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Encyclopedia > List of University of Chicago people

The following is a list of people affiliated with the University of Chicago, including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by American industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. Since then, a large number of prominent individuals have been affiliated with the school, including 80 Nobel Prize laureates. For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. ... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ...


Notable people affiliated with the University of Chicago include current Supreme Court justices John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia; senator Barack Obama; Nobel Prize-winning economists Milton Friedman and Gary S. Becker; foreign policy architect Paul Wolfowitz; Academy Award-winning director Mike Nichols; astronomer Edwin Hubble; writers Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, and Susan Sontag; philosophers Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and Leo Strauss; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists David Broder and Seymour Hersh. For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is currently the most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ... Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936[1]) is an American jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ... “Barack” redirects here. ... Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. ... Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. ... Image needed Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. ... John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ... Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a German-born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy. ... David S. Broder ... Seymour Myron Sy Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters. ...

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Notable Alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Chicago.


Nobel Laureates

Portrait of Luis Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist of Spanish descent, who worked at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). ... Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an economist and a Nobel laureate. ... Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. ... Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912–December 19, 2004) was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 (along with Georg Wittig) for his work with organoboranes. ... For other persons named James Buchanan, see James Buchanan (disambiguation). ... Owen Chamberlain Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was a prominent American physicist. ... James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. ... Clinton Joseph Davisson (22 October 1881–1 February 1958), was an American physicist. ... Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930) is a U.S. physicist. ... Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. ... Ernest O. Lawrence Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. ... Tsung-Dao Lee (T. D. Lee, 李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese American physicist, well known for parity violation, Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars. ... Robert Emerson Bob Lucas, Jr. ... Harry Max Markowitz (born August 24, 1927) is an influential economist at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. ... Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. ... Robert Sanderson Mulliken (June 7, 1896-October 31, 1986) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. ... Irwin A. Rose (born 16 July 1926 in NY) is an American biologist. ... Frank Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927) is a Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. ... Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ... Paul Anthony Samuelson (born May 15, 1915, in Gary, Indiana) is an American neoclassical economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of Economic Analysis. ... Myron S. Scholes (born July 1, 1941) is one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation. ... Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, economics, management, and philosophy of science and a professor, most notably, at Carnegie Mellon University. ... ... George Joseph Stigler (1911 - 1991) was a U.S. economist. ... Tatum won the Nobel Prize for his work in genetics Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. ... Daniel Tsui won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Laughlin and Horst L. Störmer in 1998 for for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations (according to the Nobel Committee). ... James Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ... Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ... Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born 22 September[1], 1922) is a Chinese American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. ...

Government

Heads of State

Marek Belka (pronounce: [marεk bεlka]) (b. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi1 (Arabic: أحمد الجلبي Ahmad al-Jalabī) (born October 30, 1944) was interim oil minister in Iraq[1] in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. ... Dr. Lien Chan Lien Chan (連戰, in pinyin: Lián Zhàn) (born August 27, 1936, in Xian) is a Taiwanese politician. ... The Office of the President of the Republic of China, located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, also houses the office of the Vice President. ... Lee Teng-hui (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) born January 15, 1923) is a politician of Taiwan. ... Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez Bustamante (born July 1, 1930), familiarly known as Goni, is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former president. ... Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja (October 8, 1925, Ahuachapán, El Salvador – July 10, 2001) was the President of El Salvador from 1982 to 1984. ...

General

John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American politician who was the 79th United States Attorney General. ... The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. ... Robert Bork Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar and former judge who advocates an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. ... The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the mid-level appellate courts of the United States federal court system. ... William Holmes Brown was the parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives from 1974 to 1994. ... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party... William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is a lawyer and activist. ... The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. ... Benjamin V. Cohen (September 23, 1894 (Muncie, Indiana) – August 15, 1983 (Washington, D.C.)) was a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelts Brain Trust. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... FDR redirects here. ... The Brain Trust was the name given to a group of diverse academics who served as advisers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early period of his tenure. ... Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is an American politician and businessman. ... Jon Corzine 54th Governor of New Jersey; Incumbent Christine Christie Todd Whitman, the first female governor of New Jersey The Governor of New Jersey is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New Jersey. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Type Upper House President of the Senate Richard B. Cheney, R since January 20, 2001 President pro tempore Robert C. Byrd, D since January 4, 2007 Members 100 Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party Last elections November 7, 2006 Meeting place Senate Chamber United States Capitol Washington, DC United States... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... 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The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior, concerned with such matters as national parks and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Dr. Fred Charles Ikle is a Distinguished Scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. ... This is a position for policy in the defense department. ... Scud Missile The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was established as an independent agency by the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (75 Stat. ... Patricia Kabbah or Patricia Tucker was born on March 17th 1933 in Gbap, Bonthe District, Southern Province of Sierra Leone and she died on May 8th 1998. ... Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashto/Persian: ) (born: 22 March 1951) is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. ... UN redirects here. ... Amy Jean Klobuchar (pronounced KLOH-buh-shar) (born May 25, 1960) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. ... 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Logo of the World Bank The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance to countries for purposes of development and poverty reduction, and for encouraging and safeguarding international investment. ... Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables. ... USSS redirects here. ... Michael W. McConnell (born in Louisville, Kentucky, 1955) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, having been nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 15, 2002. ... The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts: District of Colorado District of Kansas District of New Mexico Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma District of Utah District of Wyoming These districts were... Court of Appeals or (outside the U.S. and in some American states) Court of Appeal is the title of a court which has the power to consider or hear an appeal. ... Abner Joseph Mikva was a Democratic U.S. Congressman, federal judge and law professor from Illinois. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (140,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the mid-level appellate courts of the United States federal court system. ... Patsy T. Mink was the first non-white woman to serve in Congress. ... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party... Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. ... Type Upper House President of the Senate Richard B. Cheney, R since January 20, 2001 President pro tempore Robert C. Byrd, D since January 4, 2007 Members 100 Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party Last elections November 7, 2006 Meeting place Senate Chamber United States Capitol Washington, DC United States... William A. Niskanen is chairman of the Cato Institute, a position he has held since 1985 following service on President Reagans Council of Economic Advisers. ... The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institutes stated mission is to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace by striving to achieve greater involvement... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... This article is about the Pete Peterson who was a U.S. government official during the Nixon administration; there is also a Pete Peterson who was a former Florida Congressman and ambassador to Vietnam. ... The office of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the mid-20th century. ... Bernard Bernie Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the current big willy floppah junior United States Senator from big blob of brown poo Vermont. ... Type Upper House President of the Senate Richard B. Cheney, R since January 20, 2001 President pro tempore Robert C. Byrd, D since January 4, 2007 Members 100 Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party Last elections November 7, 2006 Meeting place Senate Chamber United States Capitol Washington, DC United States... Type Bicameral Speaker of the House of Representatives House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D) since January 4, 2007 Steny Hoyer, (D) since January 4, 2007 House Minority Leader John Boehner, (R) since January 4, 2007 Members 435 plus 4 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party... The Bank of Japan has its headquarters in this building in Tokyo. ... John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is currently the most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ... The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS[1]) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. ... James Matthes Jim Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician and former Senator from Missouri. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Hoover Tower at the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships. ... The World Bank logo The World Bank (the Bank) is a part of the World Bank Group (WBG), is a bank that makes loans to developing countries for development programs with the stated goal of reducing poverty. ... Kateryna Yuschchenko with her husband Viktor Yushchenko Kateryna Mykhaylivna Yushchenko-Chumachenko is the current and second wife of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. ...

