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 79 Nobel Prize laureates.

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.

[edit] Notable Alumni

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

[edit] Nobel laureates

• Luis Alvarez (S.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1968).
• Emily Green Balch (attended) - Nobel Peace Prize (1946). [1]
• Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor in Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago; Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1992); John Bates Clark Medalist (1967); National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science (2002).
• Saul Bellow (X. 1939) - Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in English at the University of Chicago (1962-1993); Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1976); Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel Humboldt's Gift (1976); National Medal of Arts (1988).
• Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (1979).
• James M. Buchanan (Ph.D. 1948) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1986).
• Owen Chamberlain (Ph.D. 1949) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1959).
• James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor Emeritus in Physics at the University of Chicago; Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1980); National Medal of Science for Physical Sciences (1999).
• Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1937).
• Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1990).
• Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) - Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago; Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1976); John Bates Clark Medalist (1951).
• Ernest Lawrence (X. 1923) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1939).
• Tsung-Dao Lee (Ph.D. 1950) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1957).
• Robert Lucas, Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) - John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago; Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1995).
• Harry Markowitz (Ph. B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1990).
• Robert Millikan (X. 1894) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1923).
• Robert Mulliken (Ph.D. 1921) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (1966).
• Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (2004).
• F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (1995).
• Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1988).
• Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1970); John Bates Clark Medalist (1947).
• Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1997).
• Herbert Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1978).
• Roger Sperry (Ph.D. 1941) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1981).
• George Stigler (S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences (1982); National Medal of Science for Behavioral & Social Science (1987).
• Edward Lawrie Tatum (X. 1931) - Nobel Prize Laureatee in Physiology or Medicine (1958).
• Daniel Tsui (S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1998).
• James Dewey Watson (Ph. B. 1946, S.B. 1947) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1962).
• Frank Wilczek (A.B. 1970) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (2004).
• Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) - Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (1957).

[edit] Arts and entertainment

• Ed Asner (X. 1948) - Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for his role as "Lou Grant" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
• David Auburn (A.B. 1991) - Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony Award winner for the play Proof (2001).
• Anna Chlumsky (A.B. 2002) - Film and stage actress; appeared in My Girl (1991).
• Katherine Dunham (Ph. B. 1936) - National Medal of Arts recipient (1989); noted dancer and choreographer.
• Kurt Elling (X. 1992) - Jazz singer and six-time Grammy Award nominee; Vice Chair of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
• Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) - Academy Award-nominated composer and musician.
• Sessue Hayakawa (A.B. 1913) - Silent film actor and first Asian screen star to appear in a Hollywood film; star of Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat (1915); Academy Award-nominated actor in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
• Marilu Henner (X. 1974) - Actress; best known for her role in the series Taxi.
• Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) - Composer of the score of Tony Award-winning musical Urinetown.
• Celeste Holm (X. 1934) - Actress; Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in Gentleman's Agreement (1947); also appeared in the classic film All About Eve (1950).
• Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. 2003) - Runner up on the fourth season of The Apprentice.
• Philip Kaufman (A.B. 1958) - Director of The Right Stuff, Quills, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) - Playwright of the Tony Award-winning musical Urinetown.
• Josh LaBove (A.B. 2007) - Actor, best known for his roles on The Magic School Bus and All That.
• Joshua Marston (A.M. 1994) - Director of Maria Full of Grace (2004).
• Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) - Internet celebrity; author of New York Times bestseller I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.
• Mike Nichols (X. 1953) - Director of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Spamalot (for which he won a Tony Award), and The Graduate (for which he won an Academy Award); co-founder of the Second City comedy troupe.
• Kimberly Peirce (A.B. 1990) - Director of the Academy Award-winning film Boys Don't Cry (1999).
• Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 1943) - Co-founder of Second City comedy troupe; brother of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.
• Hayden Schlossberg (A.B. 2000) - Writer of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (with Jon Hurwitz).
• Eddie Shin (A.B. 1998) - Television actor, Gilmore Girls, That '80s Show, ER.

[edit] Athletics

• Jay Berwanger (A.B. 1936) - First Heisman Trophy winner (1935).
• 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, one of the only two female assistant General Manager in Major League Baseball.

