The list of University of Nebraska–Lincoln people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
A total number of 3 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the University.
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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George Beadle (born 1903) | B.S. 1926; M.S. 1927 | Scientist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner (1958); 7th President of University of Chicago (1961—1968). |
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Donald Cram (born 1919) | M.S. 1942 | Chemist; Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner (1987). | [3] |
Alan Heeger (born 1936) | B.S. 1957, Honorary Doctorate 1999 | Chemist; Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner (2000). | [4] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Roscoe Pound | B.A 1888; M.A 1889; Ph.D 1897 | 4th Dean of Harvard Law School (1916–1936); Namesake of 'Pound Hall' at Harvard Law School. |
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Alvin Johnson | M.A. 1898 | Founder of the New School. | |
Gene Budig | M.A. 1963, Ed.D 1967 | Chancellor of the University of Kansas (1980–1994); President of West Virginia University (1977–1980); President of Illinois State University (1973–1977) |
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Edith Abbott | 1901 | Founder of University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. | [7] |
John Jasinski | Ph.D 1996 | President of Northwest Missouri State University. | [8] |
William Ruud | B.A.; Ph.D. | President of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. | |
Miguel Escotet | Ph.D | Dean of College of Education at University of Texas at Brownsville; Emeritus UNESCO and United Nations University Chair on History and Future of University. |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Alan Berger | B.S. 1986 | Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT. | [9] |
Hartley Burr Alexander | Wrote symbolism and inscriptions in the Nebraska State Capitol; conducted the first study of ritual, symbolism and philosophy of the native peoples of the Americas between 1908 and 1929 and a Professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska. | ||
Rollins A. Emerson | B.S. | Former Professor of plant breeding at Cornell University. | |
Derrick Lehmer | B.A. 1893; M.A. 1896 | Former Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. | |
Donald Cox | B.S. 1959; M.S. 1960 | Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. | [10] |
Londa Schiebinger | B.A. 1974 | Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. | [11] |
Jay Keasling | B.S. 1986 | Professor of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. | [12] |
Larry D. Johnson | B.A. 1967 | Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; Former UN Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs. |
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John Norman | B.A. 1953 | Former Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York. | |
Nancy Andreasen | B.A | Chair of Psychiatry at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. | [14] |
Harold 'Doc' Edgerton | B.S. 1925 | Former Institute Professor at MIT; Namesake of 'Edgerton Center' at MIT; Took the first photographs of the atomic bomb. |
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Robert A. Alberty | B.S. 1943; M.S. 1944 | Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at MIT. | [16] |
Dirk Obbink | B.A. 1978 | Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature at Oxford University. | |
Norma Cantú | Ph.D. 1982 | Professor of English at University of Texas at San Antonio. | [17] |
Edwin Colbert | B.A. | Former Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. | [18] |
George Andreasen | B.S; M.S | Former Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. | [19] |
Loren Eiseley | BA/BS 1933 | Former Professor at University of Pennsylvania; Writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems. |
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Joseph Hunt | B.A. | Former Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. | [20] |
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Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Warren Buffett (born 1930) | B.S.B.A. 1950 | Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. | [21] |
Jordan Behrens (born 1978) | B.S.B.A. 2000 | Founder of Hilltop Hotel Conglomerate. | |
Vinod Gupta (born ) | M.S. 1969; M.B.A. 1971 | Founder and Chairman of infoGROUP; Founder Namesake of Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT Karagpur. |
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Howard L. Hawks | B.S.; M.B.A | Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Tenaska Energy, Inc. | [23] |
Jack Cole | B.S.B.A. | Founder of Cole Information Services, Inc. | |
C. Edward McVaney | B.S. | Founder of JD Edwards Corporation. | |
JoAnn M. Martin | B.S. 1975 | President and CEO of UNIFI Companies. | [24][25] |
Harry Culver (born 1880) | Founder and Namesake of Culver City, California. | ||
Ted Hustead | Founder of Wall Drug. | [26] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Karlis A. Ulmanis (born 1909) | B.S. | 1st Prime Minister of Latvia and 4th President of Latvia. | [27] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Clayton Yeutter (born 1930) | B.S 1952; J.D 1963; Ph.D 1966 | 23rd United States Secretary of Agriculture. | |
Claude M. Bolton, Jr. (born 1969) | B.S. 1969; Honorary Doctorate 2007 | 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. | |
Richard Lee McCall, Jr. (born 1942) | Attended College but did not graduate | 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Elmer Burkett (born 1867) | Law 1893 | United States Senator | [29] |
