Past and present Cornell University faculty
Thislist of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators ofCornell University , anIvy League university located inIthaca ,New York .
Peter Debye (professor of Chemistry, 1940–50; department chair) —Chemistry 1936; National Medal of Science (1965)Manfred Eigen (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–76) — Chemistry 1967Richard R. Ernst (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996–2002) — Chemistry 1991Paul Flory (Chemistry faculty, 1948–57) — Chemistry 1974; National Medal of Science (1974)Otto Hahn (George Fisher Baker Lecturer of Chemistry, 1933) — Chemistry 1944Gerhard Herzberg (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1968)[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Roald Hoffmann (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters) — Chemistry 1981;National Medal of Science (1983)Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937–1938;Messenger Lecturer 1959)[ 4] [ 5] The Nature of the Chemical Bond was completed while he was at Cornell and was published byCornell University Press in 1939James B. Sumner (professor, 1929–55 and professor emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) — Chemistry 1946Henry Taube (instructor and assistant professor, 1941–1946) — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science (1976)Vincent du Vigneaud (professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938–67), Professor of Chemistry, 1967–75) — Chemistry 1955;Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1948)[ edit ] Norman Borlaug , "father of theGreen Revolution "Hans Bethe Hannes Alfvén (Distinguished Professor in Engineering) — Physics 1970Hans Bethe (John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, 1935–2005) — Physics 1967; National Medal of Science (1975)Richard Feynman (Physics faculty, 1945–1950) —Nobel Prize in Physics 1965; National Medal of Science (1979)Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1977–1983) and Bethe Lecturer in Physics, 1989–90) — Physics 1991Brian D. Josephson (NSF Senior Foreign Scientist Fellow, 1971–1972)[ 7] David Lee (professor of Physics) — Physics 1996Anthony James Leggett (visiting professor, April 1973, July 1974, Bethe Lecturer, April 1980, visiting scientist, January — August 1983)[ 8] Wolf Prize in Physics (2002)Roger Penrose (visiting professor) — Physics 2020Robert Coleman Richardson (Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996John Robert Schrieffer (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–1975) — Physics 1972;National Medal of Science (1983)George Paget Thomson (non-resident lecturer, 1929–1930) — Physics 1937Kip Thorne (Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986–1992; visiting senior research associate, January — June 1977; Hans Bethe Lecturer, 1986; Yervant Terzian Memorial Lecture, 2016)[ 9] Kenneth G. Wilson (professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, 1963–1988) — Physics 1982;Wolf Prize in Physics (1980)Physiology or Medicine [ edit ] James P. Allison (professor, Weill Cornell Medicine 2004–2012)[ 10] [ 11] Wolf Prize in Medicine (2017)Robert F. Furchgott (Assistant Professor of biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College, 1940–49) — Physiology or Medicine 1998Herbert Spencer Gasser (Medical College, 1931–34) —Physiology or Medicine 1944Paul Greengard (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) — Physiology or Medicine 2000Haldan Keffer Hartline (Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940–41) — Physiology or Medicine 1967Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948–64) — Physiology or Medicine 1968Har Gobind Khorana (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–80) — Physiology or Medicine 1968; National Medal of Science (1987)Fritz Albert Lipmann (research associate, Medical College, 1939–1941) — Physiology or Medicine 1953; National Medal of Science (1966)Peter Medawar (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–71) — Physiology or Medicine 1960Harold E. Varmus (Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine, 2015–)[ 12] Bob Blackman (head coach, football, 1977–82) — member of theCollege Football Hall of Fame Charles E. Courtney (head coach, rowing, 1883–1920) — rower and rowing coachMelody Davidson (head coach, women's ice hockey) — head coach of theCanadian national women's hockey team and the Canadian2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey teamHilary Gehman (head coach, women's rowing) — two-time Olympian; six-time member of the U.S. national rowing teamEdward Moylan (head coach, tennis and squash, 1962–72) — tennis player; gold medal winner at the 1955 Pan American Games withArt Larsen Nicole Ross (assistant coach, fencing, 2016–18) — Olympic foil fencer; won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil titleMichel Sebastiani (coach, fencing, 1963–70) — Olympic fencing coach and member of theUS Fencing Association Hall of Fame ; his women’s team won theIntercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) National Championship in 1967, 1968, and 1969, and his fencers also won the NIWFA individual title in 1968, and another won theNCAA men’s épée title in 1968Michael Slive (director of Athletics, 1981–83) — commissioner of theSoutheastern Conference , 2002–15Phil Sykes (interim head coach, field hockey, 2003) — U.S. Olympic field hockey defenderAl Walker (head coach, basketball, 1993–96) — former basketball player and college coach, now a scout for theDetroit Pistons of the NBAArthur S. Adams (university provost 1946–1948) — president of theUniversity of New Hampshire (1948–1950); president of theAmerican Council on Education (1950–1961)Charles Kendall Adams (university president, 1885–1892) — president of theUniversity of Wisconsin , 1892–1901John L. Anderson (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1971–1976) — president of theIllinois Institute of Technology (2007–2015), provost and university vice president ofCase Western Reserve University (2004–2007), dean of the College of Engineering atCarnegie Mellon University (1996–2004); member of theNational Academy of Engineering and Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science Elisha Andrews (faculty 1888-89) — president ofDenison University (1875–79) andBrown University (1889–1898);chancellor of the University of Nebraska (1900–1909)Sanford Soverhill Atwood (university provost 1955–1963) — president ofEmory University (1963–1977)[ 13] [ 14] Sarah Gibson Blanding (dean of Human Ecology, 1941–46) — president ofVassar College , 1946–1964Detlev Bronk (professor of Physiology at Cornell University Medical College 1939–1941) — president ofJohns Hopkins University and of theRockefeller Institute ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1939)[ 15] Robert F. Chandler (professor of Forest Soils) — president of theUniversity of New Hampshire (1950–1954); winner of theWorld Food Prize , 1988James Mason Crafts (chemistry professor, 1867–1870) — president ofMIT , 1897–1900Cornelis W. de Kiewiet (university provost 1948–1951; acting president 1949–1951) — president of theUniversity of Rochester (1951–1961)Lloyd Hartman Elliott (professor of Educational Administration) — president of theUniversity of Maine (1958–1965) andGeorge Washington University (1965–1988)Thomas E. Everhart (professor of Electrical Engineering, dean of Engineering 1979–1984) — chancellor of theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1984–1987), president of theCalifornia Institute of Technology (1987–1997); member of theNational Academy