List of University of Rochester people
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Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Rochester.
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
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[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Nobel laureates
- Vincent du Vigneaud (Ph.D. 1927), Nobel laureate (1955, chemistry)
- Arthur Kornberg (M.D. 1941, D.Sc. 1962), Nobel laureate (1959, physiology or medicine)
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (B.S. 1943), Nobel laureate (1976, physiology or medicine)
- Steven Chu (B.A. math and B.S. physics 1970), Nobel laureate (1997, physics)
- Masatoshi Koshiba (Ph.D 1955), Nobel laureate (2002, physics)
[edit] Academia
- William T. Bianco (Ph.D. 1987), political scientist. Dissertation on non-cooperative co-operation. Author of the book American Politics: Strategy and Choice
- Frederick R. Bieber (M.S. 1976), medical geneticist. Harvard University professor
- Robert J. Dolan (Ph.D. 1977), Dean of University of Michigan Business School (Ross)
- Morris Fiorina (Ph.D. 1972), Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Author of Divided Government and Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America.
- Kenneth French (M.B.A. 1978, M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1983), M. Heidt Professor of Finance at Dartmouth College and efficient markets theorist (along with Eugene Fama)
- Jerry Green (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1970), John Leverette Professor of Economics and former Provost of Harvard University
- Steven Hahn (B.A. 1978), Pulitzer Prize winning historian on faculty at University of Pennsylvania.
- N. Katherine Hayles, (Ph.D. 1977), critical literary theorist
- Zvi Hercowitz (Ph.D. 1980), macroeconomist at Tel Aviv University
- Karen Hitchcock (Ph.D.), Principal and Vice Chancellor of Queen's University, Canada
- Susan Hockfield (B.A. 1973), Current President of MIT
- Peter van Inwagen (Ph.D.), well-known philosopher specializing in metaphysics, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame
- Barbara E. Kahn (B.A. 1974), Dean, of University of Miami School of Business
- Joseph Boyd Martin (Ph.D. 1971), Dean of Harvard Medical School
- Richard McKelvey (Ph.D. 1971), political scientist and game theorist
- Brian C. Mitchell (Ph.D.), President of Bucknell University
- Ivan Sag (B.A. 1971), Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University
- José Scheinkman (Ph.D. 1974), Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University
- Hugo Sonnenschein (B.A. 1961), President Emeritus and Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at University of Chicago
- Richard Thaler (Ph.D. 1974), Economist known for pioneering behavioral finance
- Albion W. Tourgee (1859), lawyer, civil rights activist. Represented Homer Plessy in the trial of Plessy v Ferguson.
- Nils Y. Wessell (Ph.D. 1938), President of Tufts University 1953-1966
[edit] Performing arts
- George Abbott (B.A. 1911), Broadway showman who wrote, produced, and directed Broadway plays, including The Pajama Game (directed), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (directed), and Damn Yankees (co-wrote)
- Frederick Fennell (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1939), conductor, primary figure in promoting the wind ensemble as a performing group
- Renee Fleming (M.A.S. 1983) Grammy winning soprano opera singer
- Robert Forster (B.A. 1964) Academy Award Nominated Actor
- Debra Jo Rupp (B.A. 1974), actress That '70s Show
[edit] Government
- Ruth B. Balser, (A.B. 1969), member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1998 - present)
- Kenneth Keating, U.S. Representative and Senator from New York
- Lawrence Kudlow (1969), Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, CNBC host
- R. Brooks LaPlante, (MBA) Founder/CEO of Doughmakers Gourmet Bakeware and former member of the Indiana House of Representatives
- Dan Rosenthal, (B.A. 1988) Assistant to the President in the White House under Bill Clinton
- Robert D. Sack, (B.A. 1960) Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
- Donald C. Winter, (B.S. 1969) Secretary of the Navy (2006-present)
[edit] Literature
- Francis Bellamy, wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance, published in 1892
- Galway Kinnell (M.A.) Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
- Janet Maslin, Film and Music critic for the New York Times
[edit] Science and technology
- Jason Diamond (B.A., M.D. 1997), plastic surgeon who was featured on the E! Channel series, Dr. 90210
- Robert Dicke (Ph.D. 1939), inventor of lock-in amplifier, and who made contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity
- Stan Frankel (Ph.D. 1942), Manhattan Project scientist and computer designer
- Edward Gibson (B.S. 1959), former NASA astronaut
- G.K. Gilbert (1862), geologist and Wollaston Medal recipient
- Donald Henderson, M.D. 1954, physician and epidemiologist
- Jay Last (B.S. 1951), member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
- James A. Pawelczyk (B.S. 1982), NASA astronaut
- Richard Rashid (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 Computer Science), invented the Mach operating system, currently head of Microsoft Research
- Bruce Schneier (B.S. Physics), computer security expert
- George Sudarshan (Ph.D. 1958 Physics), made contributions to the field of quantum optics and advanced the idea of the theoretical tachyon
- Avie Tevanian (B.A. Math 1983), figure in the development of the NeXT Computer and its successor, Mac OS X at Apple
- Herbert York (B.S. and M.S.), Manhattan Project physicist
[edit] Other
- Jeremy Glick, a passenger on United Flight 93 and widely considered to be a hero in the September 11 attacks
- Robert Goergen, CEO of Blyth, Inc.
- Zhe Zeng, a trained emergency technician who lost his life while trying to save others on September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center site
- Gerald B. Zornow, former Chairman of the Board of Eastman Kodak Company
[edit] Notable faculty
[edit] Nobel laureates
- George Hoyt Whipple (Prof. 1914-1976), Nobel laureate (1934, physiology or medicine)
- Henrik Dam (Prof. 1942-1945), Nobel laureate (1943, physiology or medicine)
- Robert Fogel (Prof. 1960-1965, 1968-1975), Nobel laureate (1993, economics)
[edit] Current
- Stanley Engerman, Economist/Historian served as President of the Social Science History Association as well as President of the Economic History Association.
- Richard Fenno, political scientist and former President of the American Political Science Association
- C. R. Hagen, Professor of Physics
- Robert L. Holmes, Secular pacifist and expert on nonviolent action.
- Steven Landsburg, economist, Slate Magazine columnist and popular author on microeconomics.
- Walter Oi, Labor economist, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- H. Allen Orr, Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology
- Michael L. Scott, computer scientist and winner of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
- Emil Wolf, physicist and co-author, along with Max Born, of one of the standard textbooks of optics, Principles of Optics. Also predicted Wolf effect.
- Lionel W. McKenzie, economist, general equilibrium, co-creator of the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie model.
- Joseph H. Eberly, Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Optics. Past president of Optics Society of America, and winner of Townes Award.
- Daven Presgraves, Assistant Professor of Biology. Winner of Dobzhansky Prize in Evolutionary Biology.
