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Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (usually referred to as Rutgers University), is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States. Rutgers was originally a...
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Benjamin A. Borenstein
Benjamin A. Borenstein (died September 7, 2006) was an American food scientist who was involved in vitamin fortifcation.
Employed with Hoffman-La Roche until his 1987 retirement, Borenstein played a key role in fortifying vitamins. He also served as...
Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah (Hebrew: שהרן שלח, born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician.
Shelah received his Ph.D. in 1969 from the Hebrew University. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at Rutgers...
Albert Schatz
Albert Schatz (2 February 1922 – 17 January 2005) was the co-discoverer of streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy used to treat tuberculosis and a number of other diseases. Originally, the discovery of streptomycin was credited only to Schatz's...
David Oshinsky
David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian; he currently holds the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin and is a distinguished scholar in residence at New York University.
Oshinsky...
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson, 61, is president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of IBM’s Directors and Corporate Governance Committee. Dr. Jackson was a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1976 to...
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William H. Gray III
William Herbert Gray III (born August 20, 1941) served as president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (1991–2004). He was an influential member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1980s and minister...
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Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh
Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (February 22, 1736 – 30 October 1790) was a Dutch Reformed minister and the first President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) from 1785 to his death in 1790.
He was born on February 22, 1736 in Rosendale, New York...
Lewis Webster Jones
Lewis Webster Jones (11 June 1899 – 10 September 1975) was an economist, and the President of the University of Arkansas from 1947 to 1951 and of Rutgers University from 1951 to 1958.
He was born in Emerson, Nebraska, and spent his youth in Portland...
Zenon Pylyshyn
Zenon Pylyshyn (born 1937) is a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher.
He holds degrees in Engineering-Physics (B.Eng. 1959) from McGill University and in Control Systems (M.Sc. 1960) and Experimental Psychology (Ph.D. 1963), both from the...
David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography...
George H. Cook
George Hammell Cook (January 5, 1818 – September 22, 1889) was the State Geologist of New Jersey and Vice President of Rutgers College. His geological survey of New Jersey became the predecessor for the U.S. Geological Survey.
He was born in Hanover...
Robert Trivers
Robert L. Trivers (born February 19, 1943, pronounced /ˈtrɪvərz/) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative sex ratio...
Mason W. Gross
Mason Welch Gross (11 June 1911 – 11 October 1977) was an American television quiz show personality and academic who served as the sixteenth President of Rutgers University, serving from 1959 to 1971.
He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1911 to...
Edward J. Bloustein
Edward J. Bloustein (January 20, 1925 – 9 December 1989) was the seventeenth President of Rutgers University serving from 1971 to 1989.
He was born in New York City, and he graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1942. He served in...
Ira Condict
Reverend Ira Condict (21 February 1764 – 1 June 1811) was the third President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) serving in a pro tempore capacity from 1795 to 1810.
He was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1764. He graduated from the College...
Francis Fergusson
Francis Fergusson (1904–1986) was an American academic and critic, a theorist of drama and mythology. Fergusson taught for a time on the faculty of the department of English at Rutgers University and is regarded as an influence on poet Robert Pinsky....
H. Bruce Franklin
H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934) is an American cultural historian who has authored or edited nineteen books on a range of subjects. As of 2008, he is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New...
Richard L. McCormick
Richard Levis McCormick (born 26 December 1947 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is a historian, professor and university administrator currently serving as the nineteenth president of Rutgers University.
The son of the late Richard Patrick McCormick, a...
Michael R. Douglas
Michael R. Douglas (1961-) is an American theoretical physicist and professor currently at Stony Brook University.
Michael R. Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a mathematician specializing in...
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell, Ph.D. (born March 22, 1924) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the world wars, and...
Selman Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July 1888 – 16 August 1973) was a American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and...
Leonid Khachiyan
Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan (Armenian: Լեոնիդ Գենրիխովիչ Խաչիյան; Russian: Леонид Генрихович Хачиян; May 3, 1952 – April 29, 2005) was a Russian mathematician of Armenian descent who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most...
Jerry Fodor
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935 in New York City, New York) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is the State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is also the author of many works in the fields of philosophy...
John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardi (CHAR-dee) (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued...
Paul G. Pearson
Dr. Paul Guy Pearson (December 5, 1926 – August 12, 2000) was an American academic, who had served as president of Miami University and as acting president of Rutgers University. He was born and educated in Lake Worth, Florida. Dr. Pearson received...
Mary S. Hartman
Mary S. Hartman (born 1941) joined the Douglass History Department in 1968 and served as director of the Women’s Studies Institute from 1975 to 1977.
She was named acting dean in 1981, and named dean in 1982. As dean, she instated a number of...
Irving Louis Horowitz
Irving Louis Horowitz is an American sociologist, author and college professor who has written and lectured extensively in his field. Horowitz was born in New York City on September 25, 1929, to Louis and Esther Tepper Horowitz. He was educated at...
Helen M. Berman
Helen M. Berman (born 1943) is the director of the Protein Data Bank and a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. A structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid...
Laurie A. Rudman
Laurie A. Rudman, social psychology professor and Director of the Rutgers University Social Cognition Laboratory, has contributed a great deal of research to studies on implicit and explicit attitudes and stereotypes, stereotype maintenance...
Lisa C. Klein
Lisa C. Klein (born 1951) is an American engineer, Graduate Director at Rutgers University and President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at the University.
She has made many breakthroughs in engineering. Klein's research...