of Engineering and foreign fellow ofthe Royal Academy of Engineering W. Kent Fuchs (university provost, 2009–2014) — president of theUniversity of Florida , 2015-Richard H. Gallagher (faculty 1967–1978) — president ofClarkson University (1988–1995) and member ofNational Academy of Engineering [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] Charles De Garmo (faculty) — president ofSwarthmore College (1891–1898)[ 19] Theodore L. Hullar (faculty, 1979–1984, 1997–) — chancellor ofUC Riverside (1985–1987) andUC Davis (1987–1994)Harry Burns Hutchins (Law faculty 1887–1894) — president of theUniversity of Michigan , 1909–1920William Rea Keast (professor, department chair, dean of Arts & Sciences, vice president for Academic Affairs, 1951–1965) — president ofWayne State University , 1965–1971David C. Knapp (university provost, 1974–1978) — president of theUniversity of Massachusetts (1978–1990)Asa S. Knowles (vice president for University Development, 1948–1951)[ 20] University of Toledo (1951–1958) and ofNortheastern University (1959–1975)Edward H. Litchfield (dean of School of Business) — twelfth chancellor of theUniversity of Pittsburgh (1956–1965)Carolyn Martin (university provost, 2000–2008) — chancellor of theUniversity of Wisconsin , 2008–2011; president ofAmherst College , 2011–Alan G. Merten (dean of theJohnson School ) — president ofGeorge Mason University (1996–2012)John Niland (assistant professor 1970–1972) — vice-chancellor and principal of theUniversity of New South Wales ,Australia (1992–2002)[ 21] Paul Olum (faculty, 1949–1974; Mathematics Department chair, 1963–1966) — president of theUniversity of Oregon , 1980–1989Russell K. Osgood (dean and professor of Law, 1988–1998) — president ofGrinnell College 1998–2010Robert A. Plane (chemistry professor; university provost 1969–1973) — president ofClarkson University (1974–1985) and ofWells College (1991–1995)Don Michael Randel (university provost, dean of Arts & Sciences) — president of theUniversity of Chicago , 2000–2006Charles Ashmead Schaeffer (dean of faculty) — president of theUniversity of Iowa , 1887–1898[ 22] Benjamin Ide Wheeler (professor of Greek and ComparativePhilology ) — president of theUniversity of California , 1899–1919Roy A. Young (president ofBoyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research ofCornell University , 1980–1986) —chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln , 1976–1980Engineering and computer science [ edit ] Robert L. Constable (professor emeritus, Computer Science) — Work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, especially theNuprl system Richard W. Conway (Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management) — industrial engineering, simulation, scheduling theory,PL/C and other programming languages and dialects for instructional use, first director of the Office of Computing ServicesR. Keith Dennis (professor emeritus, Mathematics) — Known for his work inalgebraic K-theory Carla Gomes (professor of Computer Science) — Director of theInstitute for Computational Sustainability Paul Ginsparg (professor of Physics and Computing & Information Science, 2001–) — developer of thearXiv e-print archive, MacArthur AwardDavid Gries (professor emeritus, Computer Science) — author ofThe Science of Programming (1981), 4 national education awardsJoseph Halpern (professor of Computer Science) — computer scientist; recipient of theGödel Prize (1997), member of theNational Academy of Engineering (2019)Juris Hartmanis (professor emeritus, Computer Science) —Turing Award recipient, 1993; member of theNational Academy of Engineering (1989)John Hopcroft (IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science, Emeritus) — Turing Award recipient (1986),IEEE John von Neumann Medal recipient (2010), member of theNational Academy of Engineering (1989) and of theNational Academy of Sciences (2009)Jon Kleinberg (Tisch University Professor of Computer Science) — MacArthur Award andNevanlinna Prize , member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), theNational Academy of Engineering (2008) and theNational Academy of Sciences (2011)Dexter Kozen (professor of Computer Science) — computer scientist specializing indynamic logic Trevor Pinch (chair of Science and Technology Studies Department) — Chair of the Science and Technology Studies departmentGerard Salton (professor of Computer Science) — father ofinformation retrieval ; recipient ofGuggenheim Fellowship (1962),ASIS Award for Best Information Science Paper (1970), Best Information Science Book (1975), the firstGerard Salton Award (named in his honor) for Outstanding Contributions to Information Retrieval (1983), theAlexander von Humboldt Senior Science Award (1988), the ASIS Award of Merit (1989);ACM FellowDavid Shmoys (professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering) —ACM Fellow andINFORMS Fellow, and recipient of theFrederick W. Lanchester Prize (2013)Fred B. Schneider (Samuel B Eckert Professor of Computer Science) — member of theNational Academy of Engineering (2011)Éva Tardos (Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science) — recipient of theFulkerson Prize (1988), theGeorge B. Dantzig Prize (2006) and theGödel Prize (2012); member of theNational Academy of Sciences , theNational Academy of Engineering , theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society and of theAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)Robert Tarjan (assistant professor of Computer Science 1973–1974) — computer scientist and mathematician, known for discovering severalgraph algorithms, includingTarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm ; co-inventor ofsplay trees andFibonacci heaps ; Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science atPrinceton University ; recipient of Turing Award (1986)Tim Teitelbaum (professor of Computer Science) — known for his early work onintegrated development environments (IDEs) ,syntax-directed editing , andincremental computation David P. Williamson (professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering) — Editor-in-chief of theSIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics ; recipient of theFulkerson Prize (2000) and theFrederick W. Lanchester Prize (2013)Theodore Paul Wright (acting president, 1951) — aeronautical engineer and educatorLynden Archer (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering)[ 23] National Academy of Engineering (2018)Henry G. Booker (professor of Electrical Engineering 1948–1965) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1960)Lance Collins (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, 2010–2020)[ 24] Susan Daniel (professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)Lov Grover (professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering)Zygmunt Haas (professor emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering)David A. Hammer (professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering)[ 25] Mark E. Lewis (professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering)Chekesha Liddell (professor, Materials Science and Engineering)Hod Lipson (professor of Mechanical Engineering)Michal Lipson (professor 2001–2014) — MacArthur Award, research into nanotech applications to opticsCarlo Montemagno (professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering 1995–2001, director of Biomedical Engineering) — "father ofbionanotechnology "Christopher Ober (professor, Materials Science and Engineering)Richard D. Robinson (associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering)Britney