- John Bascom
John Bascom was born in Genoa, New York, on May 1, 1827. He was a graduate of Williams College with the class of 1849, and held many scholarly and honorary degrees from that and other institutions of learning. He was professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was President of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. Bascom graduated from Williams College in 1849, then spent several years studying and working, …
- Richard Davidson
Richard J. Davidson a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.A. in Psychology from New York University and his Ph.D. in Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychophysiology from Harvard University. Currently Director for the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience as well as the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, …
- James Thomson
James "Jamie" Alexander Thomson (born in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American developmental biologist who also serves as a professor of anatomy in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and as the chief pathologist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.
- Charles R. van Hise
Charles Richard Van Hise was an academic and president of the University of Wisconsin from 1903 to 1918. Van Hise was born in Fulton, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1879, and was the first to graduate with a Ph.D. from the school in 1892, receiving a doctorate in geology. He also received a B.S. in 1880 and a M.S. in 1882. He entered the faculty of the University immediately after graduating, as instructor.
- John Hasbrouck van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 - October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. Born in Middletown, Connecticut the son of mathematician Edward Burr Van Vleck and grandson of astronomer John Monroe Van Vleck, he grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and went to Harvard for college and graduate school. He joined the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor in 1923, then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison before settling at Harvard.
- Richard T. Ely
Richard Theodore Ely, Ph. D., LL.D. (born April 13, 1854 in Ripley, New York; died October 4, 1943 in Old Lyme, Connecticut) was an American economist. He was born as the eldest of three children of Ezra Sterling and Harriet Gardner (Mason) Ely. Ely received his undergraduate degree from Columbia, later receiving his doctorate in economics from the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under Karl Knies.
- Michael Apple
Michael W. Apple (1942 -) is a leading critical educational theorist, recognized for numerous books and scholarly interests, which center on education and power, cultural politics, curriculum theory and research, critical teaching, and the development of democratic schools. He is currently the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, where he has taught since 1970.
- Harry Harlow
Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905-December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-deprivation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in the early stages of primate development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked for a time with humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow.
- E. P. Wigner
Eugene Paul Wigner (November 17, 1902 - January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles". Some contemporaries referred to Wigner as "the Silent Genius" and some even considered him the intellectual equal to Albert Einstein, …
- Alton Ochsner
Alton Ochsner (May 4, 1896 - September 6, 1981) was a surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established his own world-renowned The Ochsner Clinic. Reared in a small South Dakota town, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of southern medicine. He was recruited to Tulane from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- John R. Commons
John Rogers Commons was a well-known institutional economist and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Stephen Cole Kleene
Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician whose work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science. Kleene was best known for founding the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory together with Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others; and for inventing regular expressions. By providing methods of determining which problems are solvable, …
- Denice Denton
Denice Dee Denton was the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She held the position from February 14 2005 until her suicide 16 months later on June 24, 2006. Denton also held a UCSC appointment as Professor of Electrical Engineering.
- Hugh Iltis
Hugh Iltis is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, and is best known for his discoveries in the genetics of corn (maize). As a botanist, Iltis served as the Director of the University of Wisconsin Herbarium. Iltis proved that domestic corn differs by a small number of mutations from a species of teosinte, a family of grasses that grows wild at a few sites in western Mexico. It was once believed that the original wild corn was extinct.
- Kevin Barrett
Kevin James Barrett (born February 1959) was a university lecturer and 9/11 conspiracy theorist. He is a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Barrett became controversial in 2006 when he held a one-semester appointment as an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the fall semester of 2006, Barrett taught an introductory class on Islam, an undergraduate course in which he had formerly been employed as a teaching assistant.
- Ann Althouse
Ann Althouse is an American law professor and blogger. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard Sand in the Southern District of New York and practised law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. Since 1984 Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, …
- Scott Straus
Scott Straus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on genocide, violence, human rights and African politics. He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, and in 2000 was a Visiting Fellow at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He is author of "The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda" (Cornell University Press, 2006), …
- Stanislaw Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish-born American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan Project and proposed the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. He also invented nuclear pulse propulsion and developed a number of mathematical tools in number theory, set theory, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.
- J. Barkley Rosser
John Barkley Rosser Sr. was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church-Rosser theorem, in lambda calculus. He also developed what is now called the Rosser sieve, in number theory. He was later Director of the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rosser wrote mathematical textbooks as well. In 1936, he proved a stronger version of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, …
- Sara Goldrick-Rab
Sara Goldrick-Rab is assistant professor of sociology and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. She also is a faculty affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE), of the UW-Madison Interdisciplinary Training Program for Predoctoral Research in Education Sciences, and of the Institute for Research on Poverty.
