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Anthropology

  • Diana Allan
  • Conrad M. Arensberg
  • Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn
  • Rosemarie Bernard
  • Arthur Demarest
    Arthur Demarest
    Arthur Andrew Demarest is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his studies of the Maya civilization.-Career:Demarest, a Louisiana Cajun, studied Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology at Tulane University, where he graduated. In 1981 Demarest was granted his doctorate by...

  • Virginia Dominguez
  • Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
  • Kim Gutschow
  • Henry Irwin *
  • John L. Jackson, Jr.
  • Daniel Lieberman
  • Morgan Liu
  • Michael Silverstein
    Michael Silverstein
    Michael Silverstein is a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology. Over the course of his career he has drawn together research on linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language ideology,...

  • Volney Stefflre *

Art History/Architecture

  • Christopher Alexander
    Christopher Alexander
    Christopher Wolfgang Alexander is a registered architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world...

  • Tilman Buddensieg
  • Albert Bush-Brown *
  • Whitney Davis
  • Michael Fried
  • Donald P. Hansen
  • Geraldine Johnson
  • Joseph Koerner
    Joseph Koerner
    Joseph Leo Koerner is an American art historian. The Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, he is best known for his work on German art...

  • Steven Levine
  • Eric Martin
  • Richard B. K. McLanathan *
  • Erika Naginski
  • Michael O'Hare
  • Natasha Staller
  • Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
  • George S. Vickers *
  • Winnie Wong
  • Chris Wood

Astronomy/Astrophysics

  • Kurt Adelberger
  • Lawrence H. Aller
    Lawrence H. Aller
    Lawrence Hugh Aller was an American astronomer. He was born in Tacoma, Washington. He never finished high school and worked for a time as a gold miner. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1936 and went to graduate school at Harvard in 1937. There he...

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  • Charles Bailyn
  • James G. Baker
    James Gilbert Baker
    James Gilbert Baker was an American astronomer and designer of optics systems.-Biography:He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jesse B. Baker and Hattie M. Stallard, the fourth child of that couple. He attended Louisville duPont Manual High School then majored in mathematics at the University of...

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  • Joshua Bloom
  • Charlie Conroy
  • Ewine van Dishoeck
    Ewine van Dishoeck
    Ewine van Dishoeck is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory.She is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences...

  • S. George Djorgovski
  • Bruce G. Elmegreen
  • Alison Farmer
  • George B. Field
  • Christine Forman
  • Marijn Franx
  • Jonathan E. Grindlay
  • G. Richard Huguenin
  • Ivan R. King
  • Edgar Knobloch
  • Arthur Kosowsky
  • Ue-Li Pen
  • Rosalba Perna
  • Edward L. Wright
    Edward L. Wright
    Edward L. Wright is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, well known for his achievements in the COBE project and as a strong Big Bang proponent in web tutorials on cosmology and theory of relativity....


Biological Sciences

  • Susan Alberts
  • Kristin Ardlie
  • S. Howard Armstrong, Jr. *
  • Julian Ayroles
  • Orville T. Bailey *
  • Gary E. Belovsky
  • Steven A. Benner
  • Howard Berg
    Howard Berg
    Howard Curtis Berg teaches biophysics at Harvard University and studies motility of E. coli. He has been a member of the molecular and cellular biology department since 1986 and a member of the physics department since 1997...

  • Andrew Berry
  • Kristine Bieker-Brady
  • John Tyler Bonner
    John Tyler Bonner
    John Tyler Bonner is an emeritus professor, now lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He is a pioneer in the use of cellular slime molds to understand evolution and development over a career of 40 years and is one of...

  • Lisa Boulanger
  • Elizabeth Brainerd
  • Mario Capecchi
    Mario Capecchi
    Mario Renato Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method for introducing homologous recombination in mice employing embryonic stem cells, with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies...

  • Colleen Cavanaugh
  • Yvonne Chen
  • Dmitri Chklovskii
  • Bevil Conway
    Bevil Conway
    Bevil Conway neuroscientist and artist. Conway specializes in visual perception in his scientific work, and he often explores the limitations of the visual system in his artwork. He is currently Knafel Assistant Professor at Wellesley College.Conway was educated at McGill University and Harvard...

