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List of Cornell University faculty

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This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Nobel laureates

=Chemistry=

  • Peter Debye (Professor of Chemistry, 1940–50; Department Chair) — Chemistry 1936; National Medal of Science (1965)
  • Manfred Eigen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–76) — Chemistry 1967
  • Richard R. Ernst (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1996-2002) — Chemistry 1991
  • Paul Flory (Chemistry faculty, 1948–57) — Chemistry 1974; National Medal of Science (1974)
  • Otto Hahn (George Fisher Baker Lecturer of Chemistry, 1933) — Chemistry 1944
  • Gerhard Herzberg (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1968){{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1971/herzberg/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971|website=NobelPrize.org|accessdate=29 July 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.optica.org/en-us/history/biographies/bios/gerhard-herzberg/|title=Gerhard Herzberg | Living History | Optica|website=www.optica.org|accessdate=29 July 2023}}{{cite web|url=http://www.exampleproblems.com/wiki/index.php/Gerhard_Herzberg |title=Gerhard Herzberg Biography on Example problems}} — Chemistry 1971
  • Roald Hoffmann (Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters) — Chemistry 1981; National Medal of Science (1983)
  • Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938; Messenger Lecturer 1959) — Chemistry 1954; the bulk of his most influential scientific book The Nature of the Chemical Bond was completed while he was at Cornell and was published by Cornell University Press in 1939
  • James B. Sumner (Professor, 1929–55 and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry/Nutrition) — Chemistry 1946
  • Henry Taube (Instructor and assistant professor, 1941-1946) — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science (1976)
  • Vincent du Vigneaud (Professor of Biochemistry, Medical College, 1938–67), Professor of Chemistry, 1967–75) — Chemistry 1955; Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1948)

=Peace, Literature, or Economics=

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  • Norman Borlaug (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1982–88) — Peace 1970; National Medal of Science (2004)
  • Linus Pauling (George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937-1938; Messenger Lecturer 1959){{Cite web|url=https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/tag/george-fischer-baker-lectures/|title=George Fischer Baker Lectures|website=PaulingBlog|accessdate=29 July 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.twirpx.com/file/956452/ |title=Preface of the Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals|date=22 October 2012 }} — Peace 1962
  • Octavio Paz (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1972–74) — Literature 1990
  • Amartya Sen (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1978–84) — Economics 1998; National Humanities Medal (2012)
  • Wole Soyinka (Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985; Goldwin Smith professor for African Studies and Theatre Arts, 1988-1991){{cite web| url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/soyinka-wole-1934| title = Soyinka, Wole 1934- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com}} — Literature 1986
  • Richard Thaler (Professor 1978-1995) — Economics 2017; member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)

=Physics=

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  • Hannes Alfvén (Distinguished Professor in Engineering) — Physics 1970
  • Hans Bethe (John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics, 1935-2005) — Physics 1967; National Medal of Science (1975)
  • Richard Feynman (Physics faculty, 1945–50) — Physics 1965; National Medal of Science (1979)
  • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1977–83) and Bethe Lecturer in Physics, 1989–90) — Physics 1991
  • Brian D. Josephson (NSF Senior Foreign Scientist Fellow, 1971-1972){{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1973/josephson/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973|website=NobelPrize.org|accessdate=29 July 2023}} — Physics 1973
  • David Lee (Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996
  • Anthony James Leggett (Visiting Professor, April 1973, July 1974, Bethe Lecturer, April 1980, visiting scientist, January — August 1983){{cite web |url=https://www.bnl.gov/energy/ces/cv/leggett.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607122723/http://www.bnl.gov/energy/ces/cv/leggett.asp |archive-date=2011-06-07 |title=Energy Programs {{!}} Principal Investigators}} — Physics 2003; Wolf Prize in Physics (2002)
  • Roger Penrose (Visiting Professor) — Physics 2020
  • Robert Coleman Richardson (Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics) — Physics 1996
  • John Robert Schrieffer (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–75) — Physics 1972; National Medal of Science (1983)
  • George Paget Thomson (Non-resident Lecturer, 1929–30) — Physics 1937
  • Kip Thorne (Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, 1986-1992; Visiting Senior Research Associate, January — June 1977; Hans Bethe Lecturer, 1986; Yervant Terzian Memorial Lecture, 2016){{cite web |url=https://www.its.caltech.edu/~kip/index.html/cv.html |title = Kip S. Thorne: Curriculum Vitae}} — Physics 2017
  • Kenneth G. Wilson (Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies, 1963–88) — Physics 1982; Wolf Prize in Physics (1980)