Schmidt (associate professor of astronomy, earth, and atmospheric sciences)Peter C. Schultz (Materials Science Visiting Professor 1978–1984) — co-inventor of thefiber optics now used worldwide fortelecommunications ; member of theNational Academy of Engineering , inductee to theNational Inventors Hall of Fame , recipient of theNational Medal of Technology and Innovation (2000)William R. Sears — notable aeronautical engineer and educator; member of theNational Academy of Sciences , theNational Academy of Engineering , and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences Huili Grace Xing (William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering)Fengqi You (Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor)[ edit ] Chief JusticeCharles Evans Hughes Iajuddin Ahmed (visiting professor, 1984) — president ofBangladesh , 2002–09Ifeoma Ajunwa — organizational behavior, law[ 26] Alfred C. Aman Jr. (professor, 1977–91) — dean ofSuffolk University Law School andIndiana University School of Law G. Robert Blakey — professor of law and director of the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime (1973–80) — author of the RICO statute and chief counsel to House Select Committee on AssassinationsHerbert W. Briggs (professor of Government 1929–1969) — prominent in international lawGeorge W. Casey Jr. (distinguished senior lecturer) — chief of staff of the United States Army, 2007–11; Commander of Multi-National Force — Iraq, 2004–07David J. Danelski (Goldwin Smith Professor of Government, 1970–79) — constitutional law, civil rights lawyer, University OmbudsmanMichael J. Freeman (assistant professor) — inventor; business consultant, behavior sciencesBenjamin Ginsberg (professor of Government, 1973–c. 1992) — American governmentAndrew Hacker (professor) — political scientist; questioned race, class, and gender in American societyHarry George Henn Robert C. Hockett Charles Evans Hughes (professor, Law School, 1891–93) — governor of New York, 1907–10; U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, 1910–16; U.S. presidential candidate, 1916; U.S. secretary of state, 1921–25;chief justice of the United States , 1930–41Irving Ives (trustee; dean of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945–47) — U.S. senator from New York, 1947–59; namesake of Ives HallWilliam A. Jacobson — attorney, Cornell Law School professor, and bloggerRobert Jarrow (Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at theSamuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ) — expert on derivative securities; co-developer ofHeath-Jarrow-Morton framework andJarrow-Turnbull model George McTurnan Kahin (professor of Government, 1951–88) — expert onSoutheast Asia and critic of theVietnam War Alfred E. Kahn (Robert Julius Thorne — professor emeritus of Political Economy; trustee; dean of Arts & Sciences) — advisor to PresidentJimmy Carter on deregulation; economistPeter J. Katzenstein (Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, 1973–, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow) — international relations;Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2020)Milton R. Konvitz — head of Liberian codification projectIsaac Kramnick (Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus, 1972–2015) — English and American political thought and history; fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)Theodore J. Lowi ( John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, 1959–1965, 1972–2015, Emeritus –2017) — American government and public policy; president of theAmerican Political Science Association (1991)Cynthia McKinney (Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) — U.S. representative fromGeorgia , 1993–2003, 2005–2007Edwin Barber Morgan (trustee, 1865–74) — U.S. Representative from New York, 1853–59; Director ofAmerican Express Robert Parris Moses (Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, 2006–) — a leader of theCivil Rights Movement ; creator of theAlgebra Project ;MacArthur "genius" John Nesheim — venture capitalist, teaches classes on entrepreneurshipRichard Neustadt (professor of Public Administration, 1952?–54?) —political scientist specializing in theUnited States presidency ; advised presidentsJohn F. Kennedy ,Lyndon Johnson , andBill Clinton Frances Perkins (lecturer of Industrial & Labor Relations (?–1965) —U.S. Secretary of Labor , 1933-45); first femaleU.S. Cabinet memberAziz Rana (professor of Law, ?–2022)Richard Rosecrance (Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International and Comparative Politics, 1970s and 1980s) — international relationsClinton Rossiter (professor of Government, 1946–70) — political scientistMyron Rush (professor of Government, 1965–1992) — the politics and foreign policy of the Soviet UnionFrederick A. Sawyer (professor) —Assistant Secretary of the Treasury , 1873–74; Senator fromSouth Carolina , 1968–73Martin Shefter (professor of Government, 1986–) — political scientistArthur E. Sutherland Jr. (professor of Law, 1945-1950) — constitutional and commercial law expert and author;Harvard Law School professor (1950-1970)[ 27] Lynn Stout — Distinguished Professor of Corporate & Business LawJessica Chen Weiss — Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies[ 28] Architecture and design [ edit ] Esra Akcan — Michael A. McCarthy ProfessorBristow Adams (professor, 1914–45) — journalist, professor, forester, illustratorBuckminster Fuller (professor) — architect and inventor, known for work withgeodesic domes Romaldo Giurgola (professor) — architect, winner of theAIA Gold Medal Valerio Olgiati (guest professor, 2005) — architect and professorColin Rowe (professor, 1970s) — architectural historian and theoreticianOswald Mathias Ungers (professor, 1968-1976) — architectRaphael Zuber (assistant, 2005) — architectFine arts and photography [ edit ] Goldwin Smith Felix Adler (professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1874–76) — early 20th-century Jewishrationalist and social reformerGlenn C. Altschuler — Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies; Weiss Presidential Fellow; dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell UniversityCarl L. Becker (John Wendell Anderson Professor of History, 1917–41) — historian; namesake ofCarl Becker House Martin Bernal (1972–2001) — professor of modern Chinese history; author ofBlack Athena Sherman Cochran —Hu Shih Professor Emeritus of Chinese historyDavid Brion Davis (professor of History, 1955-1969) — 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner; scholar of slavery and American intellectual history;National Humanities Medal (2014)Anthony Grafton (professor) — a leading scholar of theRenaissance D. G. E. Hall — emeritus professor of Southeast Asian HistoryCharles Henry Hull (1864-1936) — professor of American History, dean of theArts and Sciences College Donald Kagan (professor 1960-1969) — classicist;National Humanities Medal (2002)Michael Kammen (professor of History) — 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner; U.S. Constitution scholarBernard Lewis (professor 1986-1990) — recipient ofNational Humanities Medal (2006),Harvey Prize (1978)Mostafa Minawi (professor of History) — Ottoman HistoryBenzion Netanyahu (professor of History 1971-1975) —professor emeritus of history atCornell University ; father ofIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Walter LaFeber (Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow of History, 1958–2006) — U.S. foreign policy historianFredrik Logevall — (John S. Knight Professor of International Studies) — 2013 Pulitzer