Arts and Entertainment

Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. ... An Emmy Award. ... David Auburn (born 1969) is an American playwright. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Look up proof in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Lester Beall (1903–1969) was a twentieth-century American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent of modernist graphic design in the United States. ... Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980) is an American actress. ... My Girl is a 1991 coming-of-age movie about the problems faced by a young girl over one summer. ... Katherine Dunham in 1956 Katherine Mary Dunham (22 June 1909 – 21 May 2006) was an African-American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. ... The National Medal of Arts is an award and title bestowed on selected honorees by the National Endowment for the Arts. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Kurt Elling Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz vocalist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is known variously as NARAS or The Recording Academy. ... Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Sessue Hayakawa (早川雪洲 Hayakawa Sessue, June 10, 1889 - November 23, 1973) was a Japanese actor in American films, including two in the U.S. National Film Registry: The Cheat in 1915 The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. ... The Cheat can refer to different topics: For DeMilles honored and early film , see The Cheat. ... Marilu Henner (born April 6, 1952) is an American actress and producer. ... Celeste Holm (b. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Rebecca Jarvis (born 1981) is a financial journalist and a candidate on The Apprentice 4. ... The Apprentice is a television franchise that originated in 2004 in the United States. ... Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is a film director and screenwriter from Chicago, Illinois. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Greg Kotis wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics of Urinetown the Musical. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Joshua Jacob Marston (born 13 August 1968) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film Maria Full of Grace. ... Maria Full of Grace (2004, Spanish title: María llena eres de gracia, lit. ... Tucker Max is an American fratire writer known for chronicling his sexual and drunken exploits on his website, Tuckermax. ... Elaine May (b. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... For the novel of the same name, see The Graduate (novel). ... For the 1966 film adaptation, see Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film) Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. ... Silkwood is a 1983, Oscar-nominated film which dramatizes the story of Karen Silkwood, who died under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. ... For the North American comedy troupe, see The Second City. ... Sheldon Patinkin is an author, teacher, and director. ... Kimberly Peirce (born September 8, 1967), is an American film director, notable for her debut feature, Boys Dont Cry (1999). ... Boys Dont Cry is the title of: a 1999 movie starring Hilary Swank: see Boys Dont Cry (movie) the US name of the 1979 The Cure album Three Imaginary Boys: see Boys Dont Cry (album) a band of session musicians who had a one-hit wonder in... Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is a two-time Oscar winning American actress. ... The stop-loss policy, in the United States military, is the involuntary retention of troops to remain in service beyond their contractually agreed-upon term. ... Several notable people have been called John Phillips: John Phillips (1935-2001) was a musician and member of The Mamas & the Papas John Phillips (1631-1706) was an author and secretary to John Milton Sir John Phillips (1700-1764) was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1763. ... Bernard Bernie Sahlins is an American writer, director and comedian best known as a founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe with Paul Sills and Howard Alk in 1959. ... For the North American comedy troupe, see The Second City. ... Hayden Schlossberg (born June 9, 1978) is a screenwriter from Livingston, New Jersey whose credits include Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Scary Movie 3 (Rewrite), and Filthy. ... Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (published internationally under the title Harold and Kumar get the Munchies) is a 2004 stoner movie that explores stereotypes, especially racial, in American culture. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The cover of a Victorias Secret catalog, a catalog known for featuring supermodels as its lingerie models. ... Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity and socialite. ... Eddie Shin (born July 17, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Korean-American actor. ... Paul Sills (born 18 November, 1927) is a director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of The Second City, Playwrights and Compass Players. ... For the North American comedy troupe, see The Second City. ... Fritz Weaver on The Twilight Zone Fritz Weaver is a prolific American actor and voice actor. ...

Athletics

  • Jay Berwanger (A.B. 1936) - First Heisman Trophy winner.
  • Willie D. Davis (M.B.A. 1968) - Professional Football Hall of Fame member (1981). President of All Pro Broadcasting. Former University trustee.
  • Kimberly Ng (A.B. 1990) - Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • Craig Robinson (M.B.A. 1992) - Head men's basketball coach at Brown University.

John Jay Berwanger (March 19, 1914 - June 26, 2002) was an American football player born in Dubuque, Iowa. ... Heisman redirects here. ... Major league affiliations National League (1890–present) West Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 2, 4, 19, 20, 24, 32, 39, 42, 53 Name Los Angeles Dodgers (1958–present) Brooklyn Dodgers (1932-1957) Brooklyn Robins (1914-1931) Brooklyn Dodgers (1913) Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (1911-1912) Brooklyn Superbas (1899... Craig Robinson is the head mens basketball coach at Brown University. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...

Business

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is the worlds largest supplier of toner-based (dry ink) photocopier machines and associated supplies. ... Andrew Alper is the former President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). ... The New York City[1] Economic Development Corporation[2] works with the private and public sectors on economic development initiatives to revitalize businesses, create jobs, and generate revenues for the City. ... The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Staples, Inc. ... Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker. ... This article is about the Landmark. ... Louis Gordon Crovitz is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal who also served as executive vice-president of Dow Jones and launched the companys Consumer Media Group, which under his leadership integrated the global print, online, digital, TV and other editions of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch. ... U.S. Robotics (popularly referred to by its acronym USR) is a company that makes computer modems and related technologies. ... Durandal (Italian Durindana) is the legendary sword of the French hero Roland (Italian Orlando). ... Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is a bulge bracket New York City based investment banking and financial services firm. ... The Credit Suisse Group is the second-largest financial services company in Switzerland, behind longtime rival UBS AG. It was founded in 1856 under the name Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA, Swiss Credit Institution). ... H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) is the leading tax preparation company in the United States, and claims more than 22 million customers worldwide, with offices in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... The Chicago Stock Exchange, located in Chicago, Illinois, is the third most active stock exchange in the United States by volume. ... The Northern Trust Corporation NASDAQ: NTRS is a financial services company, headquartered in Chicago, providing fiduciary, banking and investment services for individuals and credit, operating, custody, trust and investment management services for organizations. ... Gerald S. Gidwitz (July 16, 1906—July 11, 2006) was a co-founder of Helene Curtis Industries. ... Tootsie Roll Industries (TR-NYSE) is a manufacturer of confectionery in the United States. ... Zipcar is a for-profit, membership-based carsharing company providing automobile rental to its members, billable by the hour or day. ... John H. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire headquartered in Chicago, Illinois that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. ... Snubbed by advertisers when he founded his company 60 years ago, John Johnson has pushed his magazine company to the front of the pack. ... Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Jamie Foxx on the 60th anniversary cover of Ebony Magazine, November 2005 Ebony, a magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has been published since the autumn of 1945. ... Jet magazine is a popular African-American publication founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company. ... The Barclays Group is based in One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf Barclays plc (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS, TYO: 8642 ) is a global financial services provider and sportswear consultancy operating in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, Australia, Asia and Africa. ... Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank plc. ... Pfizer Incorporated (NYSE: PFE) is a major pharmaceutical company, which ranks number one in the world in sales[2]. The company is based in New York City. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... CEO who sold Gillete for 165 Million Dollars Profit. ... Global Gillette is a business unit of Procter & Gamble. ... ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Studios and the first woman to head a major studio. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Joseph Mansueto is the founder and CEO of Morningstar, Inc. ... The phrase Morning Star can refer to several things. ... John W. Meriwether (born August 10, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American financial executive on Wall Street seen as a pioneer of fixed income arbitrage. ... Aramark Corporation (NYSE: RMK) is a professional services organization, providing food services, facilities management, hospitality services, and uniforms and career apparel to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, businesses, prisons, senior living facilities, parks and resorts, correctional institutions, conference centers, convention centers, and public safety professionals... John R. Opel (born 1925) is a U.S. computer businessman. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ... Philip J. Purcell headed Sears’ 1981 acquisition of Dean Witter, helping to create the Discover Card. ... David Rockefeller, Sr. ... The Chase Manhattan Bank, now part of JPMorgan Chase, was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm. ... The Carlyle Group is a Washington, DC based global private equity investment firm with more than $18 billion of equity capital. ... Orascom Construction Industries or Orascom Construction Industries SAE(OCI) (LSE: ORSD)is construction company established in Egypt in 1950 and owned by Onsi Sawiris. ... DaimlerChrysler AG (Xetra: DCX), (NYSE: DCX), has its headquarter in Stuttgart, Germany and is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer, formed in 1998 by the buyout of the Chrysler Corporation (USA) by Daimler-Benz (Germany). ... Marion A. Trozzolo (1925 - 1992) was an entrepreneur, inventor and professor of business at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. ... Teflon is a trademark of DuPont and is commonly used for the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ... Merrill Lynch & Co. ... TIAA-CREF is one of the largest financial services companies in the United States, with some $360 billion in assets under management as of Sept. ... Michigan State University (MSU) is a co-educational public research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act. ... Not to be confused with University of the State of New York. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...

