[edit] 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 Poetry |
| Otto 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 |
[edit] Alumni
[edit] 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 |
[edit] Pulitzer Prize winners
|
| Dorothy Rabinowitz |
Journalist and Commentator |
Ph.D. 1960 |
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary |
| James 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 Criticism |
| John Patrick Shanley |
Playwright |
M.A., 1977 |
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| Neil Simon |
playwright |
1944 - 1945* |
1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers) |
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| Whoopi Goldberg |
Actress |
Ph.D. in literature |
Academy Award 1990, Ghost |
| Bernard Herrmann |
Composer |
student under Percy Grainger at NYU |
Academy Award 1941, All that money can buy |
| Evelyn Lear |
Soprano |
|
Grammy Award 1966for her performance of Berg's Wozzeck |
| 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 the Israeli 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 |