- Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he published papers and books on the subject along with other like minded economists, including GB Eggertsson. - Michael Porter
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He has made important contributions to strategic management and strategy theory, Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of: * 5 forces analysis * strategic groups (also called strategic sets) * the value chain * the generic strategies of cost leadership, … - 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. - Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann (1949 -), Ph.D., is the 8th President of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004 and served as its Provost. Upon succeeding former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Gutmann became the first female president to succeed a female president of an Ivy League university. In her inaugural address, she launched the Penn Compact, … - Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927 in Cape May, New Jersey), is best-known as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). - Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall (born 18 June, 1962) is a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string theory and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of reality, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University. - Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory. He is a widely known popularizer of science, the host of two radio programs, and the author of numerous books. - Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake National Security Advisor 1993-97 - 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. - Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for "The Radicalism of the American Revolution". His book "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787" won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. - Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by the Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, … - Alan B. Krueger
Alan Krueger 's primary research and teaching interests are in the general areas of labor economics, education, industrial relations, and social insurance. He is the author of Education Matters: A Selection of Essays on Education , coauthor of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage , and the editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association . - Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the gnostic gospels. - Burton Malkiel
Burton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, 1932) is an American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" (now in its 9th edition, 2007). He is a leading proponent of the Efficient market hypothesis, which contends that prices of publicly traded assets reflect all publicly available information. He is a professor of economics at Princeton University, and is a two-time chairman of the economics department there. - H. David Politzer
Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, … - Michael Graves
Michael Graves (b. July 9, 1934) is an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has achieved his greatest fame with his designs for domestic household items sold at Target stores in the United States. Graves was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Broad Ripple High School, receiving his diploma in 1950. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati and a master's degree from Harvard University. - Jonathan Belcher
Jonathan Belcher (January 8, 1682 - August 31, 1757) was colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and, New Jersey. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University. His father was Andrew Belcher. His wife was the daughter of Lt. Gov. William Partridge, and a sister was the wife of Lt. Gov. George Vaughn. In 1718, Belcher was elected to the Massachusetts council and became colonial governor when his predecessor died. - James Gleick
James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an author, journalist, and biographer, whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. Three of them have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and they have been translated into more than twenty languages. - John Preskill
John Phillip Preskill (born 19 January, 1953) is an American theoretical physicist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Preskill was born in Highland Park, Illinois. After earning an B.A. in physics at Princeton University, summa cum laude, in 1975, he received his Ph.D. in the same subject from Harvard University in 1980. His graduate advisor at Harvard was Steven Weinberg. Many of his students are well-known physicists. - Paul Starr
Paul Starr (born May 12, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) and co-founder (with Robert Kuttner and Robert Reich) of "The American Prospect", a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990. In 1994 he founded the Electronic Policy Network, or Moving Ideas, which is an online public policy resource. - Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell (b. 1943) is a progressive author and professor. His work has appeared in "The Nation", "The New Yorker", and "TomDispatch". He is the author of "The Fate of the Earth" (1982) ISBN 0-394-52559-0. - Brendan Byrne
Brendan Thomas Byrne (b. April 1 1924, Orange, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served as the 47th Governor of New Jersey, from 1974 to 1982. He graduated from Princeton University, A.B., 1949, and Harvard University, LL.B, 1950. He was a member of the Essex County, New Jersey and New Jersey State Bar Associations. He also served as *Editor of the "Irish Law Reports". *Essex County Prosecutor, 1959-1968. - Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of the following novels: Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992), Harvesting the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995), Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998); Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match (2002), Second Glance (2003), My Sister's Keeper (2004), Vanishing Acts (2005), The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007). In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. - 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. - Richard Askey
Richard A. Askey is an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey-Wilson polynomials are an important schematic in organising the theory of special polynomials (his work with James Wilson). Askey earned a B.A. at Washington University in 1955, an M.A. at Harvard University in 1956, and a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1961. - Paul Olum
Paul Olum (August 16 1918-January 19 2001) was an American mathematician and university administrator - Nadav Safran
Professor Nadav Safran was an expert in Arab and Middle East politics, and a former director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Safran was born in Cairo in 1925 to Joseph and Jeanne (Abadi) Safran, parents of oriental Jewish heritage. He married Anita Balicka on June 9, 1955 and had three daughters — Abigail, Nina, and Elizabeth. Safran worked on a kibbutz in 1946 and fought as a lieutenant in Israel's War of Independence, … - Frank Pace
Frank Pace, Jr. (July 5 1912 - January 8 1988) was a United States public official and business executive. Pace was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended the Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In 1933 he graduated from Princeton University, and in 1936 from Harvard University. Pace entered public service in 1936 as an assistant district attorney in Arkansas. He moved onto the Arkansas Revenue Department in 1938. - Ethan Nadelmann
Ethan Nadelmann (b. March 13, 1957 in New York City) is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the war on drugs. - Ravi Vakil
Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-American mathematician. Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University of Toronto in 1992, he completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard University in 1997. He has since been an instructor at both Princeton University and MIT. - T. M. Scanlon
Thomas Michael ("Tim") Scanlon (1940 -) is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard under Burton Dreben, studied for a year at Oxford University on a Fulbright Scholarship, and taught for many years at Princeton University. His early work was in proof theory, but he soon made his name in moral and political philosophy, … - Sam Keen
Sam Keen is a noted American author, professor and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, religion, and being a man in contemporary society. He also co-produced an award-winning PBS documentary, was the subject of a Bill Moyers television special in the early 1990s, and for 20 years served as a contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine. Keen completed his undergraduate studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, … - Clyde Kluckhohn
Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn (11 January 1905, Le Mars, Iowa - 28 July 1960, near Santa Fe, New Mexico), was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology. - Peter Plympton Smith
Peter Plympton Smith (b. October 31 1945) a former member of the United States House of Representatives. Son of prominent banker and State Senator Frederick P. Smith, Peter P. Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but grew up in Burlington, Vermont, enrolled at Phillips Academy, from which he graduated in 1964. He received a B.A. in History from Princeton University in 1968. In 1970, Peter P. Smith received a Master of Arts in Teaching, through a two year course, … - Perry Link
Perry Link is a Sinologist at Princeton University, and author specializing in modern Chinese literature and Chinese language. Dr. Link is a Harvard University alumnus who received his B.A. in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1976. Dr. Link has repeatedly taught Mandarin Chinese courses at Princeton and has translated many Chinese stories, writings and poems into English. Along with Andrew J. Nathan, Link translated the Tiananmen Papers, … - John Tyler Bonner
John Tyler Bonner is an emeritus professor, now lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University. He is famous for his pioneering use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years. Before Bonner, slime molds were almost never studied. - Neal Koblitz
Neal Koblitz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He is the creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography. Professor Koblitz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he was a Putnam Fellow, in 1968. - Bernard Shapiro
Bernard Jack Shapiro, OC, GOQ, Ph.D (born June 8, 1935) is a Canadian academic, civil servant, former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University from 1994 to 2004, and the first Ethics Commissioner of Canada between May 17, 2004 and March 29, 2007. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1956. In 1967 he received a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. - Karl Rubin
Karl Rubin is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was the first mathematician (1986) to show that some elliptic curves over the rationals have finite Tate-Shafarevich groups. It is widely believed that these groups are always finite. Rubin graduated from Princeton University in 1976, and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. His thesis advisor was Andrew Wiles. - Josef Joffe
Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of "Die Zeit", a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Joffe was born in Lithuania and grew up in West Berlin, …
|
| |