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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
faculty includes current, emeritus, former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers. Faculty members who have become Institute Professors, Nobel Laureates, MacArthur Fellows, National Medal of Science recipients, or have earned other significant awards and made significant contributions are listed below.
Institute Professors
A few distinguished members of the faculty have held the title of Institute ProfessorInstitute Professor
Institute Professor is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States...
in recognition of their extraordinary records of achievement and dedication to the MIT community.
Current faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Award | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Diamond | Economics | 2010 | Economics Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the... |
"for their analysis of markets with search frictions Search theory In microeconomics, search theory studies buyers or sellers who cannot instantly find a trading partner, and must therefore search for a partner prior to transacting.... " |
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| H. Robert Horvitz H. Robert Horvitz Howard Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.-Life:Horvitz did his undergraduate studies at MIT in 1968, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi... |
Biology | 2002 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'" | |
| Wolfgang Ketterle Wolfgang Ketterle Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose-Einstein condensation in these... |
Physics | 2001 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" | |
| Richard R. Schrock Richard R. Schrock Richard Royce Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry.-Biography:... |
Chemistry | 2005 | Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... |
"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis" | |
| Phillip A. Sharp | Biology | 1993 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for their discoveries of split genes" | |
| Samuel Ting | Physics | 1976 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind" | |
| Susumu Tonegawa Susumu Tonegawa Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training... |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | 1987 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity" | |
| Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek Frank Anthony Wilczek is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .... |
Physics | 2004 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom Asymptotic freedom In physics, asymptotic freedom is a property of some gauge theories that causes interactions between particles to become arbitrarily weak at energy scales that become arbitrarily large, or, equivalently, at length scales that become arbitrarily small .Asymptotic freedom is a feature of quantum... in the theory of the strong interaction" |
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| Robert C. Merton Robert C. Merton Robert Carhart Merton is an American economist, Nobel laureate in Economics, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.-Biography:... |
Economics | 1997 | Economics | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" |
Emeritus faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Award | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome I. Friedman | Physics | 1990 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics" | |
| Mario Molina | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science | 1995 | Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... |
"for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone" | |
| Robert M. Solow | Economics | 1987 | Economics | "for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" |
Deceased faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Award | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry W. Kendall | Physics | 1990 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics" | |
| H. Gobind Khorana | Biology | 1968 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis" | |
| Salvador E. Luria | Biology | 1969 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" | |
| Franco Modigliani Franco Modigliani Franco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:... |
Economics | 1985 | Economics | "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" | |
| Paul A. Samuelson | Economics | 1970 | Economics | "for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science" | |
| Clifford G. Shull | Physics | 1994 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for the development of the neutron diffraction technique" |
Former faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Award | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Baltimore David Baltimore David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech... |
Biology | 1975 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell" | |
| Robert Engle | Economics | 2003 | Economics | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)" | |
| Daniel L. McFadden | Economics | 2000 | Economics | "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" | |
| John Forbes Nash Jr. | Economics | 1994 | Economics | "for [his] pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" | |
| Myron S. Scholes | Economics | 1997 | Economics | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" | |
| K. Barry Sharpless K. Barry Sharpless Karl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.-Early years:Sharpless was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959. He continued his studies at Dartmouth College and earned his Ph.D from Stanford University in 1968... |
Chemistry | 2001 | Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... |
"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions" | |
| Charles H. Townes | Physics | 1964 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle" | |
| Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.... |
Physics | 1979 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current" |
Former and/or retired research staff
| Name | Laboratory | Year | Award | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas R. Cech | Post-doc, Department of Chemistry (1975–1978) | 1989 | Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... |
"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA" | |
| Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.- Biography :Ciechanover was born in Haifa, British mandate of Palestine, a year before the establishment of the State of Israel... |
2004 | Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... |
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" | ||
| Horst L. Störmer | Researcher, Francis Bitter High Magnetic Field Lab | 1998 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" | |
| E. Donnall Thomas E. Donnall Thomas Dr. Edward Donnall Thomas is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the... |
Post-doc (1949–1950) | 1990 | Medicine/Physiology Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... |
"for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease" | |
| Daniel C. Tsui Daniel C. Tsui Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics... |
Researcher, Francis Bitter High Magnetic Field Lab | 1998 | Physics Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and... |
"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" | |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.-Biography:... |
Research Associate, Department of Chemistry (1950–1951) | 1973 | Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... |
"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds" |
Current faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esther Duflo Esther Duflo Esther Duflo is a French economist, currently the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also co-founder and the Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab... |
Economics | 2009 | "exploring the social and economic forces perpetuating the cycle of poverty for the poorest peoples in South Asia and Africa." | |
| Angela Belcher Angela Belcher Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow.Belcher grew up in San... |
Materials Science and Engineering | 2004 | "developing new techniques for manipulating systems that straddle the boundary of organic and inorganic chemistry at the molecular scale." | |
| Erik Demaine Erik Demaine Erik D. Demaine , is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Early life:... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 2003 | ||
| Linda G. Griffith | Biological Engineering | 2006 | "extending the limits of biomedical engineering and its applications for diagnosing disease and regenerating damaged organs." | |
| John Harbison John Harbison John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:... |
Music and Theater Arts | 1989 | ||
| Evelyn Fox Keller Evelyn Fox Keller Evelyn Fox Keller is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of... |
History & Science, Technology, and Society | 1992 | ||
| Eric Lander Eric Lander Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S... |
Biology | 1987 | ||
| Heather N. Lechtman | Material Science and Engineering | 1984 | ||
| Nergis Mavalvala | Physics | 2010 | ||
| David C. Page | Biology | 1986 | ||
| Michael J. Piore Michael J. Piore Michael Joseph Piore is an American economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on labor economics, immigration, and innovation. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984.... |
Economics | 1984 | ||
| Daniela L. Rus Daniela L. Rus Daniela L. Rus is an American roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is director of the Distributed Robotics Lab at CSAIL, the Co-Director of the CSAIL Center for Robotics, and an Associate... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 2002 | ||
| Peter Shor Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical... |
Mathematics | 1999 | ||
| Alar Toomre Alar Toomre Alar Toomre is an Estonian-born astronomer and mathematician who immigrated to the United States in 1949. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... |
Mathematics | 1984 | ||
| Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek Frank Anthony Wilczek is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .... |
Physics | 1982 | ||
| Jack Wisdom | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | 1994 |
Research staff
| Name | Laboratory | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Smith Amy B. Smith Amy Smith is an American inventor, educator, and founder of at . She works to develop technologies and build creative capacity internationally.-Early life and education:... |
Edgerton Center | 2004 | "designing life-enhancing solutions and labor-saving technologies for people at the far end of dirt roads in the world's most remote societies" | |
| Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web... |
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab | 1998 | ||
| Harlan Lane Harlan Lane Harlan Lane is Distinguished University professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and founder of the Center for Research in Hearing, Speech, and Language. His research is focused on speech, Deaf culture, and sign language. Lane was born in... |
Research Laboratory of Electronics | 1991 | ||
| Richard M. Stallman | Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab | 1990 | ||
| George Zweig George Zweig George Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology... |
Research Laboratory of Electronics | 1981 | ||
| Vamsi Mootha Vamsi Mootha Vamsi Mootha is an Indian-American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He holds the position of Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School... |
Broad Institute | 2004 | "creating powerful, adaptable computational strategies for mining data collected in laboratories throughout the world, providing an efficient means to hunt down gene interactions that lead to a wide variety of diseases." |
Former faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jed Z. Buchwald | History | 1995 | ||
| Michael Kremer Michael Kremer Michael Robert Kremer is a development economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global... |
Economics | 1997 | ||
| Sendhil Mullainathan Sendhil Mullainathan Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He was hired with tenure by Harvard in 2004 after having spent six years at MIT, first as a junior faculty member and then as a full professor. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and conducts research on... |
Economics | 2002 | ||
| Richard C. Mulligan Richard C. Mulligan Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D., is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative.He is a Director of Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Biogen Idec, Inc..-Works:... |
Biology | 1981 | ||