[edit] Business

• Robert V. Adams (M.B.A. 1961) - Former Executive Vice President of Xerox Corporation.
• Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A., 1981) - President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, youngest Goldman Sachs partner in company history, trustee of the University of Chicago.
• John P. Amboian (A.B. 1983, M.B.A., 1984) - President of Nuveen Investments.
• Basil Lawson Anderson (M.B.A. 1971) - Vice Chairman of Staples.
• Russel Baker (A.B. 1920, J.D. 1950) - Founder of Baker & McKenzie, the largest law firm in the world.
• James A. Cour (M.B.A. 1986) - President and COO of Aastrom Biosciences, Inc.
• L. Gordon Crovitz (A.B. 1980) - Publisher of the Wall Street Journal
• Casey Cowell (A.B. 1975) - Co-founder of U.S. Robotics; Chairman and President of Durandal.
• Brady Dougan (A.B. 1981, M.B.A., 1982) - CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston; CEO-elect of Credit Suisse Group in Zurich (beginning May 2007); youngest CEO on Wall Street (2004).
• Mark Ernst (M.B.A. 1986) - President, Chairman, and CEO of H&R Block.
• Joseph J. Fitzsimmons (M.B.A. 1974) - Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of Wal-Mart.
• David W. Fox (M.B.A., 1958) - Former Chairman of the Chicago Stock Exchange; former Chairman and CEO of Northern Trust Corporation.
• Gerald Gidwitz (B.A.) - Cofounder of Helene Curtis Industries.
• Melvin R. Goodes (M.B.A. 1960) - Former Chairman and CEO Warner-Lambert Company.
• John H. Johnson (X. 1942) - First African-American billionaire; founder of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.
• Thomas L. Kalaris (M.B.A. 1978) - CEO of Barclays Capital.
• Karen Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) - President of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group; trustee of the University of Chicago.
• Dennis Keller (M.B.A. 1968) - Chairman and CEO of DeVry, Inc.; trustee of the University of Chicago
• James M. Kilts (M.B.A. 1974) - Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company.
• Michael Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) - Executive Vice President of Time, Inc.; trustee of the University of Chicago.
• Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) - Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
• Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A. 1980) - Chairman and CEO of Morningstar.
• John Meriwether (M.B.A. 1973) - CEO and Principal of JWM Partners; former CEO of Long Term Capital Management.
• Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) - Chairman and CEO of Aramark.
• John Opel (M.B.A. 1949) - President of IBM (1974-1983); CEO of IBM (1981-1985); Chairman of IBM (1983-1986).
• Philip J. Purcell (M.B.A. 1967) - Former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
• David Rockefeller (Ph.D. 1940) - Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); former trustee of the University of Chicago.
• John Rogers (Lab 1976) - Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management; trustee of the University of Chicago.
• David Rubenstein (J.D. 1973) - Co-founder of The Carlyle Group
• Nassef Sawiris (A.B. 1982) - CEO of Orascom Construction Industries (OCI).
• Thomas W. Sidlik (M.B.A. 1973) - Board of Management Member and Executive Vice President of DaimlerChrysler AG.
• Dean Valentine (A.B. 1976) - Former President of Walt Disney Television and UPN.
• Roger M. Vasey (M.B.A. 1970) - Former Executive Vice President of Merrill Lynch.
• B. Kenneth West (M.B.A. 1960) - Former Chairman and CEO of Harris Bankcorp.
• Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. (Ph.D. 1958) - Chairman and CEO of TIAA CREF (1987-1993); President of Michigan State University (1970-1978); Chancellor of the State University of New York System (1978-1987); Deputy Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton (1993).

