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Presidents

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Provosts

The position was created in 1952.

Chancellors

This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.

School deans

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Aeronautics and astronautics

Sigrid Close Sigrid Elschot (born 1971) is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Her primary research interest is the space environment with particular focus on meteoroids, meteors, and orbital debris, and their i ...

, associate professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering *

William F. Durand William Frederick Durand (March 5, 1859 – August 9, 1958) was a United States naval officer and pioneer mechanical engineer. He contributed significantly to the development of aircraft propellers. He was the first civilian chair of the National ...

, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958) *

Charbel Farhat Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he is also a professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. From 2008 to 2023, he chai ...

, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering *

G. Scott Hubbard G. Scott Hubbard (born December 27, 1948) is a physicist who has been engaged in space-related research as well as program, project and executive management for more than 45 years including 20 years with NASA, culminating as director of NASA's Ame ...

, adjunct professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics *

Antony Jameson Guy Antony Jameson, FRS, FREng (born 20 November 1934, Gillingham, Kent) is Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. Jameson is known for his pioneering work in the field of computational fluid dynamics. H ...

, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics *

Sanjay Lall Sanjay Lall from Stanford University was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American ...

, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering *

Bradford Parkinson Bradford Parkinson (born February 16, 1935) is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early co ...

, professor emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics * Stephen Rock, professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics * Debbie Senesky, assistant professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering *

George Springer George Chelston Springer III (born September 19, 1989) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Houston Astros from 2014 to 2020. Springer has played primarily i ...

, emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Biology/biochemistry/medicine

* George W. Beadle, professor of biology, co-winner of 1958

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, acco ...

(at Caltech at time of award) *

Paul Berg Paul Berg (June 30, 1926 – February 15, 2023) was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recogniz ...

, emeritus (active) professor of biochemistry, co-winner of 1980

Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...

, pioneer in recombinant DNA technology *

David Botstein David Botstein (born September 8, 1942) is an American biologist who is the chief scientific officer of Calico. He was the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013, where he remain ...

, former professor of genetics, pioneer in

Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a ...

Patrick O. Brown Patrick O'Reilly Brown (born 1954) is an American geneticist and businessman who is the founder of Impossible Foods Inc. and professor emeritus in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University. Brown is co-founder of the Public Library o ...

, professor of biochemistry, inventor of DNA microarray technology * Marion Buckwalter, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, co-founder of the Stroke Recovery Program at Stanford * Eugene C. Butcher, professor of pathology, 2004

Crafoord Prize The Crafoord Prize () is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord following a donation to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is awarded jointly by the Acade ...

winner *

Stanley Norman Cohen Stanley Norman Cohen (born February 17, 1935) is an American geneticist and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living o ...

, professor of genetics and medicine, accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, inducted into

National Inventors Hall of Fame The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a US patent of significant technology. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also operate ...

Carl Degler Carl Neumann Degler (February 6, 1921 – December 27, 2014) was an American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University. Early life and education Degler was ...

, professor of history,

Pulitzer Prize for History The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the histor ...

(1972) * William C. Dement, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research *

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population ...

, professor of biology, 1990 Crafoord Prize winner * James Ferrell, systems biologist and the first chair of the Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology from its establishment until 2011 *

Andrew Z. Fire Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mell ...

, professor of genetics and pathology, winner of the 2006

* Thomas J. Fogarty, clinical professor of surgery; member of

; owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter * Toby Freedman, space medicine *

Christian Guilleminault Christian Guilleminault (1938–9 July 2019) was a French physician and researcher in the field of sleep medicine who played a central role in the early discovery of obstructive sleep apnea and made seminal discoveries in many other areas of sl ...

, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research * Jessica Hellmann, professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, director of the Institute on the Environment * Daniel Herschlag, senior associate dean at

Stanford University School of Medicine The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Fra ...

, graduate education and postdoctoral affairs and professor of biochemistry and, by courtesy, of chemistry *

Leonard Herzenberg Leonard Arthur "Len" Herzenberg (November 5, 1931 – October 27, 2013) was an immunologist, geneticist and professor at Stanford University. His contributions to the development of cell biology made it possible to sort viable cells by their s ...

, professor of genetics, winner of

Kyoto Prize The is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. It is given not only to those that are top representatives of their own respective fields, but to "those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, ...

for development of fluorescent-activated cell sorting * Andrew D. Huberman, professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, known for discoveries of brain function, plasticity and regeneration *

David Katzenstein David Katzenstein (January 3, 1952 – January 25, 2021) was an American virologist and prominent AIDS researcher. He was professor emeritus of infectious diseases and global health at Stanford University. Early life and education Katzenstein wa ...

virologist Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, the ...

and

AIDS The HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system. Without treatment, it can lead to a spectrum of conditions including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It is a Preventive healthcare, pr ...

researcher and associate medical director of the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit at Stanford * Robert Kerlan, sports medicine pioneer *

Peter S. Kim Peter S. Kim (born April 27, 1958) is an American scientist. He was president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) 2003–2013 and is currently Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University, Institute Scholar at Stanfo ...

, professor of biochemistry, former president of

Merck Research Laboratories Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical com ...

(MRL), 2003–2013 *

Brian Kobilka Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor i ...

, professor in medical school, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry * Ron Kopito, cell biologist *

Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic a ...

, professor of biochemistry, winner of 1959

* Roger D. Kornberg, professor of structural biology, winner of 2006

William Langston J. William Langston is the founder and chief scientific officer, movement disorder specialist, and chief executive officer of the Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center in Sunnyvale, California, the founding member of the Scientific Advisory Boa ...

