Yale Faculty
by Sylviastel | created - 07 Sep 2014 | updated - 07 Sep 2014 | PublicSidney Altman; Chemistry Nobel Laureate 1989.
Tjalling Koopmans; Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1975.
George Palade; professor at Yale Medical School 1973-1990; Physiology or Medicine in 1974.
Edward Tatum: Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1958; Yale from 1945 to 1948.
Erwin Neher; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1991; biogphysicist; postdoctoral fellow at Yale.
Gerard Debreu; Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1983.
Thomas A. Steitz; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2009.
Sydney E. Ahlstrom; historian of religion in America.
James Rothman; Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2013; Yale alumni;
Robert Schiller; Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2013.
Kanichi Asakawa (Ph.D. 1902) historian, first Japanese professor at an American university.
Cleanth Brooks; English professor, expert on Faulkner.
Dennis S. Charney; neurobiologist.
Kenneth L. Davis; president and CEo of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Arthur Louis Day; geophysicist, volcanologist.
Paul De Man; Sterling Professor of Humanities; French & Comparative Literature departments.
Isidore Dyen; comparative linguistics and Austronesian languages professor.
Donald Engelman; biophysicist and cancer researcher.
Anne Fadiman; author and Francis Writer in Residence at Yale.
Fred Rogers Fairchild; economist.
Irving Fisher; economist.
William Francis Gray Swann; Anglo American Physicist.
Bassam Frangieh; Arabic language and literature scholar.
Harold Hongju Koh; Dean of Yale Law School; assistant secretary of state for democracy; human rights and labor in the Clinton administration.
John Geanakoplos; economist, James Tobin Professor of Economics.
Josiah Willard Gibbs; American theoretical physicist, chemist, mathematician, first American Ph.D. in engineering.
Louise Gluck; Pulitzer prize winning poet.
Samuel C. Harvey; MD 1911; Assistant Professor of Surgery 1920-1921; Associate Professor and Acting Chairman of the Surgical Department 1921-1924; Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Chief Surgeon at Yale Hospital (1924-1947). Full Professor (1924-1950) Editor of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (1950-1953).
Orvan Hess MD; practitioner and researcher at Yale School of Medicine; best known for the fetal heart monitor.
Rene Edward De Russy Hoyle; US Army Major General.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson; zoologist; father of modern limnology.
Shizuo Kakutani; mathematician, Kakutani fixed point theorem.
Deen Kemsley; taught at Yale School of Management in 2004; teaches at AB Freeman School of Business.
Joseph LaPalombara; Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Management Emeritus.
Alvin Lustig; grahpic designer.
Bronislaw Malinowski; pioneer in ethnographic anthropology and a professor at Cornell, Yale, and Harvard.
Samuel Elmo Martin; linguist, developed Yale Romanization system for transliterating Korean.
John S. Meyer; physician.
Neal E. Miller; James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology.
Elting. E. Morison; historian, essayist, military biographer, Professor History and American studies.
William Nordhaus (1963) economist.
Arthur Okun; economist.
Oystein Ore; mathematician.
Aldo Parisot; musician, cellist.
Peter C. Perdue; historian of Modern China.
Douglas W. Rae; political theorist.
Emir Rodriguez Monegal; Latin American contemporary literature professor, founder of Mundo Neuvo.
Juan Rosai; pathology professor and director of Anatomic pathology department between 1985 and 1991.
Philip Rubin; cognitive scientist.
Herbert Scarf; economist.
Oktay Sinanoglu; theoretical chemist and molecular biologist, youngest full professor at Yale.
James C. Scott; political scientist and anthropologist.
Joan Steitz; biochemist.
David Underdown; historian of 17th century England.
Jay Winter; Charles J. Stille Professor of History; World War I specialist.
Mary C. Wright; China historia; first woman to be appointed full professor in 1964.
Yale Alumni; Chemistry 2002 Nobel Laureate; Ph.D. in 1940. Faculty Member from 1962-1994.
2. Wangari Maathai
Actress | The Challenge for Africa
Wangari Maathai was born on April 1, 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya. She was an actress, known for The Challenge for Africa (2009), The 11th Hour (2007) and Earth Keepers (2009). She was married to Mwangi Mathai. She died on September 25, 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Nobel Laureate in Peace 2004; visiting professor at Forestry School in 2002.
3. James Tobin
Actor | Lovely Scary Wolves
James Tobin is known for Lovely Scary Wolves (2008), All Saints (1998) and Reporting America at War (2003).
Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1983
4. Rob Schiller
Director | The King of Queens
A 2 time Emmy Award winning Director, Rob began making films at the age of 11 and as an actor, got his Equity Card at 17. He hasn't stopped directing in theatre, film & television- since. He attended Ithaca College for Communications and Buffalo State for Theatre Arts. His first network job was as ...
5. Robert Abelson
Actor | Those People
Robert Abelson is known for Those People (2015) and The Songs They Sang (2010).
late Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of Political Science.
6. Josef Albers
Self | Camera Three
Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married to Annie Albers. He died on March 25, 1976 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
artist.
7. Akhil Amar
Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
Akhil Amar is known for Constitution USA with Peter Sagal (2013), 1787 the American Constitution and One Person, One Vote? (2024).