[edit] Education

• Alan Altshuler (A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1961) - Dean of Graduate School of Design and Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Harvard University (2005-present) [2].
• Richard C. Atkinson (Ph. B. 1948) - President of the University of California (1995-2003).
• Marguerite Ross Barnett (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1972) - First African-American and female President of the University of Houston (1990-92); first African-American Chancellor of the University of Missouri (1986-90).
• Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (Ph.D. 1981) - President of Haifa University, Israel (2004-present).
• Henry Bienen (A.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1966) - President of Northwestern University (1995-present).
• Leon Botstein (A.B. 1967) - President of Bard College (1975-present); Principal Conductor of American Symphony Orchestra.
• Tom Campbell (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1980) - Dean of Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley (2002-present).
• Rebecca S. Chopp (Ph.D. 1983) - President of Colgate University (2002-present); former dean of Yale Divinity School; former provost of Emory University; feminist theologian.
• May Louise Cowles - Economist; researcher, and nationwide advocate of Home Economics study
• Robert Higgins Ebert (S.B. 1936, M.D. 1942) - Dean of Harvard Medical School (1965-1977). [3]
• Luther H. Foster (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1951) - President of the Tuskegee Institute (1953-1981).
• Adam Gamoran (A.B. 1979, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1984) - Professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
• Marvin L. Goldberger (Ph.D. 1948) - President of California Institute of Technology (1978-1987).
• Clifton Daggett Gray (Ph.D.) - President of Bates College (1920-1944).
• Leo I. Higdon, Jr. (M.B.A. 1972) - President of Connecticut College (2006-present); President of the College of Charleston (2001-2006); President of Babson College (1997-2001); Dean of Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
• Chimere Ikoku (S.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1964) - Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria.
• Howard Wesley Johnson (A.M. 1947) - President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966-1971).
• Herma Hill Kay (J.D. 1959) - Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law and former Dean of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley (1992-2000).
• David Kessler (J.D. 1978) - Dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine; Former Dean of Yale School of Medicine; Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner.
• Larry D. Kramer (J.D. 1984) - Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor at Stanford Law School (2004-present).
• Benjamin E. Mays (A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1935) - President of Morehouse College (1940-1967); recipient of the American Educator Award (1980); civil rights activist.
• Leo J. O'Donovan (postdoctoral fellow at University of Chicago) - 47th President of Georgetown University.
• Gerardo della Paolera (A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1988) - President of the American University of Paris (2002-present).
• David Truman (A.M. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) - President of Mount Holyoke College (1969-1978); President of Russell Sage Foundation (1978-1979).

[edit] Government, Law, or Public Policy

[edit] Heads of State and Government

• Marek Belka (attended on postdoctoral fellowship) - Prime Minister of Poland (2004-2005).
• Ahmed Chalabi (Ph.D. 1969) - Interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq.
• Lien Chan (Ph.D. 1965) - Vice President of Taiwan under President Lee Teng-hui; Chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (2000-2005).
• Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (A.B. 1952) - President of Bolivia (1993-1997, 2002-2003).
• Alvaro Magaña (M.B. 1955) - President of El Salvador (1982-1984)

[edit] General

• John Ashcroft (J.D. 1967) - Attorney General of the United States (2000-2004).
• Robert H. Bork (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1953) - Attorney General of the United States (1973-1974); United States Court of Appeals Judge (1982-1988); nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan (1987).
• William Holmes Brown (J.D. 1954) - Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives (1974-1994).
• Ramsey Clark (A.M. 1950, J.D. 1951) - Human rights activist; Attorney General of the United States (1967-1969).
• Benjamin V. Cohen (Phi Beta Kappa 1913, Ph. B 1914, J.D. 1915) - Member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Brain Trust.
• Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) - Governor of New Jersey (D) (2006-present); United States Senator (D-NJ) (2001-2006); former CEO of Goldman Sachs; University trustee.
• Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (X. 1933) - First African-American General of the United States Air Force (1954); Commander of the Tuskegee Airmen; Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon.
• Francisco Gil Diaz (Ph.D. 1972) - Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico.
• Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) - Deputy Major of New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
• Frank H. Easterbook (J.D. 1973) - Circuit Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Douglas H. Ginsburg (J.D. 1973) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• Jackie Goldberg (M.A.T. 1973) - California State Assembly Member.
• Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) - Civil rights leader; author, with Stokley Carmichael, of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (1967); Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.
• James Hormel (J.D. 1958) - First openly gay United States Ambassador (to Luxembourg); heir to Hormel Foods fortune.
• Harold LeClair Ickes (A.B. 1897 J.D. 1907) - 31st United States Secretary of the Interior
• Patricia Kabbah (A.M. 1963) - Former First Lady of Sierra Leone.
• Zalmay Khalilzad (Ph.D. 1979) - United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2007-present); former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan.
• Amy Klobuchar (J.D. 1985) - United States Senate (D-MN) (2007-present)
• Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) - First African-American woman to receive a degree from the University of Chicago Law School; United Nations delegate.
• Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) - President of the University of Chicago (1968-75); Attorney General of the United States (1975-77).
• Eliot Ness (A.B. 1925) - Secret Service agent; famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago as the leader of the legendary team nicknamed The Untouchables.
• Omar Ramadhan Mapuri (A.M. 1985) - Minister of Education and Minister of Home Affairs of Tanzania.
• Michael W. McConnell (J.D. 1979) - Circuit Judge, United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals; Presidential Professor of Law at the University of Utah.
• Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) - Illinois Congressman (1956-1966); United States Congressman (1969-1973, 1975-1979); United States Court of Appeals Judge (1979-94).
• Patsy Mink (J.D. 1951) - First Asian-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives (D-HI) (1965-1977, 1990-2002).
• Carol Moseley Braun (J.D. 1972) - First African-American woman elected to United States Senate (D-IL) (1992-1998); United States Ambassador (1999-2001); Democratic Presidential Primary Candidate (2004).
• William Niskanen (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1962) - Chairman of the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
• James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) - First African-American Federal District Court Judge (1991-1992).
• Peter Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) - Chairman of merchant banking firm the Blackstone Group; United States Secretary of Commerce (1972-1973).
• Bernie Sanders (A.B. 1964) - Independent Congressman from Vermont. Longest serving Independent in the United States House of Representatives.
• John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) - United States Supreme Court Justice (1975-present).
• Jim Talent (J.D. 1981) - United States Senator (R-MO).
• Fernando Sanchez Ugarte (Ph.D. 1977) - President of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission; former Deputy Minister of Industry and Foreign Investment in Mexico.
• Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. 1968) - National Humanities Medal (2003); Economist and Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1980-present).
• Paul Wolfowitz (Ph.D. 1972) - President of the World Bank (2005-present); United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005).
• Kateryna Yushchenko (M.B.A. 1986) - First Lady of Ukraine (2005-present).