, neurologist; founder, CEO, and scientific director of the Parkinson's Institute *

Joshua Lederberg Joshua Lederberg (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biology, molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won t ...

, founder of the Stanford Department of Genetics, co-recipient of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * Michael Levitt, professor in medical school, 2013 Nobel prize winner in chemistry *

Kate Lorig Dr. Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., is an American professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. She is known for her work on chronic disease and patient education, has pu ...

, chronic disease self-management, patient education, director of the Stanford Patient Education Center * Nicole Martinez-Martin, assistant

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

biomedical Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

ethics Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...

, ethics of AI and

digital health Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informat ...

, STS *

José Gilberto Montoya Dr. José Gilberto Montoya is a prominent researcher known for his contributions to the field of infectious diseases, particularly in the area of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and the role of infectious agents in its development. His research has ...

, professor in medical school, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service *

Peter Raven Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Early life On June 13, 1936, Raven was born in Shanghai, China, ...

, professor of botany; coauthor with Paul Ehrlich in 1964 of the seminal work ''Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution''; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1971–2010; board of trustees of National Geographic; International Prize for Biology, 1986; Pontifical Science Academy; ''Time Magazine'' "Hero for the Planet" 1999 * Donald Redelmeier, internist, professor of medicine at

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, noted expert in medical decision making *

Robert Sapolsky Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American academic, neuroscientist, and primatologist. He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, and is a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery. His re ...

, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor in Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery; author and recipient of awards including

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

genius grant, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience * Matthew P. Scott, professor of developmental biology, discoverer of

homeobox A homeobox is a Nucleic acid sequence, DNA sequence, around 180 base pairs long, that regulates large-scale anatomical features in the early stages of embryonic development. Mutations in a homeobox may change large-scale anatomical features of ...

genes *

Oscar Elton Sette Oscar Elton Sette (March 29, 1900 - July 25, 1972), who preferred to be called Elton Sette, was an influential 20th-century American fisheries scientist. During a five-decade career with the United States Bureau of Fisheries, United States Fish ...

, lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries

oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of to ...

and modern

fisheries science Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of limnology, oceanography, freshwater biology, marine biology, meteorology, conservation, ...

Norman Shumway Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923 – February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to huma ...

, professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique *

Lubert Stryer Lubert Stryer (March 2, 1938 – April 8, 2024) was an American academic who was the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research over more than four decades had been centered ...

, professor of biology, 2006 National Medal of Science winner, known for micro-array gene chip * Thomas Sudhof, professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of 2013

* Sergiu P. Pașca, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences * Edward L. Tatum, co-winner of 1958

(at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at time of award) * Jared Tinklenberg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

Chemistry

Carolyn R. Bertozzi Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (born October 10, 1966) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate, known for her wide-ranging work spanning both chemistry and biology. She coined the term " bioorthogonal chemistry" for chemical reactions compatible with ...

, professor of chemistry, winner of 2022

Carl Djerassi Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923 – January 30, 2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his ...

, professor emeritus in chemistry; father of

birth control pill The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women. It is the oral form of combined hormonal contra ...

; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, and

Wolf Prize The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people ... irrespective of natio ...

; inducted into

Paul Flory Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910 – September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and ...

, former professor of chemistry, winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry * William Johnson, former professor in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner * Harden M. McConnell, professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner * Vijay S. Pande, associate professor in the Chemistry Department, founder of

Folding@home Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics. This includes the process of protein folding and the movements ...

distributed computing project *

Linus Pauling Linus Carl Pauling ( ; February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. ''New Scientist'' called him one of the 20 gre ...

, former professor in chemistry, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry (1954) and in Peace (1962) * John Ross, professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner *

Henry Taube Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He ...

, former professor in chemistry, winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *

Richard Zare Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physica ...

, professor in chemistry, winner of National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize

Graduate School of Business

Edward Lazear Edward Paul Lazear (, ; August 17, 1948November 23, 2020) was an American economist, the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Davies Family Professor of Economics at Stanford Gradu ...

, former chairman of the

Council of Economic Advisers The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the president of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...

(2006–2009); professor, Graduate School of Business; Hoover Fellow

Communication

Clifford Nass Clifford Ivar Nass (April 3, 1958 – November 2, 2013) was a professor of communication at Stanford University, co-creator of '' The Media Equation'' theory, and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction (HCI). He was also known for hi ...

, co-creator of The Media Equation theory of human-computer interaction *

Darwin Teilhet Darwin LeOra Teilhet (May 20, 1904 – April 18, 1964) was an American mystery novelist, advertising executive, journalist and a film screenwriter and consultant. Biography Teilhet was born in Wyanet, Illinois, to a Dutch mother, and a father ...

, mystery novelist, taught journalism at Stanford

Computer science

Vinton Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that inclu ...

, former faculty,

Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the fi ...

-winning computer scientist *

Douglas Engelbart Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly ...

, Turing Award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into

Edward Feigenbaum Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. He is often called the "father of expert systems". Education and early life ...

, Turing Award-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of

Dendral Dendral was a project in artificial intelligence (AI) of the 1960s, and the computer software expert system that it produced. Its primary aim was to study hypothesis formation and discovery in science. For that, a specific task in science was chos ...

* Robert Floyd, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist * Alexandra Illmer Forsythe, wrote the first series of introductory computer science textbooks *

George Forsythe George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972) was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department. Forsythe came to Stanford in the Mathematics Department i ...