  • Lawrence David
  • Fiona Doetsch
  • Allison Doupe
  • William H. Drury, Jr. *
  • Sophie Dumont
  • Richard H. Ebright
    Richard H. Ebright
    Richard High Ebright is an American molecular biologist. He is Professor II of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, Laboratory Director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.Ebright received an A.B. summa cum laude in...

  • Kevin Eggan
    Kevin Eggan
    Kevin Eggan is Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, known for his work in stem cell research , and as a spokesperson for stem cell research in the United States. He was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...

  • Megan Frederickson
  • Thomas J. Gill, III
  • Michael Gleimer
  • Noel Goddard
  • Stan Goldin
  • Timothy H. Goldsmith
  • Deborah Gordon
    Deborah Gordon
    Deborah M. Gordon is a biologist at Stanford University.- Major research :Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on red harvester ants. She focuses on the developing behavior of colonies, even as individual ants change functions within their own lifetimes.Gordon's...

  • Paul B. Green *
  • Donald Griffin *
  • Alan D. Grinnell
  • David Haig
    David Haig (biologist)
    David Haig, is an Australian evolutionary biologist and geneticist, professor in Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in intragenomic conflict, genomic imprinting and parent-offspring conflict, and wrote the book Genomic Imprinting and Kinship...

  • Douglas Hanahan
  • William Harris
  • Stephen Harrison
  • Ann Hochschild
  • Richard A. Howard *
  • James Huettner
  • William P. Jacobs
  • Daniel Jay
  • Ross Kiester
  • Roger D. Kornberg
    Roger D. Kornberg
    Roger David Kornberg is an American biochemist and professor of structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.Kornberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA, "the molecular basis of...

  • Daniel Kronauer
  • Laura Landweber
  • George Lauder
  • Richard Losick
    Richard Losick
    Richard Losick is an American molecular biologist whose research interests include RNA polymerase, sigma factors, regulation of gene transcription, and bacterial development, being especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis...

  • Jun Ma
  • Nancy Maizels
  • Andrew J. Meyerriecks
  • Jeffrey Miller
  • Leonid Mirny
  • James R. Morris
  • James Nieh
  • Terence O'Brien
  • Bence Olveczky
  • Peter Parham
  • Joshua Plotkin
  • Dmitri Petrov
  • Robert Pringle
  • Mark Ptashne
    Mark Ptashne
    Mark Ptashne is a molecular biologist and violinist. He currently holds the Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York...

  • Christian Rabeling
  • Sohini Ramachandran
  • Peter M. Ray
  • H. Kern Reeve
  • Tania Rinaldi Barkat
  • Jeffrey Roberts
  • Reed C. Rollins
    Reed C. Rollins
    Reed Clark Rollins was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the Organization for Tropical Studies. He was also the second president of each of them.- Sources :* Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A...

  • Mark Rose
  • Botond Roska
  • Gary Ruvkun
    Gary Ruvkun
    Gary Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which lin-4, the first microRNA discovered by Victor Ambros, regulates the translation of target messenger RNAs via imperfect base-pairing to those...

  • Thomas W. Schoener
    Thomas W. Schoener
    Thomas William Schoener is an American ecologist and professor at University of California, Davis. In 1969, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a Junior Fellow. He is an expert in community ecology.He was the 1986 recipient of the Robert H...

  • William Schopf
  • Maxime Schwartz
  • Thomas Seeley
  • Carla J. Shatz
    Carla J. Shatz
    Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D., is an American neurobiologist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine....

  • Michael Sinensky
  • Taylor A. Steeves
  • Walter W. Stewart
  • Gary Struhl
  • Man-Wah Tan
  • William H. Telfer
  • Robert Tjian
    Robert Tjian
    Robert Tjian is a U.S. biochemist best known for his work on eukaryotic transcription. He is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

  • James W. Truman
  • Sinisa Urban
  • Stephen Vogel
    Stephen Vogel
    Steven Vogel is the James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University. Over the course of his professional career in biology, Vogel has played a fundamental role in the establishment of the discipline of biomechanics.-Works:...

  • Talbot H. Waterman
  • Jon F. Wilkins
  • Carroll M. Williams *
  • Edward O. Wilson
  • Carl Wu
  • Feng Zhang

Chemistry

  • Hans C. Andersen
  • Thomas Chambers
    Thomas Chambers
    Thomas Chambers was an English administrator and factor of the Honourable East India Company who served as the Agent of Madras from 1658 to 1661 or 1662.- Tenure as Agent of Madras :...