Education

Harvard redirects here. ... Richard C. Atkinson (born March 1929) served as the president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003. ... Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced Riverside San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... For other system schools, see University of Houston System. ... This article is about the university in Columbia. ... The University of Haifa (אוניברסיטת חיפה) is a university in Haifa, Israel. ... Henry Bienen is the current president of Northwestern University. ... Northwestern University (NU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago. ... Leon Botstein, as photographed during a February 2004 interview with WXBC Radio Bard. ... For other meanings of the word Bard, see Bard (disambiguation). ... In 1962, at the age of 80, Leopold Stokowski founded the American Symphony Orchestra. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Eastern entrance The Walter A. Haas School of Business, better known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Colgate University is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in the Village of Hamilton in Madison County, New York, USA. It was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary, but has since become non-denominational. ... Yale Divinity School is the one of the constituent graduate schools of Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ... Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta and in western unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. ... The College of Wooster is a liberal arts college with fewer than 2000 students located in Wooster, Ohio, in Wayne County, Ohio. ... May Louise Cowles (1892-1978) was a noted economist, researcher, and published author. ... Family and consumer sciences, or home economics, is an academic discipline concerning consumer science, nutrition, cooking, parenting, interior decoration, textiles, gardening, and other subjects related to home management. ... Peter Fitzgerald Dorman is an epigraphist, philologist, and cultural anthropologist. ... The American University of Beirut (AUB; Arabic: ‎) is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. ... There is also the Tuskegee Airmen, a corps of African-American military pilots trained there during World War II Tuskegee University is an American institution of higher learning located in Tuskegee, Alabama. ... On April 30, 2007, Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga. ... Morehouse College is a private, four-year, all-male, historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Adam Gamoran is a professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. ... University of Wisconsin redirects here. ... Marvin Leonard Goldberger (born 22 October 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is a physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Clifton Daggett Gray was the third president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and a Baptist theologian. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ... , Connecticut College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut. ... The College of Charleston (C of C) is a public university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina. ... Babson College, located in Wellesley, Massachusetts (zoned as Babson Park, ZIP code 02457),[1] is a private business school which grants all undergraduates a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... The University of Nigeria is a university situated in the Enugu State town of Nsukka. ... Howard W. Johnson Howard Wesley Johnson (born 1922) was a U.S. educator. ... “MIT” redirects here. ... Boalt Halls law library was expanded in 1996 with the North Addition, pictured above. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... David Kessler (1863?-1920) was a prominent actor in the first great era of Yiddish theater. ... The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public university located in San Francisco, California. ... The Yale School of Medicine is a private medical school located in New Haven, Connecticut. ... “FDA” redirects here. ... California Lutheran University (CLU also known as Cal Lutheran) is a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Thousand Oaks, California. ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California in Silicon Valley. ... Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays ( August 1, 1894 (?) – March 28, 1984) was an African-American minister, educator, scholar, social activist and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. ... Morehouse College is a private, four-year, all-male, historically black liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Deborah Meier (1931– ) is often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Father Leo J. ODonovan (born in New York City, New York in 1934) was President of Georgetown University. ... Georgetown University is a Jesuit private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. ... The American University of Paris is an accredited, independent, private liberal arts and sciences institution in Paris, France. ... David Bicknell Truman (1913-2003) was an political scientist and educator who spent much of his career at Columbia University before becoming president of Mount Holyoke College. ... Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... The Russell Sage Foundation is a small foundation located in New York City that is devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. ...

Historians

  • R. Scott Appleby (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) - Professor of History and John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
  • Allan Berube (X. 1968) - Founder of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian History Project, now the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society; author of Coming Out Under Fire (1990) [Lambda Literary Award]; MacArthur Fellow (1996).
  • Constance B. Bouchard (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Akron; Guggenheim Fellow (1995) and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
  • Antoinette Burton (A.M. 1984, Ph.D. 1990) - Catherine A. and Bruce C. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Henry Steele Commager (Ph.B. 1923, A.M. 1924, Ph.D. 1928) - noted American historian.
  • Avery Craven (Ph.D. 1923) - Professor of History; Civil War expert.
  • Nicholas Dirks (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) - Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology, Vice-President for Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
  • Caroline Ford (A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1987) - Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles; former Professor of History at Harvard University (1988-1995); author of Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France (Cornell University Press, 2005).
  • Lawrence M. Friedman (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1951, LL.M. 1953) - Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; legal historian and author of Crime and Punishment in American History.
  • David Fromkin (A.B. 1950, J.D. 1953) - University Professor of International Relations, History, and Law at Boston University.
  • Stéphane Gerson (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) - Associate Professor of French and French Studies, New York University; Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies (best book published 2003-05) and Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (year’s most distinguished book in American or European cultural history) for The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (2003); Co-editor of Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (2007).
  • Dena Goodman (A.M. 1978, Ph.D. 1982) - Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan; Guggenheim Fellow (2006).
  • Anthony Grafton (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) - Prominent Renaissance historian and Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University.
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb (Ph.D. 1950) - National Humanities Medal (2004); Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York.
  • Kenneth T. Jackson (A.M. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) - Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University.
  • Russell Jacoby (S.M. 1978) - Professor in Residence at Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles; author of The Last Intellectuals (1987[2000]).
  • Herbert S. Klein (A.B. 1957, A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1963) - Professor of Latin American History, Stanford University.
  • Julien Victor Koschmann (Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of History, Cornell University.
  • Mark Edward Lewis (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) - Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture, Department of History, Stanford University.
  • Terry Martin (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1996) - Pioneering historian of the Soviet Union; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies at Harvard University.
  • Walter A. McDougall (A.M., 1971, Ph.D. 1974) - Professor of History and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania; Pulitzer Prize Winner (1986).
  • William McNeill (A.B. 1938, A.M. 1939) - Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago; author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963).
  • Richard Anthony Parker (Ph.D. 1938) - Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University; director of the University of Chicago’s epigraphic survey studying the mortuary temple of Ramses III.
  • Vijay Prashad (A.M. 1990, Ph.D. 1994) - George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College; author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (2007).
  • Michael Puett (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1994) - Professor of Chinese History, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
  • Francesca Rochberg (Ph.D. 1980) - Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley; MacArthur Fellow (1982).
  • Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ph.D. 1974) - Professor of Medieval History and Chair of the Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago; Guggenheim Fellow (1991) and author of numerous books, including To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 (Cornell University Press, 1989), Negotating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Cornell UP, 1999), and Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Cornell UP, 2006).
  • Eileen Southern (A.B. 1940, Ph.D. 1941) - National Humanities Medal (2001); first African-American female professor at Harvard University.
  • Michael P. Steinberg (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1985) - Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Music and director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University (2005-present); former professor of History at Cornell University (1988-2005).
  • Studs Terkel (Ph.B. 1932, J.D. 1934) - Oral historian and radio host; Pulitzer Prize winner for the Good War: An Oral History of World War II (1985); National Humanities Medal (1997).
  • Gerhard Weinberg (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) - Historian, World War Two expert; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • Carter G. Woodson (A.B. 1908, A.M. 1908) - Historian and founder of Negro History Week (1926), which evolved into Black History Month; civil rights activist.
  • Richard S. Wortman (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1964) - Bryce Professor of European Legal History, Columbia University; pioneering historian of imperial Russian history; 2007 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

For other universities and colleges named Notre Dame, see Notre Dame. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... The University of Akron is an institution of higher learning located in Akron, Ohio. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The Medieval Academy of America is the largest organization in the United States promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies. ... A Corner of Main Quad The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, or simply Illinois), is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. ... Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 - March 2, 1998) was a noted American historian who wrote (or edited) over forty books and over 700 journalistic essays and reviews, and taught at New York University, Columbia, and Amherst College. ... Avery Odelle Craven (born August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa; died January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was an historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War. ... Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Profressor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, dean of the universitys faculty, and Vice President of its Arts and Sciences division. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California in Silicon Valley. ... Professor David Fromkin. ... For the similarly named institution in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Anthony Grafton (sometimes Anthony T. Grafton) (born 21 May 1950) is a Jewish American historian and the current Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. ... This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym pronounced ), is the public university system of New York City. ... Kenneth T. Jackson (b. ... Jacques Martin Barzun (b. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Russell Jacoby, born 1945, is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) an author, and critic of academic culture. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The former King of England, rarely spoken about after his tragic death in a palace coup. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Harvard redirects here. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... William H. McNeill (born 1917, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian historian. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Richard Anthony Parker (December 10, 1905 - June 3, 1993) was a prominent professor of Egyptology. ... The Great Sphinx of Giza against Khafres Pyramid at the Giza pyramid complex. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Osirid statues of Ramses III at Karnak. ... A number of educational institutions carry the name Trinity College, some independent, others constituent colleges of a larger university. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Eileen Jackson Southern (born 1920 in Minneapolis - died October 13, 2002 in Port Charlotte, Florida) was an African American musicologist, reasearcher, author and teacher. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Harvard redirects here. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Cornell redirects here. ... Louis Studs Terkel (born May 16, 1912) is an American author, historian and broadcaster. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Gerhard L. Weinberg, January 2003 Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War Two. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Also know as Carolina, North Carolina, UNC-CH, or simply UNC, the university is the oldest public institution of higher education in the United States and is the flagship... Carter Woodson biographical cartoon by Charles Alston, 1943 Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 — April 3, 1950) was an African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month. ... Black History Month is a remembrance of important people and events in African American history. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Journalism