[edit] 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, M.A. 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.
• Herbert S. Klein (A.B. 1957, A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1963) - Professor of Latin American 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.
• William McNeill (A.B. 1938, A.M. 1939) - Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago; author of The Rise of the West (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.
• 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.

[edit] Journalism

• David Blum (A.B. 1977) - Editor-in-Chief of the Village Voice (2006-present).
• David Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) - Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary (1973); political correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post.
• David Brooks (A.B. 1983) - Noted political commentator; columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) - Editor of the Wonkette weblog.
• Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
• Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) - Editor-in-chief of The Baffler; author of The Conquest of Cool (1997) and What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004).
• Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) - Head of the Washington Post for over two decades; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History (1998).
• Nathan Hare (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1962) - Author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar, later cited as, "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis" by the New York Times.
• Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) - Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author, most famous for exposing the My Lai Massacre, which greatly changed public opinion of the Vietnam War; frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
• Dan Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) - Pulitzer Prize winner for reporting on the 1987 stock market crash (1988); Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal.
• Dave Kehr (A.B. 1975) - Film critic for The New York Times.
• Carl H. Lavin (A.B. 1979) - Deputy Managing Editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
• Roderick MacLeish (A.B. 1947) - National Public Radio political commentator; journalist and author.
• Greg Palast (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1976) - Progressive investigative journalist.
• John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) - Conservative commentator for the National Review, the New York Post, and The Weekly Standard.
• Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) - Senior editor of Time magazine.
• Edward Rothstein (Ph.D. 1994) - Cultural critic at The New York Times; former music critic at the New Republic and The New York Times.
• Nate Silver (A.B. 2000) - Sportswriter and Executive Vice-President of Baseball Prospectus.
• Robert Silver (A.B. 1947) - Co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books.
• Brent Staples (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) - Editorial writer for The New York Times (1990-present); winner of the Anisfield Wolff Book Award for his memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (1994).
• Bret Stephens (A.B. 1995) - Writer, editorialist, and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
• Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) - Senior correspondent on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Kenneth Taylor (Ph.D. 1984) - Co-host of radio program Philosophy Talk; Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University.
• Kinsey Wilson (A.B. 1979) - Executive editor of USA Today.