, founder of the Department of Computer Science and president of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

Gene Golub Gene Howard Golub (February 29, 1932 – November 16, 2007), was an American numerical analyst who taught at Stanford University as Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and held a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering. Personal ...

, former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for singular value decomposition (SVD) *

David Gries David Gries (born April 26, 1939) is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, mainly known for his books ''The Science of Programming'' (1981) and ''A Logical Approach to Discrete Math'' (1993, with Fred B. Schneider). He was asso ...

, former faculty, first text on compilers, winner of four national education awards * Leonidas J. Guibas, Allan Newell Award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms *

John L. Hennessy John Leroy Hennessy (born 22 September, 1952) is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, serving as 10th president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016. ...

, pioneer in RISC, president of Stanford *

Sir Antony Hoare Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (; born 11 January 1934), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

John Hopcroft John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is a professo ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Alan Kay Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) published by the Association for Computing Machinery 2012 is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design. At Xerox ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of comp ...

, professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of

TeX Tex, TeX, TEX, may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname * Tex Earnhardt (1930–2020), U.S. businessman * Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer ...

, author of ''

The Art of Computer Programming ''The Art of Computer Programming'' (''TAOCP'') is a comprehensive multi-volume monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. it consists of published volumes 1, 2, 3, 4A, and 4 ...

'', Turing Award winner *

Daphne Koller Daphne Koller (; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Cour ...

, professor in CS *

John Koza John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a former adjunct professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems. Koza co-founded Scientific Games Corporat ...

, pioneer in genetic programming *

Barbara Liskov Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract da ...

, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

John McCarthy John McCarthy may refer to: Government * John George MacCarthy (1829–1892), Member of Parliament for Mallow constituency, 1874–1880 * John McCarthy (Irish politician) (1862–1893), Member of Parliament for the Mid Tipperary constituency, ...

, responsible for the coining of the term "

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

", and inventor of the

Lisp programming language Lisp (historically LISP, an abbreviation of "list processing") is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish notation#Explanation, prefix notation. Originally specified in the late 1950s, ...

and

time sharing In computing, time-sharing is the concurrent sharing of a computing resource among many tasks or users by giving each task or user a small slice of processing time. This quick switch between tasks or users gives the illusion of simultaneous ...

winner * Edward McCluskey, professor in EE, IEEE John Von Neumann Prize winner *

Robert Metcalfe Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which desc ...

, former faculty, co-inventor of

Ethernet Ethernet ( ) is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 198 ...

, inducted into

Robin Milner Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010) was a British computer scientist, and a Turing Award winner.Turing Award The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the fi ...

-winning computer scientist *

Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and D ...

, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Andrew Ng Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (; born April 18, 1976) is a British-American computer scientist and Internet Entrepreneur, technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Ng was a cofounder and head of Google Brain and ...

, faculty in CS, winner of 2010

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. It was originally funded with royal ...

John Ousterhout John Kenneth Ousterhout (, born October 15, 1954) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was previously a professor of com ...

, faculty in CS, winner of

Grace Murray Hopper Award The Grace Murray Hopper Award (named for computer pioneer RADM Grace Hopper) has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. The award goes to a computer professional who makes a single, significant technical or serv ...

Amir Pnueli Amir Pnueli (; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. Biography Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel) and received a Bachelor's degree ...

, postdoc, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Raj Reddy Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mel ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Ronald Rivest Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is an American cryptographer and computer scientist whose work has spanned the fields of algorithms and combinatorics, cryptography, machine learning, and election integrity. He is an Institute Professo ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Tim Roughgarden Timothy Avelin Roughgarden (born July 20, 1975) is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science. Roughgarden rec ...

, faculty in CS, winner of

Arthur Samuel Arthur Samuel may refer to: * Arthur Samuel (computer scientist) Arthur Lee Samuel (December 5, 1901 – July 29, 1990) was an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He popularized the term "machine learni ...

, former faculty; pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence; his checkers-playing program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and an early demonstration of the fundamental concept of AI *

Dana Scott Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, C ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Robert Tarjan Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph theory algorithms, including his strongly connected components algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees a ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist. He is chief executive officer of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google vice preside ...

, director of Stanford AI LAB; team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry

Stanley Stanley may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film * ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy * ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short * ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series) ...

won the 2005 DARPA grand challenge *

Jeff Ullman Jeffrey David Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the dr ...

, professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner *

Terry Winograd Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American computer scientist. He is a professor at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificia ...

, faculty in CS, winner of 2010

* Keith Winstein, faculty in CS, author of Mosh *

Niklaus Wirth Niklaus Emil Wirth ( IPA: ) (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Tu ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist, inventor of PASCAL *

Andrew Yao Andrew Chi-Chih Yao ( zh , c = 姚期智 , p = Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist, physicist, and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Informati ...

, former faculty, Turing Award-winning computer scientist *

William Yeager William "Bill" Yeager (born June 16, 1940, San Francisco) is an American engineer. He is an inventor of a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night", multiple- protocol router in 1981. Education He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics ...

, inventor of multi-protocol internet router

Economics

Kenneth J. Arrow Kenneth Joseph Arrow (August 23, 1921 – February 21, 2017) was an American economist, mathematician and political theorist. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1957, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972, along with J ...

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

-winning economics professor *

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution *

Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Federal Reserve, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Insti ...

, chairman of the United States Federal Reserve *

Gérard Debreu Gérard Debreu (; 4 July 1921 – 31 December 2004) was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize ...