=Physiology or Medicine=

  • James P. Allison (Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine 2004-2012){{Cite web|url=https://faculty.mdanderson.org/profiles/james_allison.html|title=James P. Allison|website=MD Anderson Cancer Center|accessdate=29 July 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/galardonado/james-allison-2/|title=Frontier of Knowledge Laureate Dr. Allison|accessdate=29 July 2023}} — Physiology or Medicine 2018, Wolf Prize in Medicine (2017)
  • Robert F. Furchgott (Assistant Professor of biochemistry, Research Associate, Medical College, 1940–49) — Physiology or Medicine 1998
  • Herbert Spencer Gasser (Medical College, 1931–34) — Physiology or Medicine 1944
  • Paul Greengard (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–87) — Physiology or Medicine 2000
  • Haldan Keffer Hartline (Associate Professor, Medical College, 1940–41) — Physiology or Medicine 1967
  • Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry; Professor and Department Chair in Biochemistry, 1948–64) — Physiology or Medicine 1968
  • Har Gobind Khorana (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–80) — Physiology or Medicine 1968; National Medal of Science (1987)
  • Fritz Albert Lipmann (Research Associate, Medical College, 1939-1941) — Physiology or Medicine 1953; National Medal of Science (1966)
  • Peter Medawar (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965–71) — Physiology or Medicine 1960
  • Harold E. Varmus (Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine, 2015-){{Cite web|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/03/nobel-laureate-harold-varmus-join-weill-cornell-april-1|title=Nobel laureate Harold Varmus to join Weill Cornell April 1 | Cornell Chronicle|website=news.cornell.edu|accessdate=29 July 2023}} — Physiology or Medicine 1989; National Medal of Science (2001)

MacArthur awards

Sports

Education

Engineering and computer science

= Computer science =

= Engineering =

Government, law, business

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==Humanities==

=Architecture and design=

=Fine arts and photography=

  • Michael Ashkin — sculptor
  • Jacqueline Livingston (Professor of Photography and Art (?–1978) — feminist photographer
  • Alison Lurie (Professor of Literature, 1970-) — Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  • Jason Seley (Professor of Art 1966 to 1983, Dean 1980 to 1983) – sculptor{{Cite news |last=Cook |first=Joan |date=1983-06-24 |title=Jason Seley Dies; Taught Sculpture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/24/obituaries/jason-seley-dies-taught-sculpture.html |access-date=2025-02-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

=History=

{{See also|Cornell University Department of History#Faculty}}

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=Languages=

=Literature=

=Music=

  • Malcolm Bilson (Professor) — music historian
  • David Borden (Director, Digital Music Program) — composer of minimalist music
  • Donald Byrd{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/arts/music/donald-byrd-renegade-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-80.html?hpw |title = Donald Byrd, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 80 — The New York Times| website=The New York Times | date=11 February 2013 | last1=Yardley | first1=William }} — jazz trumpeter and educator
  • Adolf Dahm-Petersen — voice specialist and teacher of artistic singing
  • Karel Husa (Professor, 1954-1992) — composer best known for his Music for Prague 1968; won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3
  • Hunter Johnson (Professor) — composer
  • Alejandro L. Madrid (Professor) — musicologist and ethnomusicologist — recipient of the Dent Medal (2017)
  • Wynton Marsalis (AD White Professor-at-Large, 2015-2021) — Classical and Jazz musician, composer
  • James Thomas Quarles — organist and music educator
  • Steven Stucky — Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

=Philosophy=

Media

=Journalism, film, television, theatre=

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  • John Cleese (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1999–2006; Provost’s Visiting Professor, 2006–) — comedian and actor
  • David Feldshuh — playwright
  • John Pilger (Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, 2003–06) — journalist and documentary filmmaker
  • Amy Villarejo (Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Humanities, 1997–2020) — researcher of feminist and queer media, critical theory, and television studies{{cite web |title=Amy Villarejo |url=https://pma.cornell.edu/amy-villarejo-1 |website=Cornell University Department of Performing & Media Arts |access-date=12 November 2024}}

