List of Columbia University people

This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University. For further listing of notable Columbians see: Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University; Columbia University School of General Studies; Columbia Law School; Columbia Business School; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College); Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Columbia University School of Professional Studies; Columbia University School of the Arts; the School of International and Public Affairs; and Barnard College. The following lists are incomplete.

Nobel laureates

As of October 2012, 82 Nobel laureates were affiliated with Columbia University.[1][2][3][4] 43 Nobel laureates are the alumni of Columbia University.[4] 19 of these alumni have also served on the faculty or staff of the university. There are 39 non-alumni Nobel laureates who have been in service—as faculty, research scientists, research or postdoctoral fellows—to the university. Columbia University does not count a visiting professor as one of its own. Only those Nobel laureates who have spent a year or more at the university are counted. If Nobel laureates who have spent less than a year at the university were counted, the number of Nobel laureates affiliated with Columbia would be 96, more than any other academic institution.[5] In addition, Columbia ranks third in the number of Nobel Laureates it has graduated compared to other institutions in the world, surpassed only by the University of Cambridge and Harvard University. See List of Nobel Laureates by university affiliation.

Chemistry

1932	Irving Langmuir	(B.S., 1903; M.A., 1906)
1946	John H. Northrop	(B.S., 1912; M.A., 1913; PhD, 1915)
1972	William H. Stein	(PhD, 1938)
1981	Roald Hoffmann	(B.A., 1958)
1985	Herbert A. Hauptman	(M.A., 1939)
1989	Sidney Altman	(graduate student; teaching assistant, 1960 to 1962)
2001	William S. Knowles	(PhD, 1942)
2005	Robert H. Grubbs	(PhD, 1968)
2012	Robert J. Lefkowitz	(B.A., 1962; M.D., 1966; Presbyterian Hospital staff, 1966 to 1967)

Economic science

1971	Simon S. Kuznets	(B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; PhD, 1926)
1972	Kenneth J. Arrow	(M.A., 1941; PhD, 1951)
1976	Milton Friedman	(Researcher, 1943 to 1945; PhD, 1946; faculty member, 1937 to 1940 and 1964 to 1965)
1993	Robert W. Fogel	(M.A., 1960)
1996	William S. Vickrey	(M.A., 1937; PhD, 1948; faculty member, 1946 to 1996)
1997	Robert C. Merton	(B.S., 1966)
2012	Alvin E. Roth	(B.S., 1971)

Peace

1906	Theodore Roosevelt	(Law student, 1880 to 1882)
1931	Nicholas Murray Butler	(B.A., 1882; M.A., 1883; PhD, 1884, president of Columbia, 1902 to 1945)
1996	Jose Ramos Horta	(post graduate studies, completed 1984)
2009	Barack Obama	(B.A., 1983)

Physics

1923	Robert A. Millikan	(PhD, 1895)
1944	I.I. Rabi	(PhD, 1927; faculty member, 1929 to 1988)
1965	Julian S. Schwinger	(B.A., 1936; PhD, 1939)
1972	Leon N. Cooper	(B.A., 1951; M.A., 1953; PhD, 1954)
1975	James Rainwater	(M.A., 1941; PhD, 1946; faculty member, 1939 to 1986)
1978	Arno A. Penzias	(M.A., 1958; PhD, 1962)
1980	Val L. Fitch	(PhD, 1954; faculty member, 1953 to 1954)
1988	Leon M. Lederman	(M.A., 1948; PhD, 1951; faculty member, 1951 to 1989)
1988	Melvin Schwartz	(B.A., 1953; PhD, 1958; faculty member, 1958 to 1966, 1991 to 2006)
1989	Norman F. Ramsey	(B.A., 1935; PhD, 1940; faculty member, 1941 to 1947)
1995	Martin L. Perl	(PhD, 1955)
2018	Arthur Ashkin	(B.S., 1947)

