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George A. Akerlof WF ’62	Koshland Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Nobel Prize in Economics
Philip B. Allen WF ’64	Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Nancy C. Andreasen WF ’58	Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine; National Medal of Science
Robert Marshall Axelrod WF ’64	University of Michigan Institute of Public Policy Studies
George F. Bass WF ’55	Professor Emeritus and former Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University; National Medal of Science
Gary S. Becker WF ’51	University Professor, Departments of Economics & Sociology / The Business School, University of Chicago; Nobel Prize in Economics, National Medal of Science
Gordon H. Bower WF ’54	Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Stanford University; National Medal of Science
Steven Chu WF ’70	Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Nobel Prize in Physics
Maria Luisa Crawford WF ’60	Professor of Geology, Bryn Mawr College; MacArthur Fellow
Sarah C.R. Elgin WF ’67	Professor of Biology, Washington University in Saint Louis; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship
Charles L. Fefferman WF ’66 H	Herbert Jones University Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University; Fields Medal for Mathematics
Faye D. Ginsburg CN ’82	Professor of Anthropology, New York University; MacArthur Fellow
Peter M. Goldreich WF ’60 H	Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology; Shaw Prize, National Medal of Science
Alma Gottlieb WS ’81	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	Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; Crafoord Prize Winner
James F. Heckman WF ’65 H	Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago; Nobel Prize in Economics
Roald Hoffmann WF ’58H	Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, National Medal of Science
H. Robert Horvitz WF ’68	David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT; Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology
Daniel Hunt Janzen WF ’61	Professor of Biology and Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Term Chair, University of Pennsylvania; Kyoto Prize Winner; MacArthur Fellow
Robert O. Keohane WF ’61	James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University; Guggenheim Fellow
Donald E. Knuth WF ’60	Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University; National Medal of Science
Roger D. Kornberg WF ’67	Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine, Stanford University
Margaret Anne Levi WF ’68	Professor of Political Science, University of Washington; Guggenheim Fellow
Stephen J. Lippard WF ’62	Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; National Medal of Science
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. WF ’59	Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Nobel Prize in Economics
Theodore Marmor WF ’60	Fellow Emeritus, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Professor of Public Management and Political Science, Yale University
John C. Mather WF ’68	Nobel Prize in Physics; Senior Astrophysicist and Goddard Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Erik A. Mueggler MN ’87	Professor of Anthropology/Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan; MacArthur Fellow
Robert A. Parker WF ’58	Astronaut, NASA; Director, NASA Management Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
William D. Phillips WF ’70	Nobel Prize in Physics; University Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
Michael J. Piore WF ’62 H	Professor of Political Economy and Associate Director of the Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development, MIT; MacArthur Fellow
H. David Politzer WF ’69	Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize in Physics
Lawrence Rosen WF ’63	Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University; MacArthur Fellow
Saul H. Sternberg WF ’54	Professor, Department of Psychology / Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania; Guggenheim Fellow
Dennis P. Sullivan WF ’63	Professor of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, and Albert Einstein Chair in the Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center; National Medal of Science
Joseph Hooten Taylor, Jr. WF ’63	Professor of Physics and Former Dean of Faculty, Princeton University; Nobel Prize in Physics; MacArthur Fellow
William P. Thurston WF ’67	Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University; Fields Medalist
Karen K. Uhlenbeck WF ’64 H	Professor of Mathematics and Sid W. Richardson Chairholder, University of Texas; MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, National Medal of Science
Harold Varmus WF ’61	President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and former Director, National Institutes of Health; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science

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