[edit] Literature

• Jessica Abel (A.B. 1991) - Comic book writer and artist.
• Allan Bloom (Ph. B. 1949, A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Author of the influential book The Closing of the American Mind.
• Paul C. Borgman (Ph.D. 1973) - religious author. [4]
• Hayden Carruth (M.A. 1947) - Winner of National Book Award in poetry.
• Will Cuppy (Ph. B. 1907, A.M. 1914) - Humorist; author of How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, How to Become Extinct, How to Attract the Wombat, and The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody.
• Mu Dan (A.M. 1951) - Chinese poet and literary translator.
• Joseph Epstein (A.B. 1959) - Former editor of Phi Beta Kappa Society's The American Scholar; essayist, literary critic, and short story writer.
• James T. Farrell (X. 1929) - Novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet and literary critic.
• Paul Goodman (Ph.D. 1954) - Social critic and writer; author of Growing Up Absurd.
• Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) - President-elect of the Modern Language Association (2008).
• Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) - MacArthur Fellow (1984); writer.
• Patrick Larkin (A.B. 1982) - Author of espionage, military, and historical thrillers.
• Luis Leal (A.M. 1941; Ph.D. 1950) - National Humanities Medal (1997); prominent literary scholar.
• Seth Lerer (Ph.D. 1986) - Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
• Jackson Mac Low (A.A. 1943) - Wallace Stevens award winner (1999); poet.
• Norman Maclean (Ph.D. 1940) - William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago, author of Young Men and Fire and the highly-acclaimed A River Runs Through It.
• Campbell McGrath (A.B. 1984) - MacArthur Fellow (1999); poet.
• Sterling North (A.B. 1929) - Author of Rascal, The Wolfing, and So Dear to My Heart.
• Sara Paretsky (A.M. 1969, M.B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1977) - Author of V.I. Warshawski detective novels.
• Elizabeth Peters (Ph. B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1952) - Author of the popular Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels.
• Richard Rorty (A.B. 1949, A.M. 1952) - MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
• Philip Roth (A.M. 1955) - Author; Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel American Pastoral (1998); National Medal of Arts (1998).
• Leo Rosten (Ph. B. 1930, Ph.D. 1937) - Humorist; author of The Joys of Yiddish and Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations.
• Susan Sontag (A.B. 1951) - MacArthur Fellow (1990); noted essayist, novelist, critic, and activist; author of The Volcano Lover [1992] and In America [1999]).
• George Steiner (A.B. 1948) - Prominent literary critic.
• Herman Voaden (X) - Playwright and noted social activist.
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A.M. 1971) - Author of Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions.
• Yvor Winters (attended) - Influential poet and critic. [5]

[edit] Medicine

• Robert Gallo (Resident in Medicine 1963-1965) - Identified first retrovirus in humans. [6]
• Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) - Microbiologist, specialising in vaccinology.
• Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) - MacArthur Fellow (1995); Deputy Director of International Health of the Centers for Disease Control.
• Leon Kass (S.B. 1958, M.D. 1962) - Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics; Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute.
• Ulysses G. Mason (M.D. 1936) - Founder of the first integrated hospital.

[edit] Religion

• Thomas J. J. Altizer (A.B. 1948, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) - Prominent "Death of God" theologian.
• Davíd Carrasco (Th. M. 1970, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1977) - Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School; historian of Mesoamerican religions.
• Mary Ann Glendon (A.B. 1959, J.D. 1961, L.L.M. 1963) - President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (highest-ranking female advisor to the Pope); Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Member of the President's Council on Bioethics.
• Andrew Greeley (A.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1962) - Senior Study Director at the National Opinion Research Center; Roman Catholic priest; sociologist; best-selling novelist.
• Amy Hollywood (A.M. 1986, Ph.D. 1991) - Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
• Don Wendell Holter (Ph.D. 1934) - Professor of Church History and Missions at Garrett Theological Seminary; founding President of Saint Paul School of Theology; Bishop of the United Methodist Church.
• Elenie Huszagh (A.B. 1957) - First woman to serve as President of the National Council of Churches.
• Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) - National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies.
• Ingrid Mattson (Ph.D. 1999) - First female president of Islamic Society of North America; a professor of religion at Hartford Seminary.
• David Novak (A.B. 1961) - Prominent Jewish legal theorist at the University of Toronto; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of Covenantal Rights.
• Jaroslav Pelikan (A.M., Ph.D. 1946) - Preeminent historian of Christian thought; Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; winner of the Library of Congress' Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; author of the now-classic The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine.