, Nobel Prize winner in economics, former staff *

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution *

Francisco Gil Díaz Francisco Gil Díaz (born 2 September 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox and currently serves as regional chairman of Telefónica for Mexico and Central America. ...

, economist, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico *

Avner Greif Avner Greif (; born 1955) is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. Greif received his PhD in economics at Northwestern Un ...

, economist *

Caroline Hoxby Caroline Minter Hoxby (born 1966) is an American economist whose research focuses on issues in education and public economics. She is currently the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics at Stanford University and program director of the ...

, professor of economics *

Ro Khanna Rohit Khanna (born September 13, 1976) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (Un ...

, visiting lecturer of economics (2012–2016), deputy assistant secretary in the

United States Department of Commerce The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for gathering data for business and governmental decision making, establishing industrial standards, catalyzing econ ...

(2009–2011),

U.S. Congressman The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...

(2017–present) * Jonathan Levin, professor of economics, won the 2011

John Bates Clark Medal The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association to "that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." The award is named after the ...

Paul Milgrom Paul Robert Milgrom (born April 20, 1948) is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, a position he has held since 1987. He is a ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover fellow *

Douglass North Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history. Along with Robert Fogel, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. In the words of the Nobel ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution *

Paul Romer Paul Michael Romer (born November 6, 1955) is an American economist and policy entrepreneur who is a Seidner University Professor in Finance at Boston College. Romer is best known as the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and for co- ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor *

Alvin E. Roth Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the George Gund (philanthropist), Gund professor of economics and business administration emeri ...

, Nobel prize-winning economics professor *

Myron Scholes Myron Samuel Scholes ( ; born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian– American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-ori ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor *

William F. Sharpe William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. ...

, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner *

Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell ( ; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, economic historian, and social and political commentator. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on T ...

, economist and popular author, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution *

Michael Spence Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate. Spence is the William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Philip H. Kn ...

, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2 ...

, professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics * John B. Taylor, economist, Hoover Fellow, developed the

Taylor rule The Taylor rule is a monetary policy targeting rule. The rule was proposed in 1992 by American economist John B. Taylor for central banks to use to stabilize economic activity by appropriately setting short-term interest rates. The rule considers ...

Under Secretary of the Treasury The deputy secretary of the treasury of the United States advises and assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the supervision and direction of the Department of the Treasury and its activities, and succeeds the Secretary in the secretary's abs ...

for International affairs *

Robert B. Wilson Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist who is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, toge ...

, Nobel Prize-winning economics professor

Education

* Margaret Lee Chadwick, headmistress and founder of the

Chadwick School Chadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located in an unincorporated area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Specifically it is located at the top of the neighborhood referred to ...

; author *

William Damon William Damon (born 1944) is an American psychologist who is a retired professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is one of the world's leading scholars of human development. Damon has don ...

, pioneer in peer collaboration and project-based learning * Linda Darling-Hammond, education advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign *

Nathaniel Gage Nathaniel Lees Gage (August 1, 1917 – August 17, 2008) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to a scientific understanding of teaching. He conceived and edited the first ''Handbook of Research on Teaching'' ...

, pioneer in the scientific understanding of teaching *

Richard Wall Lyman Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012) was an American educator, historian, and professor who served as the seventh president of Stanford University from 1970 to 1980. Biography An historian of the British Labour Party, Lyman ...

, former

provost Provost may refer to: Officials Ecclesiastic * Provost (religion), a high-ranking church official * Prince-provost, a high-ranking church official Government * Provost (civil), an officer of local government, including the equivalent ...

Fred Swaniker Fred Swaniker (born 1976) is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert, focused on supporting individuals to achieve their goals. Swaniker recognized the importance of leadership and education while serving as the headmaste ...

, co-founder of

African Leadership Academy The African Leadership Academy (ALA) is an educational institution located in Roodepoort on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, for students between the ages of 16 and 19 years old, with current alumni coming from 46 countries. Founde ...

, CEO and co-founder of African Leadership University *

Lewis Terman Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. T ...

, creator of the

Stanford Binet Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

IQ test * John Willinsky, Open Access educator, activist and author

Engineering

Andreas Acrivos Andreas Acrivos (13 June 1928 – 17 February 2025) was a Greek-American physicist who was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York. He was also the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Ph ...

, former professor, National Medal of Science winner * Stephen Barley, organizational theorist and developer of adaptive structuration, co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization *

Sally Benson Sally Benson (''née'' Sara Smith; September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre. She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in '' Junior Miss'' and her semi-autobio ...

, professor of engineering * Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., professor emeritus in Aeronautics and Astronautics, father of modern optimal control theory * Roland Doré, former president of the

Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; ) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the ''Canadian Space Agency Act''. The President of the Canadian Space Agency, president is Lisa Campbell (civil servant), Lisa Campbell, who took ...

, professor and head of Mechanical Engineering (1904–24),

aerodynamics Aerodynamics () is the study of the motion of atmosphere of Earth, air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dynamics and its subfield of gas dynamics, and is an ...

pioneer and chair of

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

forerunner

NACA The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved and its ...

Irmgard Flügge-Lotz Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, née Lotz (16 July 1903 – 22 May 1974) was a German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer. She was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control, which has found wide application ...

, pioneer of discontinuous automatic control theory * Kenneth E. Goodson, mechanical engineer and endowed professor in the

School of Engineering Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional development, professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education (Diploma in Engineering, Dip.Eng.)and Bachelor of Engineering, ( ...