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  • Amit Choudhary
  • Robert P. Davis
  • David A. Dixon
  • Martin G. Ettlinger
  • John D. Ferry *
  • Robert Fulton
  • Roy G. Gordon
  • George D. Halsey, Jr.
  • Robert A. Harris
  • Dudley R. Herschbach
    Dudley R. Herschbach
    Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C...

  • Roald Hoffmann
    Roald Hoffmann
    Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:...

  • Walter Kauzmann
    Walter Kauzmann
    Walter J. Kauzmann was an American chemist and professor emeritus of Princeton University. He was noted for his work in both physical chemistry and biochemistry. His most important contribution was recognizing that the hydrophobic effect plays a key role in determining the three-dimensional...

  • Kevin K. Lehmann
    Kevin K. Lehmann
    Kevin K. Lehmann is an American chemist and spectroscopist, and a famous professor, in both physics and chemistry at the University of Virginia, best-known for his work in the area of intramolecular and collisional dynamics, and for his advances in the method of cavity ring down spectroscopy...

  • Ali Javey
  • Daniel S. Kemp
    Daniel S. Kemp
    For the American actor, see Dan Kemp.Daniel Schaeffer Kemp is an American chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is best known for being the author of a widely-used organic chemistry textbook.-Background:Kemp was born in Portland, Oregon...

  • Nancy Makri
  • William H. Miller
  • Stuart A. Rice
    Stuart A. Rice
    Stuart Alan Rice is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist. He is well-known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research, having spent much of his career working in multiple areas of physical chemistry. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service...

  • John A. Rogers
    John A. Rogers
    John A. Rogers is a physical chemist and materials engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.-Education:Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992...

  • Richard P. Smith
  • Lennard Wharton
  • E. Bright Wilson, Jr.*
  • Robert B. Woodward
    Robert Burns Woodward
    Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist, considered by many to be the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century...

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Classics

  • Jason Aftosmis
  • Seth Benardete *
  • Robert A. Brooks *
  • John Pairman Brown
  • Henry S. Commager, Jr. *
  • Denis Feeney
  • Richard Garner
  • Scott Johnson
  • Donald B. King *
  • Leslie Kurke
  • Saul Levin
  • John A. Moore *
  • Nelly Oliensis
  • David Pingree
    David Pingree
    David Edwin Pingree was a University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, and was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity.-Life:He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1950 and thereafter attended...

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  • Kent J. Rigsby
  • H. Evan Runner *
  • Zeph Stewart
  • Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
  • James Zetzel

Economics

  • Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,...

  • Michal Fabinger
  • George Feiger
  • Amy Finkelstein
  • Franklin M. Fisher
  • Benjamin M. Friedman
    Benjamin M. Friedman
    Benjamin Morton Friedman, a leading American political economist, is the William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institute's Panel on Economic Activity, and the editorial board of the...

  • Bernard Friedman
    Bernard Friedman
    Dr Bernard Friedman , was a surgeon, politician, author, businessman, and outstanding orator who co-founded the anti-apartheid Progressive Party . He was educated at Pretoria Boys' High School and then he read medicine at Edinburgh University, where he was a gold medalist...

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  • Roland G. Fryer Jr
    Roland G. Fryer Jr
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  • Carl Kaysen
    Carl Kaysen
    Carl Kaysen was an economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Committee on International Security Studies. He is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen. He was married for 50 years to Annette Neutra...

  • Herman B. Leonard
  • Steven Levitt
    Steven Levitt
    Steven David "Steve" Levitt is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2004 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B...

  • John Lintner
    John Lintner
    John Virgil Lintner, Jr. was a professor at the Harvard Business School in the 1960s and one of the co-creators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model....

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  • Stephen A. Marglin
    Stephen A. Marglin
    Stephen Alan Marglin is a professor of economics and holds the Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Marglin became a tenured professor at Harvard in 1968, one of the youngest in the history of the university. His tenure was largely based on research that...

  • John R. Meyer
  • Barry Nalebuff
    Barry Nalebuff
    Barry Nalebuff is Milton Steinbach Professor of Management at Yale School of Management. He is an expert in business strategy and game theory, as well as many other topics.-Education:Graduated Highschool at Belmont Hill School...