[edit] Social Sciences

• Janet L. Abu-Lughod (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950) - Professor Emerita of Sociology at the New School for Social Research.
• Guillermo Algaze (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) - MacArthur Fellow (2003); Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
• Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences and former Provost at the New School for Social Research.
• Robert Axelrod (A.B. 1964) - MacArthur Fellow (1990); Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
• Howard S. Becker (Ph. B. 1946, A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) - Former Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Walter Berns (A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) - National Humanities Medal (2005); John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University.
• Michael Burawoy (Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
• Eugene Fama (Ph.D. 1964) - Father of efficient market theory. Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago.
• Alexander L. George (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1958) - MacArthur Fellow (1983); Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, Stanford University; pioneering scholar in political psychology and foreign policy.
• Erving Goffman (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1953) - Former Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania.
• Zvi Griliches (A.M. 1955; Ph.D. 1957) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1965); economist.
• Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1987); economist.
• Edward C. Hayes (Ph.D. 1902) - President of the American Sociological Association.
• Samuel P. Huntington (A.M. 1948) - Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Government at Harvard University; author of The Clash of Civilizations (1998).
• Robert W. Kates (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) - MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director Emeritus of the World Hunger Program at Brown University.
• John V. Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956); anthropologist and researcher of the Inca Empire.
• Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
• Marc Leon Nerlove (A.B. 1952) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1969); economist.
• Esther Newton (A.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) - Professor of Anthropology at SUNY; pioneer in gender and sexuality studies; author of Mother Camp.
• Sherry B. Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) - MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
• Paul Rabinow (A.B. 1965, A.M. 1967, Ph.D. 1970) - Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
• James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) - Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1976-present).
• Philip Rieff (A.B. 1946, A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1954) - Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959); noted sociologist.
• Paul Samuelson - (A.B. 1935) Institute Professor, MIT. Bank of Sweden Prize in Econonomics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970.
• Richard Sennett (A.B. 1964) - Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of Humanities at New York University.
• Orin Starn (A.B. 1982) - Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.
• Edwin Sutherland (Ph.D. 1913) - Former Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.
• Robert Thompson (A.B. 1981) - Director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
• Sudhir Venkatesh (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) - Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.
• Loïc Wacquant (A.M. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) - MacArthur Fellow (1997); Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
• John B. Watson (Ph.D. 1903) - established behaviorism and pioneered rat-in-maze laboratory research.
• Kath Weston (A.B. 1978, A.M. 1981) - Anthropologist and director of the Women's Studies Committee at Harvard University; author of Families We Choose (1997).
• James Q. Wilson (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959) - Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2003).
• Daniel L. Wisecarver (M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) - Professor and Academic Director at Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios-ESEN, in El Salvador, since 1997.
• Michael Woodford (A.B. 1977) - MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
• Henry Tutwiler Wright (A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) - MacArthur Fellow (1983); Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology at the University of Michigan.