| Charles Sabel Charles Sabel Charles Frederick Sabel is an American academic and professor of Law and Social Science at the Columbia Law School. His research centers on public innovations, European Union governance, labor standards, economic development, and ultra-robust networks.Sabel attended Harvard University and... |
Science, Technology, Society | 1982 | ||
| Charles Steidel | Physics | 2002 | ||
| Mark S. Wrighton Mark S. Wrighton Mark Stephen Wrighton is an American academic, a chemist, and the current Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Wrighton received his B.S. in Chemistry from Florida State University in 1969. While at Florida State, he won the Monsanto Chemistry Award for... |
Chemistry | 1983 |
Current faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mildred S. Dresselhaus | Physics & EECS | 1990 | Engineering - "For her studies of the electronic properties of metals and semimetals, and for her service to the Nation in establishing a prominent place for women in physics and engineering." | , |
| Ann M. Graybiel | Biology | 2001 | Biological Sciences - "For her pioneering contributions to the understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the brain, including the structure, chemistry, and function of the pathways subserving thought and movement." | |
| Stephen J. Lippard Stephen J. Lippard Stephen J. Lippard is an American bioinorganic chemist and the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Career:... |
Chemistry | 2004 | Chemistry - "For pioneering research in bioinorganic chemistry, which enriched our understanding of how metal compounds interact with DNA, provided important synthetic models for the active sites of metalloproteins, and elucidated key structural and mechanistic features of methane monooxygenase." | |
| Alexander Rich Alexander Rich Alexander Rich, MD is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. and an M.D. from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson... |
Biology | 1995 | Biological Sciences - "For his numerous fundamental contributions to our knowledge of the structure and function of DNA and RNA, the central information carriers in living systems." | |
| Philip A. Sharp | Biology | 2004 | Biological sciences - "For his contributions to understanding the biochemical pathway of RNA interference phenomena and for his use of RNA interference techniques to perform genetic analyses in mammalian cells." | ,, |
| Isadore M. Singer | Mathematics | 1983 | Mathematics & Computer Science - "For his inspired revival of differential geometry and its connections to analysis; for his contribution to the discovery and applications of the index theorem for differential operators; and for his leadership in using geometric and topological methods in connection with theoretical physics." | , |
| Kenneth N. Stevens Kenneth N. Stevens Kenneth N. Stevens is Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT. Stevens heads the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics , and is one of the world's leading scientists in... |
EECS | 1999 | Engineering - "For his leadership and pioneering contributions to the theory of acoustics of speech production and perception, development of mathematical methods of analysis and modeling to study the acoustics of speech production, and establishing the contemporary foundations of speech science." | |
| Robert A. Weinberg | Biology | 1997 | Biological Sciences - "For his contribution to the identification of cellular oncogenes and their role in cancer, which led to a better understanding of the molecular basis for cancer and its diagnosis and therapy." |
Emeritus faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H. Gobind Khorana | Biology | 1987 | Biological Sciences - "For his innovative contributions that significantly contributed to our understanding of gene structure, membrane function and vision and for the work stimulated by his research which has had a major impact on the biological and chemical sciences." | , |
| Robert M. Solow | Economics | 1999 | Behavioral & Social Science - "For his creation of the modern framework for analyzing the effects of investment and technological progress on economic growth, greatly influencing economics and economic policy worldwide." | ,, |
Deceased faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manson Benedict Manson Benedict Manson Benedict was an American nuclear engineer and a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1958 to 1968, he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.-Biography:Born in Lake Linden, Michigan, Benedict received a... |
Nuclear Engineering | 1975 | Engineering - "For inspired and ingenious leadership in the development of gaseous diffision plants for uranium isotope separation, and for his role in creating the discipline of nuclear engineering." | , |
| Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush Vannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer... |
"Electrical Engineering" | 1963 | Engineering - "For his distinguished achievements in electrical engineering, in the technology of computing machines, in the effective coupling of the physical and life sciences; and in his mobilizing science, engineering and education in enduring ways in the service of the Nation." | |
| Morris Cohen Morris Cohen (scientist) Morris Cohen .Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States, Cohen spent his entire career affiliated with MIT. He graduated from his undergraduate degree in 1933, receiving his doctorate three years later, and was appointed assistant professor of metallurgy in 1937... |
"Metallurgy" | 1976 | Engineering - "For original research and advancement of knowledge of the physical and mechanical metallurgy of iron and steel, and especially for his work on the martensitic transformation in the hardening of steel." | , |
| Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark Draper was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which under his direction designed and built the Apollo... |
Aeronautics and Astronautics | 1964 | Behavioral & Social Science - "For [his] innumerable imaginative engineering achievements which met urgent National needs of instrumentation, control, and guidance in aeronautics and astronautics." | |
| Harold E. Edgerton | "Electrical Engineering" | 1973 | Engineering - "For his vision and creativity in pioneering the field of stroboscopic photography and for his many inventions of instruments for exploring the great depths of the oceans." | , |
