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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (commonly referred to as UChicago, the U of C, or just Chicago) is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890; William Rainey Harper became its first...
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Steven D. Levitt
Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the...
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, particularly remembered for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle...
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (simplified Chinese: 陈省身; traditional Chinese: 陳省身; pinyin: Chén Xǐngshēn, October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.
Chern was...
James Franck
James Franck (26 August 1882 – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist and Nobel laureate .
Franck completed his Ph.D. in 1906 and received his venia legendi for physics in 1911, both at the University of Berlin, where he lectured and taught until 1918,...
A. J. Carlson
Anton Julius Carlson (January 29, 1875–September 2, 1956) was a Swedish American physiologist. Carlson was Chairman of the Physiology Department at the University of Chicago from 1916 until 1940.
Carlson was born the son of Carl Jacobson and Hedvig...
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...
Piara Singh Gill
Piara Singh Gill, (28 October 1911 - 23 March 2002) was a nuclear physicist who was a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics and worked on the American Manhattan project . Moreover, was the first Director of Central Scientific Instruments...
Edward Teller
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Jewish-Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", even though he claimed that he did not care for...
Frank Rattray Lillie
Frank Rattray Lillie (1870 – 1947) was an early American zoologist, who was an early pioneer of the study of embryology. He had a career long relationship with the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
Graduated in 1891 from University of Toronto...
Kurt Thoroughman
Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his work in the study of motor control, motor learning, and computational...
Burton Edward Livingston
Burton Edward Livingston (1875 – 1948) was an American plant physiologist, born at Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was educated at the University of Michigan (B.S., 1898) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1902), where he worked as an assistant from...
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and...
Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist and a Nobel laureate. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951 and a Ph.D. at The University of Chicago in 1955. He taught at Columbia...
Merton Miller
Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was the co-author of the Modigliani-Miller Model which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz...
Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson (19 December 1852 – 9 May 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He...
Jacob Marschak
Jacob Marschak (* 23 July 1898 Kiev, Imperial Russia, now capital of Ukraine; † 27 July 1977 Los Angeles, U.S.) was an American economist of Ukrainian Jewish origin.
Jacob Marschak (until 1933 Jakob) was born in Kiev as a son of a jeweller. During...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), English: /ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/) (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian American astrophysicist. He was a Nobel laureate in physics along with William Alfred Fowler for their...
Bruno Rossi
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (April 13, 1905 – November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space...
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the...
Benoît Roux
Benoît Roux, Ph.D., is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Chicago. He has previously taught at University of Montreal and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Benoît Roux was a recipient of the 1998...
Louis Leon Thurstone
Louis Leon Thurstone (May 29, 1887 – September 30, 1955) was a U.S. pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions...
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...
Robert Andrews Millikan
Robert A. Millikan (22 March 1868 – 19 December 1953) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. He served as president of...
Edward Kolb
Edward W. Kolb, usually known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on many aspects of the big bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and...
Albert L. Lehninger
Albert Lester Lehninger (February 17, 1917 – March 4, 1986) was an American biochemist, and is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of bioenergetics. He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular...
Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in La...
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr. (born September 15, 1937, Yakima, Washington) is an American economist at the University of Chicago. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1995 and is consistently indexed among the top 10 economists...
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is best known among scholars for his theoretical and empirical...
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Howard Taylor Ricketts
Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910) was an American pathologist after whom the Rickettsiaceae family and the Rickettsiales are named.
In the early part of his career, Ricketts undertook research at Northwestern University on blastomycosis. He later...
Raymond D. Fogelson
Raymond D. Fogelson (born August 23, 1933) is an American anthropologist known for his research on American Indians of the southeastern United States, especially the Cherokee. He is considered a founder of the subdiscipline of ethnohistory.
He was...
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Reinhard Bendix
Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a sociologist born in Berlin, Germany.
As a teenager, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He...
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Maynard C. Krueger
Maynard C. Krueger (1906—1991) was an American socialist politician and an economics professor at the University of Chicago.