[edit] Science and Technology

• Robert McCormick Adams (Ph. B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) - Archeologist; Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution.
• John N. Bahcall (S.M. 1957) Best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
• Robert Bell (S.M. 1973) - Research Scientist at AT&T Research Labs and AT&T Science and Technology Medalist (2003).
• George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) - Mathematician; winner of the first Bôcher Memorial Prize for his memoir Dynamical Systems with Two Degrees of Freedom (1917).
• Alberto Calderón (Ph.D. 1950) - Winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1975, the Wolf Prize in 1989, and the National Medal of Science in 1991. Known for the Calderon-Zygmund Theory of singular integral operators and the uniqueness of the solution of the Cauchy problem. Together with thesis supervisor Antoni Zygmund, he founded the Chicago school of analysis, the most influential school in 20th-century analysis
• Brian Chan (S.B. 2000) - Chief Software Architect and Founder of Liferay [7].
• Harmon Craig (Ph.D. 1951) Winner of Balzan Prize -- the first in geochemistry. Pioneer in Earth Sciences.
• Savas Dimopoulos (Ph.D. 1978) - Theoretical Physicist at Stanford. With Howard Georgi, he formulated the supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model, the leading theory for particle physics beyond the Standard Model.
• Frank Edwin Egler (S.B. 1932) - Plant ecologist; Guggenheim Fellow (1955).
• Larry Ellison (X.) - Co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
• Robert Floyd (A.B. 1953, S.B. 1958) - Computer scientist; Turing Award recipient (1978).
• T. Theodore Fujita (S.B. 1953) - Influential meteorologist; developer of the Fujita scale for measuring tornadoes.
• Gerald Gabrielse (Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Physics at Harvard. Known for his techniques of creating antimatter.
• Martin Gardner (A.B. 1936) - Author and columnist of "Mathematical Games" in the magazine Scientific American.
• Mack Gipson, Jr. (S.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1963) - First African-American to obtain a Ph.D. in Geology; founding advisor of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists (1981).
• Warren E. Henry (Ph.D. 1941) - Physicist and professor in magnetism and superconductivity; developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships during World War II.
• Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917) - Astronomer who found the first evidence for the big bang theory.
• Donald Johanson (A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) - Paleoanthropologist who discovered "Lucy", a link between primates and humans.
• Jason Jones (X. 1997) - Co-founder of Bungie Studios, the company behind Halo.
• Ernest Everett Just (Ph.D. 1916) - Noted zoologist, biologist, physiologist, and research scientist.
• Martin Kruskal (S.B. 1945) - Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Famous for starting the soliton revolution in Mathematics. Made a number of important advances, including Kruskal-Shafranov Instability, Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) Modes and the MHD Energy Principle, which laid the theoretical foundations of controlled nuclear fusion, and the Kruskal coordinates in the theory of relativity.
• Stephen Lee (Ph.D. 1986) - MacArthur Fellow (1983); Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University.
• Lynn Margulis (A.B. 1957) - Distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; contributed to development of Gaia theory.
• Stanley Miller (Ph.D. 1954) - In 1953, he and Harold Urey performed the Miller-Urey experiment, considered the classic experiment on the origin of life.
• D. Franklin Ogletree (A.B. 1978) - Physicist noted for coding the program which runs the scanning tunneling microscope; currently a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory material sciences division.
• Donald Osterbrock (A.B., Ph.D.) Leading Astrophysicist known for his contributions to the body of knowledge on interstellar matter, gaseous nebulae, and the nuclei of active galaxies. President of American Astronomical Society. Director of Lick Observatory.
• Jeannette Piccard (S.M. 1919) - Balloon aeronaut, speaker for NASA, teacher, scientist and Episcopal priest
• Carl Sagan (A.B. 1954, S.B. 1955, S.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1960) - Noted astronomer; author of Contact.
• John T. Scopes (X. 1931) - Proponent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution that led to the "Scopes Monkey Trial" and the inspiration for the play and film Inherit the Wind.
• Alex Seropian (S.B. 1991) - Co-founder of Bungie Studios, the company behind Halo.
• Isadore Singer (Ph.D. 1955) - Winner of the 2004 Abel Prize in Mathematics.
• David Suzuki (Ph.D. 1961) - Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation; award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
• John Thompson (Ph.D. 1959) - Winner of National Medal of Science. World leader in Algebra and foremost group theorist. His 253-page proof of the odd-order problem won him the Fields Medal, the highest prize in Mathematics.
• Sherry Turkle (attended Committee on Social Thought, 1971) - Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Paul Volberding (A.B. 1971) - Co-discoverer of HIV. Director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California, San Francisco.
• George Wetherill (PhB’48, SM’49, SM’51, PhD’53) - National Medal of Science winner. Known for his seminal work on the formation of planets and the solar system

[edit] Notable Faculty

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

[edit] Literature

• Saul Bellow (X. 1939) - Former Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and English. Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1976).
• Lauren Berlant - George M. Pullman Professor of English.
• Homi K. Bhabha - Former Professor of English.
• Allan Bloom - Author of The Closing of the American Mind; former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
• Wayne C. Booth - George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.
• Kenneth Burke -
• John Maxwell Coetzee - 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
• Roger Ebert - film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
• T. S. Eliot - Influential poet, dramatist and literary critic. Member of the University of Chicago's famed Committee on Social Thought.
• Ralph Ellison - National Book Award winner for Invisible Man, one of the most important novels since World War II.
• Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) - Former Professor of English and Education.
• Mark Strand - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
• Thornton Wilder - Professor (1930-1937). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
• Chicago School of literary criticism - Group of faculty members at the University of Chicago (R.S. Crane, Elder Olson, Wayne Booth) who founded neo-Aristotelianism. [8]

[edit] 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.
• 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.
• Antonin Scalia - U.S. Supreme Court justice; Professor at the Law School (1977-1982).
• David Strauss -
• Cass Sunstein -
• James Boyd White - Founder of "Law and Literature" movement.