Prize winnerMary Beth Norton (Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emeritus of American History, 1971–) — American colonial history, women's history; fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), president of theAmerican Historical Association (2016)Richard Polenberg (Goldwin Smith Professor of American History, 1966–2011, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History Emeritus, –2020) — 20th-century American historyHunter R. Rawlings III — 10th president of Cornell UniversityJoel H. Silbey (President White Professor of History Emeritus, 1966–2002) — 19th century American historyGoldwin Smith (professor of English and Constitutional History, 1868–71) — historian; university reformer; namesake of Goldwin Smith HallCarl Stephenson (professor of Medieval History, 1930–54?) — early 20th-century medievalistJohn Szarkowski (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1983–89) — photography curator, historian, and criticEric Tagliacozzo — historian of modern Southeast AsiaHerbert Tuttle (professor of international law) — 19th-century historian, authorAndrew Dickson White — first president of Cornell University; first president of theAmerican Historical Association L. Pearce Williams (John Stambaugh Professor of the History of Science, 1960–1994, Emeritus –2015) — history of Western civilization, history of scienceO. W. Wolters — 20th-century historian of earlySoutheast Asia M. H. Abrams — author of theMirror and the Lamp ; literary critic; fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; recipient ofNational Humanities Medal (2013)Frederick Ahl (professor of Classics and Comparative Literature) — classics scholarCharles Edwin Bennett (Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin, 1892–?) — classicistThomas G. Bergin (professor of Romance Languages) — author and translatorHjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (professor of North European Languages, 1874–1880) — authorHiram Corson (professor) — professor of literatureJonathan Culler (professor) — literary critic and theoristLouis Dyer (acting professor of Greek, 1895–96) — educator and authorRoberto González Echevarría (faculty 1971–1977) — literature critic; member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of theNational Humanities Medal (2010)Max Farrand (professor) — author of American historical subjectsEmily Fridlund — author ofHistory of Wolves Alice Fulton (professor of Creative Writing) — poet, fiction writer,MacArthur Award (1991)Henry Louis Gates Jr. (professor, 1985–90) — Afro-American Studies scholar; MacArthur Fellow (1981)Robert Kaske (professor, 1963–74; Avalon Professor in the Humanities, 1974–89) — scholar ofmedieval literature Victor Lange (professor) — professor of modern languagesAlison Lurie (professor of Creative Writing, 1968–) — fiction writer, winner of thePulitzer Prize for Fiction Paul de Man (professor) — professor of Comparative LiteratureVladimir Nabokov (professor of European and Russian Literature, 1948–58) — author of the novelLolita Adrienne Rich (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) — feminist poetNoliwe Rooks — (W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Literature) — interdisciplinary scholar[ 30] Edgar Rosenberg (professor, 1965–2002) — emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973[ 31] William Sale Jr. (Goldwin Smith Professor of English, 1959;professor emeritus , 1968)[ 32] Nathaniel Schmidt (professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures) — Americanorientalist William De Witt Snodgrass (professor, 1955–57) — poet, winner of thePulitzer Prize for Poetry Melanie Thernstrom (professor) — author and freelance journalistAlvin Toffler (professor) — writer, sociologist, and futurist;Future Shock Helena Maria Viramontes (professor of English) —Chicana fiction writerWendy Wasserstein (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 2005–06) —Tony Award andPulitzer Prize -winning playwrightKwame Anthony Appiah (professor, 1986–89) — African Studies philosopher and novelist;National Humanities Medal (2012)Max Black Allan Bloom (professor, 1963–70) — philosophy and government, author ofClosing of the American Mind National Humanities Medal (1992)Richard Boyd (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters Emeritus, 1972–2017) — philosopher of epistemologyJudith Butler — philosophy 2003–2007; Andrew White Professor at LargeEdwin Arthur Burtt (professor) — Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy in 1941, author of works on philosophyHarold F. Cherniss (professor) — author and expert on the philosophy of Ancient GreeceMorris Raphael Cohen (lecturer) — Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholarJames Edwin Creighton (professor) — philosopherWerner J. Dannhauser (professor, 1968–92) — political philosophy, expert on Nietzsche and on Judaism and politicsTerence Irwin Anthony Kenny Norman Kretzmann David Lyons (professor of Philosophy, 1964–1995) —joint appointment in College of Arts and Sciences and School of LawNorman Malcolm (professor, 1947–58) —Ludwig Wittgenstein scholarEvander Bradley McGilvary (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Ethics, 1899–1905) — philosophical scholarJohn Rawls (professor) — philosopher; author ofA Theory of Justice Political Liberalism The Law of Peoples National Humanities Medal (1999); namesake of Asteroid16561 Rawls Sydney Shoemaker (Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy) — philosopher and metaphysicianJason Stanley Brian Weatherson (associate professor of Philosophy) — philosopher, metaphysicianAllen W. Wood (professor of Philosophy, 1968–1996) — leading scholar on Kant[ edit ] John Cleese Natural sciences and related fields [ edit ] Carl Sagan Joseph A. Burns (professor of Astronomy, c. 1969–) — dual appointment with the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringJames L. Elliot (former postdoctoral fellow, Faculty) — astrophysicist; discoverer of the ring system ofUranus while at Cornell; discoverer of the atmosphere ofPluto Riccardo Giovanelli (professor of Astronomy 1991–) —Henry Draper Medal recipient (1989)Thomas Gold (John L. Wetherill Professor of Astronomy, 1959–2004) — astrophysicist, coined the term "magnetosphere "; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1968)Martha P. Haynes (Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy) —Henry Draper Medal recipient (1989), member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2000)Jonathan Lunine (David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences) —Harold C. Urey Prize recipient (1988), member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2010), fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and theAmerican Geophysical Union Jean-Luc Margot (assistant professor) — astronomer, awarded theH. C. Urey Prize by theAmerican Astronomical Society , 2004Carl Sagan (David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 1968–96) — space sciencesEdwin Ernest Salpeter (James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of the Physical Sciences Emeritus, 1948–2008) — astronomer;Crafoord Prize (1997), member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1967)Saul Teukolsky (professor 1974–) — theoreticalastrophysicist and co-author ofNumerical Recipes ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2003)Aleksander Wolszczan (professor) — discoverer of firstextrasolar planets andpulsar planets [ edit ] Jane Goodall Louis Agassiz (lecturer) — zoologist, glaciologist, and geologistLiberty Hyde Bailey (professor) — botanist, early progenitor