  • Benjamin Olken
  • Parag Pathak
  • Ben Polak
  • Henry Rosovsky
    Henry Rosovsky
    Henry Rosovsky is an American economist and university administrator. From 1973 to 1984 and 1990 to 1991, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. At Harvard, where he was a Professor of Economics, he also served as Acting President in 1984 and 1987...

  • Jeffrey Sachs
    Jeffrey Sachs
    Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...

  • Paul A. Samuelson *
  • Peter Temin
    Peter Temin
    Dr. Peter Temin is a widely cited economist and economic historian, currently Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT and former head of the Economics Department....

  • James Tobin
    James Tobin
    James Tobin was an American economist who, in his lifetime, served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to...

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  • E. Glen Weyl
  • Richard Zeckhauser
    Richard Zeckhauser
    Richard Jay Zeckhauser is an American economist and the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University....


Geological Sciences

  • Robert Bakker
  • Jochen Brocks
  • David T. Griggs *
  • James F. Hays
  • Sarah Stewart Johnson
  • George Kennedy *
  • Gordon J. F. MacDonald
    Gordon J. F. MacDonald
    Gordon James Fraser MacDonald was an American geophysicist and environmental scientist, best known for his principled skepticism regarding continental drift , and later work on possible non-anthropogenic causes for global climate change...

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History, Cultural Studies

  • M. Shahab Ahmed
  • Paul Balaran
  • Omer Bartov
    Omer Bartov
    Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies at Brown University....

  • Sujata Bhatt
  • Michael Butler
  • William Chaney
  • F. Edward Cranz *
  • Michael Dalby
  • Robert Darnton
    Robert Darnton
    Robert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...

  • Sherman L. Davis
  • Faisal Devji
  • Tamer el-Leithy
  • George U. Fischer *
  • Robin Fleming
  • Charles M. Gray
  • John C. Greene
  • Brad S. Gregory
    Brad Stephan Gregory
    Dr. Brad Stephan Gregory is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His principal field of study is the religious wars of the Reformation. Dr. Gregory received the Hiett Prize in 2005....

  • Ken Grossberg
  • Henry Guerlac *
  • Joanna Guldi
  • Werner Gundersheimer
  • Sam Haselby
  • George L. Haskins *
  • Nasser Hussain
  • Peter Jelavich
  • Daniel Juette
  • Hillel J. Kieval
  • Jarmo T. Kotilaine
  • Bradford Lee
  • Joseph R. Levenson
    Joseph R. Levenson
    Joseph R. Levenson was a scholar of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley until a fatal accident resulted in his death....

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  • Mark Lewis
  • Allen Mandelbaum
  • Ian McNeely
  • Mark Micale
  • John C. Miller *
  • Roy Mottahedeh
    Roy Mottahedeh
    Roy Parviz Mottahedeh is a professor of pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East at Harvard University and expert on Iranian culture.-Life:...

  • Eric M. Nelson
    Eric M. Nelson
    Eric Nelson is an American historian and Professor of Government at Harvard University.He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his PhD from The University of Cambridge ....

  • Robert E. Neil *
  • Steve Pincus
  • Donald Reid
  • Jeffrey Russell
  • John E. Sawyer *
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
    Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
    Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian"...

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  • Seth Schwartz
  • Ethan H. Shagan
    Ethan H. Shagan
    Ethan H. Shagan is an American historian of early modern Britain.Professor Shagan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as Director of the Center for British Studies. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his...

  • George C. Soulis *
  • Giora Sternberg
  • Edward Tenner
  • T. Robert Travers
  • Ben Urwand
  • Steve Van Zoeren
  • Paul L. Ward *
  • Max Weiss
  • Stephen D. White
  • Leon Wieseltier
    Leon Wieseltier
    Leon Wieseltier is an American writer, critic, and magazine editor. Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic.Wieseltier was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush, Columbia University, Oxford University, and Harvard University, and was a member of...

  • Lisa Wolverton
  • Tara Zahra
  • Kristin Zapalac

History of Science

  • Avner Ben-Zaken
  • Deborah Coen
  • Mordechai Feingold
  • Peter Galison
    Peter Galison
    Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics ...