[edit] Mathematics

• László Babai -
• Alexander A. Beilinson -
• Shiing-shen Chern -- National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize winner. One of the most influential figures in Differential Geometry. Famous for Chern classes.
• Leonard Eugene Dickson - The first recipient of the Cole Prize in Algebra (1928).
• Vladimir Drinfeld - Professor. Fields Medal (the highest award in Mathematics given every four years) Winner.
• Charles Fefferman - Former Professor. Fields Medal Winner. Received full professorship at the University of Chicago at age 22, making him the youngest ever appointed in the United States.
• Robert A. Fefferman -
• Victor Ginzburg -
• Israel Herstein -
• Luis Caffarelli - Former Professor. World leader in the field of partial differential equations.
• Irving Kaplansky -
• Robert Kottwitz -
• Saunders MacLane -
• E. H. Moore -
• Raghavan Narasimhan -
• Madhav Nori -
• Andrei Okounkov - Former Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and the College. Fields Medal Winner.
• Paul Sally -
• Robert Soare -
• Stephen Smale -- Professor. Fields Medal Winner.
• Marshall Stone -
• André Weil -- known for seminal work in Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry. Leader of influential Bourbaki group.
• Efim Zelmanov - Former Professor. Fields Medal Winner.
• Antoni Zygmund -- one of the most influential mathematicians in the field of analysis in the 20th century. Cofounder, with student Calderon, of the famed Chicago school of mathematical analysis

[edit] 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).

[edit] Science

• Luis Alvarez -
• 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 -
• Gerhard Herzberg - 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.
• Edwin Hubble -
• 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]

[edit] 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Karin Knorr-Cetina - George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.
• Lawrence Kohlberg (A.B. 1949, Ph.D. 1958) - Professor in the Committee on Human Development (1962-1968).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

[edit] History

• Daniel Boorstin - Professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years. Pulitzer Prize winner (1974). Librarian of Congress. [12]
• Mircea Eliade -
• William McNeill -
• Hans Rothfels - Professor of History (1946-1951).
• Karl Weintraub -

[edit] 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.
• 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.

[edit] 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.

• Chain Reaction: Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves), undergraduate student at the University of Chicago. The entire film is about fictional nuclear fusion research at the University of Chicago.
• Chasing Vermeer: Petra and Calder, two junior detectives at the University of Chicago Laboratory School.
• The Core: Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), professor at the University of Chicago.
• The L Word: Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner), introduced as a recent graduate of the University of Chicago in the pilot episode.
• Law & Order: Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
• Manhunter and Red Dragon: Dr. Sidney Bloom, introduced in both films as a psychiatry expert from the University of Chicago.
• My Best Friend's Wedding: Kimberly Wallace (Cameron Diaz), an architecture major at the University of Chicago (no such major exists at the University of Chicago).
• Proof: Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a student at the University of Chicago and a mathematics professor there, respectively.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark and subsequent Indiana Jones films: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), undergraduate student at the University of Chicago who eventually became an archaeology professor there.
• Rope: Brandon Shaw, based on University of Chicago graduate Nathan Leopold (Ph. B. 1923) of the infamous duo Leopold and Loeb.
• Runaway Jury: Lawrence Green (Jeremy Piven), the plaintiff's jury consultant who graduated from the University of Chicago with a psychology degree.
• Stargate SG-1: Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks), a graduate of the University of Chicago.
• Torn Curtain: Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), University of Chicago physics professor.
• What's Up, Doc?: Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand), studied "general semantics" at the University of Chicago.
• When Harry Met Sally...: Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan), University of Chicago undergraduate students who met at the University gates.
• X-Men: Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page in X-Men 3), attended the University of Chicago in an attempt to give herself a "normal life."

[edit] Resources

• Notable Names Database: University of Chicago – A comprehensive list of notable people affiliated with the University of Chicago.