of the4-H movement, namesake of Bailey Hall; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1917)Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow; Professor of History, Human Development, and Gender Studies, 1979–) — scholar in adolescence, body image and eating disorders, and related fieldsT. Colin Campbell (professor) — nutritionist; director of theChina Project ;author ofThe China Study William Henry Chandler (professor 1913–1923) — botanist in pomology; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1943)Anna Botsford Comstock — nature studies, appointed first woman assistant professor at Cornell (1899), full professor (1920)[ 35] [ 36] Derrill M. Daniel (assistant professor of entomology) — US Army major general[ 37] Thomas Eisner (Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology) — pioneer ofchemical ecology ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1969), recipient of theNational Medal of Science (1994)Rollins A. Emerson (professor 1914–1942) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1927)Barton Warren Evermann (lecturer, 1900–03) —ichthyologist Claudia Fischbach (professor) James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering and the Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering[ 38] Martin Gibbs (professor 1956–1964)[ 39] National Academy of Sciences (1974)Jane Goodall (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996–2002) — naturalistEverett Peter Greenberg (faculty 1978–1988) — American microbiologist who received theShaw Prize in 2015; member of theNational Academy of Sciences and fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences Donald Griffin (professor) — zoologist, member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1960)Ann Hajek (Professor) — entomologistMaria Harrison (William H. Crocker Research Chair) — plant biologist, member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2019)Franz-Ulrich Hartl (professor 1991–1997) — director of theMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany (1997–); recipient ofGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize (2002),Gairdner Foundation International Award (2004),Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2011),Shaw Prize (2012), etc., member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and theNational Academy of Sciences (2011)Charles Frederick Hartt (professor, 1868–?) — Canadian-American geologist, palaeontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology ofBrazil Robert W. Howarth (professor) — biogeochemistMaria Jasin (professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2015) and of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017); recipient of theShaw Prize in Life Sciences (2019)William Tinsley Keeton (professor) — expert in animal navigation, namesake of William Keeton HouseGraham Kerr (professor, 1973) — chef, "The Galloping Gourmet"Simon A. Levin (professor 1965-1992) — Recipient of theNational Medal of Science (2015),Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2014),Kyoto Prize (2005)Gene Likens (professor of Ecology, 1969-1983; adjunct professor 1983–) — ecologist; member ofAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences ,National Academy of Sciences ,Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ; recipient of National Medal of Science (2001),Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1993),BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)John T. Lis (faculty 1978–) —Guggenheim Fellow (2000), member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2015)Yiqi Luo (professor) —Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor at the School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences[ 40] Thomas Lyttleton Lyon − emeritus professor of Soils Science for the Department of Agriculture; co-winner of theHoward N. Potts Medal (1913)Jerrold Meinwald (professor emeritus of Chemistry) — chemical ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969) and theAmerican Philosophical Society (1987); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970); recipient of the National Medal of Science (2014)Gero Miesenböck (assistant professor of Cell Biology and Genetics; assistant professor of Neuroscience 1999–2004)[ 41] Brain Prize (2013) andBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015)John Keith Moffat —Guggenheim Fellow , former associate professor in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology at Cornell, later deputy provost atUniversity of Chicago , noted forAdvanced Photon Source andTime resolved crystallography Corrie Moreau (professor 2019–) —myrmecologist /ant researcher;fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ,Entomological Society of America fellow,Royal Entomological Society fellowRebecca J. Nelson (associate professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) —MacArthur Fellow (1998); researcher in crop disease resistanceKarl J. Niklas (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Plant Biology)Katharine Payne (researcher at Bio-acoustics Research Program, Lab of Ornithology) — whale and elephant researcherDavid Peakall (1968-1975 Laboratory of Ornithology, senior research associate in the Section of Ecology and Systematics in the Biological Sciences Division)Pinstrup-Andersen Per (professor of Food Economics 1987–1992, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public Policy 2003–2013, professor emeritus and graduate school professor 2013–) — recipient of theWorld Food Prize (2001)Donald W. Roberts – former adjunct professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Plant PathologyWendell L. Roelofs (professor) — recipient ofAlexander von Humboldt Award (1977),Wolf Prize in Agriculture (1982), National Medal of Science (1983)Benoît Roux (professor) — molecular biologist; winner of theRutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, 1998) from theRoyal Society of Canada W. Mark Saltzman (BP Amoco/H. Laurance Fuller Chair 1996–2002) — member of theNational Academy of Medicine (2014) and of theNational Academy of Engineering (2018)John C. Sanford (professor, 1980–98) — inventor of thegene gun Harold Hill Smith (professor) — geneticistSteven D. Tanksley (Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding, 1985–) — plant breeding andagronomy researcher; recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award,Martin Gibbs Medal of theAmerican Society of Plant Biologists , theWolf Prize in Agriculture and theJapan Prize , member of theNational Academy of Sciences Stanley Temple (1975–1976 research associate) — avian ecologistHelen Turley — winemakerHerbert John Webber (Professor, 1907–1912) — plant physiologist, developed thecitrange Robert Whittaker (professor) — vegetation ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975)Burt Green Wilder (professor of Neurology and Vertebrate Zoology, 1867-1910) —comparative anatomist Charles Edward Stevens (chairman of Physiology, Biology and Pharmacology, 1961-1979) — Fulbright Scholar and internationally recognized expert in the field of comparative physiology and digestive systems.Bruce Wallace (professor of genetics 1958-1981)[ 42] [ 43] National Academy of Sciences (1970)Hao Wu (faculty 1997–2012 Weill Cornell Medical College) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2015)Donald Zilversmit (professor 1966-1990) — nutritional biochemist; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1989)Héctor D. Abruña (Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry)[ 44] National Academy of Sciences (2018)Geoffrey W. Coates (Tisch