  • Michael Gordin
  • Thomas S. Kuhn *
  • Everett Mendelsohn
  • Katherine Park
  • Hanna Rose Shell
  • Frank Sulloway
    Frank Sulloway
    Frank J. Sulloway is a visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology....


Languages & Civilizations, Asian

  • Elling O. Eide
  • Howard S. Hibbett
  • Daniel H. H. Ingalls *
  • James Kritzeck *
  • Wai-yee Li
  • John Nathan
    John Nathan
    John Nathan is the translator of Japanese works written by celebrated authors such as Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburō Ōe. Nathan is also an Emmy-award winning producer, writer and director of many films about Japanese culture and society and American business.He studied at University of Tokyo...

  • David Roy
  • Donald H. Shively *
  • Jing Yuen Tsu
  • Robin Yates

Languages & Civilizations, Near Eastern

  • Jamsheed K. Choksy
  • Herbert Davidson
  • Benedict Einarson *
  • Richard N. Frye
  • Maren Niehoff
  • Dwight Reynolds
  • Rahim Shayegan
  • Christopher E. Woods

Languages & Literatures, Romance

  • Bernadette Hoefer
  • Francis M. Rogers *
  • Pierre Schneider
  • Roger W. Shattuck *
  • John R. Williams *

Languages & Literatures, Slavic

  • Edyta Bojanowska
  • Jonathan Bolton
  • Nina Gourianova
  • Hugh McLean
  • Leslie O'Bell
  • Paul Magocsi
  • Dunja Popovic
  • Karen Rosenberg
  • Andrew Wachtel
  • Francis J. Whitfield *

Law

  • Oren Bar-Gill
  • Lucian Bebchuk
  • Richard Danzig
  • Noah Feldman
  • Cary Franklin
  • Adriaan Lanni
  • Katerina Linos
  • William Nelson

Linguistics

  • Timothy Barnes
  • Thomas Bever
  • Jonathan Bobaljik
  • Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky
    Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...

  • Daniel Fox
  • R.H. Ives Goddard
  • Patrick Hollifield
  • Alec Marantz
    Alec Marantz
    Alec Marantz is an American linguist and researcher in the fields of neurolinguistics and morphology.Until 2007, he was Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Research Director of KIT/MIT MEG Joint Research Lab...

  • Jaan Puhvel
  • Benjamin Spector
  • Karl V. Teeter *
  • Calvert Watkins

Literature, Comparative

  • Albert S. Cook, Jr. *
  • Paul de Man
    Paul de Man
    Paul de Man was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.He began teaching at Bard College. Later, he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in the late 1950s...

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  • Leslie Dunton-Downer
  • David Elmer
  • Gerald P. Fitzgerald
  • George Grabowicz
  • Martin Hägglund
  • Bruce Jackson
  • John Kelleher *
  • Florian Klinger
  • Nita Krevans
  • James Kugel
  • David A. Kuhn
  • James C. La Driere *
  • Harry T. Levin *
  • Lital Levy
  • Albert B. Lord *
  • Peter Lubin
  • Sarah McNamer
  • Lowry Nelson Jr. *
  • J. Martinez-Pizarro
  • Tatiana Smoliarova
  • David Stern
  • Ricardo Sternberg
  • Robert Torrance
  • Cristina Vatulescu

Literature, English

  • Jonathan Arac
  • Cesar L. Barber *
  • Walter Jackson Bate *
  • Geffrey Bush
  • James Buzard
  • Terry Castle
    Terry Castle
    Terry Castle is an American literary scholar. Once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," has published eight books, including the anthology The Literature of Lesbianism, which won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award...

  • Hillary Chute
  • James Dawes
  • Terrence Des Pres
    Terrence Des Pres
    Terrence Des Pres was an American writer, and Holocaust scholar.- Life :Terrence Des Pres graduated from Southeast Missouri State College in 1962....

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  • Jeff Dolven
  • Juliet Fleming
  • Elizabeth Fowler
  • Arthur Freeman
  • Donald Hall
    Donald Hall
    Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...

  • Anna Henchman
  • John Hollander
    John Hollander
    John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

  • Gavin Jones
  • Jacob Jost
  • Louis Kampf
  • Henry Kelly
  • John Lewis
  • Robert McGill
  • Maureen McLane
  • Cord Meyer, Jr. *
  • James C. Nohrnberg
  • Richard M. Ohmann
  • Siobhan Phillips
  • Laura Quinney
  • Ayesha Ramachandran
  • Vanessa Ryan
  • Maura Smyth
  • Katherine Stern
  • Peter Tasch
  • Jane Tolmie
  • Richard Wilbur
    Richard Wilbur
    Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....