Joan W. Bennett
Joan W. Bennett (born 1942) is a prominent mycologist, fungal geneticist and Associate Vice-President for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Rutgers University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr....
Noemie Benczer Koller
Noemie Benczer Koller (born 1933) is a nuclear physicist. She was the first tenured female professor of Rutgers College.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Noemie Benczer Koller moved frequently in her early childhood due to the turbulence of war. After...
Frank J. Popper
Frank J. Popper (born 1944) is a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University, known for proposing the Buffalo Commons idea for the...
Daniel Foss
Daniel A. Foss (born July 26, 1940) is an American sociologist and database researcher. He is the author of Freak Culture: Life Style and Politics (1972), and Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (1986).
Foss was born in the Bronx,...
Ralph Larkin
Ralph W. Larkin (May 27, 1940) is an American sociologist and research consultant. He is the author of Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis (1979), Beyond Revolution: A New Theory of Social Movements (1986), and Comprehending Columbine (2007). He...
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie is a Scottish psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive science at Rutgers University where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory.
Leslie completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Linguistics at the...
Evelyn M. Witkin
Evelyn M. Witkin (b March 9, 1921) is an American geneticist whose research has been widely influential in the areas of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair.
Witkin was born in New York City. She received her Bachelor's degree in 1941 from New York...
Apostolos Gerasoulis
Apostolos Gerasoulis is the co-creator of Teoma, an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com. Gerasoulis is a former Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; he co-founded Teoma along with his colleagues at Rutgers in 2000. Gerasoulis...
Felix Browder
Felix E. Browder (1927-) is a United States mathematician. He is the eldest son of Earl Browder and brother of William Browder.
Felix Browder received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1948. He is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers...
William Craig Brownlee
William Craig Brownlee (1784 – February 10, 1860) was an American clergyman, professor of languages and author. He was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland and was the fourth son of the Laird of Torfoot. President William McKinley was a distant cousin....
Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Iwaniec (*October 9, 1947 in Elblag) is a Polish- US-American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. He was awarded the fourteenth Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2002.
Iwaniec was born October 9, 1947 in...
Gopin
Dr. Seth Gopin, the Director of Global Programs at Rutgers University, has been professor of Art History there. He has received the French award of Chevalier in the Order of the Academic Palm.
Daryl B. Lund
Daryl Bert Lund (born 1941) is an American food scientist and engineer who has served in various leadership positions within the Institute of Food Technologists, including President in 1990-1991 and currently as editor-in-chief of the Journal of...
Dennis R. Heldman
Dennis R. Heldman (born 1938) is an internationally well-known food engineer. He served as president of the Institute of Food Technologists during 2006-2007.
A native of Ohio, Heldman received B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1962) in Dairy Technology from...
Eric Allender
Eric Warren Allender is an American computer scientist active in the field of computational complexity theory. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is currently a professor at Rutgers University and has...
Ted Hines
Theodore Christian "Ted Hines (September 9, 1926 - June 25, 1983) was a Washington, D.C.-born pioneer in the use of microcomputers and microcomputer programs in libraries. He attended undergraduate school at George Washington University and received...
Kira Hall
Kira Hall is associate professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the...
Henry Pachter
Henry Maximillian Pachter (1907–1980), born Heinz Pächter, was a German-American twentieth century scholar of socialism and political history, employed as a professor of history at the New School for Social Research, City College of the City...
C. Olin Ball
C. Olin Ball (1893 – 1982) was an American food scientist and inventor who was involved in the thermal death time studies in the food canning industry during the early 1920s. This research would be used as standard by the United States Food and Drug...
Myron Solberg
Myron "Mike" Solberg (1930-July 28, 2001) was an American food scientist who was renowned for his collaboration with academia, government, and industry that better advanced food technology.
A native of Massachusetts, Solberg earned his B.S. degree...
Albert Gabriel Nigrin
Albert Gabriel Nigrin is a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director and Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc., a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent,...
Stephen S. Chang
Stephen S. Chang (1918-1996) was a Chinese-born, American food scientist who was involved in the research of lipid and flavors in food, including the development of technology transfer between the United States and Taiwan.
Born in China, Chang...
T. Corey Brennan
T. Corey Brennan (born 1959) is an associate professor of Classics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, (USA) and was a guitarist and songwriter involved with several bands, most notably the alternative rock band The Lemonheads.
The...
Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley (born October 12, 1969) is an American philosopher currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. His primary interests include linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Stanley is an...
Joel Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz (born May 10, 1930 in Taceva) is a mathematical physicist widely acknowledged for his outstanding contributions to statistical physics, statistical mechanics and many other fields of Mathematics and Physics. He has been awarded...
Richard P. McCormick
Richard Patrick McCormick (24 December 1916 – 16 January 2006) was a historian, former University Professor of History, administrator, professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and President of the New Jersey Historical...
Dr. I. Kathleen Hagen
Dr. I. Kathleen Hagen (born 1945) is a former medical doctor who gained notoriety for being accused of murder by asphyxia of her parents, Idella Hagen, aged 92, and James Hagen, aged 86, with a plastic bag and a pillow as they slept in their home in...
Drucilla Cornell
Drucilla Cornell is a national research foundation chair in customary law, indigenous values and the dignity jurisprudence. The chair is sponsored by the University of Cape Town Law Faculty. She is the only A1 ranked female professor at the...
William C. Dowling
William C. Dowling (born April 5, 1944 in Warner, New Hampshire) is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, specializing in eighteenth-century English literature,...
James Flanagan
James Loton Flanagan is an electrical engineer, and was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He is also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and...