University Professor in Chemistry) — member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and of theNational Academy of Sciences (2017)[ 45] [ 46] Wilder Dwight Bancroft (professor, 1895-1937) — physical chemist[ 47] Thomas Bruice (professor of Chemistry 1960-1964)[ 48] National Academy of Sciences (1974)James Crafts (professor of Chemistry, 1868–97) — president ofMIT , 1897-1900Jean Fréchet (professor 1987-1998) —Japan Prize (2013); fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science ,American Chemical Society , andAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences , member ofNational Academy of Sciences andNational Academy of Engineering Gordon Hammes (biochemist 1965-1988) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1973)James L. Hoard (chemistry professor 1936-1971) —National Academy of Sciences (1972)John R. Johnson (professor 1927-1965) — chemist; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1948)John Gamble Kirkwood (professor) — chemistStephen Lee (professor of Solid State Chemistry) —MacArthur Award andSloan Fellow Franklin A. Long (professor and chairman of Chemistry) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1962)Jerrold Meinwald (professor of Chemistry 1960s–) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences and theAmerican Philosophical Society , fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science , recipient of theNational Medal of Science (2014) and Chemical Pioneer Award of theAmerican Institute of Chemists (1997)Earl Muetterties (professor 1973-1978) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1971)Gregory Petsko (Arthur J. Mahon Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College 2012–) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1995)Efraim Racker (professor of Biochemistry) — founder of the biochemistry department atCornell University ; member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and theNational Academy of Sciences ; recipient of Warren Triennial Prize (1974),National Medal of Science (1976), Gairdner Award (1980)Frank Spedding (George Fisher Baker assistant professor 1935-1937) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1952)Benjamin Widom (professor of Chemistry 1955–)Geology and geography [ edit ] Kenneth Brown (professor of Mathematics, 1971–2014, Emeritus–) — algebra, topology, group theory; fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society (2012)William J. Cook (assistant professor 1985–1987) — university professor of theUniversity of Waterloo , member of theNational Academy of Engineering ,American Mathematical Society fellow,INFORMS Fellow andSIAM fellow, recipient of theFrederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS (2007)Eugene Dynkin (professor) — mathematicianWalter T. Federer (professor of Biological Statistics, 1948-86; professor Eeeritus, 1986–2008; Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Statistics Chair, 1978-86 ) — statistician, fellow ofAmerican Statistical Association ,American Association for the Advancement of Science ,Royal Statistical Society ,Institute of Mathematical Statistics Walter Feit (professor, 1952–64) — mathematician, co-author of theFeit–Thompson theorem William Feller (professor 1945-1950) — mathematician, known inprobability theory ; recipient of theNational Medal of Science (1969), member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1960)Richard S. Hamilton — mathematician who laid groundwork for the Poincaré conjecture proofAllen Hatcher (professor, 1985–) — mathematician, proved theSmale conjecture (1983)Kiyosi Itô (professor 1969-1975) —Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987) andKyoto Prize (1998); member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1998)John Irwin Hutchinson (professor of Mathematics, 1894–?) — mathematicianMark Kac (faculty 1939–1961) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1965)Jack Kiefer (professor of Mathematics 1952-1979) — Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of theNational Academy of Sciences ; president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1969-1970)Anthony W. Knapp (professor of Mathematics, 1967–1990) — representation theory; fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society (2012)Saunders Mac Lane (professor) — developer of algebra'scategory theory ; recipient of the National Medal of Science (1989)Greg Lawler (professor 2001–2006) —Wolf Prize in Mathematics recipient (2019)Kathryn Mann (assistant professor 2019–) — mathematicianAmy McCune (professor) — evolutionary biologist and senior associate dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life SciencesJustin T. Moore (professor 2007–) — set theorist and logician, known for his solution to the problem of constructing an L-space.; recipient of the Young Scholar's Competition award in 2006, in Vienna, AustriaMarston Morse (instructor 1920-1922, assistant professor 1922-1925) — mathematician, known forMorse theory indifferential topology ; recipient ofBôcher Memorial Prize (1933); National Medal of Science (1964)George Nemhauser (Leon C. Welch endowed chair 1970-1983) — president of theOperations Research Society of America ; member of theNational Academy of Engineering (1986) and recipient ofJohn von Neumann Theory Prize (2012)Anil Nerode (Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics) — mathematical logic; fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society (2012); longest tenure as active faculty member at Cornell in any disciplinePiergiorgio Odifreddi (professor) — mathematicianPaul Olum (professor) — mathematician, president of theUniversity of Oregon 1980-89Joseph Slepian (instructor) — mathematicianFrank Spitzer (professor 1961–1992) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1981)Robert Strichartz (professor of Mathematics, 1969–2021) — mathematical analysis, fractals; fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society (2017)Steven Strogatz (professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1994–) — mathematicianÉva Tardos (professor of Computer Science) — mathematician, Guggeinheim fellow, winner of theFulkerson Prize , 1988; member of theNational Academy of Engineering (2007)William Thurston (professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2003–) — mathematician;Fields Medal winnerCharles F. Van Loan (chair of the Department of Computer Science) — mathematicianHarry Vandiver (instructor of mathematics 1919-1924) —Cole Prize recipient (1931); member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1934)Karen Vogtmann (professor, 1994–) — mathematician,American Mathematical Society Fellow,Noether Lecturer (2007), known forCuller–Vogtmann Outer space William C. Waterhouse (assistant professor of Mathematics, 1969–75) — modern algebra, exposition, history of mathematicsJacob Wolfowitz (professor of Mathematics 1951-1970) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1974)Alexander Gordon Bearn (professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine 1966-1979) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1972) and theInstitute of Medicine Edward Boyse (professor of biology 1969-1989) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1979) and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences , and fellow of theRoyal Society Eugene Floyd DuBois (faculty at Cornell Medical College) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1933)James Ewing (professor of Clinical Pathology, 1899-1939) — pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known asEwing sarcoma Don W. Fawcett (chair of the Department