  • Peter Wirth

Mathematics/Mathematical Biology/Mathematical Physics

  • Garrett Birkhoff
    Garrett Birkhoff
    Garrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory.The mathematician George Birkhoff was his father....

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  • William Bossert
  • Robert C. Buck *
  • Chen-Yu Chi
  • Joel E. Cohen
    Joel E. Cohen
    Joel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the...

  • Noam Elkies
    Noam Elkies
    Noam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the youngest ever to do so...

  • Edward Frenkel
    Edward Frenkel
    Edward Frenkel is a mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...

  • Dennis Gaitsgory
    Dennis Gaitsgory
    Dennis Gaitsgory is a mathematician at Harvard University known for his research on the geometric Langlands program. Born in what is now Moldova, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Bernstein. He received his doctorate in 1997 for a thesis entitled...

  • Paul R. Garabedian
    Paul Garabedian
    Paul Roesel Garabedian was an applied mathematician and numerical analyst. Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University...

  • Ezra Getzler
  • Andrew Gleason
    Andrew Gleason
    Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician and the eponym of Gleason's theorem and the Greenwood–Gleason graph. After briefly attending Berkeley High School he graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, then Yale University in 1942, where he became a Putnam Fellow...

  • Thomas Goodwillie
  • Robin Hartshorne
    Robin Hartshorne
    Robin Cope Hartshorne is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Zariski, Mumford, J.-P. Serre and Grothendieck....

  • John Imbrie
  • Frances Kirwan
    Frances Kirwan
    Frances Clare Kirwan, FRS is a British mathematician, currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.Educated at Oxford High School, she studied at the University of Cambridge. She took a D.Phil at Oxford in 1984, supervised by Michael Atiyah...

  • János Kollár
    János Kollár
    János Kollár is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 and received the Cole Prize in 2006....

  • Ruth Lawrence-Naimark
    Ruth Lawrence
    Ruth Elke Lawrence-Naimark is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. Outside academia, she is best known for being a child prodigy in mathematics.- Youth :Ruth Lawrence...

  • Lynn H. Loomis *
  • Erez Lieberman-Aiden
  • Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
  • Barry Mazur
    Barry Mazur
    -Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,...

  • Franziska Michor
  • David B. Mumford
  • Itay Neeman
  • John C. Oxtoby *
  • Stephen Scheinberg
  • David Smyth
  • Mark Spivakovsky
  • Peter Stone
  • Seth Sullivant
  • Corina Tarnita
  • Clifford Taubes
    Clifford Taubes
    Clifford Henry Taubes is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology.-Early career:Taubes received his Ph.D...

  • Michael Thaddeus
  • Jacob Tsimerman
  • Yuri Tschinkel
  • Stanislaw Ulam *
  • Vladimir Voevodsky
    Vladimir Voevodsky
    Vladimir Voevodsky is a Russian American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002.- Biography :...

  • Thomas Willwacher
  • Teruyoshi Yoshida

Medicine

  • Argiris Efstratiadis
  • Harvey Fineberg
  • Catherine Guyton
  • George Hass *
  • Clinton V. Hawn *
  • Anne Nicholson-Weller
  • I. Herbert Scheinberg
    I. Herbert Scheinberg
    I. Herbert Scheinberg was a physician who specialized in Wilson's disease and other rare hereditary diseases....

  • Lloyd H. Smith, Jr.
  • John C. Snyder *
  • George E. Thibault

Music Composition/Musicology/Music Theory

  • Susan Blaustein
  • Matthew Brown
    Matthew Brown
    Matthew Benjamin Brown is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Minnesota Twins organization...

  • Anthony Cheung
  • Richard F. French *
  • John Harbison
    John Harbison
    John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...

  • Robert L. Kendrick
  • Robert Kyr
    Robert Kyr
    Robert Kyr is an American composer, writer, filmmaker, and professor of music composition and theory.Kyr is one of the most prolific composers of his generation, having written 12 symphonies, three chamber symphonies, three violin concerti, numerous large works for orchestra, oratorios and other...

