- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century.
- John Hopkins
John Hopkins is an Emeritus fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is married to Cherry, fellow and Director of Studies in law of Girton College, Cambridge. He read law at Queens' College, Cambridge, before being elected to the fellowship at Downing. He held many positions in college, including Tutor, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Law for almost 30 years. He is a Master Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
- Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn (born 1930) is a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology who is known for his controversial views on racial and ethnic differences. Lynn claims there exists race differences and sex differences in intelligence. Lynn was educated at Cambridge University. Lynn has worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, and as professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine.
- Henry Lee
Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee, is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists. Lee was born in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, China, and fled to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War when he was six. He graduated in 1960 from the Taiwan Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. Lee then began his work with the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest in Chinese history.
- Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, …
- Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
- Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr (born 3 September 1940 in San Francisco) is an American historian, best-known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "America and the California Dream". Starr is currently University Professor and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, but has been a professor or visiting lecturer at numerous California universities, including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Santa Clara University, …
- Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte (born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia and Edward E. Tufte), a professor emeritus of statistics, information design, interface design, and political economy at Yale University has been described by "The New York Times" as "the Leonardo da Vinci of Data". He is an expert in the presentation of informational graphics such as charts and diagrams, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
- Theodore Hesburgh
The Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC, STD (born May 25, 1917 at Syracuse, New York),a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. Hesburgh grew up in Syracuse and had wished to become a priest since early childhood. He studied at Notre Dame until his seminary sent him to Italy. He studied in Rome until he was forced to leave due to the outbreak of World War II.
- Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Communist Party of Poland. Professor of sociology at the University of Leeds (and since 1990 emeritus professor), Bauman has become best known for his analyses of the links between modernity and the Holocaust and of postmodern consumerism.
- James H. Fetzer
James Henry Fetzer (born December 6, 1940 in Pasadena, California) is an American philosopher and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is also known for his advocacy of 9/11 conspiracy theories and Kennedy assassination theories.
- David Montgomery
David Montgomery (*1927) is currently the Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Montgomery is considered one of the foremost academics specializing in United States labor history and has written extensively on the subject. Along with David Brody and Herbert Gutman, he is credited with founding the field of "new labor history" in North America. Following the example of British historian E.P. Thompson, …
- Phyllis Chesler
Phyllis Chesler (born October 1 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of thirteen books, including the best-seller "Women and Madness", and the recent publications "The Death of Feminism" and "The New Anti-Semitism".
- Walter Kasper
Cardinal Walter Kasper (born 5 March 1933 in Heidenheim an der Brenz) is a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in the Roman Curia, and Cardinal Deacon of "Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova". An accomplished theologian, Kasper is widely considered to be a liberal and can speak in German, English, and Italian.
- Angelo Sodano
Angelo Cardinal Sodano J.C.D. S.T.D. (born 23 November 1927) is the Dean of the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Cardinal Secretary of State in the Roman Curia from 1991 to 2006, now holding the title of Cardinal Secretary Emeritus of State. Sodano was first appointed Secretary of State by Pope John Paul II and then reappointed by Pope Benedict XVI. In April 2005 he succeeded Benedict as Dean of the College of Cardinals.
- Roger Fisher
Roger Fisher (born May 28, 1922) is Samuel Williston Professor of Law "emeritus" at Harvard Law School and director of the Harvard Negotiation Project.
- Jan Veizer
Jan Veizer is an emeritus professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and holder of the NSERC/Noranda/CIAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry. He is one of the world leaders in isotope geochemistry an ... Related Categories: Earth scientists ; University of Ottawa faculty ; Geochemists ; global warming skeptics
- David Butler
Dr. David Butler (born 17 October 1924) is a Social Scientist and Psephologist. His most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945. Since 1974, these studies have been co-written with Dennis Kavanagh. He was an on-screen expert on the BBC's election coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
- Walter Wink
Prof. Dr. Walter Wink is Professor emeritus at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. His faculty discipline is biblical interpretation. He previously worked as a parish minister and professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1989-1990 he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He is known for his work on power structures, with a progressive Christian view on current political and cultural matters.
- James Lipton
James Lipton (born September 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American writer, poet, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. He is also the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series, "Inside the Actors Studio", taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University in New York City. Most recently, James has starred in a number of humorous television commercials for DC Shoes.
