- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than to the financial institutions holding their mortgages. - Lynn Margulis
Dr. Lynn Margulis (born March 15, 1938) is a biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory-which is now generally accepted for how certain organelles were formed. - Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an economist and a Nobel laureate. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951 and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1955. He taught at Columbia University from 1957 to 1968, and then returned to Chicago, where he holds joint appointments with the department of economics and sociology and the graduate school of business. - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and current Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Slaughter received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1980, her M.Phil. in International Affairs from Oxford University in 1982, her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985, … - Simon Schama
Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is a British professor of history and art history at Columbia University. His many works on history and art include "Landscape and Memory", "Dead Certainties", "Rembrandt's Eyes", and his history of the French Revolution, "Citizens". He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series "A History of Britain". - Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel (born 1937) is an American philosopher, currently University Professor and Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and ethics. He is well-known for his critique of reductionist accounts of the mind in his essay "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), … - James Collins
James J. Collins, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is one of the founders of the emerging field of synthetic biology, and a pioneering researcher in systems biology, stochastic resonance, biological dynamics and neurostimulation. Collins has invented a number of novel devices and techniques, including vibrating insoles for enhancing balance, bistable genetic toggle switches for biotechnology and bioenergy applications, … - Ronald Breslow
Ronald C. D. Breslow (born 14 March 1931, Rahway, New Jersey) is a U.S. chemist. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He has taught at Columbia since 1956 and is a former chair of the university's chemistry department. - Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking, CC, Ph.D., FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936 in Vancouver) is a Canadian university professor and philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia (1956) and the University of Cambridge (1958), where he was a student at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Hacking also took his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1962), under the direction of Casimir Lewy, a former student of Wittgenstein's. - Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco Jose Ayala (born 1934) is a Spanish American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He was born in Madrid and moved to the US in 1961 to study at Columbia University. There, he studied for his doctorate under Theodosius Dobzhansky, graduating in 1964. He became a US citizen in 1971. He has been President and Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24 1942) is a literary critic and theorist. She is best-known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?", which is considered a founding text of postcolonialism, and also for her translation of Jacques Derrida's "Of Grammatology". Spivak teaches at Columbia University, where she was promoted to University Professor -- Columbia's highest rank -- in March 2007. - Allen Weinstein
Allen Weinstein is the Archivist of the United States. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 16, 2005. - Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher (born July 15, 1928 in Hagen, Germany) is an American philosopher, affiliated for many years with the University of Pittsburgh, where he is currently University Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Center for the Philosophy of Science. - Leo Braudy
Leo Braudy (born June 11, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA) is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He has previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his cultural studies scholarship on celebrity, masculinity, and film, … - Ursula Franklin
Ursula Martius Franklin, CC, O.Ont, Ph.D, FRSC (born September 16, 1921 in Munich, Germany) is a German-Canadian metallurgist and research physicist. She is a Quaker and is a Member of Toronto Monthly Meeting. She has also been active in promoting pacifist and feminist causes. Franklin began her career during World War II, but was imprisoned in a Nazi work camp because her mother was Jewish. She spent the rest of the war repairing bombed buildings. - Stanley Rosen
Stanley Rosen is an American philosopher. Born in Cleveland Ohio on July 29th 1929, he is currently a University Professor at Boston University. His wide range of research includes metaphysics, political philosophy, and history of western philosophy. He was a student of Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago, writing a dissertation on Spinoza. He was also a student of Alexandre Kojève. He did his postdoctoral work at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, … - Neil Smelser
Neil Smelser is a University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and former director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His research has focused on what he calls the "macroscopic social structural level" of collective behavior, including economic sociology, social change, and the sociology of education. - William Damon
William Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University. Damon's current research explores how people develop character and a sense of purpose in their work, family, and community relationships. He examines how young people can approach their careers with a focus on purpose, imagination, and high standards of excellence. - Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes (born 1940) is an American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist. Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and raised in south central Georgia, Mayes attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and obtained her BA from the University of Florida. In 1975 she earned her MA from San Francisco State University, where she eventually became Professor of Creative Writing, director of The Poetry Center, … - Charles Figley
Charles Figley is a highly published university professor in the fields of psychology, family studies, social work, traumatology, and mental health. He is the Florida State University Traumatology Institute Director. He is also a full professor at the Florida State University College of Social Work. Figley is an American Psychological Association fellow, a Fulbright fellow, and holds seven other fellowships. - M. Frederick Hawthorne
Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne (aka Fred Hawthorne) was born in 1928 in Fort Scott, Kansas and he received his elementary and secondary education in Kansas and Missouri. Prior to high school graduation, through examination he entered the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, Missouri as a chemical engineering student. He then transferred to Pomona College, Claremont, California and received a B.A. degree in chemistry. - John Redwood
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC. John was an Oxfordshire County Councillor in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he was Chief Policy Advisor to Margaret Thatcher . - Robbert Dijkgraaf
Robbert Dijkgraaf (1960) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. Because his former advisor Gerard 't Hooft was awarded the Spinoza prize (the Dutch equivalent of the Nobel prize), Robbert Dijkgraaf became the first recipient whose advisor was also a recipient. He works at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Theoretical Physics. His research group works in string theory, quantum gravity, and the interface of mathematics and particle physics. - John Charles Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi,, PC, CC, FRSC, FRS, PhD, DSc, (born January 23, 1929) is a Hungarian-Canadian chemist. He was born in Berlin, son of distinguished Hungarian chemist Michael Polanyi and Magda Elizabeth Polanyi, and nephew of influential economist Karl Polanyi. The family moved to England in 1933 where Polanyi studied at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester – his father's workplace – achieving his doctorate in 1952. - Leonardo Balada
Leonardo Balada , the Catalan composer who came to New York in 1956 to study composition, has been a powerful creative force for more than three decades. His highly personal "avant-garde" techniques in the sixties - dramatically as well as rhythmically imposing - sets his works like Guernica and Maria Sabina apart from composers of the time. - Caroline Bynum
Caroline Walker Bynum is an American Medieval scholar. She is a University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, where she still teaches, and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is a former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies. Bynum received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1962 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. - Tsung-Dao Lee
During the years 1950-53, Lee worked as a research associate and lecturer at Yerkes Astronomical Observatory, Wisconsin; at the University of California at Berkeley, and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Lee was then fast becoming a widely known scientist, especially for his work in elementary particles, statistical mechanics, field theory, astrophysics, condensed matter physics and turbulence, having solved several problems of long standing and great complexity. - Thomas Pangle
Thomas Lee Pangle (born 1944) is an American political scientist. He currently holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1979 to 2004 was University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. - Neil Postman
Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003) was an American professor, media theorist, and cultural critic who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, "Amusing Ourselves to Death". For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University. Postman was an old-fashioned humanist, who believed that "there is a limit to the promise of new technology, and that it cannot be a substitute for human values." - R. Kent Greenawalt
Kent Greenawalt is a University Professor at Columbia Law School. His primary interests involve constitutional law, especially First Amendment jurisprudence. He received a BA from Swarthmore College in 1958, a B.Phil from Oxford University in 1960 and an LLB from Columbia Law School in 1963. After law school, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1965. - Tirone E. David
Tirone E. David, O.C., O.Ont., M.D., F.R.C.S.(C), is a Canadian cardiac surgeon and professor. He is the Head of the division of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital. Dr. David proposed a technique for a valve sparing treatment for aortic insufficiency, due to dilatation of Valsalva sinuses. Born on Nov 20, 1944 in Ribeirão Claro, Brazil, he graduated from the University of Parana as a medical doctor in 1968. - L. W. Sumner
Leonard Wayne Sumner (born 1941) is a Canadian philosopher notable for his work on normative and applied ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. Sumner is currently Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and, since 2002, University Professor, the highest academic honour that the university accords its faculty. Sumner received his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1965, … - José Aristodemo Pinotti
José Aristodemo Pinotti is a Brazilian physician, gynecological surgeon, university professor, scientific and educational leader and politician. He is currently a federal congressman by the state of São Paulo and State Secretary of Higher Education os State of São Paulo. He has retired from his professorship at the State University of Campinas and as chairman of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Medical School of the University of São Paulo. Dr. - Leoluca Orlando
Leoluca Orlando (born august 1, 1947), is an Italian politician, who was mayor of Palermo in 1985-1990 and 1993-2000. He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia. - Edwin Bryant
Edwin Bryant is an author and indologist. He graduated from Columbia University in 1997. He lectured on Indology at Harvard University and at Rutgers University, New Jersey. - Alexander Levis
Alexander H. Levis is a professor at George Mason University. He is also known as being the chief scientist of the United States Air Force. He is also on the Executive Scientific Advisory board. - Peter Safar
Peter Safar was an Austrian physician of Czech descent, born april 12 1924 in Vienna (Austria), died August 2 2003 in Mt. Lebanon, USA. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. - Philip Hanawalt
Philip Hanawalt is Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor in the biological sciences department and professor of dermatology at Stanford University. Hanawalt discovered DNA repair replication in 1963 while working with "E. coli". Repair replication of DNA is the process by which cells deal with damage to their genetic material (for example through environmental radiation and chemical carcinogens). Hanawalt was trained in biophysics at Yale University, … - Lawrence Summers
From 1982 - 1983, he served on the Reagan administration's Council of Economic Advisors. Then in 1993 in the Clinton administration as under-Treasury secretary for international affairs and as Treasury secretary from 1999 - 2001. Earlier from 1991 - 1993, he was chief economist for the World Bank where he authored a controversial memo stating that "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that."
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