Physiology or medicine

1946	Hermann J. Muller	(B.A., 1910; M.A., 1911; PhD, 1916; faculty member, 1918 to 1920)
1950	Edward C. Kendall	(B.S., 1908; M.A., 1909; PhD, 1910)
1956	Dickinson W. Richards	(M.A., 1922; M.D., 1923; faculty member, 1925 to 1973)
1958	Joshua Lederberg	(B.A., 1944; medical student, 1944–1946; faculty member, 1990 to 1999)
1964	Konrad E. Bloch	(PhD, 1938; faculty member, 1938 to 1946, 1966)
1967	George Wald	(M.A., 1928)
1973	Konrad Lorenz	(Columbia College, 1922 to 1923)
1976	Baruch S. Blumberg	(Grad student in Mathematics, 1946 to 1947; M.D., 1951; resident, 1951–1953; fellow 1953–1955)
1980	Baruj Benacerraf	(B.S., 1942; research scientist, 1948 to 1950)
1989	Harold E. Varmus	(M.D., 1966; Presbyterian Hospital staff, 1966 to 1968, University Trustee, 2002 to 2005)
1998	Louis J. Ignarro	(B.S., 1962)
2004	Richard Axel	(A.B., 1967; resident, fellow and research scientist, 1971 to 1978; faculty member, 1978 to present)

Chemistry

1934	Harold C. Urey	(faculty member, 1929 to 1945)
1960	Willard Libby	(research scientist, 1941 to 1944)
1970	Luis Federico Leloir	(research scientist, 1943 to 1945)
2008	Martin Chalfie	(William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, current chair of Biological Sciences)
2017	Joachim Frank	(Professor, director of Frank Lab)

Economic science

1982	George J. Stigler	(research scientist, 1942 to 1945; faculty member, 1947 to 1958)
1987	Robert Solow	(fellowship year, 1949 to 1950)
1992	Gary S. Becker	(faculty member, 1957 to 1970)
1999	Robert Mundell	(faculty member, 1974 to present)
2000	James J. Heckman	(faculty member, 1970 to 1974)
2001	Joseph Stiglitz	(faculty member, 2001 to present)
2006	Edmund Phelps	(faculty member, 1971 to present)

Literature

1987	Joseph Brodsky	(faculty member, 1978 to 1985)
1991	Nadine Gordimer	(faculty member, 1971 to 1972, 1976 to 1978, 1983)
1992	Derek Walcott	(faculty member, 1979, 1981 to 1983, 1984)
2006	Orhan Pamuk	(visiting scholar, 1985 to 1988; fellow, 2006 to present)
2001	Bruce Robbins	Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature

Physics

1938	Enrico Fermi	(faculty member, 1939 to 1945)
1949	Hideki Yukawa	(faculty member, 1949 to 1954)
1955	Polykarp Kusch	(faculty member, 1937 to 1972)
1955	Willis E. Lamb	(faculty member, 1938 to 1952, 1960 to 1961)
1957	Tsung Dao Lee	(faculty member, 1953 to present)
1963	Maria Goeppert Mayer	(faculty member, 1940 to 1946)
1964	Charles H. Townes	(faculty member, 1948 to 1961)
1975	Aage Bohr	(faculty member, 1949 to 1950)
1976	Samuel C.C. Ting	(faculty member, 1964 to 1967)
1979	Steven Weinberg	(faculty member, 1957 to 1959)
1981	Arthur L. Schawlow	(faculty member, 1949 to 1951, 1960)
1984	Carlo Rubbia	(postdoc at Nevis Laboratories, 1958 to 1960)
1988	Jack Steinberger	(faculty member, 1950 to 1970, 1985 to 1986, 1988 to 1998)
1998	Horst L. Stormer	(faculty member, 1998 to present)
2006	John C. Mather	(postdoc in Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 1974 to 1976)

Physiology or medicine

1933	Thomas Hunt Morgan	(faculty member, 1904 to 1928)
1956	Andre F. Cournand	(faculty member, 1935 to 1988)
1969	Salvador E. Luria	(faculty member, 1940 to 1942)
1976	D. Carleton Gajdusek	(postgraduate training, 1946 to 1947)
1978	Daniel Nathans	(intern and medical resident, 1954 to 1959)
1982	Sune Bergström	(research fellowship, 1940 to 1941)
1990	E. Donnall Thomas	(faculty member, 1955 to 1963)
2000	Eric Kandel	(faculty member, 1972 to present)
2004	Linda Buck	(postdoctoral fellow, 1980 to 1984; research scientist, 1984 to 1991)