==Natural sciences and related fields==

=Astronomy=

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=Biology, ecology, botany, and nutrition=

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=Chemistry=

=Geology and geography=

=Mathematics=

=Medicine=

=Physics=

{{see also|List of Cornell Manhattan Project people}}

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==Social sciences and policy management==

=Anthropology, sociology, other social sciences=

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  • Yutaka Tsujinaka (visiting fellow, 1989-1991) — professor of political science
  • John Adair (Professor, 1948-1960) — anthropologist
  • Benedict Anderson (Professor Emeritus of International Studies) — author of Imagined Communities
  • Walter Berns (Professor, 1959-1969) — Constitutional law and political philosophy professor; recipient of National Humanities Medal in 2005
  • Fred Buttel (Professor of Rural Sociology) — sociologist
  • John Collier — visual anthropologist
  • Dian Fossey (Visiting Research Associate, 1980) — anthropologist whose murder was recreated in the film Gorillas in the Mist
  • Betty Friedan (Distinguished Visiting Professor at the ILR School's Institute for Women and Work, 1998-2006){{cite web |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/02/betty-friedan-womens-movement-icon-taught-cornell |title = Betty Friedan, women's movement icon, taught at Cornell and led seminars on working family issues {{!}} Cornell Chronicle}} — feminist, author of The Feminine Mystique
  • Rose Goldsen — pioneer in studying the effects of television and popular culture
  • Charles F. Hockett (Professor 1946-1982) — linguist; member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974)
  • Jay Jasanoff (Professor, 1978-1998) — Indo-European linguistics specialist
  • Bronisław Malinowski (Lecturer, 1933) — founder of social anthropology
  • George McGovern (Visiting Lecturer, 1990) — Democratic Nominee for U.S. President (1972) and Senator from South Dakota (1963–81). Taught on US Foreign Policy.{{cite web|last1=Appelman|first1=Hilary|title=McGovern Returns to His Roots--Teaching on College Campus : Presidency: Cornell students vie to get into his U.S. foreign policy class. Exaggerated fear of communism, he says, cost him his Senate seat.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-16-mn-9029-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=16 December 1990 |access-date=5 April 2016}}
  • John V. Murra (1968–82) — professor of anthropology, with a focus on the Inca Empire
  • Alan Nussbaum (Professor of Linguistics, 1997-) — Indo-European linguist and classical philologist
  • Meredith Small (Professor, 1998-) — anthropologist and primatologist, author of several books on child development, including Our Babies, Ourselves
  • Adam T. Smith (Professor, 2011-) — anthropologist researching the history and societies of the South Caucasus
  • Richard Swedberg (Professor of Sociology, 2002-) — Swedish economic sociologist
  • Mark P. Talbert — senior lecturer of hotel management, and subject of a viral YouTube video publicly criticizing an unknown student who was yawning loudly in one of his classes
  • Sidney Tarrow (Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology) — researcher of comparative politics, social movements, and political sociology
  • James D. Thompson (Professor) — sociologist
  • Bassam Tibi (A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 2004-) — political scientist of Islamic countries
  • James E. Turner (Professor Emeritus of African and African American Politics and Social Policy — Africana studies; Director of Africana Studies and Research Center, 1969–1986, 1996–2001
  • Barbara Wertheimer (Associate Professor, 1977-1983) — co-founder and director of the Institute for Women and Work at the Industrial and Labor Relations School.{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wertheimer-barbara-mayer |title=Barbara Mayer Wertheimer | Jewish Women's Archive |publisher=Jwa.org |access-date=2012-11-21}}

=Economics=

=Psychology=

See also

References

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Further reading

  • [http://www.celebrate.cornell.edu/join/honorRoll.html List of faculty holding named professorships]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060907214231/http://web.cornell.edu/Professors-at-Large/all.htm List of A.D. White Professors-at-Large]
  • [http://rhodesprofessors.cornell.edu/all.html List of Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professors]

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