Krueger was born January 16, 1906 near Alexandria, Missouri, in 1906. He attended the University of Missouri, where he...
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States where took up his trade as a political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of...
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Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon , Rhône, Carrel received his medical degree from...
Susan L. Lindquist
Dr. Lindquist was elected to the Board of Directors in 2004 and is a member of the Science & Technology Advisory Committee and the Public Policy
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Michael Silverstein
Michael Silverstein (born 1945) is a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a preeminent theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology. Over the course of his career he has drawn together...
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Walter E. Massey
Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis.
Massey graduated from...
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Walter E. Massey
Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis.
Massey graduated from...
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Roger Myerson
Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." A professor at the University of Chicago, He has made...
Robert Zimmer
Robert J. Zimmer (born November 5, 1947) is an American mathematician and academic administrator. On March 13, 2006, Zimmer was elected the thirteenth president of the University of Chicago, a position he assumed on July 1, succeeding Don Michael...
Virginio Ferrari
Virginio Ferrari is an Italian sculptor, born in Verona and based in Chicago from the middle of the 1960s. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 group shows. Ferrari Studios, a site for both Virinio and his son...
Lawrence A. Kimpton
Lawrence A. Kimpton (1910 – 1977) was the successor to Robert Maynard Hutchins as president of the University of Chicago.
A professor of philosophy, Kimpton was invited for an interview with Hutchins in 1944. He recalled the interview thus:
Kimpton...
John T. Wilson
John T. Wilson served as president of the University of Chicago from 1975 to 1978.
Ernest DeWitt Burton
Ernest DeWitt Burton (1856–1925) was an American biblical scholar, born in Granville, Ohio.
He graduated from Denison University in 1876 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1882, and studied in Germany at Leipzig and Berlin, then taught at...
Ralph Shapey
Ralph Shapey (March 12, 1921 – June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players. Shapey was a...
Ernest Burgess
Ernest Watson Burgess (May 16, 1886 – December 27, 1966) was an urban sociologist at the University of Chicago. Burgess was born in Tilbury, Ontario, and educated at Kingfisher College in Oklahoma. He continued graduate studies in sociology at the...
Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is among the best-known living philosophers in France, former student of Jacques Derrida and one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. Marion's take on the postmodern is richly enhanced by his expertise...
Hugo F. Sonnenschein
Hugo Freund Sonnenschein is a prominent American economist and educational administrator. Currently the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, his specialty is microeconomic theory; with a particular...
Max Mason
Charles Max Mason (October 26, 1877, Madison, Wisconsin – March 23, 1961, Claremont, California, better known as Max Mason) was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1929) and president of the Rockefeller...
W. I. Thomas
William Isaac Thomas (b. Russell County, Virginia, 13 August 1863, d. Berkeley, California, 5 December 1947), was an American sociologist. He is noted for his pioneering work on the sociology of migration on which he co-operated with Florian...
Don Michael Randel
Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is a prominent American musicologist, the fifth president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has previously served as the twelfth...
William Rainey Harper
William Rainey Harper (July 26, 1856 – January 10, 1906) was a noted academic who helped to organize the University of Chicago and Bradley University and served as the first President of both institutions.
Born on July 26, 1856 in New Concord, Ohio,...
Robert Fogel
Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is best known as a leading advocate of cliometrics, a name for the...
Leon Kass
Leon Richard Kass (born February 12, 1939) is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the "Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning and euthanasia, as a critic of...
Robert Hutchins
Robert Maynard Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins) (January 17, 1899 – May 17, 1977), was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), and a president of the University of Chicago (1929–1945) and its chancellor (1945–1951). He was...
George Stigler
George Joseph Stigler (January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was a U.S. economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982, and was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics, along with his close friend Milton Friedman....
Harry Pratt Judson
Harry Pratt Judson (1849 – 1927) was a U.S. educator and historian, born at Jamestown, N. Y., and educated at Williams College (A.B., 1870; A.M., 1883), where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Epsilon chapter). He taught in the...
George Wells Beadle
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Lawrie Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical...
Mark Strand
Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia...