BA 1980; JD 1984
8. Harold Bloom
Self | Even Though the Whole World Is Burning
Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Even Though the Whole World Is Burning (2014), Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006) and William Shakespeare (2000). He was married to Jeanne Gould. He died on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Ph.D. 1955
9. John Morton Blum
Actor | Zelig
American writer, biographer and historian John Morton Blum was born in New York City in 1921. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943 with an A.B., received his M.A. from the university in 1947 and his PhD in 1950. He later became an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
professor of political history.
10. Ben Carson
Actor | Stuck on You
Ben Carson was born on September 18, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Stuck on You (2003), Casa Publicadora Online 2013 (2013) and Kirk Cameron REVIVE US 2 (2016). He has been married to Candy Carson since July 6, 1975. They have three children.
11. Jacques Derrida
Writer | Film socialisme
His parents were assimilated Sephardic Jews. Derrida's childhood and youth suffered from the traumatic experience of racist riots against the Jewish population. During his high school education, Derrida became interested in French existential philosophy, which was also represented through political...
philosopher, held visiting professor at invitation of Paul De Man.
12. Wai Chee Dimock
Invitation to World Literature
Wai Chee Dimock is known for Invitation to World Literature (2010).
William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies.
14. John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis is known for Cold War (1998), American Experience (1987) and Charlie Rose (1991).
historian
15. Jacques Gauthier
Soundtrack | Trente-Six Chansons
comparative morphologist; paleontologist; systematist.
16. Peter Gay
Self | Nova
Peter Gay was born on June 20, 1923 in Berlin, Germany. He was married to Ruth Gay. He died on May 12, 2015 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
englightenment historian
17. David Gelernter
Self | Welcome to the Machine
BA 1976; computer scientist, co-creator of the Linda programming language.
18. Paul Hindemith
Soundtrack | Dr. M
Paul Hindemith was born on November 16, 1895 in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. He was a composer and writer, known for Dr. M (1990), Notes of Love (1998) and Im Kampf mit dem Berge - 1. Teil: In Sturm und Eis - Eine Alpensymphonie in Bildern (1921). He was married to Gertrud Rottenberg. He died on December...
composer, musician, conductor, music theorist.
19. Donald Kagan
Self | Charlie Rose
Donald Kagan was born on May 1, 1932 in Kursenai, Lithuania. He was married to Myrna Dabrusky. He died on August 6, 2021 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
historian of Ancient Greece.
20. Louis Kahn
Self | Eye on Art
Louis Kahn was born on February 20, 1901 in Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia. He was married to Esther Virginia Israeli. He died on March 17, 1974 in Pennsylvania Station, New York City, New York, USA.
architect
22. Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Self | Clouds are not Spheres
American mathematician and scientist who was born in Poland. He is a leader in the development of fractal theory and in the potential application of fractals to nature and design. Dr. Mandelbrot discovered the Mandelbrot Set on 1 March 1980 while working as an IBM Fellow at the Watson Research ...
mathematician known for fractal geometry.
23. Julián Marías
Self | Negro sobre blanco
Julián Marías was born on June 17, 1914 in Valladolid, Spain. He was married to Dolores Franco Manera. He died on December 15, 2005 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.
philosopher, author
24. James Mitchell
Actor | All My Children
James Mitchell was an American actor and dancer of English descent. He was one the leading dancers for choreographer Agnes de Mille (1905-1993). As an actor, Mitchell is primarily remembered for his role as diabolical businessman Palmer Cortlandt in the long-running soap opera "All My Children". ...
26. Edmund Morgan
Self | CBS News Sunday Morning
Edmund Morgan was born on January 17, 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was married to Helen Theresa Mayer, Marie Caskey, Helen Mayer Morgan and Marie Caskey Morgan. He died on July 8, 2013 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
history professor
27. William Odom
Self | Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg
William Odom was born on June 23, 1932 in Cookeville, Tennessee, USA. He died on May 30, 2008 in Lincoln, Vermont, USA.
director of the National Security Agency.
28. Jaroslav Pelikan
Writer | Martin Luther
Jaroslav Pelikan was born on December 17, 1923 in Akron, Ohio, USA. Jaroslav was a writer, known for Martin Luther (1953). Jaroslav was married to Sylvia Pauline Burica. Jaroslav died on May 13, 2006 in Hamden, Connecticut, USA.
historian, author
29. Vincent Scully
Self | Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Vincent Scully was born on August 21, 1920 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Marian Lafolette, Nancy Keith and Catherine Willis Lynn. He died on November 30, 2017 in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.
Sterling Professor of History of Art in Architecture.
30. Jonathan Spence
Self | Hooked: Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way - Opium, Morphine, and Heroin
Jonathan Spence was born on August 11, 1936 in Surrey, England, UK. He was married to Annping Chin and Helen Alexander. He died on December 25, 2021 in West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
historian, author
31. Lee Watson
Camera_department | Down You Go
Lee Watson was born in 1926. Lee is known for Down You Go (1951). Lee died on December 8, 1989.
Broadway and Opera lighting designer, author, and Purdue University Professor.
32. Paul Wolfowitz
Self | The Iraq War
Paul Wolfowitz was born on December 22, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
political science instructor from 1970 to 1972.
33. C. Vann Woodward
C. Vann Woodward is known for The Civil War (1990), Long Shadows (1987) and What's Happening to America (1968).
history professor
34. Ernesto Zedillo
Self | Quebrando o Tabu
Ernesto Zedillo was born on December 27, 1951 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is married to Velasco Núñez, Nilda Patricia.
economics, teacher, and head of Yale Center for Globalization (Ph.D. 1981). President of Mexico 1994-2000.
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