| Herman Feshbach Herman Feshbach Herman Feshbach was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M... |
Physics | 1986 | Physical Sciences - "For his distinguished contributions to science as a nationally acclaimed leader in physics education by virtue of his extraordinary interest in teaching and his total commitment to scientific excellence." | , |
| Hermann A. Haus Hermann A. Haus Hermann Anton Haus was a Slovene-American physicist, electrical engineer, and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Haus' research and teaching ranged from fundamental investigations of quantum uncertainty as manifested in optical communications to the practical... |
EECS | 1995 | Engineering - "For his fundamental and seminal research contributions to the field of quantum electronics, noise and ultra-fast optics; and for his service to the engineering profession through teaching." | , |
| Edwin H. Land Edwin H. Land Edwin Herbert Land was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision... |
1967 | Engineering - "For many discoveries and inventions in the field of polarized light, rapid photography, including quick processing of the final photograph, for the development of a unique theory of color vision, and for contributions to national defense." | ||
| Warren K. Lewis Warren K. Lewis Warren Kendall Lewis was an MIT professor who has been called the father of modern chemical engineering. He co-authored an early major textbook on the subject which essentially introduced the concept of unit operations... |
Chemical Engineering | 1965 | Engineering - "For contributions as a scientist, teacher, and inventor who as the leader of modern chemical engineering has made the American chemical industry preeminent in the world." | |
| Salvador E. Luria | Biology | 1991 | Biological Sciences - "For a lifetime devoted to applying genetics to viruses and bacteria, and for guiding the development of generations of students who have helped create the modern power of molecular biology." | , |
| Bruno B. Rossi | Physics | 1983 | Physical Sciences - "For fundamental contributions to physics and astronomy through his investigations into the nature and origin of cosmic rays and his initiatives that led to the direct detection of the solar wind and to the discovery of extrasolar x-ray sources." | |
| Paul A. Samuelson | Economics | 1996 | Behavioral & Social Science - "For fundamental contributions to economic science, specifically general equilibrium theory and macroeconomics, and to economic education and policy over a period fo nearly 60 years." | ,, |
| Claude E. Shannon | EECS | 1966 | Engineering - "For brilliant contributions to the mathematical theories of communications and information processing and for his early and continuing impact on the development of these disciplines." | , |
| John G. Trump | Nuclear Engineering | 1983 | Engineering - "For his introduction of new machines and methods for the widespread beneficial application of ionizing radiation to medicine, industry and atomic physics." | |
| Victor F. Weisskopf | Physics | 1979 | Physical Sciences - "For important contributions to our understanding of nuclear matter and nuclear reactions, and early fundamental contributions to our understanding of elementary particles." | |
| Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener is regarded as the originator of cybernetics, a... |
Mathematics & EECS | 1963 | Mathematics & Computer Science - "For his marvellously versatile contributions, profoundly original, ranging within pure and applied mathematics, and penetrating boldly into the engineering and biological sciences." |
Former faculty
| Name | Department | Year | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Baltimore David Baltimore David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech... |
Biology | 1999 | Biological Sciences - "For his fundamental discoveries in virology, tumor biology and immunology, notably the discovery of how tumor-causing viruses multiply; for his devotion to building excellence in scientific institutions; and for his statesmanship in fostering communication between scientists and the general public." | , |
| John W. Cahn John W. Cahn John Werner Cahn is an American scientist and winner of the 1998 National Medal of Science. He was a professor in the department of Materials Science at MIT from 1964-1978. Since 1977, he has held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology . Dr... |
Chemistry | 1998 | Chemistry - "For his pioneering work on thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions and diffusion, on interfacial phenomena, and for his contributions to the understanding of periodic and quasi-periodic structures." | |
| Charles H. Townes | Physics | 1982 | Physical Sciences - "For fundamental contributions to the understanding of matter through its interaction with electromagnetic radiations and the application of this knowledge to the service of mankind, most notably in the invention of the maser and laser." | , |
| Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.... |
Physics | 1991 | Physical Sciences - "For his contributions to the discovery of the structure of the fundamental forces of nature; the development of the standard model, and the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces." | |
| George M. Whitesides George M. Whitesides George M. Whitesides is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology... |
Chemistry | 1998 | Chemistry - "For innovative and far-ranging research in chemistry, biology, biochemistry and material science, pioneering work of technological interest and his extensive involvement with teaching, government and industry." |
Former and/or retired research staff
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| Thomas R. Cech | Chemistry | 1995 | Chemistry - "For his discoveries regarding RNA catalysis that have added new dimensions to the understanding of the role of RNA in living systems." | |
| E. Donnall Thomas E. Donnall Thomas Dr. Edward Donnall Thomas is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the... |
Biology | 1990 | Biological Sciences - "For his pioneering work in the science and application of transplantation biology to successful bone marrow transplantation in man for the treatment of cancer and related conditions." |
Other prominent faculty and researchers
