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George A. Akerlof WF ’62	Nobel Laureate in Economics; Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Nancy C. Andreasen WF ’58	National Medalist of Science; Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
Robert Marshall Axelrod WF ’64	MacArthur Fellow; University of Michigan Institute of Public Policy Studies
Russell E. Banks WF ’67	PEN/Faulkner Award; author, Affliction, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and other novels
George F. Bass WF ’55	National Medalist of Science; Professor Emeritus and former Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University
Ronald J. Bass WF ’63	Academy Award, Best Original Screenplay, Rain Man
Gary S. Becker WF ’51	Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Laureate in Economics, National Medalist of Science; University Professor, Departments of Economics & Sociology/the Business School, University of Chicago
Gordon H. Bower WF ’54	National Medalist of Science; Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Caroline Walker Bynum WF ’62	MacArthur Fellow; NEH Jefferson Lecturer 1999; Professor of Western European Middle Ages, Institute for Advanced Study
Steven Chu WF ’70	Nobel Laureate in Physics; Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; Former Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Patricia Smith Churchland WF ’65	MacArthur Fellow; UC President’s Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
John R. Clarke WF ’67	Guggenheim Fellow
Maria Luisa Crawford WF ’60	MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Geology, Bryn Mawr College
David Del Tredici WF ’59	Pulitzer Prize; Composer, In Memory of a Summer Day
Sarah C.R. Elgin WF ’67	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship
Caroline Elkins MN ’94	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Charles L. Fefferman WF ’66 H	Fields Medal for Mathematics
Faye D. Ginsburg CN ’82	MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Anthropology, New York University; author, Contested Lives, Uncertain Terms
Peter M. Goldreich WF ’60 H	Shaw Prize Recipient, National Medalist of Science; Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Alma Gottlieb WS ’81	Guggenheim Fellow; Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Jay Gould WF ’64	MacArthur Fellow; author, The Mismeasure of Man, Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes, Wonderful Life, and other books; Professor of Geology & Zoology, Harvard University (deceased
James Edward Gunn WF ’61 H	Crafoord Prize Winner; MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Robert L. Hass WF ’63	Former United States Poet Laureate; MacArthur Fellow, National Book Award for Poetry; author, Human Wishes and other books
James F. Heckman WF ’65 H	Nobel Laureate in Economics; Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Roald Hoffmann WF ’58 H	Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, National Medalist of Science; Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University
H. Robert Horvitz WF ’68	Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology; David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT
Daniel Hunt Janzen WF ’61	Kyoto Prize Winner; MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Biology and Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Term Chair, University of Pennsylvania
Michael G. Kammen WF ’58	Pulitzer Prize in History; Guggenheim Fellow; Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture, Cornell University
Robert O. Keohane WF ’61	Guggenheim Fellow; James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University
Donald E. Knuth WF ’60	National Medalist of Science; Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Roger D. Kornberg WF ’67	Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine, Stanford University
Suzanne D. Lebsock WF ’75	MacArthur Fellow; Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Maurice duPont Lee Jr. WF ’46	Guggenheim Fellow
Michael A. Lerner WF ’65	MacArthur Fellow; President, Commonweal
Margaret Anne Levi WF ’68	Guggenheim Fellow; Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
Stephen J. Lippard WF ’62	National Medalist of Science; Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. WF ’59	Nobel Laureate in Economics; Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
John D. Lyons WF ’67	Guggenheim Fellow; Commonwealth Professor of French, University of Virginia
Theodore Marmor WF ’60	Fellow Emeritus, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Professor of Public Management and Political Science, Yale University
Thomas K. McCraw WF ’66	Pulitzer Prize in History; Professor of Business, Harvard University
James M. McPherson WF ’58	Pulitzer Prize in History; NEH Jefferson Lecturer 2000
Erik A. Mueggler MN ’87	MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Anthropology/Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Kathy Peiss WS ’78	Guggenheim Fellow; Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
William D. Phillips WF ’70	Nobel Laureate in Physics; University Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
Robert N. Pinsky WF ’62 DS	Former United States Poet Laureate; author, The Want Bone and other books; Professor of Creative Writing, Boston University
Michael J. Piore WF ’62 H	MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Political Economy and Associate Director of the Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development, MIT
H. David Politzer WF ’69	Nobel Laureate in Physics; Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
Lawrence Rosen WF ’63	MacArthur Fellow; Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Saul H. Sternberg WF ’54	Guggenheim Fellow
Dennis P. Sullivan WF ’63	National Medalist of Science; Professor of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, and Albert Einstein Chair in the Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
William Taubman WF ’62	Guggenheim Fellow; Pulitzer Prize in History
Joseph Hooten Taylor, Jr. WF ’63	Nobel Laureate in Physics; MacArthur Fellow; Former Dean of Faculty, Princeton University
William P. Thurston WF ’67	Fields Medal for Mathematics; Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
Karen K. Uhlenbeck WF ’64 H	National Medalist of Science, MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow; Professor of Mathematics and Sid W. Richardson Chairholder, University of Texas
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich WS ’78	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; MacArthur Fellow; Guggenheim Fellow; 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University
Harold Varmus WF ’61	Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, National Medalist of Science; President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and former Director, National Institutes of Health
Graham C. Walker WF ’70	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship; American Cancer Society Research Professor of Biology, MIT

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