* William Webster Hansen, former professor, contributed to the development of microwave technology *

Siegfried Hecker Siegfried S. Hecker (born October 2, 1943) is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University, where he is research profe ...

, professor, former director of

Los Alamos National Lab Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in ...

* Ronald A. Howard, professor, father of

decision analysis Decision analysis (DA) is the Academic discipline, discipline comprising the philosophy, methodology, and professional practice necessary to address important Decision making, decisions in a formal manner. Decision analysis includes many procedures ...

, founding director and former chairman of Strategic Decision Group * Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of engineering * Elizabeth Jens,

engineer * Rudolf Kálmán, former professor in EE, the father of modern control theory, noted for Kalman filter, National Medal of Science winner *

Rudolf Kompfner Rudolf Kompfner (May 16, 1909 – December 3, 1977) was an Austrian-born inventor, physicist and architect, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT). Life Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents. He was original ...

, former professor, National Medal of Science winner * Bruce Lusignan, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, made contributions to

communication satellite A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth. ...

s and

reusable launch vehicle A reusable launch vehicle has parts that can be recovered and reflown, while carrying payloads from the surface to outer space. Rocket stages are the most common launch vehicle parts aimed for reuse. Smaller parts such as fairings, booster ...

s * Bridgette Meinhold, artist and author with a focus on sustainability * Teresa Meng, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

* Dwight Nishimura, Addie and Al Macovski professor in the School of Engineering, who leads the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory *

William Perry William Perry may refer to: Business * William H. Perry (businessman) (1832–1906), American businessman and entrepreneur * William Perry (Queensland businessman) (1835–1891), businessman and politician in Queensland, Australia Politics an ...

(A.M. 1950), engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States *

Calvin Quate Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and physicist, who was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering ...

, professor, National Medal of Science winner * Paul V. Roberts, pioneer of environmental engineering *

Stephen Timoshenko Stepan Prokopovich Timoshenko (, ; , ; – May 29, 1972), later known as Stephen Timoshenko, was a Ukrainian and later an American engineer and academician. He is considered to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. An inventor an ...

, pioneer of modern engineering mechanics * Powtawche Valerino, NASA

JPL The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Founded in 1936 by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researche ...

space navigation engineer * Giovanni De Micheli, former professor of Electrical Engineering

History

* Thomas A. Bailey, professor of history, former

Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad incl ...

president, former

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) was founded in 1967 in order to "promote excellence in research and teaching of American foreign relations history and to facilitate professional collaboration among scholars and s ...

president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook ''

The American Pageant ''The American Pageant'', initially published by Thomas A. Bailey in 1956, is an American high school history textbook often used for AP United States History, AICE American History as well as IB History of the Americas courses. Since Bailey's ...

'' * Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.), professor of military and naval history * Jennifer Burns, historian *

Bipan Chandra Bipan Chandra (24 May 1928 – 30 August 2014) was an Indian Marxist historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian ...

emeritus ''Emeritus/Emerita'' () is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus". In some c ...

professor of

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU; ISO: Javāharalāla Neharū Viśvavidyālaya) is a public research university located in Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university ...

, New Delhi and chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi *

Don E. Fehrenbacher Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian. He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for '' The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American La ...

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

winner author (1979, ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law & Politics''); William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies from 1953 * Paula Findlen, professor of history of science * David M. Kennedy, professor of history and

-winning author *

Mark Edward Lewis Mark Edward Lewis (; born September 25, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China. Life and career Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and studied Chine ...

Kwoh-Ting Li Li Kwoh-ting ( zh, t=李國鼎, s=李国鼎, p=Lǐ Guódǐng, first=t; 28 January 1910 – 31 May 2001) was a Chinese economist and politician best known as the "Father of Taiwan's Economic Miracle" and referred to by the ''New York Times'' a ...

Professor of

Chinese Culture Chinese culture () is one of the Cradle of civilization#Ancient China, world's earliest cultures, said to originate five thousand years ago. The culture prevails across a large geographical region in East Asia called the Sinosphere as a whole ...

* Sabine G. MacCormack, award-winning professor of late antique history * Aron Rodrigue, historian *

Londa Schiebinger Londa Schiebinger ( ; born May 13, 1952) is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Department of History, and by courtesy the d-school, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. An international auth ...

, professor of history of science * James J. Sheehan, professor of history and former

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world, claiming over 10,000 members. Founded in 1884, AHA works to protect academic free ...

president * Payson J. Treat (Ph.D. 1910), professor of Far Eastern history * Gordon Wright, professor of history, former

president

International relations

* Stephen D. Krasner, former

director of policy planning The director of policy planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the department's internal think tank, the policy planning staff, with a rank equivalent to assistant secretary. The position has traditionally been he ...

(2005–2007) for the United States Department of State

Law

Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a ...

constitutional A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. When these princ ...

and

international law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

professor and 23rd

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive branch of the Federal government of t ...

William Lerach William "Bill" Shannon Lerach (born March 14, 1946, Ohio River Valley, Midwestern United States) is an American disbarred lawyer who specialized in private Securities Class Action lawsuits. The $7.12 billion he obtained as the lead plaintiff's att ...

, guest lecturer on securities and corporate law *

Lawrence Lessig Lester Lawrence "Larry" Lessig III (born June 3, 1961) is an American legal scholar and political activist. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvar ...

, IP and

constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in ...

professor *

Richard Posner Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar and retired United States circuit judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chicag ...

, associate professor and Chief Judge of the

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in case citations, 7th Cir.) is the U.S. United States federal court, federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the United States district court, courts in the following United Stat ...