Field Medalists

• Jesse Douglas—(attended Columbia College from 1920 to 1924), one of two winners of the first Fields Medal in 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—professor of mathematics, Columbia; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
• Stephen Smale—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

• Robert Brout—(PhD.) Belgian theoretical physicist; 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics; 2010 Sakurai Prize; significant contributions in elementary particle physics
• John Clauser—(M.A. 1966, PhD 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
• Samuel Eilenberg—1986 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms, 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—(PhD) experimental physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science, Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Karl Maramorosch—(PhD 1949) virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist; 1980 Wolf Prize in Agriculture
• Gilbert Stork—1995 Wolf Prize in Chemistry; 1982 National Medal of Science, Willard Gibbs Medal
• Chien-Shiung Wu—physics professor, first woman to head the American Physical Society; 1978 Wolf Prize in Physics
• Stephen Smale—2006 Wolf Prize in Mathematics; National Medal of Science (1975); Bonner Prize (1975); Comstock Prize in Physics (1964)

Crafoord Prize

• Wallace Smith Broecker—(alumnus and faculty) Crafoord Prize in Geoscience (2006), Balzan Prize, National Medal of Science, Vetlesen Prize, among other awards
• Peter K. Gregersen—(MD 1976) Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2013)[6]
• Richard Lewontin—(MA, PhD 1954) Crafoord Prize in Bioscience (2015)
• Peter Molnar (PhD 1970 Geology) Crafoord Prize in Geosciences (2014)
• Walter Munk—(undergrad attendee) Crafoord Prize in Geoscience (2010); National Medal of Science, Vetlesen Prize, Kyoto Prize, among other awards
• Robert J. Winchester—(faculty) Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis (2013)

Templeton Prize

• Francisco J. Ayala—(PhD 1964) Templeton Prize for life's work in evolutionary biology and genetics (2010), National Medal of Science (2001), among other awards

ACM Turing Award

• John Backus—(B.S. 1949, M.A. 1950 Mathematics) Inventor of Fortran programming language, Draper Prize[7]

Founding Fathers of the United States

Founding Fathers of the United States are the political leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence or the United States Constitution, or otherwise participated in the American Revolution as leaders of the Patriots.

• Alexander Hamilton—Founding Father, American Revolutionary War officer and aide-de-camp to George Washington, initiator and co-author of The Federalist Papers, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, economist, one of the first U.S. constitutional lawyers (picture appears on U.S. ten-dollar bill)
• John Jay—Founding Father, president of the Continental Congress, co-author of The Federalist Papers, second U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, diplomat, architect of Jay's Treaty with Great Britain
• Robert Livingston—Founding Father, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, first U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs, U.S. Minister to France, negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
• Gouverneur Morris—Founding Father, author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to France, United States Senator from New York, creator of the Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
• Egbert Benson—Founding Father, member of the Continental Congresses; with Alexander Hamilton, delegate from New York to the Annapolis Convention; ratifier of the United States Constitution; served in the First and Second United States Congresses