of Anatomy 1955-1959) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1972)Duane Gish (professor of biomedical science) — prominent for his advocacy ofcreationist theory Elvin A. Kabat (instructor of pathology 1938-1941) — immunologist, member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1966) and fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; president of theAmerican Association of Immunologists (1965-1966); recipient of theLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1977) and theNational Medal of Science (1991)Robert Foster Kennedy (Professor of Neurology) — one of the first to useelectroconvulsive treatment to treatpsychosis ; first to linkshell shock andhysteria Bruce Lerman (the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College) — cardiologist, chief of the Division of Cardiology and director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and theNew York Presbyterian Hospital C. Walton Lillehei (Lewis Atterbury Stimson professor and chairman of the surgery department 1967-1975) — American surgeon who pioneered open-heart surgery; recipient of theHarvey Prize (1996),Gairdner Foundation International Award (1963),Lasker Award (1955)Walsh McDermott (professor of public health and medicine)[ 49] National Academy of Sciences (1967) and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences Agnes Claypole Moody — first woman appointed a position in the Medical DepartmentGeorgios Papanikolaou (researcher at Department of Anatomy, Medical College, 1913–?) — inventor of thePap smear test forcervical cancer Stephen J. Roberts — chairman of the Department of Large Animal Medicine, Obstetrics and Surgery, 1965-1966 and 1969-1972Juan Rosai (James Ewing Alumni Professor of Pathology (1991-1999, later adjunct professor of Pathology at the Weill Cornell Medical College) — author and editor of a main textbook insurgical pathology ; discoverer of several entities such asRosai-Dorfman disease anddesmoplastic small round cell tumor Alexander Rudensky (Tri-Institutional Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College 2008–)[ 50] [ 51] Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2017); member of theNational Academy of Sciences (2012) and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)Tom Shires (chair of Surgery, 1975–91) — trauma surgeon; use of saline solution inshock Daniel Stern (adjunct professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College) — studied early child developmentAshutosh Tewari (professor ofUrology andPublic Health )Theodore H. Schwartz (professor ofNeurosurgery )Madelon Lubin Finkel (professor of ClinicalHealthcare Policy and Research)Carl J. Wiggers (assistant professor 1911–1918) — recipient ofAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1951)Freeman Dyson Neil Ashcroft (professor, 1966–2006) — solid-state physicist and member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1997)Robert Bacher (professor, 1935-1949) —Manhattan Project leader and member ofAtomic Energy Commission ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1947)Robert Brout (professor, 1953-1961) — recipient of theWolf Prize in Physics (2004) andSakurai Prize (2010) for his significant contributions in elementary particle physicsDale R. Corson (professor, 1947-1969, president 1969-1977, chancellor, 1977-1980) — as president, defused riots and armed stand-off in 1969Harold Craighead (Charles W. Lake Professor of Engineering, 1989–) — applied physicistPersis Drell (professor, 1988–2002) — particle physicist; director of theSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2007–2012), dean of theStanford University School of Engineering (2014–2017) and provost of Stanford University (2017–)Gene Dresselhaus (professor) — condensed matter physicist, 2022Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize RecipientFreeman Dyson (professor, 1951–1953) — physicist, mathematician; recipient of theWolf Prize in Physics (1981),Templeton Prize (2000)Mitchell Feigenbaum (professor) — physicist whose pioneering studies inchaos theory led to the discovery of theFeigenbaum constant Craig Fennie (professor) — applied physicist;MacArthur Fellow (2013)Michael Fisher (Horace White Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics, 1966-1987) —Irving Langmuir Award (1971),Wolf Prize in Physics (1980),Boltzmann Medal (1983),Lars Onsager Prize (1995),Royal Medal (2005),BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009); Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and Member of theNational Academy of Sciences Peter Goldreich (Thomas Gold Lecturer, 1987) — astrophysicistKurt Gottfried (professor of Physics, 1964–1998, emeritus –2022) — particle physics; co-founder of theUnion of Concerned Scientists Brian Greene (professor, 1990–1995) — theoretical physicist and author, specializing instring theory Alan Guth (1977-1979) — recipient ofFundamental Physics Prize (2012) andKavli Prize (2014)Arthur Kantrowitz (professor, 1946–1956) — physicist and engineerToichiro Kinoshita (professor, 1955-1995) — Japanese-American theoretical physicist; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1991) and recipient of theSakurai Prize (1990)Raphael M. Littauer (professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, later Emeritus, 1955–2009) — fellow of theAmerican Physical Society (1991),Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators (1995); introduction of pioneering classroom response systemM. Stanley Livingston (faculty 1934-1938) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1970)Richard V. E. Lovelace (professor 1984–) — fellow of the American Physical Society (2000)Boyce McDaniel (professor, 1946-1985) —Manhattan Project physicist andsynchrotron designer; member of theNational Academy of Sciences Paul McEuen (professor, 2001–) — physicist, specializes incarbon nanotubes andgraphene David Mermin (professor) — physicist; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1991) and of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)Philip Morrison (professor 1946-1964) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1971)David A Muller (professor) — applied physicistYuri Orlov (researcher of Physics, 1986–) — nuclear physicist; former Soviet dissident; human rights activistEdward Ott (faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968-1979) — American physicist known for his contributions to the development ofchaos theory Albert Overhauser (faculty, 1953-1958) — physicist, known forOverhauser effect ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences and fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; recipient ofNational Medal of Science (1994) andOliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1975)Robert Otto Pohl (Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics, 1960–2000, Emeritus –2024) — condensed matter physics;Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1985), member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1999)John Reppy (faculty, 1966–2005) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1988)Bruno Rossi (associate professor 1940-1943) — National Medal of Science (1983),Wolf Prize in Physics (1987)Dennis William Sciama (professor) — physicistHarold Scheraga (faculty 1947-1992) — member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1966)George Paget Thomson (non-resident lecturer, 1929–1930) — Nobel Prize, Physics 1937Kip Thorne (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986–1992) — astrophysicistWatt W. Webb (Engineering Physics Faculty 1961–) — member of theNational Academy of