List of University of Pennsylvania people

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This is a list of current and former faculty, alumni, and non-graduating attendees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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[edit] Nobel Laureates

Physics

  • Raymond Davis - 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics
    • for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos."
  • John Robert Schrieffer - 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics (first Penn faculty member to win)
    • for the "theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory."
  • Robert Hofstadter - 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics
    • "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons."

Chemistry

  • Irwin Rose - 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation."
  • Alan MacDiarmid - 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."
  • Hideki Shirakawa - 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."
  • Alan J. Heeger - 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."
  • Ahmed H. Zewail - 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy."
  • Christian B. Anfinsen - 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation"
  • Vincent du Vigneaud - 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone."

Medicine

  • Stanley B. Prusiner - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection."
  • Michael S. Brown - 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • for his discovery "concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism"
  • Baruch Samuel Blumberg - 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases."
  • Gerald Edelman - 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • for the discovery "concerning the chemical structure of antibodies."
  • Haldan Keffer Hartline - 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • for the discovery "concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye."
  • Ragnar Granit - 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for describing the different types of light-sensitive cells in the eye and how light interacts with them."
  • Otto Fritz Meyerhof - 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    • "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle."

Economics

  • Edmund S. Phelps - 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy."
  • Edward C. Prescott - 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his part in contributing to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."
  • Lawrence Robert Klein - 1980 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies."
  • Simon Smith Kuznets - 1971 Nobel Prize in Economics
    • "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development."

[edit] Noted alumni

[edit] Academia

[edit] Arts, media, and entertainment

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Business

For a more comprehensive list of notable alumni in the business world, see *Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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[edit] Government, law, and politics

Nnamdi Azikiwe: First President of Nigeria-actually graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania

[edit] Notable faculty

  • Andrew B. Abel - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship recipient; Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Finance and Economics
  • Roger Allen - Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  • E. Digby Baltzell - Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology; scholar and author; creator of the acronym WASP
  • Aaron T. Beck - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry; Father of Cognitive Therapy
  • Jere R. Behrman - Fulbright Award recipient; Professor of Economics
  • Janice R. Bellace - Deputy Provost and Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business
  • Charles Bernstein - Donald T. Regan Professor of English, prominent L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet
  • Mary Frances Berry -- Geraldine Segal Professor of Social Thought; former chair U.S. Civil Rights Commission
  • Matt Blaze - Associate Professor of Computer Science
  • Robert F. Boruch - University Trustee Chair Professor, Graduate School of Education
  • John Bowker - Theologian
  • Rebecca Bushnell -- Dean of School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English
  • Eugenio Calabi - Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, best known for his development of the Calabi-Yau manifold
  • Arthur Caplan - Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
  • Britton Chance - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Biophysics
  • Roger Chartier - Professor of English/History; Chair of History at the Collège de France; leading Cultural Historian
  • Pei-yuan Chia - Senior Fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the Wharton School; former Vice-Chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, current member of AIG's Board of Directors
  • Mildred Cohn - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry
  • Peter Conn - Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English
  • Raymond Davis, Jr. - National Medal of Science recipient; Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy
  • George Crumb - Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; Annenberg Professor of Music
  • Francis X. Diebold - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship recipient; W.P. Carey Term Professor in Economics
  • John DiIulio - Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
  • WEB DuBois - African-American literary figure, Professor 1896-1897
  • Edward Doheny - Professor of Geology - founder and leader of Master of Science in Applied Geosciences (MSAG) program
  • Michael Eric Dyson - Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies
  • Charles L. Epstein - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Recipient; Francis J. Carey Term Professor of Radiology in Mathematics
  • Warren Ewens - Professor of Biology; creator of Ewens's sampling formula
  • Peter Fader - Napster Trial expert witness; Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing
  • Peter J. Freyd - Professor of Mathematics
  • Paul Fussell - Emeritus Professor of Literature; National Book Award winner; prominent cultural and literary historian
  • Sol Goodgal - Professor of Microbiology - major contributor to the study of genetic transformation in bacteria
  • Paul Gyorgy - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
  • Steven Hahn - Pulitzer Prize winner; Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History
  • David Harbater - Cole Prize recipient; E. Otis Kendall Professor of Mathematics; best known for solving the Abhyankar conjecture
  • Paul Hendrickson - Professor of English; Six time Pulitzer Prize nominee for his work with the Washington Post
  • Ralph S. Hirschmann - National Medal of Science recipient; Rao Makineni Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry
  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Professor of Communications - Annenberg School for Communications; author; media analyst
  • Shane Jensen - Assistant Professor of Statistics -- The Wharton School
  • Aravind Joshi - Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science
  • Louis Kahn - Noted architect; works include the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Bangladesh and Jonas Salk Institute in California; Professor of Architecture
  • Elihu Katz - Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communications
  • Donald F. Kettl - Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Political Science & Director of the Fels Institute of Government
  • Alan Kors - National Humanities Medal recipient, free speech advocate; George Walker Professor of Intellectual History
  • William Labov - Professor of Linguistics; founder of quantitative sociolinguistics
  • Peter D. Linneman - Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate; Professor of Finance and Business & Public Policy
  • Mitch Marcus - RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence - Department of Computer Science
  • E. Ann Matter - Associate Dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies
  • Walter McDougall - Pulitzer Prize winner; Professor of History
  • Roy F. Nichols - Pulitzer Prize winner; Professor of History
  • Brendan O'Leary - Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
  • Burt Ovrut - Professor of Physics; pioneer of the Heterotic string theory
  • Mark Pauly - Discoverer of moral hazards in health care
  • Fernando Pereira - Andrew and Debra Rachleff Professor of Computer Science
  • Bob Perelman - Professor of English, Prominent L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poet
  • Samuel H. Preston - Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography; best known for his development of the Preston curve
  • Hans Rademacher - Scott Chair, Professor of Mathematics; best known for his theory of the reciprocity law for Dedekind sums
  • Robert A. Rescorla - Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Psychology; Co-creator of the Rescorla-Wagner model
  • David Rittenhouse - Professor of Astronomy; Vice-Provost, Trustee
  • Phillip Roth - Pulitzer Prize winner; Professor of Comparative Literature & Literary Theory
  • Robert L. Schrieffer - National Medal of Science recipient; Professor of Physics
  • Martin E. P. Seligman - Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology
  • Jeremy Siegel - Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; Financial News Commentator
  • Rogers Smith - Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
  • Peter Stallybrass - Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English
  • Thomas J. Sugrue - Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of History and Sociology
  • Peter T. Struck - Associate Professor of Classical Studies
  • Babu Suthar - Gujarati Lecturer in South Asia Studies
  • Robert Venturi- Pritzker Prize Winner; Professor of Architecture
  • Michael Vitez - Pulitzer Prize winner; Professor of Creative Writing
  • Richard Wernick - Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; Professor of Humanities
  • Lightner Witmer - Professor of Psychology; Inventor of the term Clinical Psychology
  • Tukufu Zuberi - Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations; Professor of Sociology
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