Linguistics

Jared Bernstein Jared Bernstein (born December 26, 1955) is an American government official who was the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was ...

, adjunct professor * Eve V. Clark, Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, emerita * Michael C. Frank, associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics * Miyako Inoue, associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics *

Dan Jurafsky Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling (SRL). He is the author of ''The Lan ...

, professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics * Ronald M. Kaplan, adjunct professor *

Lauri Karttunen Lauri Juhani Karttunen (September 29, 1941 – March 20, 2022) was an adjunct professor in linguistics at Stanford and an ACL Fellow. Career Karttunen received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1969 from Indiana University in Bloomington. At the U ...

, adjunct professor *

Martin Kay Martin Kay (1935 – 7 August 2021) was a British computer scientist, known especially for his work in computational linguistics. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he ...

, professor of linguistics * Paul Kay, adjunct professor * Paul V. Kiparsky, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences * Beth Levin, William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities * Jay McClelland, Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics * John R. Rickford, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019) *

Elizabeth Traugott Elizabeth Closs Traugott (born April 9, 1939 in the UK) is an American linguist and Professor Emerita of Linguistics and English, Stanford University. She is best known for her work on grammaticalization, Subjectification (linguistics), subjectifi ...

, professor of linguistics and of English, emerita *

Tom Wasow Thomas A. Wasow is Professor of Linguistics, emeritus, and the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy, emeritus at Stanford University. Wasow did his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Reed College, graduating in 1967. He earned his P ...

, Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university *

Annie Zaenen Annie Else Zaenen (born 1941, in Belgium) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University, California, United States. Career Zaenen obtained her Ph.D. at Harvard University with her doctoral thesis ''Extraction Rules in Icelandic ...

, adjunct professor *

Arnold M. Zwicky Arnold Melchior Zwicky (born September 6, 1940) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University. The Linguistic Society of America’s Arnol ...

, adjunct professor

Literature and arts

* Gerald M. Ackerman, assistant professor of art history (1965–1971) * Judith Bettina, soprano *

Bahram Beyzai Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, Beyzāee, ; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the ...

, Persian playwright and filmmaker *

Eavan Boland Eavan Aisling Boland ( ; 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role o ...

, Irish poet, professor * George Hardin Brown, medieval literature *

Scott Bukatman Scott Bukatman is a cultural theorist and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. Bukatman's research examines how popular media (film, comics) and genres (science fiction, musicals, superhero narratives) "mediate between new ...

, film and media professor *

Albert Elsen Albert Edward Elsen, Jr. (October 11, 1927 – February 2, 1995) was an American art historian and educator. A scholar of the work of Auguste Rodin, Elsen was the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Career Born in ...

, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities (1968–1995) * Lowell Gallagher, literary theorist and associate professor, earned Ph.D. in 1989 *

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht (born 15 June 1948) is a German-born American literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert ...

, literary theorist * John L'Heureux, novelist and creative writing professor * D. R. MacDonald, creative writing * Alexander Nemerov, professor of art and art history *

Juan Bautista Rael Juan Bautista Rael (August 14, 1900 – November 8, 1993) was an American ethnographer, linguist, and folklorist who was a pioneer in the study of the people, stories, and language of Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in the Southwes ...

, linguist and folklorist *

Jack Rakove Jack Norman Rakove (born June 4, 1947) is an American historian, author, and professor at Stanford University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. Biography Rakove was born in Chicago to Political Science Professor Milton L. Rakove (1918–1983) a ...

, professor in history, 1997

winner *

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

, poet and critic; 1974 winner of the

National Book Award for Poetry The National Book Award for Poetry is one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".

; 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry *

Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. He was often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award ...

, 1972 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction *

Yvor Winters Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. Life Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there until 1919 except for brief stays in Seattle and Pasadena, where his grandparents ...

, poet and critic

Mathematics and statistics

* Theodore W. Anderson, professor in statistics, NAS member *

Harald Bohr Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the ...

(1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of

Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (, ; ; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and old quantum theory, quantum theory, for which he received the No ...

Emmanuel Candès Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a French statistician most well known for his contributions to the field of compressed sensing and statistical hypothesis testing. He is a professor of statistics and electrical engineering (by court ...

, professor in mathematics and statistics, winner of Alan Waterman award *

Paul Cohen Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician, best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a F ...

, former professor in mathematics,

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

recipient, National Medal of Science winner *

Brian Conrad Brian Conrad (born November 20, 1970) is an American mathematician and number theorist, working at Stanford University. Previously, he taught at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University. Conrad and others proved the modularity theo ...

, professor in mathematics *

George Dantzig George Bernard Dantzig (; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his dev ...

, former professor in operations research, inventor of the

simplex algorithm In mathematical optimization, Dantzig's simplex algorithm (or simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming. The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex and was suggested by T. S. Motzkin. Simplices are ...

, father of

linear programming Linear programming (LP), also called linear optimization, is a method to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a mathematical model whose requirements and objective are represented by linear function#As a polynomia ...

, National Medal of Science (1975) winner *

Keith Devlin Keith James Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship.

, executive director

Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center ...

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known f ...

, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member *

David Donoho David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the developm ...

, professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member *

Bradley Efron Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lea ...

, professor in statistics, inventor of bootstrap, National Medal of Science winner, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member *

Solomon Feferman Solomon Feferman (December 13, 1928July 26, 2016) was an American philosopher and mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. In addition to his prolific technical work in proof theory, computability theory, and set theory, he was known for h ...