Presidents of the United States

• Theodore Roosevelt—(law, attended 1880 to 1881) (posthumous J.D., class of 1882),[8] 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),[8] 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.) President of Afghanistan; finance minister; chancellor of Kabul University
• Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali—(M.A.) twice Prime Minister of Iraq (40th PM); six times Foreign Minister; member of both houses of Iraqi Parliament
• Kassim al-Rimawi—(M.A. 1954, PhD 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—(PhD 1962) 13th prime minister and 4th president of Afghanistan
• Nahas Angula—(M.A., MEd) Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia (incumbent as of 2010); member of the National Assembly since 1990
• Marek Belka—11th Prime Minister of Poland; twice Minister of Finance
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso—(faculty) 34th president of Brazil (1995–2003); Minister of External Relations (1992–1993); Minister of Finance (1993–1994)
• Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz—(Fulbright scholar, research, 1980 through 1981) Prime Minister of Poland (1996–97); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2001–05); speaker, Sejm (lower chamber, Polish parliament) (2005); Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland (1993–95); senator (2007–)
• Gaston Eyskens—(MSc 1927) six-time Prime Minister of Belgium (1949–1950, 1958–1961, 1968–1973)
• Mark Eyskens—(M.A. 1957) Prime Minister of Belgium (1981); Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–92); Belgian Minister of Finance; Belgian Minister of Economic Affairs
• Sun Fo—(M.S. 1917) twice Premier of the Republic of China (1931–32, 48–49); President of the Legislative Yuan (1932–48); President of the Examination Yuan (1966–73)
• Chen Gongbo—(M.A., Economics, 1925) Chinese politician; president of the Republic of China (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)
• Jose Ramos Horta—Nobel Laureate; President of East Timor (2007–2012); Prime Minister (2006–2007)
• Lee Huan—(M.A.) former premier of the Republic of China (1989–1990); ROC Minister of Education (1984–1987)
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves—(B.A.) twice President of Estonia ( 2011–, 2006–11); twice 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., PhD) 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
• Benjamin Mkapa—(M.A.) 3rd president of Tanzania (1995–2005); twice Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (1984–1990, 1977–1980)
• Nwafor Orizu—(M.A.) Acting President of Nigeria (1965–1966); second President of the Nigerian Senate (1960–1966) (during the 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)
• Hans-Gert Pottering—(graduate studies) 23rd 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)
• Salim Ahmed Salim—(M.A.) 5th Prime Minister of Tanzania; deputy prime minister of Tanzania (1986–89); Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980–84); President of the United Nations General Assembly; 6th Secretary General, Organization of African Unity
• Ernesto Samper—(M.A.) 56th president of Colombia (1994–98); 17th Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement (1995–98); 1st Minister of Economic Development (1990–91)
• Mohammad Musa Shafiq—(M.A.) Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1972–1973); Foreign Minister of Afghanistan (1971–1972)
• Tang Shaoyi—twice Prime Minister of the Republic of China (1912, 1922); first president, Shandong University
• T. V. Soong—(PhD) twice Premier of Republic of China (1930 and 1945–1947); minister of finance (1932–1933); governor, Central Bank of China (1928–1931)
• Charles Robberts Swart—(M.S.) first State President of the Republic of South Africa (1961–1967); last 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