  • David B. Lewin *
  • Lei Liang
  • Eric Sawyer
  • Tison Street
    Tison Street
    Tison C. Street is an American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist.He studied violin with Einar Hansen from 1951 to 1959. He later studied composition at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and David Del Tredici, receiving B.A. and M.A...

  • Augusta Read Thomas
    Augusta Read Thomas
    Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer.Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended The Green Vale School and later moved on to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of...

  • Peter Winkler
    Peter Winkler
    Peter Mann Winkler is a noted research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation...


Philosophy, Mathematical Logic

  • Elisabeth Camp
  • Stanley Cavell
    Stanley Cavell
    Stanley Louis Cavell is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.-Life:...

  • S. Marshall Cohen
  • Burton S. Dreben *
  • Warren Goldfarb
  • Moshe Halbertal
    Moshe Halbertal
    Moshe Halbertal , is a noted Israeli Jewish philosopher, professor and writer.- Biography :He is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University, and a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem, Israel...

  • K. Jaakko J. Hintikka
  • Thomas Kelly
  • Kenneth Keniston
  • Saul Kripke
    Saul Kripke
    Saul Aaron Kripke is an American philosopher and logician. He is a professor emeritus at Princeton and teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center...

  • Kate Manne
  • Julia Markovits
  • Donald Martin
    Donald A. Martin
    Donald A. Martin is a set theorist and philosopher of mathematics at UCLA, where he is a member of the faculty of mathematics and philosophy....

  • Kenneth McKenna
  • Elliott Mendelson
  • Liam Murphy
  • Martha Nussbaum
    Martha Nussbaum
    Martha Nussbaum , is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics....

  • Charles D. Parsons
  • Olivier Tinland
  • Willard Van Orman Quine
    Willard Van Orman Quine
    Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition...

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  • Tamar Schapiro
  • Hao Wang *

Physics, Applied Physics & Engineering

  • Allan Adams
  • Stephen Adler
  • Ian Affleck
  • Ariel Amir
  • Luis Alvarez-Gaumé
  • Vijay Balasubramanian
  • John Bardeen
    John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...

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  • Nicolaas Bloembergen
  • David Boulware
  • Jacob Bourjaily
  • Lewis M. Branscomb
    Lewis M. Branscomb
    Lewis M. Branscomb is an American physicist, government policy advisor, and corporate research manager. He is best known as former head of the National Bureau of Standards and, later, chief scientist of IBM; and as a prolific writer on science policy issues.Following World War II service in the...

  • Harvey Brooks
  • Andrew Cohen
    Andrew Cohen
    Andrew Cohen is an American guru, spiritual teacher, magazine editor, author, and musician who has developed what he characterizes as a unique path of spiritual transformation, called Evolutionary Enlightenment. He sees himself as working in conjunction with others to bring about a new stage of...

  • Karin Dahmen
  • Eugene Demler
  • Louise Dolan
  • Rava da Silveira
  • Vincent Delaney
  • Peter Elias
    Peter Elias
    Peter Elias was a pioneer in the field of information theory. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991....

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  • James B. Fisk *
  • Melissa Franklin
  • Liang Fu
  • S. James Gates, Jr.
  • Howard Georgi
    Howard Georgi
    Howard Mason Georgi III, born January 6, 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University...

  • Ivan A. Getting *
  • Steven Giddings
  • Paul Ginsparg
  • David Goldhaber-Gordon
  • Kurt Gottfried
  • David Gross
  • Steven Gubser
  • Donald R. Hamilton *
  • Pilar Hernandez-Gamazo
  • Paul Horowitz
  • Steve Hsu
    Steve Hsu
    Dr. Stephen D. H. Hsu is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Oregon. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1986...

  • Tom Imbo
  • Roman Jackiw
  • Shamit Kachru
  • David Kaplan
    David Kaplan
    David Kaplan is the name of:* David Kaplan , American film director* Dave Kaplan, American Mixed Martial Artist* David Kaplan , American philosopher* David Kaplan...