Rick Atkinson (born 1952, in Munich) is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes. ... David Blum is the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... David S. Broder ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ... David Brooks, conservative commentator for the New York Times and other publications. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative [1] magazine published 48 times per year. ... The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on PBS in the United States. ... Ana Marie Cox (born September 23, 1972, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American author and blogger, who was the founding editor of the political blog Wonkette, and widely considered synonymous with the title. ... Wonkette is a blog published by Gawker Media that details the goings-on of the political establishment in Washington, DC. The site focuses heavily on gossip, humor, and the downfall of the powerful, as well as more serious matters of politics or policy. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. ... Thomas Frank Thomas Frank (born 1965) is an American author who writes about what he calls cultural politics. He is the founder and editor of The Baffler and the author of several books, most recently Whats the Matter with Kansas?. Other writings include essays for Harpers Magazine, Le... The Baffler (founded 1988 by editor Thomas Frank) is a cultural-political criticism journal headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and sold at independent bookstores across the US. It is known for critiquing business culture and the culture business and for having exposed the grunge speak hoax perpetrated on The New York... Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. ... ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Jan Crawford Greenburg is the legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune and reports on the Supreme Court of the United States for the PBS show The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. ... ABC News logo ABC News Special Report ident, circa 2006 ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. ... Dr. Nathan Hare On April 9, 1933 in Slick, Oklahoma Nathan Hare was ushered into this world. ... Seymour Myron Sy Hersh (born April 8, 1937 Chicago) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The My Lai Massacre ( , approximately ) (Vietnamese: ) was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), mostly civilians and majority of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... For other uses, see New Yorker. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City, New York, USA, with Asian and European editions, and a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million as of 2006, with 931,000 paying online subscribers. ... Dave Kehr is an American film critic currently writing for The New York Times. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... The Philadelphia Inquirer is one of a two Knight Ridder newspaper duopoly daily for the Philadelphia area. ... Harvey Robert Levin is a producer, lawyer, legal analyst, and investigative reporter. ... TMZ.com is a celebrity gossip and news website, the result of a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros. ... NPR redirects here. ... For other uses, see Guardian. ... Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author[1] and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation[2] as well as the British newspaper The Observer. ... John Podhoretz (born April 18, 1961) is a U.S. neoconservative commentator for a variety of media sources, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter. ... National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. ... The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative [1] magazine published 48 times per year. ... This article is about the concept of time. ... Edward Rothstein is a music critic and composer who supports the idea that music may be linked in a distant way to physical and mathematical ideas such as the string theory. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... For other uses, see New Republic. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... Nate Silver is Executive Vice-President of Baseball Prospectus. ... Baseball Prospectus, sometimes abbreviated as BP, is a think-tank focusing on the statistical analysis of the sport of baseball, which is also known as sabermetrics. ... Robert B. Silvers (b. ... This article is about the literary magazine. ... Brent Staples (1951- present) is an editorial writer for the New York Times. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... Bret Stephens is a writer, editorialist and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... Rafael Suarez, Jr. ... The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on PBS in the United States. ... Philosophy Talk is a talk radio program co-hosted by John Perry and Kenneth Taylor, who are professors at Stanford University. ... Stanford redirects here. ... USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. ...

Literature

Jessica Abel (b. ... Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Allan Blooms translation and interpretation, Second edition 1991. ... Dr. Paul Carlton Borgman is an author of religious works and professor of English at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. ... Ernest Callenbach (born April 3, 1929) is an American writer. ... Paul Carroll was an American poet and the founder of the Poetry Center of Chicago. ... Image:HaydenCarruth. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... Will Cuppy, born William Jacob Cuppy (August 23, 1884 - September 19, 1949) in Auburn, Indiana, was an American humorist and journalist known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures. ... Mu Dan (穆旦; 1918-1977) was one of the most important poets of 20th century China. ... Joseph Epstein, also known as Colonel Gilles, was a leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War. ... James Thomas Farrell was born on 27 February 1904, in Chicago. ... There have been multiple well-known individuals named Paul Goodman: Paul Goodman (writer), US author, freethinker, anarchist and Gestalt Therapy contributor (see Paul Goodman page in the Anarchist Encyclopedia) Paul Goodman (sound engineer), winner of multiple Grammy Awards) Paul Alexander Cyril Goodman (United Kingdom politician) Paul Goodman an NHL hockey... Gerald Graff is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ... The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fifth Edition The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of literature and literary criticism. ... Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Sebastien de Grazia, (1917-2001), was a pulitzer prize winning author. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Patrick Larkin is a bestselling novelist specializing in historical, military, and espionage thrillers. ... Luis Leal (born March 21, 1957), born Luis Enrique Leal Alvarado, is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the American League for the Toronto Blue Jays between 1980 and 1985. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 - December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of... Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a major American Modernist poet. ... Norman Fitzroy Maclean (23 December 1902 in Clarinda, Iowa — 2 August 1990 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American author and scholar most noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992). ... William Rainey Harper ( 1856- 1906) Noted academic; organizer and first President of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Campbell McGrath is a notable modern American poet. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Thomas Sterling North was an internationally known author of books for youngsters and adults, including 1963s famous bestselling Rascal. ... Norman Panama (21 April 1914 – 13 January 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. ... Sara Paretsky (b. ... Elizabeth Peters (a pen-name of Barbara Mertz) has written many books in the mystery genre, featuring strong female protagonists and many archaeological connections. ... Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 - June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. ... Stanford redirects here. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey[1]) is a famous American novelist. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The National Medal of Arts is an award and title bestowed on selected honorees by the National Endowment for the Arts. ... Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908–February 19, 1997) was born on 11 April 1908 in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died on 19 February 1997 in New York. ... John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Mans War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of... Image needed Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... (Francis) George Steiner, a prominent literary critic, was born in Paris, France, on April 23, 1929. ... Herman Arthur Voaden (19 January 1903 – 27 June 1991) was a Canadian playwright. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 - January 26, 1968) was an American literary critic and poet, noted as a critic of poetry and embroiled in controversy. ...

Mathematics

George David Birkhoff (21 March 1884 - 12 November 1944) was an American mathematician, and one of the most important leaders in mathematics in the USA in his generation. ... The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). ... Alberto Calderón. ... The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). ... The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples . ... National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. ... Paul Joseph Cohen (born April 2, 1934) is an American mathematician. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947) is an American mathematician. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Saunders Mac Lane (born 4 August 1909) is a US mathematician. ... Anil Nerode is a U.S. mathematician. ... Isadore Singer (born 1924) is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to outstanding mathematicians. ... Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... John Thompson is the name of: // Academics Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (1898–1975), English archeologist and Mayan scholar John G. Thompson (b. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. ... Oswald Veblen (24 June 1880 - 10 August 1960) was an American mathematician. ...