, professor in mathematics and philosophy,

Schock Prize The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986). The prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993 and, since 2005, are awarded every three years. It is sometimes consider ...

recipient *

Jerome H. Friedman Jerome Harold Friedman (born December 29, 1939) is an American statistician, consultant and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, known for his contributions in the field of statistics and data mining.

, professor in statistics, NAS member *

Samuel Karlin Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 – December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century. Education and career Karlin was born in Janów, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child. Raised in an Orthodo ...

, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner *

Joseph Keller Joseph Bishop Keller (July 31, 1923 – September 7, 2016) was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction" (GTD). Early life and education Born i ...

, professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner *

Maryam Mirzakhani Maryam Mirzakhani (, ; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller space, Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic the ...

, professor in mathematics,

recipient *

Amnon Pazy Amnon Pazy (; 10 January 1936 – 17 August 2006) was an Israeli mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations (PDE), making important contributions to the PDE field and Semigroups. He served as president of the Hebrew Universi ...

, Israeli mathematician; president of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

George Pólya George Pólya (; ; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributi ...

, former professor in mathematics, author of

How to solve it ''How to Solve It'' (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya, describing methods of problem solving. This book has remained in print continually since 1945. Four principles ''How to Solve It'' suggests the following steps ...

* Grant Sanderson,

YouTuber A YouTuber is a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006 ...

, podcaster and owner of mathematics channel

3blue1brown 3Blue1Brown is a math YouTube channel created and run by Grant Sanderson. The channel focuses on teaching Higher Mathematics, higher mathematics from a visual perspective, and on the process of discovery and inquiry-based learning in mathematics, ...

, contributor to

Khan Academy Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short video lessons. Its website also includes suppl ...

Richard Schoen Richard Melvin Schoen (born October 23, 1950) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and geometric analysis. He is best known for the resolution of the Yamabe problem in 1984 and his works on harmonic maps. Earl ...

, professor in mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member * David O. Siegmund, professor in statistics, NAS member * Charles Stein, professor in statistics, NAS member *

Gábor Szegő Gábor Szegő () (January 20, 1895 – August 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was one of the foremost mathematical analysts of his generation and made fundamental contributions to the theory of orthogonal polynomials and ...

, former professor in mathematics, founder of Stanford Math department *

Robert Tibshirani Robert Tibshirani (born July 10, 1956) is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical to ...

, professor in statistics, NAS member *

Ravi Vakil Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He is the current president of the American Mathematical Society. Education and career Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiat ...

, professor in mathematics, one of seven four-time

Putnam Fellows Putnam may refer to: People * Putnam (surname) Places Canada * Putnam, Ontario, community in Thames Centre United States * Putnam, Alabama * Putnam, Connecticut, a New England town ** Putnam (CDP), Connecticut, the main village in the town * ...

Akshay Venkatesh Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Indian Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equ ...

, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient *

Shing-Tung Yau Shing-Tung Yau (; ; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar ...

, former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient

Political science

* Coit D. Blacker,

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

professor, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President *

Larry Diamond Larry Jay Diamond (born October 2, 1951) is an American political sociologist and scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University's main center ...

, professor, mentor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute * Morris P. Fiorina, political scientist and author *

Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar, best known for his book '' The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992). In this work he argues th ...

, senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010 *

Terry Karl Terry Lynn Karl (born November 21, 1947) is the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She specializes in comparative politics. Early life and academics Karl was born in St. Louis, ...

, professor of Latin American studies *

Alexander Kerensky Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 ( N.S.). After th ...

(1881–1970), Russian revolutionary leader, Hoover Institute fellow *

Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza "Condi" Rice ( ; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist serving since 2020 as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served ...

, political science professor, Secretary of State *

Douglas Rivers Douglas Rivers is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He also served as the president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix and is currently the global p ...

, political science professor, chief scientist of

YouGov YouGov plc is a international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. History 2000–2010 Stephan Shakespeare and Nadhim ...

Philosophy

* Joshua Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy *

Lala Hardayal Lala Rudra Dayal Mathur ( Punjabi: ਲਾਲਾ ਹਰਦਿਆਲ; 14 October 1884 – 4 March 1939) was an Indian nationalist revolutionary and freedom fighter. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His sim ...

, lecturer, Indian freedom fighter *

Patrick Suppes Patrick Colonel Suppes (; March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psycholog ...

, National Medal of Science recipient, professor

Physics

Felix Bloch Felix Bloch (; ; 23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and di ...

, 1952 Nobel Laureate,

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

professor *

Steven Chu Steven ChuEric Cornell Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobe ...

(B.S. 1985), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics * Jerome Friedman, 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC as research associate (1957–1960) *

Sheldon Glashow Sheldon Lee Glashow (, ; born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University, and a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harv ...

, 1979 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor (1961–1962) *

Theodor Hänsch Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blueger ...

, 2005 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at Stanford 1972–1986 *

Conyers Herring William Conyers Herring (November 15, 1914 – July 23, 2009) was an American physicist. He was a professor of applied physics at Stanford University and the Wolf Prize in Physics recipient in 1984/5. Academic career Conyers Herring complete ...

, physics professor and the winner of

Wolf Prize in Physics The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. The ...

in 1984/85 *

Robert Hofstadter Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 – November 17, 1990) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nucl ...

, 1961 Nobel prize winner in physics, former professor * Henry Way Kendall, 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor at Stanford (1958–1961) * Willis Eugene Lamb, former professor, 1955 Nobel prize winner in physics * Robert Laughlin, 1998 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, professor at Stanford 1989–2004 *

Ann Nelson Ann Elizabeth Nelson (April 29, 1958 – August 4, 2019) was an American particle physicist and professor of physics in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Washington from 1994 until her death. Nelson received a Guggenheim Fellowship ...

