Wole Soyinka (Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985; Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts, 1988-1991)[3] —
Literature 1986
Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938;
Messenger Lecturer 1959)[1][2] — Chemistry 1954; the bulk of his most influential scientific book The Nature of the Chemical Bond was completed while he was at Cornell and was published by
Cornell University Press in 1939
James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) — Chemistry 1946
Henry Taube (Instructor and assistant professor, 1941-1946) — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science (1976)
Anthony James Leggett (Visiting Professor, April 1973, July 1974, Bethe Lecturer, April 1980, visiting scientist, January — August 1983)[8] — Physics 2003;
Wolf Prize in Physics (2002)
Kip 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] — Physics 2017
William Rea Keast (Professor, Department Chair, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1951-1965) — President of
Wayne State University, 1965-1971
Robert L. Constable (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) — Work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, especially the
Nuprl 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 Services
Gerard Salton (Professor of Computer Science) — father of
information retrieval; recipient of
Guggenheim Fellowship (1962),
ASIS Award for Best Information Science Paper (1970), Best Information Science Book (1975), the first
Gerard Salton Award (named in his honor) for Outstanding Contributions to Information Retrieval (1983), the
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Science Award (1988), the ASIS Award of Merit (1989);
ACM Fellow
Lynden Archer (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering)[23] — member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2018)
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 Assassinations
Herbert W. Briggs (Professor of Government 1929-1969)- prominent in international law
George W. Casey Jr. (Distinguished Senior Lecturer) — Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 2007–11; Commander of Multi-National Force — Iraq, 2004–07
Michael J. Freeman (Assistant Professor) — inventor; business consultant, behavior sciences
Andrew Hacker (Professor) — political scientist; questioned race, class, and gender in American society
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, 1930-41
Irving Ives (Trustee; Dean of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945–47) — U.S. Senator from New York, 1947–59; namesake of Ives Hall
Felix Adler (Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1874–76) — early 20th-century Jewish
rationalist and social reformer
Glenn 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 University
David Brion Davis (Professor of History, 1955-1969) — 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner; scholar of slavery and American intellectual history;
National Humanities Medal (2014)
John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) — journalist and documentary filmmaker
Natural sciences and related fields
Astronomy
James L. Elliot (Former postdoctoral fellow, Faculty) — astrophysicist; discoverer of the ring system of
Uranus while at Cornell; discoverer of the atmosphere of
Pluto
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 fields
Jerrold Meinwald (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) — chemical ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969) and the
American Philosophical Society (1987); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970); recipient of the National Medal of Science (2014)
Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) —
MacArthur Fellow (1998); researcher in crop disease resistance
Karl 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 researcher
David 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 the
World Food Prize (2001)
Donald W. Roberts – former Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Plant Pathology
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.
Kathryn Mann (Assistant Professor 2019-) — mathematician
Amy McCune (Professor) — evolutionary biologist and Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Justin T. Moore (Professor 2007-) — a 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, Austria.
James Ewing (Professor of Clinical Pathology, 1899-1939) — pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as
Ewing sarcoma
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 the
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Yuri Orlov (Researcher of Physics, 1986-) — nuclear physicist; former Soviet dissident; human rights activist
Edward Ott (Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968-1979) — American physicist known for his contributions to the development of
chaos theory
George McGovern (Visiting Lecturer, 1990) — Democratic Nominee for U.S. President (1972) and Senator from South Dakota (1963–81). Taught on US Foreign Policy.[48]
Richard Swedberg (Professor of Sociology, 2002-) — Swedish economic sociologist
Mark 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 classes
Sidney Tarrow (
Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) — researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology
Francine D. Blau (
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) — received her
B.S. in industrial and labor relations in 1966 from Cornell
George M. von Furstenberg (Assistant Professor of Economics) — economist best known for monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance
John Williams Mellor (Professor of Agricultural Economics, Economics, and Asian Studies; Director of the Comparative Economics Program and the Center for International Studies)
Jeremiah 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 the
aerotropolis concept, which defines the role of
airports and
aviation-driven economic development in shaping 21st-century urban growth and form; directs the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillKenan-Flagler Business School
Brian 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 articles
Allyn Young (Professor, 1913-1920) President of the American Economic Association
Psychology
Samuel B. Bacharach (McKelvey-Grant Professor Emeritus), Director of the Smithers Institute
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Wole Soyinka (Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985; Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts, 1988-1991)[3] —
Literature 1986
Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938;
Messenger Lecturer 1959)[1][2] — Chemistry 1954; the bulk of his most influential scientific book The Nature of the Chemical Bond was completed while he was at Cornell and was published by
Cornell University Press in 1939
James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) — Chemistry 1946
Henry Taube (Instructor and assistant professor, 1941-1946) — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science (1976)
Anthony James Leggett (Visiting Professor, April 1973, July 1974, Bethe Lecturer, April 1980, visiting scientist, January — August 1983)[8] — Physics 2003;
Wolf Prize in Physics (2002)
Kip 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] — Physics 2017
William Rea Keast (Professor, Department Chair, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1951-1965) — President of
Wayne State University, 1965-1971
Robert L. Constable (Professor Emeritus, Computer Science) — Work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, especially the
Nuprl 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 Services
Gerard Salton (Professor of Computer Science) — father of
information retrieval; recipient of
Guggenheim Fellowship (1962),
ASIS Award for Best Information Science Paper (1970), Best Information Science Book (1975), the first
Gerard Salton Award (named in his honor) for Outstanding Contributions to Information Retrieval (1983), the
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Science Award (1988), the ASIS Award of Merit (1989);
ACM Fellow
Lynden Archer (Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, David Croll Director of the Energy Systems Institute and James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering)[23] — member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2018)
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 Assassinations
Herbert W. Briggs (Professor of Government 1929-1969)- prominent in international law
George W. Casey Jr. (Distinguished Senior Lecturer) — Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 2007–11; Commander of Multi-National Force — Iraq, 2004–07
Michael J. Freeman (Assistant Professor) — inventor; business consultant, behavior sciences
Andrew Hacker (Professor) — political scientist; questioned race, class, and gender in American society
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, 1930-41
Irving Ives (Trustee; Dean of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1945–47) — U.S. Senator from New York, 1947–59; namesake of Ives Hall
Felix Adler (Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature, 1874–76) — early 20th-century Jewish
rationalist and social reformer
Glenn 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 University
David Brion Davis (Professor of History, 1955-1969) — 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner; scholar of slavery and American intellectual history;
National Humanities Medal (2014)
John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) — journalist and documentary filmmaker
Natural sciences and related fields
Astronomy
James L. Elliot (Former postdoctoral fellow, Faculty) — astrophysicist; discoverer of the ring system of
Uranus while at Cornell; discoverer of the atmosphere of
Pluto
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 fields
Jerrold Meinwald (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) — chemical ecologist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969) and the
American Philosophical Society (1987); fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970); recipient of the National Medal of Science (2014)
Rebecca J. Nelson (Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture) —
MacArthur Fellow (1998); researcher in crop disease resistance
Karl 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 researcher
David 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 the
World Food Prize (2001)
Donald W. Roberts – former Adjunct Professor, Department of Entomology and Department of Plant Pathology
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.
Kathryn Mann (Assistant Professor 2019-) — mathematician
Amy McCune (Professor) — evolutionary biologist and Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Justin T. Moore (Professor 2007-) — a 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, Austria.
James Ewing (Professor of Clinical Pathology, 1899-1939) — pathologist; discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as
Ewing sarcoma
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 the
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Yuri Orlov (Researcher of Physics, 1986-) — nuclear physicist; former Soviet dissident; human rights activist
Edward Ott (Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968-1979) — American physicist known for his contributions to the development of
chaos theory
George McGovern (Visiting Lecturer, 1990) — Democratic Nominee for U.S. President (1972) and Senator from South Dakota (1963–81). Taught on US Foreign Policy.[48]
Richard Swedberg (Professor of Sociology, 2002-) — Swedish economic sociologist
Mark 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 classes
Sidney Tarrow (
Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) — researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology
Francine D. Blau (
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics since 1995) — received her
B.S. in industrial and labor relations in 1966 from Cornell
George M. von Furstenberg (Assistant Professor of Economics) — economist best known for monetary policy, free trade policy and international finance
John Williams Mellor (Professor of Agricultural Economics, Economics, and Asian Studies; Director of the Comparative Economics Program and the Center for International Studies)
Jeremiah 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 the
aerotropolis concept, which defines the role of
airports and
aviation-driven economic development in shaping 21st-century urban growth and form; directs the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillKenan-Flagler Business School
Brian 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 articles
Allyn Young (Professor, 1913-1920) President of the American Economic Association
Psychology
Samuel B. Bacharach (McKelvey-Grant Professor Emeritus), Director of the Smithers Institute
^"Archived copy"(PDF). www.inbevbailletlatour.com. Archived from
the original(PDF) on June 10, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2022.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link)