Medicine

Dr. Robert C. Gallo Robert Charles Gallo (born March 23, 1937) is a U.S. biomedical researcher. ... Maurice Ralph Hilleman, (August 30, 1919 – April 11, 2005), was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed more than three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist. ... A Microbiologist is a biologist that studies the field of microbiology. ... Vaccinology is the scientific discipline of vaccine research. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is recognized as the lead United States agency for protecting the public health and safety of people by providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. ... Leon Kass Leon Kass (born February 12, 1939) is an American bioethicist, best known as a leader in the effort to stop human embryonic stem cell and cloning research as former chair of the Presidents Council on Bioethics from 2002–2005. ... A controversial entity, created by George W. Bush, whose purpose is to regulate (or, at least, tell the president how he ought to regulate) biotechnology and biomedical research. ... The Committee on Social Thought, one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago, was started in 1941 by the historian John U. Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins. ... The American Enterprise Institutes Logo The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a neoconservative think tank, founded in 1943. ... Michael Terry FRGS, FRGSA (3 May 1899 – 1981)was an Australian explorer, surveyor, prospector and writer. ...

Religion

Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer (born September 28, 1927) is a radical theologian who postulated in the early 1960s the death of God. // Altizer was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and attended St. ... Neil Leon Rudenstine (born January 21, 1935) is an U.S. educator, literary scholar, and administrator. ... Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. ... President George W. Bush and Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient Mary Ann Glendon. ... History The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences was established by the Holy Father John Paul II on 1 January 1994 (AAS 86 [1994], 213), with the aim of promoting the study and progress of the social sciences, primarily economics, sociology, law and political science. ... Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... A controversial entity, created by George W. Bush, whose purpose is to regulate (or, at least, tell the president how he ought to regulate) biotechnology and biomedical research. ... The Rev. ... The National Opinion Research Center (NORC),established in 1941, is one of the largest and highly respected national social research organizations in the United States. ... Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. ... Don Wendell Holter (24 March 1905 – 12 September 1999) was an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1972. ... Garrett Theological Seminary, whose official name is Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, is a graduate school of theology located in Evanston, Illinois. ... Template:UnitedMethodistSeminaries Categories: | | | | | ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      This article... This article is about the current Christian denomination based in the United States. ... The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (usually identified as National Council of Churches, or NCC) is an association of 35 Christian faith groups in the United States with 100,000 local congregations and more than 45,000,000 adherents. ... Martin E. Marty (b. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Ameera Begum Professor Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Ph. ... The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), based in Plainfield, Indiana, USA, is an umbrella group that describes itself as the largest Muslim organization in North America. ... Hartford Seminary is a theological college in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Hartford Seminarys origins date from 1833, when the Pastoral Union of Connecticut was formed by a group of Congregational ministers for pastoral training. ... David Novak is a scholar of Jewish philosophy, law (Halakha) and ethics. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Jaroslav Jan Pelikan (17 December 1923 – 13 May 2006) was one of the worlds leading scholars in the history of Christianity and medieval intellectual history. ... A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his field. ... Yale redirects here. ... Construction of the Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888 to May 15, 1894. ... The John W. Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences will be awarded for lifetime achievement in the humanistic and social sciences to celebrate the importance of the Intellectual Arts for the public interest. ... Yale Divinity School is the one of the constituent graduate schools of Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ... The American Academy of Religion is the worlds largest association of scholars in the field of religion and related topics. ...

Social Sciences

New School University is an institute of higher learning in New York City. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD, or sometimes UC San Diego) is a highly selective, research-oriented[1] public university located in La Jolla, a seaside resort community of San Diego, California. ... Anne Allison is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University in the United States, specializing in contemporary Japanese society. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. ... Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist and ethnographer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Yale redirects here. ... Born in Bombay,India in 1949 and educated in the United States, Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist whose work centers on the ethnographic landscapes of modernity and globalization. ... New School University is an institute of higher learning in New York City. ... Robert Axelrod is the Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Howard Saul Becker was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 18, 1928. ... Northwestern University (NU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is one out of 10 campuses of the University of California. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Georgetown University is a Jesuit private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Father John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. ... Michael Burawoy is a Marxist sociologist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent (a famous study on work and organizations) and as a leading proponent of public sociology. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (IPA pronunciation: ), born on September 29, 1934, is a psychology professor at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California and is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. ... Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private graduate-only university. ... Look up flow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Eugene F. Fama. ... Alexander L. George (b. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Erving Goffman Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982), was a sociologist and writer. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Zvi Griliches (1930-1999) was an economist at Harvard University. ... John Bates Clark John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 – 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. ... Sanford J. Grossman (born July 21, 1953) is an American economist specializing in quantitative finance. ... John Bates Clark John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 – 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. ... Edward Cary Hayes (1868-1928) was a pioneer in American sociology and was one of the founders and presidents of the American Sociological Association. ... The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Harvard redirects here. ... The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order cover The clash of civilizations is a controversial theory in international relations. ... Yale redirects here. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ... John Victor Murra (24 August 1916 – 16 October 2006), born Isak Lipschitz in Odessa, Ukraine, was a professor of anthropology and a researcher of the Inca Empire. ... For the a general view of Inca civilisation, people and culture, see Incas. ... Economist Kevin M. Murphy is a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. ... John Bates Clark John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 – 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... John Bates Clark John Bates Clark (26 January 1847 – 21 March 1938) was an American neo-classical economist. ... Esther Newton, (b. ... The State University of New York (acronym SUNY; usually pronounced SOO-nee) is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. ... Gender and sexuality studies is a collective term for the interdisciplinary study of human gender and sexuality. ... Harold L. Nieburg (November 1927 - September 27, 2001) was an American political scientist, best known for his influential book on the military-industrial complex, In the Name of Science. ... The State University of New York (acronym SUNY; usually pronounced SOO-nee) is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. ... In the Name of Science is an influential 1966 book by Harold L. Nieburg concerning the political uses of science. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... James M. Redfield is a widely-respected professor of classics at the University of Chicago. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Philip Rieff (born December 15, 1922) is an American sociologist and cultural critic, known for his writings on the cultural significance of Freudianism and the inroads made by the therapeutic ethos into Western culture. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Paul Anthony Samuelson (born May 15, 1915, in Gary, Indiana) is an American neoclassical economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of Economic Analysis. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Cornell redirects here. ... Sexual orientation refers to an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual, or affectional attraction toward others,[1] usually conceived of as classifiable according to the sex or gender of the persons whom the individual finds sexually attractive. ... Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. ... Mascot: Beaver Affiliations: University of London Russell Group EUA ACU CEMS APSIA Universities UK U8 Golden Triangle G5 Group Website: http://www. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... Orin Starn is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. ... Image needed Edwin H. Sutherland (1883–1950) is considered to be one of the most influential criminologists of the twentieth century. ... Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... Robert Thompson may refer to: Sir Robert Thompson, British counter-insurgency expert Robert Thompson, Master, Timothy Dwight College; Col. ... Crouse College, a 19th-century Romanesque building which houses the universitys visual arts and music programs Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States the geographic center of the state, about 250 miles northwest of New York City. ... Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer born in India. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Loïc Wacquant is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, poverty, and ethnography. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism, after doing research on animal behavior. ... Behaviorism (also called learning perspective) is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things which organisms do — including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors. ... Harvard redirects here. ... James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. He has a Ph. ... Reagan redirects here. ... Pepperdine University is a private University of higher learning affiliated with the Churches of Christ. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... Michael Woodford Jr. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ...