- Marc Galanter
Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches South Asian Law, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession, Religion and the Law, Contracts, Dispute Processing and Negotiations. He has authored numerous books and articles related to law, …
- Leonard Uhr
Leonard Uhr (1927- October 5 2000) was an American computer scientist, and a pioneer in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and cognitive science. He was an expert in many aspects of human neurophysiology and perception, and a central theme of his research was to design artificial intelligence systems based on his understanding of how the human brain works. He was one of the early proponents of incorporation into artificial intelligence algorithms, …
- Jan Vansina
Jan Vansina (b. Antwerp, Belgium, September 14, 1929) is a historian and anthropologist specializing in Africa. He was first trained as a Medievalist and ethnographer but became known as one of the most prominent Africanist scholars. In his work, he focuses on the history of African societies prior to European contact, and is widely regarded as the foremost authority on the history of the peoples of Central Africa. He has published widely on the subject.
- Alfred W. McCoy
Alfred McCoy is author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror" (Metropolitan Books, The American Empire Project, 2006) and a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Harry Steenbock
Harry Steenbock was a distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. Weaver graduated in 1919 at the University of Wisconsin with degrees in civil engineering and mathematics. He became an assistant professor of mathematics at Throop College (soon to be re-named the California Institute of Technology) before returning to teach mathematics at Wisconsin (1920–32). He was director of the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55), …
- Gary Bender
Gary Bender is an American sportscaster.
- Paul Ziff
(Robert) Paul Ziff (22 October 1920 in New York City-9 January 2003 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American artist and philosopher specializing in semantics and aesthetics.
- Stephen Moulton Babcock
Stephen Moulton Babcock was a U.S. agricultural chemist. He is best known for his Babcock test in determining dairy butterfat in milk processing, in cheese processing, and in the "single-grain experiment" that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science.
- Edwin B. Hart
Edwin B. Hart (1874-1953) was an American biochemist. A native of Michigan, Hart studied physiological chemistry under Albrecht Kossel (1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) in Germany, and also studied at the University of Marzburg and University of Heidelberg. Upon his return to the United States, he worked at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Part of Cornell University) in Geneva, …
- Donald Downs
Donald Downs is an American political science professor and known for his work on the First Amendment. Downs has political science degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley. He has taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Notre Dame and currently teaches political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Richard Davis
Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American double bass player who has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1977, after establishing himself for twenty-three years in New York City. He teaches bass, jazz history, and improvisation. In the course of his career he hayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus worked no where but was still splaying his instruments in both the classical field and as a jazz bassist all over the world, …
- Max Mason
Charles Max Mason was an American mathematician. Mason president of the University of Chicago (1925–1929) and president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936). Mason's mathematical research interests included differential equations, the calculus of variations, and electromagnetic theory.
- Carl R. de Boor
Carl R. de Boor (born 1937) is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.
- Daniel W. Mead
Daniel W. Mead (1862-1948;) born in Fulton, N.Y. In 1904 he was made head of the Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. In the early 1900s he established the consulting firm Mead and Seastone, forerunner to the Madison engineering firm of Mead and Hunt. Mead became president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1936, which recognizes him in the annual Daniel W. Mead essay contest.
- Farrington Daniels
Farrington Daniels (1889-1972), an American physical chemist, is considered one of the pioneers of the modern direct use of solar energy.
- Kenneth Kunen
Kenneth Kunen is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin who works in set theory and its applications to various areas of mathematics, such as set-theoretic topology and measure theory. He also works on non-associative algebraic systems, such as loops, and uses computer software, such as the Otter theorem prover, to derive theorems in these areas.
- Daryl B. Lund
Daryl Bert Lund (born 1941) is an American food scientist and engineer who has served in various leadership positions within the Institute of Food Technologists, including President in 1990-1991 and currently as editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Food Science". Lund was named one of 26 innovators in "Food Engineering" magazine's 75th anniversary edition in September 2003.
- Amy Barger
Dr. Amy Barger (born 18th January 1971) is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other far distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected. She also worked with others on discoveries concerning stellar activity in distant galaxies. She currently is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr.
- Ken Ono
Ken Ono is an American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan. He is currently the Manasse Professor of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin. He received his BA from the University of Chicago in 1989, and he received his PhD in 1993 at UCLA where his advisor was Basil Gordon.