List of Washington University faculty and staff

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This is a list of faculty and staff of Washington University in St. Louis.

Arts and Sciences

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Name

! Field

! Notability

!Joined the faculty

Patty Jo Watson

|Anthropology

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)

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Lee Robins

|Anthropology

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)

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Carl Frieden

|Biology

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)

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Florence Moog

|Biology

|Her research on enzymes in the intestinal tract led to a therapy to bring about normal lung functioning in premature infants

|

Douglass Cecil North

|Economics

|Nobel prize (1994) Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)

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Robert A. Pollak

|Economics

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)

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Murray L. Weidenbaum

|Economics

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)

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Barbara Anna Schaal

|Evolutionary Biology

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)

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William Howard Gass

|Literature

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)

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Elliot L. Elson

|Biochemistry

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)

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Carl Phillips

|Literature

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)

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Gerald Lyn Early

|Literary Criticism

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)

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Nobuo Suga

|NeuroSciences

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)

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Marcus E. Raichle

|NeuroSciences

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)

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Clifford M. Will

|Physics

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)

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N.J. Schofield

|Political Science

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)

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Henry L. Roediger III

|Psychology

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)

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Mark S. Wrighton

|Chemistry

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)

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William Henry Danforth

|Medicine

|Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)

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=School of Medicine=

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Name

! Position

! Notability

!Joined the faculty

David Morris Kipnis

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 1974

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Stuart Arthur Kornfeld

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 1988

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Phillip Warren Majerus

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 1988

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Emil Raphael Unanue

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 1989

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Larry Jay Shapiro

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 1995

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Kenneth Marc Ludmerer

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 2002

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Jeffrey Ivan Gordon

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 2004

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Helen M. Piwnica-Worms

|Professor of Medicine

|National Institute of Medicine 2007

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National Academy of Medicine

  • John P. Atkinson, Samuel B. Grant Professor Professor of Medicine & Molecular Microbiology
  • C. Robert Cloninger, Wallace Renard Professor and Director, Center for Psychobiology of Personality
  • Graham Colditz, Niess-Gain Professor in Medicine Department of Surgery{{Cite web|url=http://www.siteman.wustl.edu/DoctorProfile.aspx?Type=Research&memid=2029|title=Colditz, Graham}}
  • Jerome R. Cox, Jr., Senior Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
  • William Henry Danforth, Chancellor
  • Timothy J. Eberlein, Bixby Professor and chairman, Department of Surgery
  • Alex S. Evers, Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman Department of Anesthesiology
  • Richard H. Gelberman, Fred C. Reynolds Professor and chair, Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Eric M. Genden, Excellence in Teaching Award, 1998
  • David M. Kipnis, Distinguished University Professor
  • Stuart A. Kornfeld, David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
  • Timothy J. Ley, Alan and Edith Wolff Professor of Medicine Professor of Genetics
  • Susan E. Mackinnon, Sydney M. Schoenberg, Jr. & Robert H. Schoenberg Professor and Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Phillip W. Majerus, Professor of Medicine
  • Phillip Needleman
  • Colin Nichols, Carl Cori Endowed Professor
  • John W. Olney, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuropathology
  • William A. Peck, Alan A. and Edith L. Woolf Distinguished Professor Director, Center for Health Policy
  • Marcus E. Raichle, Professor of Radiology and Neurology
  • Lee N. Robins, University Professor of Social Science Emeritus
  • Alan L. Schwartz, Harriet B. Spoehrer Professor and chairman, Department of Pediatrics
  • Larry Jay Shapiro, Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs
  • Emil R. Unanue, Department of Pathology, Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology
  • Michael J. Welch, Professor of Radiology Division of Radiological Sciences
  • Samuel A. Wells

National Academy of Engineering

=Bioengineering=

  • 2022: Farshid Guilak,{{Cite web | url=https://www.nae.edu/270726.aspx | title=Dr. Farshid Guilak }} Mildred B. Simon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery{{cite web | url=https://orthopaedicresearch.wustl.edu/labs/farshid-guilak/ | title=Farshid Guilak | date=30 September 2019 }} and Biomedical Engineering{{cite web | url=https://bme.wustl.edu/index.html | title=Home }}
  • 2003: Yoram Rudy,[http://rudylab.wustl.edu Yoram Rudy] Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, and director, Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center[http://cbac.wustl.edu Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center]

=Computer Science and Engineering=

  • 2007: Jonathan S. Turner
  • Roch Guérin, Harold B. & Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science, and chair of the Computer Science & Engineering Department

=Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering=

=Electronics Engineering=

  • 1991: Charles M. Wolfe

National Academy of Sciences

=Anthropology=

  • 1988: Patty Jo Watson, Department of Anthropology, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Archaeology
  • 1996: Erik Trinkaus, Department of Anthropology, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Physical Anthropology

=Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics=

  • 1988: Carl Frieden, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Alumni Endowed Professor and former department chair

=Chemistry=

  • 1966: S.I. Weissman, Department of Chemistry

=Evolutionary Biology=

=Immunology=

  • 1987: Emil R. Unanue, Department of Pathology, Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology
  • 2007: Wayne Yokoyama, winner of the Lee C. Howley Prize (for arthritis research), researched natural killer cells' role in immunology

=Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology=

=Medical Physiology and Metabolism=

=Physics=

=Physiology and Pharmacology=

  • 1987: Phillip Needleman

=Psychology=

=Systems Neuroscience=

  • 1996: Marcus Raichle
  • 1998: Nubuo Suga

Nobel Laureates

=Chemistry=

=Economic Science=

=Medicine & Physiology=

=Physics=

  • 1927:Arthur H. Compton (1892–1962), Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1920–1923 and 1945–1962, Chancellor 1945–1953

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