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| Hal Abelson Hal Abelson Harold Abelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and is a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Leo Beranek Leo Beranek Leo Leroy Beranek is an American acoustics expert, former MIT professor and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman .... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Co-founder of the pioneering telecommunications and Internet company Bolt, Beranek and Newman | |
| Adam J. Berinsky | Political Science | professor and author | |
| Richard P. Binzel Richard P. Binzel Richard "Rick" P. Binzel is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the inventor of the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets.Binzel was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize... |
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science | Inventor of the Torino Scale Torino Scale The Torino Scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets.It is intended as a communication tool for astronomers and the public to assess the seriousness of collision predictions, by combining probability statistics and known... |
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| Brice Brenneman | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | cofounder of the pioneering telecommunications and Internet company Bolt, Beranek and Newman | |
| Rodney Brooks Rodney Brooks Rodney Allen Brooks is the former Panasonic professor of robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | behavioural roboticist | |
| Richard Bolt Richard Bolt Richard Henry Bolt Ph.D., better known as Richard Bolt or Dick Bolt, was a physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| George Boolos George Boolos George Stephen Boolos was a philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.- Life :... |
Mathematician | philosopher and mathematical logic Mathematical logic Mathematical logic is a subfield of mathematics with close connections to foundations of mathematics, theoretical computer science and philosophical logic. The field includes both the mathematical study of logic and the applications of formal logic to other areas of mathematics... ian |
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| Amar G. Bose | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Audio entrepreneur, founder of Bose Corporation | |
| James D. Bruce | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Vice President for Information Systems, Professor of Electrical Engineering | |
| Iain Cheeseman Iain Cheeseman Iain Cheeseman investigates the role of the kinetochore, a group of proteins required for cell division and chromosome segregation. This core network of proteins facilitates the attachment of chromosomes to microtubule polymers—the spindle structures that attach to the ends of cells, pulling and... |
Biology | Assistant Professor of Biology | |
| 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... |
Linguistics | Institute Professor and professor emeritus; notable linguist, philosopher and political activist | |
| B.D. Colen | journalist, photographer | ||
| John Ernest Cook John Cook (musician) John Ernest Cook was an Anglo-American organist, composer and church musician.-Early life, education and early career:... |
Institute Organist | Prolific composer and organist. | |
| David D. Clark David D. Clark David Dana Clark is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and Engineer's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on the I/O architecture of Multics under Jerry... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Brison D. Gooch Brison D. Gooch Brison Dowling Gooch is a professor emeritus of 19th-century European history at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He is an authority on the Revolutions of 1848, Napoleon III, Belgium, and the Crimean War.... |
History (1950s) | Specialist in history of France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... , Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... , Napoleon III, Revolutions of 1848 Revolutions of 1848 The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848. It was the first Europe-wide collapse of traditional authority, but within a year reactionary... , and the Crimean War Crimean War The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining... |
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| J.P. Den Hartog | Mechanical Engineering | Winner of a Timoshenko Medal Timoshenko Medal The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to an individual"in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics."... |
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| John J. Donovan | Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Management | Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Management. Founder of Cambridge Technology Partners Cambridge Technology Partners Cambridge Technology Partners was founded by John J. Donovan in 1991 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA as a division of Cambridge Technology Group, is a leading consulting firm with focus on solving complex business problems with technology based solutions.Today, the headquarters are based in Nyon... |
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| John W. Dower John W. Dower John W. Dower is an American author and historian.Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M. Craig... |
History | Historian of Japan, winner of a Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... |
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| James L. Elliot James L. Elliot James Ludlow Elliot was an American astronomer and scientist who, as part of a team, discovered the rings around the planet Uranus. Elliot was also part of a team that observed global warming on Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.... |
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | planetary occultations | |
| Kerry Emanuel Kerry Emanuel Kerry Emanuel is an American professor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In particular he has specialized in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms acting to intensify hurricanes. He coined the term "hypercane" in 1994. In 2007, he was... |
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | hurricanes | |
| Jay W. Forrester | Management | System Dynamics | |
| Ivan Getting | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | co-inventor with Bradford Parkinson Bradford Parkinson Bradford Parkinson is an American engineer and inventor, and United States Air Force colonel best known as the father of the Global Positioning System.... of the Global Positioning System Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites... |