Science and Technology

Robert McCormick Adams Jr. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 – August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist. ... Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. ... Robert Bell is the name of more than one person: Sir Robert Bell (d. ... This article is about the current AT&T. For the 1885-2005 company, see American Telephone & Telegraph. ... William Billy Jensen Cottrell (born 1980) is a former Ph. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A sport utility vehicle (SUV) or off-roader is a vehicle that combines the load-hauling and passenger-carrying capacity of a large station wagon or minivan with features designed for off-road driving. ... The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that, according to the now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office, use economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment. ... The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organisations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man. ... Savas Dimopoulos is a Greek born particle physicist at Stanford University. ... Stanford may refer: Stanford University Places: Stanford, Kentucky Stanford, California, home of Stanford University Stanford Shopping Center Stanford, New York, town in Dutchess County. ... Frank Edwin Egler (26 April 1911 – 26 December 1996) was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Lawrence Larry Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company and is the 11th richest person in the world [1] // Ellison was born in New York City to Florence Spellman, a 19-year-old... Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 - September 25, 2001) was an eminent computer scientist. ... The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ... Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (藤田哲也, October 23, 1920–November 19, 1998) was one of the great severe storms researchers of the twentieth century. ... F-scale redirects here. ... Gerald Gabrielse is an American physicist and the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Martin Gardner (b. ... Mathematical games shares topics with recreational mathematics and discusses the mathematics of games. ... Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ... Professor Piara Singh Gill, (28 October 1911 - 23 March 2002) was a scientist (physicist) who was a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics and worked on the American nuclear Manhattan project [1]. Moreover, was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) of India [2]. He was research fellow... Cosmic rays can loosely be defined as energetic particles originating outside of the Earth. ... Nuclear physics is the branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. ... For other uses, see Big Bang (disambiguation). ... Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist known for his discovery of the skeleton of a 3. ... Binomial name Johanson & White, 1978 Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct hominid which lived between 3. ... Jason Jones founded, with Alex Seropian, the computer game company Bungie Studios. ... Bungie is an American video game developer founded in May 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (more popularly shortened to Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... Bold textItalic text Ernest Everett Just Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering black U.S. biologist. ... Robert Anthony Kowalski (Bob Kowalski, born May 15, 1941 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is an American logician and computer scientist, who has spent much of his career in the UK. He was educated at the University of Chicago, University of Bridgeport (BA in mathematics, 1963), Stanford University (MSc in mathematics... Martin David Kruskal (b. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Stephen Lee is a chemist who won a MacArthur Award in 1994. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ... Lynn Margulis Dr. Lynn Margulis (born March 15, 1938) is a biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ... The center of the UMass Amherst campus. ... A Gaia theory is a class of scientific models of the biosphere in which life fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by affecting Earths environment. ... Stanley Lloyd Miller (born March 7, 1930) is an American chemist famous for his role in the Miller-Urey experiment he performed in 1953, while a graduate student. ... Image of reconstruction on a clean Au(100) surface. ... The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), formerly the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and usually shortened to Berkeley Lab or LBL, is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory conducting unclassified scientific research. ... Donald Edward Osterbrock (born July 13, 1924) is an American astronomer. ... The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory, owned and operated by the University of California. ... Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (5 January 1895 – 17 May 1981) was an American aeronaut who pioneered balloon flight, a teacher, scientist and priest. ... A hot air balloon is prepared for flight by inflation of the envelope with propane burners. ... Six F-16 Fighting Falcons with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team fly in delta formation in front of the Empire State Building. ... For other uses, see NASA (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Episcopal Church in the United States. ... Insert non-formatted text here Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. ... Look up Contact in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970), a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 24, was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessees Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... The Scopes Trial of 1925 pitted William Jennings Bryan against Clarence Darrow and teacher John T. Scopes in an American court case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925, forbidding the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools. ... Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which opened on Broadway in January 1955, a 1960 Hollywood film based on the play, and three television remakes. ... Alex Seropian was the creator of Bungie, (legal definition of the company was known as the Bungie Software Products Corporation, after it was aquired by Microsoft, it then became Bungie Studios), developer of Marathon. ... Bungie is an American video game developer founded in May 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (more popularly shortened to Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph. ... Sherry Turkle (born 1948) is a clinical psychologist and a professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... The Committee on Social Thought, one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago, was started in 1941 by the historian John U. Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins. ... “MIT” redirects here. ... George Wetherill (August 12, 1925-July 19, 2006) was the Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, USA. George Wetherill benefited from the GI Bill of Rights to receive four degrees, the Ph. ...

Notable Faculty

The following is a list of notable faculty who have taught at the University of Chicago.


Literature

Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... Lauren Berlant is Professor of English at the University of Chicago. ... Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949) is an Indian-American postcolonial theorist. ... Allan Blooms translation and interpretation, Second edition 1991. ... The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom (published 1987 ISBN 5-551-86868-0), describes how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of todays students. ... Wayne Clayson Booth (February 22, 1921 – October 10, 2005) was an American literary critic. ... Kenneth Burke (May 5, 1897–November 19, 1993) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. ... John Maxwell Coetzee (IPA pronunciation: ; born 9 February 1940), often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South African author (now living in Australia) and academic. ... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... For other persons named Thomas Eliot, see Thomas Eliot (disambiguation). ... The Committee on Social Thought, one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago, was started in 1941 by the historian John U. Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins. ... Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913[1] – April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... Gerald Graff is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ... Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American poet, born in Canada. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Image:Thorntonwilderteeth. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States (the other award which is considered its equivalent is the Congressional Gold Medal, which is bestowed by an... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... The Chicago school of literary criticism, also known as neo-Aristotelianism, was developed in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s at the University of Chicago. ...

Law School

  • Gerhard Casper - Former Dean of the Law School and Provost at the University of Chicago. President Emeritus of Stanford University.
  • Ronald Coase - Professor Emeritus of Law. Nobel laureate in Economics. Co-founder of law and economics movement, arguably the most influential intellectual movement in legal scholarship in the second half of the 20th century.
  • Aaron Director - Played a central role in the development of the law and economics movement. Founded the Journal of Law and Economics, which he co-edited with Ronald Coase.
  • Richard Epstein - Currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
  • Elena Kagan - Former Professor and now Dean of Harvard Law School.
  • Leon Kass -
  • Karl Llewellyn - Major figure in the school of legal realism.
  • Catharine MacKinnon - American feminist.
  • Michael W. McConnell - Federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Leading constitutional originalist.
  • Barack Obama -
  • Richard Posner - Helped start law and economics movement.
  • Roberta Cooper Ramo -- First woman President American Bar Association
  • Antonin Scalia - United States Supreme Court justice; Professor at the Law School (1977-1982).
  • David Strauss -
  • Cass Sunstein -
  • James Boyd White - Founder of "Law and Literature" movement.

Gerhard Casper (born 1937) is a constitutional scholar who is currently a faculty member at Stanford University. ... Ronald Harry Coase (b. ... Aaron Director (1901-September 11, 2004), a celebrated professor at the University of Chicago Law School, played a central role in the development of the so-called Chicago School of economics. ... Richard Epstein Richard A. Epstein, born in 1943, is currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. ... Elena Kagan is the dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and has recently been announced as the next President of Harvard University. ... Leon Kass Leon Kass (born February 12, 1939) is an American bioethicist, best known as a leader in the effort to stop human embryonic stem cell and cloning research as former chair of the Presidents Council on Bioethics from 2002–2005. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Catherine MacKinnon Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. ... Michael W. McConnell (born in Louisville, Kentucky, 1955) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, having been nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, and confirmed by the United States Senate on November 15, 2002. ... “Barack” redirects here. ... Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939, in New York City) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. ... American Bar Associations Washington, DC office The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. ... Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936[1]) is an American jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ... The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS[1]) is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. ... Cass R. Sunstein (b. ... James Boyd White (born 1938) is an American law professor, literary critic, scholar and philosopher who is generally credited with founding the Law and Literature movement and is the preeminent proponent of the analysis of constitutive rhetoric in the analysis of legal texts. ...

Mathematics

László Babai László Babai (called Laci by friends and colleagues) is a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. ... In computational complexity theory, an interactive proof system is an abstract machine that models computation as the exchange of messages between two parties. ... The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT). ... Alexander A. Beilinson is the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor at the University of Chicago and works on mathematics. ... Luis A. Caffarelli (born December 8 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-United States mathematician and leader in the field of partial differential equations and their applications. ... Alberto Calderón. ... The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). ... The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples . ... National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. ... Chen Xingshen Shiing-Shen Chern (陳省身; pinyin: Chén XǐngshÄ“n; October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. ... National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. ... The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples . ... Leonard Eugene Dickson (22 January 1874, Independence, Iowa-17 January 1954, Harlingen, Texas) (often called L. E. Dickson) was an American mathematician. ... The Cole Prize is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory. ... Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (Владимир Гершонович Дринфельд) is a mathematician born February 14, 1954 in Ukraine. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a renowned American mathematician at Princeton University. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... In mathematics Representation theory is the name given to the study of standard representations of abstract mathematical structures. ... Paul Halmos Paul Richard Halmos (March 3, 1916 — October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who wrote on probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces), and mathematical logic. ... Israel Nathan Herstein is a mathematician at the University of Chicago. ... Lars Hörmander Lars Valter Hörmander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917) is a Canada mathematician. ... John Leroy Kelley (December 6, 1916 – November 26, 1999) was an American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. ... Francis William Lawvere is a mathematician who is known for his work in category theory and the philosophy of mathematics. ... Saunders Mac Lane (born 4 August 1909) is a US mathematician. ... Eliakim Hastings Moore (January 26 1862, Marietta, Ohio – December 30 1932, Chicago, Illinois) was an American mathematician. ... Robert Lee Moore (14 November 1882, Dallas Texas – 4 October 1974 Austin, Texas) was an American mathematician, known for his work in general topology and the Moore method of teaching university mathematics. ... Andrei Okounkov (Russian: Андрей Окуньков, Andrej Okunkov) (born 1969) is a mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... Paul Sally is a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he is the director of undergraduate mathematics instruction. ... Robert Irving Soare is an American mathematician. ... Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples . ... Norman Earl Steenrod (April 22, 1910–October 14, 1971) was a leading mathematician, working in the field of topology. ... Topology (Greek topos = place and logos = word) is a branch of mathematics concerned with the study of topological spaces. ... Marshall Harvey Stone (April 8, 1903–January 9, 1989) was a American mathematician who made several important contributions in various areas of mathematical analysis, including in particular functional analysis. ... André Weil (May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998) (pronounced [1]) was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, whether measured by his research work, its influence on future work, exposition or breadth. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples . ... Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (Ефим Исаакович Зельманов: born September 7, 1955) is a mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. ... The obverse of the Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... Antoni Zygmund (25 December 1900 _ 30 May 1992) was a Polish mathematician. ...

