- List of NYU GSAS people
(*did not graduate)Notable faculty
Saul Bellow Writer Professor 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Bloom literary critic Berg Professor of English 1985 MacArthur Fellow Wassily Leontief Economist Professor 1975 -1999 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics Faye D. Ginsburg Scholar Professor of Anthropology 1994 MacArthur Fellow Galway Kinnell Poet Professor 1982 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryOtto Loewi Physicist Professor 1940 -1961 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Ruth Watson Lubic Scholar Adjunct Professor 1993 MacArthur Fellow Paule Marshall Writer Professor of English 1992 MacArthur Fellow Robert S. Mulliken Physicist, Chemist Professor 1926 -1928 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Rita P. Wright Scholar Professor of Anthropology 1988 MacArthur Fellow Alumni
Nobel laureates
Julius Axelrod Biochemist M.Sc. 1941 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Friedrich Hayek Economist Postgraduate, 1923 -1924 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics Frederick Reines Physicist Ph.D. 1944 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics Clifford Shull Physicist Ph.D. 1941 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics Pulitzer Prize winners
Dorothy Rabinowitz Journalist and Commentator Ph.D. 1960 2001 Pulitzer Prize for CommentaryJames Ford Rhodes Historian 1865 - *1916 Pulitzer Prize for "History of the Civil War"Harold C. Schonberg Music Critic, Journalist M.A., 1939 1971 Pulitzer Prize for CriticismJohn Patrick Shanley Playwright M.A., 1977 2005 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNeil Simon playwright 1944 -1945 *1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers)Other
Whoopi Goldberg Actress Ph.D. in literature Academy Award 1990, Ghost Bernard Herrmann Composer student under Percy Grainger at NYUAcademy Award 1941, All that money can buy Evelyn Lear Soprano Grammy Award 1966 for her performance of Berg'sWozzeck David Antin Poet M.A., 1966 recipient of the PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry Rita Mae Brown Author M.A., 1964 Rubyfruit Jungle Yury Gitman Artist M.A. inventor of electronic art Joseph Heller Author M.A. in English 1945 - *"Catch-22" Saul Williams Poet M.A., 1995 Amethyst Rock Star J.D. Salinger Author coursework* Catcher in the Rye John Woodruff Athlete B.A. 1939, M.A. 1941 Olympic Gold Medalist, 1936 Elodie Lauten Composer M.A., 1986 Abby F. Kohnstramm Senior VP, IBM M.A., M.B.A. Agnes Varis Entrepreneur M.A., 1977, M.B.A., 1979 Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals Lawrence Joseph DeNardis M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989 United States House of Representatives Rush Holt M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981 United States House of Representatives (1999-)Raymond Joseph McGrath M.A., 1968 United States House of Representatives (1981-1993)B. Caroll Reece M.A., 1916 United States House of Representatives (1921-1961)Gloria Allred Feminist Lawyer M.A., 1971 Stavros Dimas politician M.A., 1969 European Commissioner for the Environment William Henry Draper, Jr. Diplomat M.A., 1917 Under Secretary of War and the Army Robert Patrick John Finn Diplomat M.A. U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Heather M. Hodges Diplomat M.A. U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Meir Kahane Founder of the U.S. Jewish Defense League M.A., 1957 Leader of the Kach political party in theIsraeli Knesset Mary Carlin Yates diplomat M.A., Ph.D. U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana Minoru Yamasaki Architect M.A., 1951 works include the World Trade Center External links
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