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| Alan Grodzinsky Alan Grodzinsky Alan J. Grodzinsky is an American scientist and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT.... |
Electrical, Mechanical, and Biological Engineering | cartilage Cartilage Cartilage is a flexible connective tissue found in many areas in the bodies of humans and other animals, including the joints between bones, the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the elbow, the knee, the ankle, the bronchial tubes and the intervertebral discs... biomechanics, electromechanics, and tissue engineering applied to osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease, is a group of mechanical abnormalities involving degradation of joints, including articular cartilage and subchondral bone. Symptoms may include joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, locking, and sometimes an effusion... research |
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| Alan Guth Alan Guth Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory... |
Physics | proposed the idea of cosmic inflation Cosmic inflation In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation or just inflation is the theorized extremely rapid exponential expansion of the early universe by a factor of at least 1078 in volume, driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density. The inflationary epoch comprises the first part... . |
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| John R. Hauser John R. Hauser John Richard Hauser is the Kirin Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is one of the founders of the field of Marketing Science and was Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Marketing Science from 1989-1995.He holds S.B., S.M., and Sc.D.... |
Management | ||
| Eric von Hippel Eric von Hippel Eric von Hippel is an economist and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. He is best known for his work developing the concept of user innovation – that end-users, rather than manufacturers, are... |
Economics | Behavioral theorist | |
| Jim Hines | Management | System Dynamics | |
| Thomas H. Jordan Thomas H. Jordan Thomas H Jordan is a geophysicist and current director of the Southern California Earthquake Center at The University of Southern California. He was formerly the head of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the... |
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Former department head of EAPS and current director of the Southern California Earthquake Center Southern California Earthquake Center The Southern California Earthquake Center , headquartered at the University of Southern California, was founded in 1991 with a mission to:* gather new information about earthquakes in Southern California;... . |
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| Thomas Levenson Thomas Levenson Thomas Levenson is a US academic, science writer and documentary film-maker. , he is Professor of Science Writing and director of the graduate program in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... |
Writing and Humanistic Studies | Science writer and film-maker | |
| Walter Lewin Walter Lewin Walter H. G. Lewin is a professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Education and career:... |
Physics | Star of popular Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics The Walter Lewin Lectures on Physics are a set of three courses including video lectures on physics by MIT Physics Professor Walter Lewin. He explains the basics of classical mechanics, electricity, magnetism, vibrations, waves and introductory topics on astrophysics... . |
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| J. C. R. Licklider J. C. R. Licklider Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider , known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history... |
leader of the IPTO | ||
| Alan Lightman Alan Lightman Alan Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. He was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the... |
Physics | writer, physicist | |
| Andrew B. Lippman Andrew B. Lippman Andrew Lippman is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT as well as a Co-Director of various chairs at the institute. He has a more than thirty-year history at MIT. His work at the Media Lab has ranged from wearable computers to global digital television... |
Media Lab | Media Lab pioneer | |
| Edward Lorenz | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences | developed the Butterfly Effect Butterfly effect In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state... theory |
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| John Maeda | Media Lab | artist, graphic designer, computer scientist | |
| Thomas H. D. Mahoney Thomas H. D. Mahoney Thomas Henry Donald Mahoney was an American professor and politician.-Academia:... |
History and Political Science | Massachusetts Secretary of Elder Affairs from 1979 to 1983. | |
| Allan McCollum Allan McCollum Allan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over forty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on... |
Visual Arts Program | artist, writer, creator of The Shapes Project The Shapes Project Working in 2005-2006, American artist Allan McCollum designed The Shapes Project, a combinatorial system to produce unique two-dimensional "shapes." The system allows for the making of enough unique shapes for every person on the planet to have one of their own... |
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| William J. Mitchell William J. Mitchell William John Mitchell was an Australian-born architect and urban designer, who played a major role in planning a major expansion project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... |
Media Laboratory | architect, writer, media guru | |
| Marvin 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:... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Media Laboratory | Artificial intelligence | |
| Ernest Moniz | MIT Energy Initiative group (MITEI) | Energy policy advisor, National security policy | |
| Arthur Mutambara Arthur Mutambara Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara is a Zimbabwean politician. He became the President of the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction in February 2006. He has worked as the Managing Director and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute since September 2003... |
