- Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the foundations of theoretical computer science. Born in Washington, DC, he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1924, completing his Ph.D. there in 1927, under Oswald Veblen. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Göttingen, he taught at Princeton, 1929–1967, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967–1990. - Richard Popkin
Richard H. Popkin (December 27, 1923-April 14, 2005) was one of the most influential historians of philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. His 1960 work "The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes" introduced many historians to a previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. - John J. Cound
John Cound, a retired professor of law, is a recognized expert in civil procedure. As a full-time law professor, he specialized in admiralty, civil procedure, complex litigation, conflict of laws, evidence, federal courts, and professional responsibility. He taught at the University of Minnesota Law School for over 35 years. Professor Cound received his B.A. degree from George Washington University. - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - Alan Curtis Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, … - Eugen Weber
Eugen J. Weber (April 24, 1925, Bucharest - May 17, 2007, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California) was a prominent historian. He immigrated to the United Kingdom from Romania as a young man and studied at the Ashville College in Windermere. During World War II, he served with the British Army in Belgium, Germany and India between 1943 and 1947. Afterwards, Weber studied history at the Sorbonne and "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris" (Sciences Po) in Paris, France. - Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest), … - Seymour Lubetzky
Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898-April 5, 2003) was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC Berkeley in 1932. Lubetzky also taught at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, … - Henry C.K. Liu
Henry C.K. Liu is an independent commentator on culture, economics and politics. He was born in Hong Kong and educated at Harvard University in architecture and urban design. Liu developed an interest in economics and international relations while working as a professor at UCLA, Harvard and Columbia University on interdisciplinary work on urban and regional development. - Paul D. Boyer
Paul Delos Boyer (b. July 31, 1918) is an U.S. biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of A.T.P." Boyer was born in Provo, Utah. He attended Provo High School, where he was active in student government and the debating team. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young in 1939 and obtained a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Scholarship for graduate studies. - Norman Abrams
Norman Abrams (born 1933) is acting chancellor and Professor Emeritus in the School of Law at UCLA. It was announced on June 15, 2006 that UC President Robert C. Dynes appointed Abrams to serve as interim chancellor of UCLA starting June 30, 2006, succeeding Albert Carnesale. Gene D. Block has been appointed the next chancellor of UCLA. He will take his position on or before August 1, 2007. - Malcolm Kerr
Malcolm Hooper Kerr (1931-1984) was a political scientist and teacher who was an expert on Middle East politics. His best known book is "The Arab Cold War; Gamal Abd al-Nasir and His Rivals, 1958-1970". Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Kerr was raised near the American University of Beirut (AUB), where his parents taught. He went on to college at Princeton University where he earned his undergraduate degree in International Relations with a specialization in the Middle East. - Louis Ignarro
Louis J. Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. He was corecipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad for demonstrating the signalling properties of nitric oxide. He is currently a distinguished professor of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of molecular and medical pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. - Marcia J. Bates
Marcia J. Bates is Professor VI Emerita of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She has previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park and was tenured at the University of Washington in 1981 before joining the faculty at UCLA. Bates has published widely on information seeking behavior, search strategy, subject access in manual and automated systems, … - Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. - Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. A child prodigy, Tao is currently a professor of mathematics at UCLA. He was promoted to a full professor at age 24. In August 2006, he was awarded the Fields Medal. Just one month later, in September 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. - Harold Demsetz
Harold Demsetz (born 1930, Chicago, Illinois) is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). - N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 -) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics" which won the "Rene Wellek Prize" for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999. She is currently the Hillis Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). - Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding (born 1935) is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science. She has contributed to standpoint theory and to the multicultural study of science. She gained some notoriety for referring to Newton's Laws as a "rape manual" (Harding: 1986, pg. 264). - William Forsyth Sharpe
William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics. Dr. Sharpe taught at the University of Washington and the University of California, Irvine. In 1970 he joined Stanford University. He was one of the originators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, created the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted investment performance analysis, … - Robert G. Neumann
Robert Gerhard Neumann (January 2, 1916-June 18, 1999) was a United States politician and ambassador. Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Geneva School of International Studies and the University of Michigan. While studying in Geneva, Neumann was arrested by the Nazis and spent two years in a concentration camp. - Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh (born Yevgeniy Volokh,, February 29, 1968) is an American legal commentator and law professor at the UCLA School of Law (located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles). He publishes the widely-read weblog "The Volokh Conspiracy" and is commonly cited in the American media. - Gregory Stock
