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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United...
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Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born July 14, 1938) is an architect and urban designer. He was born in the city of Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine. He moved with his family to Montreal, Canada when he was 15 years old.
An excellent student, he studied...
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Susan Athey
2007 winner of the John Bates Clark medal; professor at Harvard. fields of economic theory, applied economics, econometrics, industrial theory, auction theory
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Derek Bok
Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University.
Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954),...
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Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that...
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Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar
Prabhu Lal Bhatnagar (8 August 1912 – 5 October 1976), commonly addressed as P. L. Bhatnagar, was an Indian mathematician known for his contribution to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision model used in Lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM).
P. L....
Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory...
Dennis William Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considerd as one...
Roy J. Glauber
Roy Jay Glauber (born 1 September 1925) is an American theoretical physicist. He is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Born in New York City, he was...
Simon Kuznets
Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of...
Charles Mohr
Charles Theodor Mohr (Karl Theodor Mohr; December 28, 1824 – July 17 1901) was a pharmacist and botanist of German descent who lived and worked in the Americas.
Mohr was born on 28 December 1824 in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. He was the fourth...
Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 - 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical...
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Wassily Leontief
Wassily Wassilyovitch Leontief (Russian: Василий Васильевич Леонтьев; August 5, 1905, Munich, Germany – February 5, 1999, New York), was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors....
Frank Westheimer
Frank Henry Westheimer (January 15, 1912 – April 14, 2007) was an American chemist. He was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, and the Westheimer medal is named in his honour.
Born in Baltimore, he graduated from...
Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the...
Charles F. Hoffmann
Charles Frederick Hoffmann (1838–1913) was a German-American topographer working in California U.S. from 1860 to 1880.
Hoffmann was born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1838. After receiving an education in engineering, he emigrated to America. In 1857 he...
Michael O. Rabin
Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל אֹשֶׁר רַבִּין, born September 1, 1931 in Breslau, Germany, today in Poland) is a computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.
Rabin was born as the son of a rabbi in what was then known as Breslau ...
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....
Francis Ernest Lloyd
Francis Ernest Lloyd, M.A. (October 4, 1868 – October 10, 1947) was an American botanist, born in Manchester, England, and educated at Princeton University (A.B., 1891; A.M., 1895), in New Jersey, and in Europe at Munich and Bonn, in Germany. He was...
Eric Mazur
Eric Mazur (b. November 14, 1954) is a prominent physicist and educator at Harvard University. Mazur is known for his work in experimental ultrafast optics and condensed matter physics and a national leader in science education. Born in Amsterdam,...
John Gordon Clark
John Gordon Clark (1926 – 1999) was a Harvard psychiatrist and authority in research on the alleged damaging effects of cults.
He was the target of harassment from Scientologists after he testified against them to the Vermont congress in 1976.
His...
John C. Slater
John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 - July 25, 1976) was a noted American physicist and theoretical chemist.
Slater studied at the University of Rochester, earning his B.S. in 1920. He went on to receive his Ph. D. in physics from Harvard...
Daniel Frank Walls
Daniel Walls (1942 - 1999) was a theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics.
Dan Walls gained a BSc in physics and mathematics and a first class honours MSc in physics at the University of Auckland. He then went to Harvard as a Fulbright...
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith (31 July 1859 – 10 December 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist.
Smith was born in Albany, New York, and received...
David Gross
David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic...
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides (b. August 3, 1939, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly...
Robert Burns Woodward
Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist. He made many significant contributions to modern organic chemistry, especially in the synthesis and structure determination of complex natural products, and...
Donald Rubin
Donald Bruce Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He was hired by Harvard in 1984, and served as chair of the department from 1985-1994.
He is most well-known for the Rubin Causal Model, a set of methods designed...
Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; Jyutping: jau1 sing4 tung4); born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Yau was born in Shantou,...
Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe. Her most...
Frank Nelson Cole
Frank Nelson Cole, Ph.D. (September 20, 1861 – May 26, 1926) was an American mathematician, born at Ashland, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, where he lectured on mathematics from 1885 to 1887.
Later, he was employed at the University of...
Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry (September 12, 1900 – September 1, 1982) was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic; while the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses...
B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in...
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John Knowles Paine
John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906), was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for his large-scale orchestral music.
He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years. After...
Narasimha Chari
Narasimha Chari is Tropos Networks' Chief
Architect. Along with Mr. Devabhaktuni, Mr. Chari was responsible for
developing Tropos Networks' core intellectual property, including the
design and development of the company’s wireless networking and...
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the...
Albert O. Hirschman
Albert Otto Hirschman (b. April 7, 1915, in Berlin, Germany) is an influential economist who has authored several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics. Here he...
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Eric Maskin
Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social...
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Elizabeth J. Perry
Elizabeth J. Perry (1948-) is a prominent United States scholar of Chinese politics and history in the Department of Government, Harvard University (United States) where she is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard...
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Timothy Leary
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic, spiritual...
Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1970) is an American professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and...
Aida M. Alvarez
Ms. Alvarez is the former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and was a member of President Clinton's Cabinet from 1997 to 2001. She was the founding Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, the financial...
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Larry R. Faulkner
Larry R. Faulkner is President of Houston Endowment, a private philanthropy established by Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones. He is also President Emeritus of The University of Texas at Austin.
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Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications....
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Martin Feldstein
Martin Stuart "Marty" Feldstein (born November 25, 1939) is a conservative American economist. He is currently the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research ...
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust, an American historian and professor, is the first female president of Harvard University. A veteran Ivy League professor and administrator, Faust is known especially for her work on the history of the American South. She has won...
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust, an American historian and professor, is the first female president of Harvard University. A veteran Ivy League professor and administrator, Faust is known especially for her work on the history of the American South. She has won...
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J Leslie Hotson
John Leslie Hotson, also known as J. Leslie Hotson or Leslie Hotson (August 16, 1897 - 16 November 1992) was a scholar of Elizabethan literary puzzles.
He was born at Delhi, Ontario on August 16, 1897. Cracked many, especially, Elizabethan literary...
David B. Yoffie
David B. Yoffie has been a director of Intel since 1989. He is Lead Independent Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board. He has been the Max and Doris Starr...
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Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann (born 1928 in Vienna) is the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor at Harvard University.
A French citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris and Nice before studying at the Institut d'études...
Jeremy Knowles
Jeremy Randall Knowles, CBE, FRS (April 28, 1935 – April 3, 2008) was a professor of chemistry at Harvard University, was Dean of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 2002. He joined Harvard in 1974, received many awards...
Josiah Quincy III
Josiah Quincy III (February 4, 1772 – July 1, 1864 and pronounced /ˈkwɪnzi/) was a U.S. educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805–1813), Mayor of Boston (1823–1828), and President of Harvard University...
Helen Vendler
Helen Hennessy Vendler (born 1933) is a leading American critic of poetry.
Vendler has written books on W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats and Seamus Heaney. She is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she...
Robert Barro
Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American classical macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. Barro is...
Jared Sparks
Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 - March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853.
Born in Willington, Connecticut, Sparks studied in the common schools, worked...
Cornelius Conway Felton
Cornelius Conway Felton (November 6, 1807 – February 26, 1862) was an American educator. He was regent of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as professor of Greek literature and president of Harvard University.
Felton was born in West Newbury,...
Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson (born April 18, 1964, in Glasgow) is a British historian who specialises in financial and economic history as well as the history of colonialism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William...