Robotics & mechatronics, politician | ||
| Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association .... |
Media Lab | OLPC project leader | |
| Seymour Papert Seymour Papert Seymour Papert is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. He is one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.... |
Media Lab | education & computers | |
| Cecil Peabody Cecil Peabody Cecil Hobart Peabody was an American mechanical engineer, born at Burlington, Vt. He graduated in 1877 at MIT, where in 1883 he became assistant professor of steam engineering and in 1893 professor of marine engineering and naval architecture... |
mechanical engineering and writer | ||
| Alex (Sandy) Pentland Alex Pentland Alex Pentland is the Toshiba Professor at MIT, a serial , and is one of the most cited . Pentland obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981, was Lecturer at Stanford University in both computer science and psychology, and joined the MIT faculty in 1986, where he became Academic Head of the Media... |
Media Laboratory | Human-computer interaction and social networks | |
| Theodore Postol Theodore Postol Theodore A. Postol is a professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a prominent critic of U.S. government statements about missile defense.-Background:... |
Science, Technology, and Society | nuclear weapons expert and prominent critic of current ballistic missile defense systems | |
| Nelson Repenning | Management | System Dynamics | |
| Ellen Swallow Richards Ellen Swallow Richards Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 19th century, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards graduated from Westford Academy... |
Chemistry | The first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, first female instructor at MIT, first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry, foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s | |
| Gian-Carlo Rota Gian-Carlo Rota Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.-Life:Rota was born in Vigevano, Italy... |
Mathematics | mathematician & philosopher | |
| Ron Rivest Ron Rivest Ronald Linn Rivest is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Cryptographer, co-inventor of RSA, inventor of RC5 RC5 In cryptography, RC5 is a block cipher notable for its simplicity. Designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, RC stands for "Rivest Cipher", or alternatively, "Ron's Code"... , MD5 MD5 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit hash value. Specified in RFC 1321, MD5 has been employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check data integrity... and several other cryptographic algorithms, Turing Award Turing Award The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the... |
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| Douglas T. Ross Douglas T. Ross Douglas Taylor Ross was an American computer scientist pioneer, and Chairman of SofTech, Inc.. He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is consider to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools a language to drive numerically controlled manufacturing.-... |
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | CAD pioneer | |
| Frederick P. Salvucci Frederick P. Salvucci Frederick Peter Salvucci is a civil engineer specializing in transportation, in particular infrastructure, urban transportation, public transportation and institutional development in decision-making. He was the Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under Governor... |
Civil and Environmental Engineering | civil engineer, former Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010... Secretary of Transportation, and principal planner of the Big Dig |
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| Edgar Schein Edgar Schein Edgar Henry Schein , a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has made a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. He is generally credited with inventing the term... |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | organizational psychologist | |
| George P. Shultz George P. Shultz George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989... |
Management | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Secretary of State, Treasury, and Labor. Former Professor at both the MIT Department of Economics and the MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... . Earned a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1949. |
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| Peter Senge Peter Senge Peter Michael Senge is an American scientist and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known as author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization from 1990... |
Management | Learning Organizations | |
| David Simchi-Levi | Systems Engineering | Supply Chain Management | |
| Peter Shor Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical... |
Mathematics | mathematician, inventor of Shor's algorithm Shor's algorithm Shor's algorithm, named after mathematician Peter Shor, is a quantum algorithm for integer factorization formulated in 1994... |
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| Robert Stalnaker Robert Stalnaker Robert C. Stalnaker is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2007, he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford University on the topic of Our Knowledge of the Internal World... |
philosopher, linguist | ||
| John Sterman John Sterman John David Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the System... |
System Dynamics | ||
| Dirk Jan Struik Dirk Jan Struik Dirk Jan Struik was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States.- Life :... |
Mathematics | mathematician and historian of mathematics | |
| Gerald Sussman | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Co-inventor of Scheme, research in artificial intelligence, computer languages, and orbital mechanics | |
| Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a sociologist... |
Science, Technology, and Society | clinical psychologist and sociologist | |
| Evan Ziporyn Evan Ziporyn Evan Ziporyn is an American composer of post-minimalist music and music for Balinese gamelans. He plays the clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and metallophone, borrowing from classical music, avant-garde, and jazz... |
Music and Theater Arts | Composer, Clarinetist, Bang on a Can All-Stars |