Engineering , theNational Academy of Sciences , and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences Robert R. Wilson (professor) — youngest group leader on theManhattan Project ; first director ofFermilab ;National Medal of Science (1973)Social sciences and policy management [ edit ] [ edit ] Betty Friedan Yutaka Tsujinaka (visiting fellow, 1989-1991) — professor of political scienceJohn Adair (professor, 1948-1960) — anthropologistBenedict Anderson (professor emeritus of International Studies) — author ofImagined Communities Walter Berns (professor, 1959-1969) — Constitutional law and political philosophy professor; recipient ofNational Humanities Medal in 2005Fred Buttel (professor of Rural Sociology) — sociologistJohn Collier —visual anthropologist Dian Fossey (visiting research associate, 1980) — anthropologist whose murder was recreated in the filmGorillas in the Mist Betty Friedan (Distinguished Visiting Professor at theILR School 's Institute for Women and Work, 1998–2006)[ 52] The Feminine Mystique Rose Goldsen — pioneer in studying the effects of television and popular cultureCharles F. Hockett (professor 1946-1982) — linguist; member of theNational Academy of Sciences (1974)Jay Jasanoff (professor, 1978-1998) —Indo-European linguistics specialistBronisław Malinowski (lecturer, 1933) — founder of social anthropologyGeorge McGovern (visiting lecturer, 1990) — Democratic nominee for U.S. president (1972), senator from South Dakota (1963–81); taught on US foreign policy[ 53] John V. Murra (1968–82) — professor of anthropology, with a focus on theInca Empire Alan Nussbaum (professor of Linguistics, 1997–) —Indo-European linguist andclassical philologist Meredith Small (professor, 1998–) — anthropologist and primatologist, author of several books on child development, includingOur Babies, Ourselves Adam T. Smith (professor, 2011–) — anthropologist researching the history and societies of theSouth Caucasus Richard Swedberg (professor of Sociology, 2002–) — Swedish economic sociologistMark P. Talbert — senior lecturer of hotel management, and subject of a viral YouTube video publicly criticizing an unknown student who was yawning loudly in one of his classesSidney Tarrow (Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) — researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociologyJames D. Thompson (professor) — sociologistBassam Tibi (A. D. White Professor-at-Large, 2004–) — political scientist of Islamic countriesJames E. Turner (professor emeritus of African and African American Politics and Social Policy — Africana studies; director of Africana Studies and Research Center, 1969–1986, 1996–2001Barbara Wertheimer (associate professor, 1977-1983) — co-founder and director of the Institute for Women and Work at theIndustrial and Labor Relations School [ 54] Francine D. Blau (Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) — received herB.S. in industrial and labor relations in 1966 from CornellKaushik Basu (Carl Marks Professor of Economics) — Indian economist; chief economist of theWorld Bank ; fellow of theEconometric Society Marco Battaglini (Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics) — fellow of theEconometric Society Lawrence Blume (Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics) — fellow of theEconometric Society Morris Copeland (professor of Economics) — president of the American Economic AssociationDavid Easley (professor of Economics) — fellow of theEconometric Society and recipient of theFrederick W. Lanchester Prize (2011)George M. von Furstenberg (assistant professor of Economics) — economist best known for monetary policy, free trade policy and international financeGeorge H. Hildebrand (Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Economics and Industrial and Labor Relations, 1960–69, 1971–80) — president of theIndustrial Relations Research Association (1971)Charles Henry Hull (1864–1936) (professor of American History) — economist and historian. EditedThe Economic Writings of Sir William Petty Louis Hyman Economic historianJeremiah Jenks (professor of Economics, 1891-1912) — president of the American Economic Association (1906).John D. Kasarda — earned a bachelor of science degree in applied economics from Cornell in 1967 and masters of business administration degree in Organizational Theory from Cornell in 1968; developer of theaerotropolis concept, which defines the role ofairports andaviation -driven economic development in shaping 21st-century urban growth and form; directs the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School James Laurence Laughlin (professor, 1890–92) — founded theFederal Reserve System John Williams Mellor (professor of Agricultural Economics, Economics, and Asian Studies; Director of the Comparative Economics Program and the Center for International Studies)Emmett J. Rice (professor, 1954–60) — former governor of the Federal Reserve SystemThomas Sowell (professor, 1965–1969) — economist;National Humanities Medal (2002)Holbrook Working (professor) — economic theorist in the financial fieldBrian Wansink (professor and John S. Dyson Endowed Chair in the Applied Economics and Management Department) — famously discredited food scientist who was discovered to have repeatedly falsified scientific journal articlesAllyn Young (professor, 1913-1920) — president of the American Economic AssociationSamuel B. Bacharach (McKelvey-Grant Professor Emeritus) — director of the Smithers InstituteDaryl Bem (professor of Psychology) —social psychologist , creator ofself-perception theory Sandra Bem (professor) —psychologist ; created theBem Sex-Role Inventory ; studies gender rolesStephen J. Ceci (professor) — researcher of children's courtroom testimonyMichael J. Freeman (visiting assistant professor) — behavior sciencesEleanor J. Gibson (professor of Psychology) —perception anddevelopmental psychology ; fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; member of theNational Academy of Sciences ; recipient of theNational Medal of Science (1992)James J. Gibson (professor of Psychology) — perception, member of the National Academy of SciencesThomas Gilovich (professor of Psychology) — researcher of decision making and behavioral economicsPaulina Kernberg (professor of Psychiatry, 1978–2006) — child psychiatrist and authority onpersonality disorders Lee C. Lee (professor of Human Development) — researcher in developmental psychology and Asian-American identity and historyKurt Lewin (professor) — founder of modernsocial psychology James Maas (professor of Psychology, c. 1963–2011) — sleep studies; longtime teacher of Cornell's most popular class, Psychology 101Neal E. Miller — experimental psychologist, recipient of theNational Medal of Science (1964)Ulrich Neisser (professor) — studied intelligence and memoryRobert Morris Ogden (1877–1959) — Cornell University graduate, professor of Psychology, and Cornell's dean of Arts and Sciences, 1923–1945David A. Pizarro (professor of Psychology)Ritch Savin-Williams (professor) —sexual orientation researcherRobert Sternberg (professor of Human Development) — president of theAmerican Psychological Association ; professor of Psychology and provost atOklahoma State University , dean of Arts and Sciences atTufts University ; IBM Professor of Psychology and Education atYale University ; known fortriarchic theory of intelligence ,triangular theory of love andthree-process view ; fellow of theSociety of Experimental Psychologists , theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science Edward B. 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