List of Columbia University people
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This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to
Nobel laureates
As of the 2023 awards, 103 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Columbia University as alumni or faculty. Among the 103 laureates, 72 are Nobel laureates in natural sciences;[a] 46 are Columbia alumni (graduates and attendees) and 34 have been long-term academic members of the Columbia faculty; and subject-wise, 33 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject. This list considers Nobel laureates as equal individuals and does not consider their various prize shares or if they received the prize more than once. It includes alumni and faculty of Barnard College after 1900 and those of Bard College by 1944, as well as physicians and long-term medical staff of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital.
In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Columbia University (including emeritus staff). A name marked with a dagger (†) indicates that this person has already been listed in a previous category (i.e., multiple affiliations).
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Physiology or Medicine (23) |
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Economics (17) |
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Literature (6) |
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Fields Medalists
- Columbia College from 1920 to 1924), one of two winners of the first Fields Medalin 1936
- Heisuke Hironaka—former professor of mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Shigefumi Mori—former professor of mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal and the Cole Prize (both in 1990)
- Andrei Okounkov—former professor of mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
- Stephen Smale—former professor of mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2006/7, one of only twelve Fields Medallists to win both prizes
Wolf Prize
- theoretical physicist; 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics; 2010 Sakurai Prize; significant contributions in elementary particle physics
- John Clauser—(M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969) theoretical and experimental physicist; 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics; Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality
- Samuel J. Danishefsky—(postdoctoral fellowship) 1995 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; Danishefsky's diene, Danishefsky Taxol total synthesis
- Eilenberg swindle
- Peter Eisenmann—(M.A.) architect; 2010 Wolf Prize in Arts; work often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde
- Harry B. Gray—2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- Leon M. Lederman—(Ph.D.) experimental physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom
- plant pathologist; 1980 Wolf Prize in Agriculture
- Willard Gibbs Medal
- Chien-Shiung Wu—physics professor and particle physicist, first woman to head the American Physical Society and the first woman to become a tenured professor in the physics department; 1978 Wolf Prize in Physics among other awards
- Stephen Smale—2006 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; National Medal of Science (1975); Bonner Prize (1975); Comstock Prize in Physics (1964)
Crafoord Prize
- , among other awards
- Peter K. Gregersen—(MD 1976) Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2013)[1]
- Bioscience(2015)
- Geosciences(2014)
- , among other awards
- Robert J. Winchester—(faculty) Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2013)
Templeton Prize
- Francisco J. Ayala—(Ph.D. 1964) Templeton Prize for life's work in evolutionary biology and genetics (2010), National Medal of Science (2001), among other awards
ACM Turing Award
- Draper Prize[2]
- Alfred Aho—(faculty, 1995 to present) professor of computer science; John von Neumann Medal (2003); ACM Turing Award (2020)
- John von Neumann Medal (2010); ACM Turing Award(2020)
Founding Fathers of the United States
- constitutional lawyers(picture appears on U.S. ten-dollar bill)
- Jay's Treatywith Great Britain
- U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, U.S. Minister to France, negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
- United States Senatorfrom New York, creator of the Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
- Second United States Congresses
Presidents of the United States
- Theodore Roosevelt—(law, attended 1880 to 1881) (posthumous J.D., class of 1882),[3] 26th president of the United States (1901–1909); hero of the Spanish–American War (Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded 2001); Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; professional historian, explorer, author
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt—(law, attended fall of 1904 to spring 1907) (posthumous J.D., class of 1907),[3] 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945); consistently ranked as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents in scholarly surveys; Governor of New York; Assistant Secretary of the navy
- Dwight Eisenhower—34th president of the United States (1953–1961); Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force; president of Columbia University
- Barack Obama—(B.A. 1983) 44th president of the United States (2009–2017); Nobel Peace Prize recipient; Democratic senator from Illinois (2005–2008); first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review
Vice presidents of the United States
- Daniel D. Tompkins—6th vice president of the United States, 4th governor of New York, declined appointment as United States Secretary of State by President James Madison
- Theodore Roosevelt—(Law) 25th vice president of the United States, organized and helped command the Rough Riders in the Spanish–American War, Medal of Honor
Presidents and prime ministers (international)
- Ashraf Ghani—(M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) President of Afghanistan; finance minister; chancellor of Kabul University
- Foreign Minister; member of both houses of Iraqi Parliament
- Kassim al-Rimawi—(M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1956) Prime Minister of Jordan(1980); Minister on six occasions (from 1962 through 1980)
- Giuliano Amato—(M.A., Law 1963) twice Prime Minister of Italy (72nd and 78th PM); Minister of the Interior; Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Hafizullah Amin—(Ph.D. 1962) 2nd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
- National Assemblysince 1990
- Marek Belka—11th Prime Minister of Poland; twice Minister of Finance
- Minister of External Relations(1992–1993); Minister of Finance (1993–1994)
- Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland(1993–95); senator (2007–)
- Prime Minister of Belgium(1949–1950, 1958–1961, 1968–1973)
- Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–92); Belgian Minister of Finance; Belgian Minister of Economic Affairs
- President of the Examination Yuan(1966–73)
- Nanjing regime) (1944–1945)
- Václav Havel—(visiting artist in residence, 2006); 1st president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003); last president of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992)
- Nobel Laureate; President of East Timor(2007–2012); Prime Minister (2006–2007)
- ROC Minister of Education(1984–1987)
- Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1999–2002, 1996–1998); Member of the European Parliament(2004–2006)
- Radovan Karadžić—(M.D. 1975) Serb politician, 1st president of Republika Srpska (1992–1996), psychiatrist, poet; accused of committing war crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre
- Wellington Koo—(B.A., Ph.D.) twice Premier of China (1924; '26–27); interim President ('26–27); Amb. to the U.S. ('46–56); co-founder League of Nations, United Nations
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation(1984–1990, 1977–1980)
- Nigerian First Republic)
- Lucas Papademos—(faculty 1975–84) Prime Minister of Greece (November 2011–12); economist; former governor, Bank of Greece (1994–02) and vice president, European Central Bank (2002–10)
- president of European Parliament(2007–2009)
- Mary Robinson—(faculty 2004–) 7th president of Ireland (1990–1997)
- Mikhail Saakashvili—(Law 1994) twice President of Georgia (2004–2007, 2008–present); leader of Rose Revolution
- Juan Bautista Sacasa—(M.D.) 66th president of Nicaragua (1933–1936); Vice President of Nicaragua (1926–1927)
- Organization of African Unity
- Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement (1995–98); 1st Minister of Economic Development(1990–91)
- Foreign Minister of Afghanistan(1971–1972)
- Prime Minister of the Republic of China (1912, 1922); first president, Shandong University
- Central Bank of China(1928–1931)
- Governor-General of the Union of South Africa(1960–1961); Acting Prime Minister (1958)
- Nur Mohammed Taraki—3rd president and 12th Prime Minister of Afghanistan(1978–1979)
- Chung Un-chan—(faculty 1976–78) 40th Prime Minister of South Korea
- Abdul Zahir—(M.D.) Prime Minister of Afghanistan; president of Parliament; ambassador to Italy; ambassador to Pakistan
- Zhou Ziqi—(B.A.) former premier and President of the Republic of China
Notable alumni and attendees
Notable faculty
See also above at Nobel Laureates ("Alumni" and "Faculty") for separate listing of 41 notable faculty
- John von Neumann Medal(2003)
- anxiety disorders
- antibiotic resistance
- Dimitris Anastassiou—professor of electrical engineering, developer of MPEG-2 technology
- Edison Medal, inventor and the Father of FM Radio
- Karen Barkey—professor of sociology
- Charles A. Beard—(Ph.D. 1904) American historian of the first half of the 20th century
- Peter Bearman—professor of sociology
- Daniel Bell—(graduate study, 1938–1939) professor of sociology
- J. Bowyer Bell—adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, and research associate at the Institute of War and Peace Studies
- Jagdish Bhagwati—professor of economics and law, author of In Defense of Globalization
- Franz Boas—father of American Anthropology
- Sophie Body-Gendrot–French sociologist
- C. Louise Boehringer, first female superintendent of schools, Yuma County and first female to be elected to office in Arizona.
- Affirmative Actionadvocate
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen—professor of Germanic languages
- Geovanny Vicente—associate faculty of strategic communications for professionals
- Robert Branner—professor of art history and archeology (1957-1969, 1971-1973)
- Ronald Breslow—university professor of chemistry, biology, pharmacology, and engineering; Priestley Medal (1999); Perkin Medal (2010)
- Alan Brinkley—professor of American history and university provost; son of newscaster David Brinkley
- Zbigniew Brzezinski—National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
- Richard Bulliet—history professor and Middle East scholar, author of Kicked to Death by a Camel
- John Burgess—founder of modern political science
- World Trade Center Transportation Hub
- Stephen Cameron—financial analyst and adjunct associate professor (2003–present) and former associate professor (1994–2003) of International and Public Affairs; noted for studies on GED
- Gabo Camnitzer—Artist, and educator
- Neil W. Chamberlain—business professor and industrial relations scholar
- School of Mines
- MacArthur Fellowship Recipient 2015[4]
- Partha Chatterjee—anthropologist and scholar of postcolonial nationalism
- Thomas J. Christensen—political scientist and interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
- Richard Clarida—C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and current vice chair of the Federal Reserve
- Hillary Clinton—First Lady of the United States, United States senator from New York, 67th United States Secretary of State
- George R. Collins—professor of art history (1946-1986)
- Lee Saunders Crandall—ornithologist and general curator of the Bronx Zoo
- Hamid Dabashi—cultural and literary critic
- Alexander Dallin—history and political science professor, director of Russian Institute
- Samuel J. Danishefsky—professor of chemistry, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96
- Pierre Dansereau—Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology".
- Arthur Danto—Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy emeritus, art critic
- William Theodore de Bary—scholar and translator of East Asian texts, particularly classical Chinese canon
- American Studiesat Columbia University
- Emanuel Derman—professor and director of Columbia's financial engineering program, co-authors of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto
- Donald Dewey—former Economics professor
- John Dewey—former Philosophy professor
- William Diver—linguistics professor, founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics
- Theodosius Dobzhansky—(researcher, graduate study, professor in population genetics); National Medal of Science in 1964; the Franklin Medal in 1973
- Andrew Dolkart—architectural historian
- Ann Douglas — cultural critic, recipient of the Beveridge Award and Merle Curti Award
- Karen Duff—Potamkin Prize winning pathologist
- atomic bomb
- Samuel Eilenberg—winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1986
- Arnold Eisen—chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
- Jon Elster—Robert Merton Professor of Social Science, leading theorist of rational choice theory, Marxism, and social theory
- Niki Erlenmeyer-Kimling—professor of clinical psychiatry
- William Maurice Ewing—earth scientist and pioneer
- Awi Federgruen, Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
- Nobel laureate
- Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003) - economist
- Academy Awards
- Annette Baker Fox—international relations scholar
- William T. R. Fox—political scientist and international relations theoretician
- David Freedberg—art historian
- Ferdinand Freudenstein—Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
- Fred W. Friendly—CBS News producer and media scholar
- Erich Fromm—noted psychologist
- Virginia Page Fortna—American political scientist, recipient of the 2010 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association
- Zvi Galil (born 1947)—Israeli computer scientist, mathematician, and President of Tel Aviv University
- Patrick X. Gallagher—professor emeritus of mathematics
- Herbert J. Gans—professor of sociology; author of Popular Culture and High Culture
- AIDS Czar
- Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- New School for Social Research
- Dorian M. Goldfeld—professor of mathematics
- African-American Studiesand Professor of Philosophy
- Al Gore—Vice President of the United States of America
- Benjamin Graham—father of value investing, mentor of Warren Buffett
- String Theory
- Victoria de Grazia—professor of history, founding editor of Radical History Review
- U.S. Soccer Federation
- Joan Dye Gussow—food policy expert
- Richard S. Hamilton—Davies Professor of mathematics; awarded Shaw Prize (2011), Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009), Clay Research Award (2003), Veblen Prize (1996)
- Georg Friedrich Haas—professor of composition
- Gisue Hariri—professor of architecture
- Cyril M. Harris—professor of electrical engineering and architect
- Carl Hart—first African American tenured sciences professor at Columbia
- Ross Hassig—anthropologist and Mesoamerica scholar
- Howard Hibbard—Professor of Italian Baroque Art
- Roger Hilsman—political scientist, author, and government official
- Geovanny Vicente—political strategist, author, Associate Professor of Strategic Communications for professional, award-winning columnist for CNN
- Richard Hofstadter—noted historian
- Ralph Holloway—physical anthropologist
- Columbia University protests of 1968.[5]
- Andreas Huyssen—Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
- David Ignatow—poet, Bollingen Prize-winner
- Lawrence R. Jacobs— political scientist and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance (CSPG) at the University of Minnesota
- Kenneth T. Jackson—historian of New York City
- Hervé Jacquet—professor emeritus of mathematics
- Jon Jaques—professional basketball player, assistant basketball coach (Cornell University)
- Nobel laureate; Biophysicist, uncovered secrets of synapses. Professor Physicians & Surgeons (1974–); research with the Biomedical Engineering department
- Thomas Christian Kavanagh—professor of civil engineering
- Donald Keene—Japanese studies expert
- Columbia College(1793–98), legal scholar and jurist, author of seminal "Commentaries on American Law"; the "Commentaries" treated state, federal, and international law, and the law of personal rights and property
- Rashid Khalidi—Middle East historian
- anti-violence against women and children by the Indonesian Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection
- Philip Kim—professor of applied physics and mathematics
- Grayson L. Kirk—former president and instrumental in the founding of the United Nations Security Council
- Kenneth Koch—poet
- Masatake Kuranishi—professor emeritus of mathematics
- Klaus Lackner—professor of environmental engineering
- Serge Lang—former professor of mathematics, recipient of the 1960 Cole Prize, and political activist
- M.S.in professional technology program and founder of Workforce Opportunity Services
- Jaron Lanier—visiting scholar at the Computer Science department
- Nobel Laureate, discoverer of muonneutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989); M.A., Ph.D. Columbia
- Nobel laureate
- Rudolph Leibel—Christopher J. Murphy Memorial Professor of Diabetes; Co-discovered the hormone leptin, and cloned the leptin and leptin receptor genes, which have had a major role in the area of understanding human obesity.[6][7]
- Mark Lilla—professor of humanities; historian of ideas[8]
- Nobel laureate(Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
- Walther Ludwig—classical studies professor
- Nicholas F. Maxemchuk—professor of electrical engineering
- Dusa McDuff—professor of mathematics
- Myrtle Byram McGraw—psychologist, neurobiologist, and child development researcher
- John Anthony McGuckin—professor of ByzantineChristian Studies
- Rustin McIntosh—former pediatrics professor
- Margaret Mead—professor of anthropology
- Don Melnick—professor of environmental biology and advisor to the UN on environmental issues
- Edward Mendelson—Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities
- sociology of science; National Medal of Science
- Millman's Theorem
- C. Wright Mills—professor of sociology
- Eben Moglen—Law and the Internet Society, general counsel of FSF
- Sidney Morgenbesser—John Dewey Professor of Philosophy
- Nobel laureatein Economics
- John Hine Mundy—professor of medieval history, former president of the Medieval Academy of America
- Tristan Murail—professor of music composition, French composer
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagarlaureate
- Mira Nair—director of Monsoon Wedding, film studies professor
- Computer Vision
- Franz Leopold Neumann—political science professor, Communist spy in Redhead group
- semiconductors
- Robert S. Neuwirth—Babcock Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; pioneer in the use of gynecological endoscopy
- Kimberly Noble–Professor of Neuroscience and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University; American Psychological Association Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Award
- Rebecca Oppenheimer—Astronomical instrument builder; pioneer in studying exoplanet and substellar atmospheres; co-discoverer of first known brown dwarf
- Grammy Award-nominated producer, professor of English and comparative literature
- Kevin O'Rourke—Irish economist, now Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford
- John Ordronaux—Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence, mental health commissioner
- Venona listof suspected subversives in the U.S.
- Nobel laureate
- Lorenzo da Ponte—first professor of Italian language and literature at Columbia; librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Charles Lane Poor—astronomer
- Peter Pouncey— classicist, novelist, college dean 1972–1976, former president of Amherst College
- Pupin coil
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Eliezer Rafaeli—founding President of the University of Haifa
- Shivaram Rajgopal Vice Dean for research at Columbia Business School and a professor of accounting and auditing
- Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.—professor (1940–1947) (B.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1940, Columbia); 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Medal of Honor, Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam spectroscopy
- Hyman G. Rickover—developer of the nuclear submarine, master's degree in electrical engineering
- Michael Riffaterre—university professor, French & Romance philology, semiotician
- Mary Robinson—7th president of Ireland, professor of practice in international affairs
- Joseph Rothschild—political science and history professor, teacher of Contemporary Civilization
- Jeffrey Sachs—head of the United Nations Millennium Project to end poverty, author of The End of Poverty.
- Edward W. Said—university professor, professor of English and comparative literature, Palestinian activist, author of Orientalism, widely considered founder of Postcolonial studies
- Mario Salvadori—architect, structural engineer, professor (1940s–1990s), consultant on Manhattan Project, inventor of thin concrete shells
- Andrew Sarris—film studies professor and auteur theorist
- Saskia Sassen—Dutch-American sociologist noted for analyses of globalization and international human migration; coined the term global city
- Simon Schama—history Professor
- BAFTA Award-winning film screenwriter and producer
- Robert Y. Shapiro—chairman of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, president of the Academy of Political Science, editor of the Political Science Quarterly
- Avinoam Shalem—art historian, 24th director of the American Academy in Rome
- Warner R. Schilling—political scientist and international relations scholar
- Marshall D. Shulman—scholar of Soviet studies and the founding director of the Russian Institute
- United States Supreme Court
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak—English professor
- Henry Spotnitz—affiliate professor of biomedical engineering
- Clifford Stein—professor of operations research and industrial engineering
- Julian Steward—anthropologist, authority of Cultural ecology
- Nobel laureatein Economics
- Gilbert Stork—winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/6
- Poet Laureate, Bollingen and Pulitzer Prize-winner
- Bjarne Stroustrup—creator of the C++ programming language
- Man-Chung Tang—professor of civil engineering and former chairman of American Society of Civil Engineers
- Alan M. Taylor—economist
- Marco Tedesco—Climatologist
- Edward Lee Thorndike—father of American experimental psychology
- Robert Thurman—Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, first American Tibetan Buddhist monk, father of actress Uma Thurman
- Charles Tilly—professor of sociology
- William York Tindall—James Joyce scholar
- Adam Tooze—historian
- Oliver Samuel Tonks—lecturer of Ancient Greek
- Olivier Toubia—Glaubinger Professor of Business
- Joseph F. Traub—founding chairman of the computer science department at Columbia
- Lionel Trilling—literary scholar
- Nobel Laureate (1934), extensive development in the Manhattan Project, discoverer of Deuterium
- Carl Van Doren—Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
- Charles Van Doren—English professor whose national disgrace was the subject of the Oscar-nominated film Quiz Show
- Mark Van Doren—Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Vladimir Vapnik—professor of computer science and co-developer of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory
- Geovanny Vicente— associate professor of strategic communications and CNN columnist
- Kenneth Waltz—political science professor and noted neorealism scribe
- Duncan Watts—professor of sociology and author of "Six Degrees" and "Small Worlds"
- Sheldon Weinig—professor of operations research and industrial engineering and founder of Materials Research Corporation
- Maxine Weinstein
- David Weiss Halivni—rabbi, founder of Union for Traditional Judaism and developer of source-critical analysis of the Talmud
- Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
- Nancy Wexler—Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
- Harrison White—professor of sociology
- State Department Soviet spy Flora Wovschin
- Peter Woit—mathematics professor, skeptic of string theory
- Michael Wood— professor of English and comparative literature, holds endowed chair of English at Princeton
- Howard Wriggins—political science and international relations professor, also U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
- Chien-Shiung Wu—physics professor, first woman to head the American Physical Society and winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1978
- theoretical chemist, visiting professor, Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Databases
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi—Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History at Culture and Society
- arithmetical algebraic geometry; winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and Fields Medalfinalist
- Theodore Zoli—adjunct professor of civil engineering and structural engineer
University professors
- Richard Axel, molecular biology and neuroscience, 1999
- Jagdish Bhagwati, economics and law, 2001
- Martin Chalfie, biology, 2013[10]
- Ruth DeFries, sustainable development, 2016
- international affairs, law, and political science, 2015
- Nabila El-Bassel, social work, and public health, 2019[11]
- Wafaa El-Sadr, public health, 2013[10]
- Saidiya Hartman, English and comparative literature, 2020[12]
- Wayne Hendrickson, biochemistry and molecular biophysics
- neurobiology, behavior and learning, 1983
- Rosalind E. Krauss, art history, 2005
- Jeffrey Sachs, economics, 2016
- Simon Schama, history and art history
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, English and comparative literature, 2007[13]
- Joseph Stiglitz, economics, 2001
- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, biomedical engineering, 2017
University professors emeriti
- Caroline Bynum, history, 1999
- Tsung-Dao Lee, theoretical physics
Former university professors
- Jacques Barzun, cultural history
- Ronald Breslow, organic chemistry, 1992
- Samuel Eilenberg, mathematics, 1974
- R. Kent Greenawalt, jurisprudence and constitutional law, 1991
- Louis Henkin, international law, 1981
- Japanese Studies, 1988
- Grayson L. Kirk, University President, 1953–68
- Robert K. Merton, sociology, 1974
- Robert A. Mundell, economics
- Ernest Nagel, philosophy
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, physics, 1964
- Michael Riffaterre, semiotics, theory of literature and French literature, 1982
- Edward Said, comparative literature, literary theory, and cultural studies, 1992
- Meyer Schapiro, art history
- Sol Spiegelman, genetics and microbiology
- Fritz Stern, history, 1992
- Lionel Trilling, literature, 1970
- Jeremy Waldron, law, 2005, left Columbia in 2006
Others
- Seth Low Professor of the University Lee C. Bollinger, law[14]
- John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University Jonathan R. Cole, sociology
- John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus of the University Wm. Theodore de Bary, East Asian studies, 1979
Notes
- ^ The total number of laureates in natural sciences: Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
References
- ^ The Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2013, Crafoord Prize. Press Release. January 17, 2013. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ^ "John Backus - A.M. Turing Award Laureate".
- ^ a b "Columbia Law School : Presidents Roosevelt Receive Posthumous J.D.s". www.law.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on June 23, 2010.
- ^ "Kartik Chandran". MacArthur Foundation. September 28, 2015. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis. "Carl F. Hovde, Former Columbia Dean, Dies at 82", The New York Times, September 10, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
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- ^ "A Conversation with Mark Lilla on His Critique of Identity Politics". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ^ About Seas Birth Place of Laser
- ^ a b "Martin Chalfie and Wafaa El-Sadr Appointed University Professors". Columbia Press Room. 2013. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
- ^ ."Nabila El-Bassel Named University Professor". Office of the President. April 9, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
- ^ Bollinger, Lee. "Saidiya Hartman Named University Professor". Columbia University Office of the President. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Named University Professor". Columbia Press Room. March 12, 2007. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
- ^ "Trustees Name President Lee C. Bollinger As Seth Low Professor of the University". Columbia Press Room. 2004. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
External links
- Nobel Prize Winners associated with Columbia University
- Nobel Prize Winners in Physics associated with Columbia University
- Columbians Ahead of Their Time—list of notable Columbians created by Columbia University for their 250th anniversary.
- After Columbia "Notable Alumni & Former Students" published by the Columbia University Office of Admission