• Alfred Aho—Canadian computer scientist known for co-authorship of the AWK programming language; IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2003)
• Hattie Alexander—professor of pediatrics, microbiologist; known for Haemophilus influenzae, antibiotic resistance
• Dimitris Anastassiou—professor of electrical engineering, developer of MPEG-2 technology
• Edwin Armstrong—professor, winner of the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal, inventor and the Father of FM Radio
• Karen Barkey—professor of sociology
• Charles A. Beard—(PhD 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
• C. Louise Boehringer, first female superintendent of schools, Yuma County and first female to be elected to office in Arizona.
• Lee Bollinger—(J.D.) University President/law professor, First Amendment scholar, Affirmative Action advocate
• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen—professor of Germanic languages
• 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
• Santiago Calatrava—(honorary doctorate, 2007), architect, sculptor and structural engineer, designer of Montjuic Communications Tower and 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
• Charles F. Chandler—American chemist, first Dean of Columbia University's School of Mines
• Kartik Chandran—American environmental engineer, MacArthur Fellowship Recipient 2015[9]
• Partha Chatterjee—anthropologist and scholar of postcolonial nationalism
• Richard Clarida—C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and current vice chair of the Federal Reserve
• 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
• Andrew Delbanco—2012 National Humanities Medal; director of American Studies at 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
• Theodosius Dobzhansky—(researcher, graduate study, professor in population genetics); National Medal of Science in 1964; the Franklin Medal in 1973
• Andrew Dolkart—architectural historian
• Karen Duff—Potamkin Prize winning pathologist
• John R. Dunning—physicist who played key roles in the development of the 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
• Enrico Fermi—Manhattan Project member, Nobel laureate
• Eric Foner—noted historian, authority on Reconstruction
• Miloš Forman—film director, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, two 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
• 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
• Kristine Gebbie—professor of nursing and Bill Clinton's first AIDS Czar
• Frank Gehry—Pritzker Prize-winning architect
• Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
• Dorian M. Goldfeld—professor of mathematics
• Robert Gooding-Williams—M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy
• Benjamin Graham—father of value investing, mentor of Warren Buffett
• Brian Greene—mathematics and physics professor, researcher and author in String Theory
• Sunil Gulati—professor of economics and chair of the 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
• Roger Hilsman—political scientist, author, and government official
• Richard Hofstadter—noted historian
• Ralph Holloway—physical anthropologist
• Carl Hovde (1926–2009), professor and Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968.[10]
• Andreas Huyssen—Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature
• David Ignatow—poet, Bollingen Prize-winner
• Lawrence R. Jacobs— American 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)
• Eric Kandel—neuroscientist, 2000 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
• James Kent—first professor of law at 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
• Cinta Laura Kiehl— Indonesian actress, singer, model and ambassador of 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
• Jaron Lanier—visiting scholar at the Computer Science department
• Leon M. Lederman—Nobel Laureate, discoverer of muon neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989); M.A., PhD Columbia
• Tsung Dao Lee—physics professor, 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.[11][12]
• Mark Lilla – professor of humanities; historian of ideas[13]
• Konrad Lorenz—psychology professor, 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 Byzantine Christian 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
• Robert K. Merton—professor of sociology; founder of sociology of science; National Medal of Science
• Jacob Millman—professor of electrical engineering, creator of 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
• Robert Mundell—economics professor, 1999 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Tristan Murail—professor of music composition, French composer
• P. T. Narasimhan—theoretical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Mira Nair—director of Monsoon Wedding, film studies professor
• Franz Leopold Neumann—political science professor, Communist spy in Redhead group
• Gertrude Fanny Neumark— expert on doping wide-band semiconductors
• Robert S. Neuwirth—Babcock Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; pioneer in the use of gynecological endoscopy
• 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
• Victor Perlo—economics professor, Soviet spymaster involved in Harold Ware spy ring and Perlo group as shown in Venona list of suspected subversives in the U.S.
• Edmund Phelps—economist and 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
• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin—professor, Serbian physicist and physical chemist whose inventions include the Pupin coil
• Isidor Isaac Rabi—professor, PhD from Columbia (1927), Nobel Laureate, discoverer of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Eliezer Rafaeli (born 1926)—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, PhD 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
• James Schamus—film studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, three-time Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning film screenwriter and producer
• Warner R. Schilling—political scientist and international relations scholar
• Marshall D. Shulman—scholar of Soviet studies and the founding director of the Russian Institute
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor—lecturer in law, Columbia Law School (1999–); nominated by President Barack Obama, on May 26, 2009, to be a justice of the 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
• Joseph Stiglitz—economics professor, 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Gilbert Stork—winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/6
• Horst Ludwig Störmer—I.I. Rabi professor of physics and applied physics, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Mark Strand—poet, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Bollingen and Pulitzer Prize-winner
• Man-Chung Tang—professor of civil engineering and former chairman of American Society of Civil Engineers
• 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
• Olivier Toubia—Glaubinger Professor of Business
• Charles Hard Townes—professor and an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped to invent the laser[14]
• Joseph F. Traub—founding chairman of the computer science department at Columbia
• Lionel Trilling—literary scholar
• Harold Clayton Urey—professor, 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
• 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
• David Weiss Halivni—rabbi, founder of Union for Traditional Judaism and developer of source-critical analysis of the Talmud
• Nancy Wexler—Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
• Harrison White—professor of sociology
• Enos Wicher—professor and Soviet spy named in Venona list of suspected subversives in the U.S., stepfather of 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
• David Tannor (born 1958), theoretical chemist, visiting professor, Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Mihalis Yannakakis—professor of computer science, scholar noted for his work in the fields of Computational complexity theory, Databases
• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi—Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History at Culture and Society
• Shou-Wu Zhang, former professor of mathematics; specializes in number theory and arithmetical algebraic geometry; winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and Fields Medal finalist
• Theodore Zoli—adjunct professor of civil engineering and structural engineer

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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