Hazel Abel (born 1888) | 1908 | United States Senator | [30] |
James Abdnor (born 1923) | 1945 | United States Senator | [31] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Arthur J. Weaver (born 1873) | 22nd Governor of Nebraska | ||
Elmer Holt (born 1884) | 1902 | 10th Governor of Montana | |
Charles Thone (born 1924) | 34h Governor of Nebraska | ||
Stanley K. Hathaway (born 1924) | Law 1950 | 27th Governor of Wyoming | |
Ben Nelson (born 1941) | B.A.; M.A.; J.D. | 37h Governor of Nebraska; Current United States Senator |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Howard Miller (born 1879) | Law 1900 | U.S. Representative from Kansas. | |
John A. Maguire (born 1870) | Law 1899 | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | |
Thomas F. Konop (born 1879) | Law 1904 | U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. | |
Fred Johnson (born 1876) | Law 1903 | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | |
George H. Heinke (born 1882) | Law 1908 | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | |
Jackson B. Chase (born 1890) | LLB 1912 | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | |
Harry B. Coffee (born 1890) | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | ||
Howard Buffett (born 1903) | 1925 | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | |
John Henry Kyl (born 1919) | 1947 | U.S. Representative from Iowa. | |
Jan Meyers (born 1928) | B.A. 1951 | U.S. Representative from Kansas. | |
Hal Daub (born 1941) | J.D. 1966 | U.S. Representative from Nebraska. | |
Chris Carney (born 1959) | Ph.D. | U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Jesse Stearns Buscher | Member of the White House Press Corps and First woman member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. | ||
Grace Abbott | Director of Immigrants Protective League of Hull House and Chief of the United States Children's Bureau, where she administered the first federal child labor law and the Maternity and Infancy Act. | ||
Debra Powell (born 1985) | B.A. | Mayor of East St. Louis. | |
Matthew Landis | BA 2004 | Board Member Antelope Valley College Board of Trustees. |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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John J. Pershing (born 1860) | LLB 1893 | General of the Armies of the United States Army; Led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I; Awarded GCB, Legion of Honour, CH and 1932 Pulitzer Prize. |
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Carl R. Yost | 1938 | Colonel of the United States Army; Awarded Legion of Merit. |
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Paul B. Kappelman | 1973 | Colonel of the United States Army. | [33] |
Douglas J. McAneny | B.S 1978 | Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. | [34] |
Lloyd M. Bucher (born 1927) | B.S. 1953 | Commander of the United States Navy Captain of the USS Pueblo (AGER-2). |
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Maynard Nichols (born 1925) | Captain in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Chief Engineer and Overseer of 125,000 Chinese farm workers for the construction (entirely by hand, without any heavy equipment) of an air base at Kiunglai in China. |
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Bruce P. Crandall (born 1933) | B.A. 1969 | Colonel of the United States Army; Awarded Medal of Honor. |
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Steven W. Flohr | B.S. 1971 | Brigadier General of the United States Army. | |
Galen B. Jackman (born 1951) | B.A. 1973 | Major General of the United States Army. |
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Bion J. Arnold | Father of the third rail; Designed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit subway system. |
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Henry Beachell | Leading 20th century rice breeder; Co-pioneer of Asia's Green Revolution in rice; Winner of 1996 World Food Prize and 1987 Japan Prize of the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. |
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Frederic Clements | B.Sc. 1894; M.A. 1896; Ph.D. 1898 | Pioneer ecologist. | [39] |
Gladys Dick | B.S. 1900 | Co-inventor of vaccine for scarlet fever. | [40] |
Leta Hollingworth | B.A. 1906 | Wrote first comprehensive text on the gifted; Commenced one of the first systematic studies of children with intelligence quotients (IQ) above 180. |
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Charles H. Purcell | B.S. 1906 | Chief designer and Engineer of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; One of the 20th century’s most distinguished civil engineers. |
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Richard Hamming | B.S. 1939 | Founder and President of Association for Computing Machinery. | |
Kim B. Blair | B.A; B.S | Founding Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Sports Innovation. | [43] |
A.A. Luebs | Pioneered the field of air conditioning; Developed the procedure used for measuring winter temperatures that meteorologists call "degree days". |
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William A. Mueller | Produced sound technology for early motion pictures; Pioneered the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer. |
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Donald Othmer | Co-editor of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; Has held more than 150 U.S. and foreign patents. |
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Gerry Thomas | Inventor of TV Dinner. | ||
Gene V Glass | Inventor of the statistical technique Meta-analysis. |