- Jack Shaheen
Jack G. Shaheen (born 1935) is Professor Emeritus of Mass Communication at Southern Illinois University. He was also a consultant on Middle East affairs for CBS News. He studies portrayals of Arabs and Islam in American media. Being a committed internationalist and humanist, dr. Shaheen addresses stereotypical images of racial and ethnic groups. His presentations illustrate that stereotypes do not exist in a vacuum, that hurtful caricatures of Asians, blacks, …
- Richard Garwin
Richard L. Garwin was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. Garwin began his work with nuclear weapons technology in 1950 and continues to be an influential voice in national security issues today. Garwin joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1950 and also made study visits to Los Alamos Laboratory.
- Michael Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. In 1961, Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research.
- Louie Crew
Louie Crew is an English professor emeritus at Rutgers University in Newark. He is best known for his long and increasingly successful campaign for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people by Christians in general, and the Episcopal Church in particular. He sat on the Episcopal Church's executive council (2000 - 2006), and serves as secretary of Province 2 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
- Robert Hare
Dr. Robert D. Hare is a researcher renowned in the field of criminal psychology. He is professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia where his studies centered on psychopathology and psychophysiology. He developed the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), used to diagnose cases of psychopathy and also useful in predicting the likelihood of violent behavior.
- Donald Brown
Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology (emeritus). He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature. In his best known work, "Human Universals", he says these universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, …
- Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich (born 1933) is Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He is a Canadian-born British academic philosopher, of Mennonite origin, who moved to London in 1959 to work with Alfred Ayer. His brother was the late publisher Beland Honderich. In 1972, he became Reader in Philosophy at University College London, and was Grote Professor from 1988 until his retirement in 1998.
- Henry W. Bloch
Henry W. Bloch (b. July 30, 1922) is the co-founder and (since 2000) the chairman "emeritus" of H&R Block. Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.
- David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War. Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. He taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and, from 1973, Harvard University. He also taught at Smith College, the University of North Wales, Princeton University, University College London and served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
- Ian Barbour
Ian Graeme Barbour (b. 1923 Beijing, China) is an American scholar of the relationship between science and religion. He received his B.S. in physics from Swarthmore College, his M.S. in physics from Duke University in 1946, and a Ph.D. in physics from University of Chicago in 1950. He earned a B.D. in 1956 from Yale Divinity School. Barbour taught for many years at Carleton College with appointments as professor of religion and as Bean Professor of Science, Technology, …
- Larry Faulkner
Larry Faulkner was the twenty-seventh president of The University of Texas at Austin. Faulkner is, as of January 31, 2006, President of Houston Endowment, Inc. On June 30, 2005, he announced that he would step down from his post in the spring of 2006. In December 2005, William C. Powers was officially named his successor and took office in February 2006. On February 9, 2006, The University of Texas System Board of Regents named Faulkner president emeritus, …
- John Mackey
John Mackey (born 11 January 1918) is the Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. He was ordained a priest on 23 November 1941. On 25 April 1974 he was appointed bishop for the diocese. He was ordained a bishop on 30 June 1974. The Principal Consecrator was Pope Paul VI; his Principal Co-Consecrators were Giovanni Cardinal Benelli and Cardinal Lourdusamy. Bishop Mackey retired on 1 January 1983.
- Page Smith
Charles Page Smith (September 6, 1917 - August 28, 1995), who was known by his middle name, was a U.S. historian, professor, author, and newspaper columnist. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Smith graduated with a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1940. He then worked at Camp William James, a center for youth leadership training opened in 1940 by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, a Dartmouth College professor, as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
- James Cronin
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Specifically, they proved, by examining the decay of kaons, …
- Peter Likins
Peter Likens was president of the University of Arizona from 1997 until his retirement in summer 2006. He was previously president of Lehigh University. Before moving to Lehigh, he was provost for professional schools at Columbia University and had previously been dean of Columbia's engineering school. At each of these universities, Likins was a professor of electrical engineering.
- Keith L. Moore
Keith L. Moore is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy (department of surgery), former Chair of anatomy and associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has also worked at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is most known for his textbooks on the subjects of anatomy and human embryology.
- David Brody
David Brody (June 5, 1930) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Davis.
- Saul Kripke
Professor Saul Kripke (Philosophy), who had been a visiting professor at The Graduate Center since Spring 2002, now joins the faculty as a Professor of Philosophy. He is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. While a high school student in Nebraska, he wrote a series of papers that transformed modal logic and remain canonical works in the field.
- Edmund Morgan
Edmund Morgan , Professor Emeritus of Yale University in his review of this book for the New York Times called it "a tour de force. This is a book that could redirect historical thinking about the Revolution and its place in the national consciousness." In the book, Professor Wood gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
- I. Howard Marshall
I. Howard Marshall is an Emeritus Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), specifically in the department of Divinity and Religious Studies. He is also the Chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research and was formerly President of the British New Testament Society and Chair of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians.