About Our Fellows

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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