List of University of Rochester people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Rochester.

Notable alumni

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)

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

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"

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)

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

cience 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
*Elon Howard Eton (B.A. 1890), Ornithologist
*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

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

Notable faculty

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)

Current

*Janet Catherine Berlo, art historian, Professor of Art History / Visual and Cultural Studies. [cite web|title=Janet Catherine Berlo |date=n.d. |url=http://www.rochester.edu/college/AAH/people/berlo.html |work=AAH Faculty |publisher=University of Rochester|accessdate=2008-07-18]
*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.

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