Philosophy

  • Hannah Arendt - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
  • Rudolf Carnap - Professor of Philosophy. Leading member of the Vienna Circle.
  • Arnold Davidson - Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Committee on Historical and Conceptual Studies of Science, and the College.
  • Donald Davidson - Professor of Philosophy (1976-1981).
  • John Dewey - Former Professor of Philosophy.
  • Charles Hartshorne - Former Professor of Philosophy.
  • John Haugeland - David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy.
  • Jonathan Lear - John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy.
  • Jean-Luc Marion - Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought.
  • George Herbert Mead - Former Professor of Philosophy.
  • Martha Nussbaum - Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Divinity School; also in the Law School, the Department of Philosophy, and the College.
  • Paul Ricoeur - John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School (1971-1991).
  • Bertrand Russell - Visiting Professor of Philosophy (1938-1939).
  • Leo Strauss - Professor of Political Philosophy (1949-1967).
  • Paul Johannes Tillich - Professor of Religion (1962).
  • James Hayden Tufts - Former Professor of Philosophy

Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German Jewish political theorist. ... Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf, Germany – September 14, 1970, Santa Monica, California) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. ... Arnold I. Davidson Ph. ... There are two Donald Davidsons: Donald Davidson (poet) Donald Davidson (philosopher) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ... Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 – October 9, 2000) was a prominent philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. ... John Haugeland (born in 1945), is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. ... Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. ... Jean-Luc Marion (b. ... George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. ... Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. ... Paul RicÅ“ur (February 27, 1913 Valence France – May 20, 2005 Chatenay Malabry France) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. ... Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a German-born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy. ... Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 - October 22, 1965) was a German-born American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. ... James Hayden Tufts (1862-1942) American philosopher, professor of the then newly founded Chicago University, Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies of Chicago. ...

Religion

  • Wendy Doniger -
  • Mircea Eliade - Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions (1958-1986), seminal figure in the study of myth and religious experience; perhaps best known for his "myth of the Eternal Return" and his book The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.
  • Joseph Kitagawa -
  • Bruce Lincoln -
  • Martin K. Marty -
  • Shailer Matthews - Professor of New Testament Studies and Dean of the Divinity School (1894-1941); leading modernist theologian and advocate of historical criticism of the Bible.
  • David Tracy - Professor of Theology (1970-); leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as Plurality and Ambiguity (University of Chicago Press, 1986).
  • Jeremiah Wright Barack Obama's pastor

Wendy Doniger (born November 20, 1940) is an American professor of religion, active in international religious studies since 1973. ... Mircea Eliade (March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. ... Bruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. ... Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. ... “Barack” redirects here. ...

Science

  • Luis Alvarez -
  • Ralph Buchsbaum - Invertebrate zoologist.
  • Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin - Influential geologist. Developed planetesimal theory.
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1983 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
  • Enrico Fermi - 1938 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
  • James Franck - Nobel laureate.
  • T. Theodore Fujita -
  • James Hartle - Theoretical physicist at the Enrico Fermi Institute.
  • Gerhard Herzberg - 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.
  • Edwin Hubble -
  • Ole J. Kleppa-Pioneer in High Temperature Thermochemistry; inventor of the Kleppa Calorimeter
  • Bruce Lahn
  • Ernest Lawrence -
  • Richard Lewontin - Pioneered use of molecular biology on questions of evolution and genetic variation.
  • Murray Gell-Mann - 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Developed model for nuclear shell structure at the University of Chicago, for which she received a Nobel in Physics in 1963
  • Albert Abraham Michelson - First American Nobel laureate in the sciences. Known for the famed Michelson-Morley experiment, a cornerstone of Relativity Theory. Measured the speed of light.
  • Robert Millikan - Nobel laureate in Physics. Known for his measurement of the charge of the electron and the photoelectric effect. Performed famed oil-drop experiment at the University of Chicago's Ryerson Laboratory, which has been designated a historic physics landmark by the American Physical Society.
  • Yoichiro Nambu - Winner of Sakurai Prize, Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science. Considered founder of string theory. Known for "color charge" in quantum chromodynamics and work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics
  • Stuart Rice - Chemist. National Medal of Science winner.
  • Paul Sigler - Former Professor. Worked out the structure of the RNA molecule responsible for the initiation of protein synthesis. [9]
  • Edward Teller - "Father of the hydrogen bomb"
  • Harold Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • Frank Wilczek -
  • Sewall Wright - National Medal of Science winner. One of the founders of population genetics. [10] [11]

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Social Sciences

  • Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - Former Professor of Anthropology.
  • Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology.
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty - Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations.
  • Ronald Coase - Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics, The Law School.
  • Karin Knorr-Cetina - George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.
  • Constantin Fasolt - Professor of Early Modern European History.
  • Robert Fogel - Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions.
  • John Hope Franklin - John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History.
  • Milton Friedman - Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics.
  • Susan Gal - Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics; a leading scholar in studies of Eastern Europe, linguistic anthropology, and gender.
  • Clifford Geertz - Professor of Anthropology (1960-1970).
  • Chauncy Harris - Pioneering geographer at the University of Chicago in the first department of geography in the United States.
  • Friedrich Hayek - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
  • James Heckman - Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000.
  • Lawrence Kohlberg (A.B. 1949, Ph.D. 1958) - Professor in the Committee on Human Development (1962-1968).
  • Maynard C. Krueger Socialist Vice-Presidential Candidate and Professor of Economics 1933? - ??
  • Harold Lasswell - One of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century.
  • Steven Levitt - Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics.
  • Mark Lilla - Professor in the Committee on Social Thought (1999-2007).
  • Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) - John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics.
  • John Mearsheimer - R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science.
  • Charles Edward Merriam - Founder of the behavioral approach to political science.
  • Merton H. Miller - Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Business.
  • Hans Morgenthau - One of the most important International Relations theorists; his seminal book Politics Among Nations defined the International Relations field.
  • Robert Pape (Ph.D. 1988) - Professor of Political Science.
  • Robert E. Park - Professor of Sociology (1914-1936).
  • Robert Redfield - Professor of Anthropology (1927-1958).
  • Marshall Sahlins - Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.
  • Edward Sapir - Creator of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Sapir is arguably the most influential figure in American Linguistics.
  • Saskia Sassen - Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology (1998-2007).
  • David M. Schneider - Professor of Anthropology (1960-1986).
  • Theda Skocpol - Former Professor of Sociology (1981-1986). Now Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.
  • George Stigler - Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Graduate School of Business.
  • William I. Thomas (Ph.D. 1896) - Professor of Sociology (1896-1918).
  • Victor Turner - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
  • Thorstein Veblen - Professor of Political Economy (1892-1906).
  • Stephen Walt - Former Professor (1989-1999) and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences (1996-1999). Dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government after tenure at the University of Chicago.
  • William Julius Wilson - Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology (1972-1996).
  • Albert Wohlstetter - Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Influenced prominent neoconservatives, including Paul Wolfowitz. Prominent theorist of the Cold War.
  • Frederic Thrasher - Notable sociologist and prominent member of the Chicago School of Sociology

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Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. ... John H. Franklin John Hope Franklin (born January 2, 1915) is a United States historian and past president of the American Historical Association. ... Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Friedrich August von Hayek, CH (May 8, 1899 in Vienna – March 23, 1992 in Freiburg) was an Austrian-born British economist and political philosopher known for his defense of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century. ... James Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an economist at the University of Chicago. ... 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History

  • Robert Bartlett - Professor of Medieval History (1984-1992), and currently Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History, University of St. Andrew's; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of many books, including The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Social Change (Princeton University Press, 1994).
  • Daniel Boorstin - Professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years; Pulitzer Prize winner (1974); Librarian of Congress. [12]
  • James Henry Breasted - Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History
  • Fred M. Donner - Professor of Near Eastern History. Guggenheim Fellow (2007).
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick - Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History; ground-breaking historian of modern Russian and Soviet history; mentor to several up-and-coming "revisionist" historians of the Soviet Union.
  • Cornell Fleischer - Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies. MacArthur "Genius" Fellow (1988).
  • John Hope Franklin - Pioneering scholar of African-American history and civil rights leader; Professor of History from 1964, and John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, 1969-82. President of the American Historical Association (1979). Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Pulitzer Prize.
  • Ramón A. Gutiérrez - Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of United States History; author of award-winning book When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991); MacArthur Fellow (1983).
  • Harry D. Harootunian - Max Palevsky Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese History; groundbreaking scholar of Tokugawa history, Japanese modernism, and historical theory.
  • Akira Iriye - Professor of History until 1989; now Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History at Harvard; leading diplomatic and international historian, specializing in U.S.-Japan relations during the twentieth century; Guggenheim Fellow (1974) and President of the American Historical Association (1988).
  • Tetsuo Najita - Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese History; specialist in Tokugawa Japan and Japanese intellectual and political history; past president of the Association for Asian Studies (1993-94).
  • William McNeill -
  • Hans Rothfels - Professor of History (1946-1951).
  • Bernadotte E. Schmitt - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
  • Noel Swerdlow - Winner of a Macarthur Fellowship.
  • James Westfall Thompson - Professor of History (1895-1933), leading American historian of the European Middle Ages and early modern period; president of the American Historical Association, 1941 (died in office).
  • Karl Weintraub - Professor of History (1954-2004) and leading scholar of European cultural history and the history of autobiography.
  • John Woods - Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History

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Arts and Entertainment

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Laboratory School Faculty

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University Presidents

See also: The Presidents of the University of Chicago, University of Chicago Presidential Search Committee
President Life Tenure
William Rainey Harper 1856-1906 1891-1906
Harry Pratt Judson 1849-1927 1906-1923
Ernest DeWitt Burton 1856-1925 1923-1925
Max Mason 1877-1961 1925-1928
Robert Maynard Hutchins 1899-1977 1929-1951
Lawrence A. Kimpton 1910-1977 1951-1960
George W. Beadle 1903-1989 1961-1968
Edward H. Levi 1911-2000 1968-1975
John T. Wilson 1914-1990 1975-1978
Hanna Holborn Gray b. 1930 1978-1993
Hugo F. Sonnenschein b. 1941 1993-2000
Don Michael Randel b. 1940 2000-2006
Robert J. Zimmer b. 1947 2006-

William Rainey Harper ( 1856- 1906) Noted academic; organizer and first President of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. ... Harry Pratt Judson (1849 - 1927) was a U.S. educator and historian. ... Ernest DeWitt Burton (1856–1925) was an American biblical scholar, born in Granville, Ohio. ... Charles Max Mason (born October 26, 1877 in Madison, Wisconsin, died March 23, 1961 in Claremont, California) was an American mathematician. ... Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York - May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was a philosopher. ... ... Beadle won a Nobel Prize in 1958 George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 - June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics. ... Edward H. Levi Edward Hirsch Levi (June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American academic leader, scholar, and statesman. ... ... Hanna Holborn Gray (born 1930), is a historian of political thought in the Renaissance and Reformation, and an American educator. ... Hugo F. Sonnenschein is a prominent American economist and educational administrator. ... Don Michael Randel is the twelfth and current president of the University of Chicago. ... Robert J. Zimmer. ...

Board of Trustees

  • Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A. 1981) - President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
  • David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) - Chairman and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
  • John H. Bryan - Former Chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation.
  • Thomas A. Cole (J.D. 1975) - Chairman of the Executive Committee and Partner of Sidley Austin LLP, the sixth-largest law firm in the world.
  • E. David Coolidge III - Vice Chairman of William Blair & Company, LLC.
  • Jon Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) - Governor of New Jersey.
  • James S. Crown - President of Henry Crown and Company.
  • Katharine Darrow (A.B. 1965) - Former Senior Vice President of the New York Times Company.
  • Erroll B. Davis, Jr. (M.B.A. 1967) - Chancellor of the University of Georgia.
  • Jamie Dimon - President and COO of JPMorgan Chase & Co..
  • Strachan Donnelley - President of the Center for Humans and Nature.
  • Craig J. Duchossois - CEO of Duchossois Industries.
  • James S. Frank - President and CEO of Wheels, Inc.
  • Jack W. Fuller - Former president of the Tribune Company
  • Eric J. Gleacher (M.B.A. 1967) - Chairman of Gleacher Partners, LLC.
  • Stanford J. Goldblatt (Lab 1954, X. 1958) - Partner of Winston & Strawn.
  • Mary Louise Gorno (M.B.A. 1976) - Vice President and Global Account Director of A.T. Kearney.
  • Kathryn C. Gould (M.B.A. 1978) - Founder and General Partner of Foundation Capital.
  • Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) - Chairman of Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc.
  • King W. Harris - Chairman of Harris Holdings, Inc.
  • Kenneth M. Jacobs (A.B. 1980) - CEO of Lazard North America and Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Lazard LLC.
  • Valerie B. Jarrett - Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the Habitat Company.
  • Karen L. Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) - Executive Vice President of Pfizer, Incorporated and President of Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals.
  • Dennis J. Keller (M.B.A. 1968) - Chairman of DeVry Inc.
  • Arthur L. Kelly (M.B.A. 1964) - Managing Partner of KEL Enterprises, L.P.
  • James M. Kilts, Jr. (M.B.A. 1974) - Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company.
  • Michael J. Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) - Executive Vice President of Time Inc.
  • Michael L. Klowden (A.B. 1967) - President and CEO of Milken Institute.
  • Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) - CEO of the Sherry Lansing Foundation.
  • John Martin (S.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1978) - President and CEO of Gilead Sciences.
  • Walter E. Massey - President of Morehouse College until 2007.
  • Peter W. May (A.B. 1964, M.B.A. 1965) - President and COO of Triarc Companies, Inc.
  • John W. McCarter, Jr. - President and CEO of the Field Museum.
  • Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) - Chairman and CEO of Aramark.
  • Emily Nicklin (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1977) - Partner of Kirkland & Ellis.
  • Harvey B. Plotnick (A.B. 1963) - President of Paradigm Holdings Inc.
  • Thomas J. Pritzker (M.B.A. 1976, J.D. 1976) - Chairman and CEO of Hyatt Corporation.
  • George A. Ranney, Jr. (J.D. 1966) - President and CEO of Chicago Metropolis 2020.
  • John W. Rogers, Jr. (Lab 1976) - Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management.
  • Andrew M. Rosenfield (J.D. 1978) - President and CEO of Leaf Group LLC.
  • Steven G. Rothmeier (M.B.A. 1972) - Chairman and CEO of Great Northern Capital.
  • Richard P. Strubel - Vice Chairman of UNext, Inc.
  • Byron D. Trott (A.B. 1981, M.B.A. 1982) - Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs.
  • Marshall I. Wais, Jr. (A.B. 1963) - CEO of Marwais International L.L.C.
  • Paula Wolff (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1972) - Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020.
  • Paul G. Yovovich (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1975) - President of Lake Capital.
  • Francis T.F. Yuen (A.B. 1975) - Deputy Chairman of PCCW Limited.
  • Robert J. Zimmer - President of the University of Chicago.

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Fictional Characters

The following is a list of fictional characters associated with the University of Chicago. Only characters who are integral to their respective films or books are listed.

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