Gregory Stock is a biophysicist, best-selling science writer, and the director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA’s School of Public Health. He has often focused on the implications for society, medicine, and business of the human genome project and associated developments in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. Stock is also the CEO of Signum Biosciences, a biotech company developing therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease, … - J. Arch Getty
John Arch Getty is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is noted for his research on Russian and Soviet history, especially the period under Joseph Stalin and the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During the 1980s, Getty was a member of the Revisionist school, which downplayed the extent of Stalin's Great Purges, as articulated in his "Origin of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, … - Susan Perlman
Dr. Susan Perlman is a Professor in the Department of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also Director of Ataxia and Neurogenetics Program and Post-polio Program at that school. She has long been the primary investigator for Friedreich's ataxia trials and sits on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Ataxia Foundation. Dr. - Myron Tribus
Myron T Tribus (October 30, 1921 -) is perhaps best known as former director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT. He headed the center when it published W. Edwards Deming's book, "Out of the Crisis", and became a leading supporter and interpreter of W. Edwards Deming. He is also known in the 1970s for an insightful book called "Rational descriptions, decisions and designs" which popularized Bayesian methods with examples. - James Fraser Stoddart
Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born May 24, 1942) is a Scottish chemist at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Stoddart has developed highly efficient syntheses of mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures such as molecular Borromean rings, catenanes and rotaxanes utilizing molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly processes. - Julián Marías
Julián Marías Aguilera, was a Spanish philosopher. His "History of Philosophy" (1941) is widely accepted as the greatest work written in Spanish on the subject of the history of philosophy. He was a pupil of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. - Larry Pressler
Larry Lee Pressler (b. March 29, 1942) is a U.S. Republican politician. He holds the distinction of being the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the United States Senate. Born in Humboldt, South Dakota, Pressler is a graduate of the University of South Dakota, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Harvard Law School. - Keith Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak is a leading researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak pioneered modern psychological work on the role of analogy in thinking. His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults, as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brain damage. - Edward J. Hoffman
Edward J. Hoffman, (1942 - July 1, 2004) helped invent the first human PET scanner, a commonly used whole-body scanning procedure for detecting diseases like cancer. Hoffman, with Michael Phelps, developed the PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1975, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania. Starting in 1976, Hoffman was a professor at UCLA medical school. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal "IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science". - Wayne L. Hubbell
Wayne L. Hubbell (born 24 March 1943) is an American biochemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Biochemistry and Jules Stein Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the visual system, and is primarily supported by a grant from the National Eye Institute. <br - Klaus Wachsmann
Klaus Philipp Wachsmann (b. Germany, 1907; d. England, July 17, 1984) was a British ethnomusicologist of German birth. He is considered a pioneer in the study of the traditional musics of Africa. He lived in Uganda from 1937 to 1957 and compiled an extensive collection of field recordings there between 1949 and 1952. Wachsmann moved to California in 1963 and served as Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1963 to 1968. - Rafail Ostrovsky
Dr. Rafail Ostrovsky 's research interests include all aspects of the theory of computation, especially in cryptography, network algorithms, analysis and classification of high-dimensional data. Specifically, Dr. Ostrovsky works on interactive passwords, fault-tolerance, multi-party computation, zero-knowledge, algorithms for high-dimensional geometric problems such as clustering and nearest-neighbor search, metric embeddings, and routing and flow control in communication networks. - Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Yiannis N. Moschovakis (born 1938) is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA. For many years he has split his time between UCLA and University of Athens (he retired from the latter in July, 2005). His book "Descriptive Set Theory" (North-Holland) is the indispensable reference text for the subject. He is especially associated with the development of the effective, or lightface, version of descriptive set theory. - William Bright
William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics. Bright earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics in 1949 and a doctorate in the same field in 1955, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor of linguistics and anthropology at UCLA from 1959 to 1988. - Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren (b. August 2, 1948) is internationally recognized as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy worldwide. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. McLaren is currently Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. - Björn Engquist
Björn Engquist has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of young (and not so young) applied mathematicians. He received his Ph.D. in numerical analyses from University of Uppsala in 1975, and taught there during the following years while also holding a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles 1977-2001. - Robert M. Hayes
Robert M. Hayes (b. 1926) is Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Library Service (1974-1989), now the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. He jointly taught mathematics and information science. Hayes was twice president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, formerly known as the American Documentation Institute (1962-1963 and 1967-1968). - Joyce Appleby
Joyce Oldham Appleby is Professor Emerita of History at UCLA.
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