 1948. - 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. - Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as "flat rotation curves" is the most direct and robust evidence of dark matter. After she earned an A.B. from Vassar College (1948) she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975. - Ralph Adams Cram
Ralph Adams Cram, (December_16, 1863 - September_22, 1942), was an important American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the gothic style. Cram was born at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire into a Unitarian clerical family, and in his youth called himself an agnostic. He moved to Boston in 1881, at age 18, and spent five years in the architectural office of Rotch & Tilden, after which left for Rome. During a Christmas Eve mass there in 1887, … - Karl Shell
Karl Shell (born May 10, 1938) is a prominent American theoretical economist, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics. Shell received a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1965 at Stanford University, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner Kenneth Arrow and Hirofumi Uzawa. - John S. Dyson
John S. Dyson is a political and business leader in New York. He currently serves as the chairman of Millbank Capital Management and has been active in businsses for a numbers of years. He is an alumnus of Cornell University and holds a master's degree from Princeton University. He is the father of the popular tourism advertising campaign, "I Love New York." Dyson spent a decade in New York state government, including four years in the Cabinet of Gov. Hugh Carey. - James A. Perkins
James A. Perkins (1911-1998) was the seventh president of Cornell University. Born in 1911 in Philadelphia, Perkins graduated with high honors in 1934 from Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University in 1937. - J. B. Schneewind
Jerome B. Schneewind (born 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. - 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. - Gerard O'Neill
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1950, and received a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1954, with which he remained associated until his death. Dr. O'Neill's early research focused on high-energy particle physics; notably he invented the particle storage ring. - Max Farrand
Max Farrand, Ph.D. (1869-1945) was an American university professor and writer on historical subjects, born at Newark, N. J., brother of Livingston Farrand. He graduated from Princeton (A. B., 1892; Ph.D., 1896). Afterwards he held various positions at a number of institutions of higher learning, including Wesleyan University, Leland Stanford Junior University, Cornell, and Yale. - Andrew Hacker
Andrew Hacker (born 1929) is an American political scientist and public intellectual. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York. He did his undergraduate work at Amherst College. This was followed by graduate work at Oxford University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University where he received his Ph. D. degree. Hacker taught at Cornell before taking his current position at Queens. - Marston Morse
Marston Morse was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. In 1933 he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis. Harold Calvin Marston Morse was born in Waterville, Maine to Ella Phoebe Marston and Howard Calvin Morse in 1892. - Victor Lange
Victor Lange (13 July 1908 - 29 June 1996) was a renowned Germanist, known primarily for his work at Princeton University. Born in Leipzig, Germany, he obtained his M.A. degree from the University College of the University of Toronto in 1931, and his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1934 with a dissertation entitled "Die lyrische Anthologie im England des 18. Jahrhunderts (1670-1780)." He taught at Toronto in the 1930s and, from 1938 onwards, at Cornell University. - Ted Taylor
Theodore Brewster Taylor, was a prominent Mexican-born American physicist and nuclear weapons designer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico, the son of a daughter of a congregationalist missionary and a director of the YMCA. He spent much of his childhood in Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos, south of Mexico City. From 1943 to 1946 he served on active duty in the United States Navy. He received a PhD from Cornell University in 1954. - Robert J. Weber
Robert J. Weber (born 1947) is the Frederic E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He received his AB in Mathematics in 1969 from Princeton University, both his MS in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1974 in Operations Research from Cornell University. He was a faculty member of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University, and taught at the Yale School of Management, … - Henry Bienen
Henry Bienen is the 15th president of Northwestern University and has held the position for the last nine years. His extensive career in higher education includes 28 years at Princeton University as a distinguished political science professor, department chair and dean. - Alexander H. Leighton
Alexander H. Leighton (July 17, 1908) is a sociologist and psychiatrist of dual citizenship (United States, by birth, and Canada, since 1975). Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, he received a B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1932, an M.S. from Cambridge University in England in 1934, and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1936. As of 1999, he has been Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, … - Paul Olum
Paul Olum (August 16 1918-January 19 2001) was an American mathematician and university administrator - Peter Mucha
Peter Mucha is an American mathematician, who specializes in applied mathematics and is known for his contributions to fluid mechanics, computer graphics, and complex networks. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1993, a Masters of Philosophy in Physics from University of Cambridge in 1995, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Applied and Computational Mathematics in 1998. - William Innes Homer
William Innes Homer (born November 8, 1929, in Merion, Pennsylvania) is an American academic and author. Homer received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1951. From Harvard University, Homer received his M.A. in 1954 and his Ph.D. in 1961. In 1961, Homer was hired as an assistant professor in the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton. In 1964, he became an associate professor of Art History at Cornell University. - Robert Roswell Palmer
Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 - June 11, 2002), commonly known as R.R. Palmer, was a distinguished historian of France. He is best known for his work as a history text writer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Palmer accelerated through the public schools, even winning a contest to write a play in Latin. He received his Ph. B.[Bachelor of Philosophy] from the University of Chicago in 1931 and PhD from Cornell University three years later. - Elliott Waters Montroll
Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - December 3, 1983 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA) was an American scientist and mathematician. He was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1939, with a thesis "Applications of the characteristic value theory of integral equations' in which he applied integral equations to the study of imperfect gases. - Dave Sarachan
Dave Sarachan (born June 7, 1954 in Rochester, New York) is a professional American soccer coach, and recently the head coach of the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Sarachan played two years of college soccer at Monroe Community College in 1973 and 1974. After the 1974 season, he transferred to Cornell University, where he played two more years, and was named the team MVP as a senior. Following his graduation, Sarachan joined the Rochester Lancers of the NASL, … - Thomas E. Fairchild
Thomas Edward Fairchild, was a U.S. federal judge and former politician from Wisconsin. Before his death, he served as a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Thomas Fairchild was born on Christmas Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His educational background included a B.A. from Cornell University, a law degree from the University of Wisconsin, and additional studies conducted at Princeton University and Deep Springs College in California. - Rachel Weil
Rachel Judith Weil (1959-) is a teacher and scholar, specializing in gender and culture in 17th and 18th century England. She is currently an associate professor of early modern English political and cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. - Barry Freundel
Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel congregation in Washington DC, and a leading rabbi in the Modern Orthodox Jewish world. A writer and lecturer, Rabbi Freundel addresses topics ranging from environmentalism to Jewish medical ethics. Popular among collegiates, he has served as a visiting scholar at Princeton, Yale and Cornell and guest lecturer at Columbia, University of Chicago and other universities. He is also an adjunct professor at several universities. - Helen Magill White
Helen Magill White (1853-1944) was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. She earned her doctoral degree in Greek from Boston University in 1877. Raised in a Quaker family, White always believed that she was deserving of the same education as a man. Her father was the president of Swarthmore College, which she attended as an undergraduate. She taught at the Howard Collegiate Institute, Evelyn College for Women at Princeton University, …
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