, 2018 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipient * Douglas Osheroff, 1996 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor *

Martin L. Perl Martin Lewis Perl (June 24, 1927 – September 30, 2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Life and career Perl was born in New York City, New York. Hi ...

, 1995 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor *

Burton Richter Burton Richter (March 22, 1931 – July 18, 2018) was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by S ...

, 1976 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor * Arthur Schawlow, 1981 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of

laser A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word ''laser'' originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radi ...

, inducted into

* Leonard Schiff, physics professor *

Melvin Schwartz Melvin Schwartz ( ; November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstra ...

, 1988 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor *

William Shockley William Bradford Shockley ( ; February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American solid-state physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brat ...

, 1956 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of

transistor A transistor is a semiconductor device used to Electronic amplifier, amplify or electronic switch, switch electrical signals and electric power, power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semicondu ...

, inducted into

Leonard Susskind Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birth anniversary was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an Americ ...

, physics professor, originator of

string theory In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and intera ...

* Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1962), 1990 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor *

Carl Wieman Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist and educationist at Stanford University, and currently the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University. In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he an ...

(Ph.D. 1977), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics *

Kenneth G. Wilson Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson (June 8, 1936 – June 15, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in using computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase tran ...

, 1982 Nobel Prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC (1969–1970)

Psychology

* Richard Atkinson, professor of psychology 1956–1980, former president, University of California *

Albert Bandura Albert Bandura (4 December 1925 – 26 July 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology, e.g. social ...

, professor of psychology since 1964, David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology since 1973, known for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, on social cognitive theory and self efficacy *

Gordon H. Bower Gordon Howard Bower (December 30, 1932 – June 17, 2020) was a cognitive psychologist studying human memory, language comprehension, emotion, and behavior modification. He received his Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. in learning theory (education), ...

, professor of psychology, 2005 National Medal of Science winner *

Carol Dweck Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She was on the faculty at ...

, professor of psychology, known for her work on the mindset psychological trait * Jennifer Eberhardt, professor of psychology, 2014 MacArthur Fellow * Heidi M. Feldman, Ballinger-Swindells Endowed Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics * Kalanit Grill-Spector, professor of psychology * Amado M. Padilla, professor of psychology *

Roger Shepard Roger Newland Shepard (January 30, 1929 – May 30, 2022) was an American cognitive science, cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization" (1987). He was considered a father of research on spatial relations. He studied m ...

, professor of psychology, National Medal of Science winner * Edward Kellog Strong, Jr. (1884–1963), professor of psychology at Stanford University 1923–1963 *

, former professor, pioneer in I.Q. testing * Leanne M. Williams, professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2013 *

Philip Zimbardo Philip George Zimbardo (; March 23, 1933 – October 14, 2024) was an American psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. He was an internationally known educator, researcher, author and media personality in psychology who authored mo ...

, former professor of psychology, former president of the APA,

researcher Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

Hoover Fellows

Jim Mattis James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is an American military officer who served as the 26th United States secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019. A retired United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps four-star General (United States), gene ...

, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)General Jim Mattis , Hoover Institution
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Abbas Milani Abbas Malekzadeh Milani (; born 1949) is an Iranian-American historian, educator, and author. Milani is a visiting professor of political science, and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of the Iranian Studies program at Stanford University ...

, political scientist and historian *

George Shultz George Pratt Shultz ( ; December 13, 1920February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held f ...

, U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business * Amy Zegart, political scientist and intelligence reform expert

Coaches

Dick Gould Dick Gould is an American tennis coach. He was the Men's Tennis Coach at Stanford University for 38 years from 1966 to 2004. His Stanford men's tennis teams won 17 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships, and 50 of his players won All-American honors ...

, greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All-American players *

Payton Jordan Payton Jordan (March 19, 1917 – February 5, 2009) was the head coach of the 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, one of the most powerful track teams ever assembled, which won a record twenty-four medals, including twelve golds ...

, track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team *

Bill Walsh William Ernest Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was an American professional and college football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he popularized the West Coast off ...

, twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time

Super Bowl The Super Bowl is the annual History of the NFL championship, league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966 NFL season, 1966 (with the excep ...

champion

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member ...

; inventor of the West Coast Offense *

Glenn Scobey Warner Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American college football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game. Included among his inn ...

College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive Tourist attraction, attraction devoted to college football, college American football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players ...

coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends

Other

St. Clair Drake John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (January 2, 1911 – June 15, 1990)Calloway, Earl (June 28, 1990). "Memorial services held for Dr. Drake, noted author and Roosevelt professor." ''Chicago Defender'', p. 10. was an African-American sociologist and anthr ...

, sociology and anthropology, founding head of

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

studies program * Hazel D. Hansen (1899–1962), professor, classicist * James M. Hyde, metallurgist *

Scotty McLennan William L. McLennan, Jr. (born on November 21, 1948), better known as Scotty McLennan, is an American Unitarian Universalist minister, lawyer, professor, published author, public speaker and senior administrator at Stanford University in Stanf ...

Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean * Dean Sw ...

for Religious Life, Minister of

Stanford Memorial Church Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was built during the American RenaissanceGregg, p. 34 by ...

, and inspiration for the Reverend Scot Sloan character in the comic strip ''

Doonesbury ''Doonesbury'' is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, ...

References

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