  • Lev Kaplan
  • Joanna Karczmarek
  • Mehran Kardar
  • Abraham Klein *
  • Lawrence Krauss
  • Ulrich E. Kruse
  • Michael Levin
  • Lawrence Litt
  • Paul C.Mangelsdorf, Jr.
  • Aneesh Manohar
  • Vladimir Manucharyan
  • Nadya Mason
  • Shiraz Minwalla
  • Lubos Motl
  • Gregory Moore
  • Onuttom Narayan
  • Nikita Nekrasov
  • Ann Nelson
  • David R. Nelson
  • Philip Nelson
  • Kenneth Nordtvedt
  • Michael Peskin
  • Vasily Pestun
  • Francis M. Pipkin *
  • David Politzer
  • Robert V. Pound
  • Manu Prakash
  • John Preskill
  • Joel Primack
    Joel Primack
    Joel R. Primack is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. Dr. Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. According to...

  • Krishna Rajagopal
  • Loganayagam Ramalingam
  • Lisa Randall
  • Joshua Socolar
  • Wei Song
  • Ramamurti Shankar
  • Stephen Sharpe
  • Eric Siggia
  • Larry L. Smarr
  • Wei Song
  • Paul Steinhardt
  • Adiel Stern
  • Karl Strauch *
  • Yaroslav Tserkovnyak
  • Cumrun Vafa
  • Kenneth G. Wilson
  • Mark Wise
  • Ed Witten
  • Gordon Woo
  • Tai Tsun Wu
  • Cenke Xu
  • Xi Yin
  • Albert Zisook

Physics, Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science

  • Neil Gershenfeld
    Neil Gershenfeld
    Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT and the head of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab spun out of the popular MIT Media Lab. His research interests are mainly in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology,...

  • Tuomas J. Lukka
  • Marvin L. Minsky
    Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.-Biography:...

  • Jonathan Yedidia

Political Science

  • McGeorge Bundy
    McGeorge Bundy
    McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979...

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  • Keith Callard *
  • Ray S. Cline
    Ray S. Cline
    Ray Steiner Cline was an official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency best known for being the chief CIA analyst during the Cuban Missile Crisis.-Biography:...

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  • Jorge I. Dominguez
    Jorge I. Dominguez
    Jorge I. Dominguez is a Cuban American educator and writer.Dr. Dominguez is presently the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and Senior...

  • Hans J. Epstein *
  • David Grewal
  • Jacob Hacker
    Jacob Hacker
    Jacob Stewart Hacker is the Director of the and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University and has written works on social policy, health care reform, and economic insecurity in the United States...

  • George Kateb
    George Kateb
    George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Kateb, along with John Rawls and Isaiah Berlin, is credited with making significant contributions to liberal political theory...

  • Katerina Linos
  • David Mundel
  • Aquil Shah
  • Rachel Stern
  • Thomas Stewart
  • Frederick M. Watkins *

Psychology

  • Douglas Anger *
  • Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy
  • James G. Miller *
  • Drazen Prelec
    Drazen Prelec
    Drazen Prelec is a professor of management science and economics in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics....

  • Rebecca Saxe
    Rebecca Saxe
    Rebecca Saxe is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Her research is on the neural basis of social cognition, and in particular she is known for proposing the role of the right temporoparietal junction in thinking about...

  • B. F. Skinner
    B. F. Skinner
    Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American behaviorist, author, inventor, baseball enthusiast, social philosopher and poet...

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Sociology

  • Scott Boorman
    Scott Boorman
    Scott Archer Boorman is a mathematical sociologist at Yale University.-Life:He earned his B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and was a Harvard Junior Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and was appointed to a full professorship at Penn before...

  • W. Rogers Brubaker
  • Matthew Desmond
  • George Homans *
  • John B. Howard *
  • Duane Metzger
  • Joseph Rhodes, Jr.
    Joseph Rhodes, Jr.
    Joseph Rhodes, Jr. is an American politician and activist.Rhodes attended Pittsburgh public schools and received a B.S. in history from the California Institute of Technology, where he was Student Body President, in 1969. He attended Harvard University as a Junior Fellow in Intellectual History,...

  • Neil J. Smelser
  • Paul Starr
    Paul Starr
    Paul Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor and co-founder of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990...

  • Francis X. Sutton
  • Sudhir Venkatesh
  • Loic Wacquant
  • James Weinrich
  • William Foote Whyte
    William Foote Whyte
    William Foote Whyte was a sociologist chiefly known for his ethnological study in urban sociology, Street Corner Society...

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