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Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South....
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Richard C. McCarty
Richard C. McCarty (born July 12, 1947) is a professor of psychology and the provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to serving as provost, he was dean of Vanderbilt's College of Arts...
Elijah Embree Hoss
Elijah Embree Hoss (April 14, 1849 – April 23, 1919) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1902. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, as a college professor and administrator, and as an editor....
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. Sutherland was born in Burlingame, Kansas. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the...
Stanley Cohen
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). He is a distinguished researcher and academic associated with the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville,...
Max Delbrück
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.
Delbrück was born in Berlin, German Empire. His father was Hans Delbrück, a professor of history at the University of Berlin, and...
Steven C. Hebert
Steven C. Hebert, M.D., (b. 1946 in Rockford, Illinois—d. April 15, 2008), a board certified nephrologist, was the chair and C.N.H. Long Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and professor of medicine at Yale University, beginning in 2000....
Ronald Spores
Ronald M. Spores (born January 25, 1931) is an American academic anthropologist, archaeologist and ethnohistorian, whose research career has centered on the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. He is Professor Emeritus of anthropology at...
Jon Kaas
Jon Kaas is a Professor in Vanderbilt University and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He has made discoveries about the organization of the mammalian brain, including the description of many areas of the cerebral cortex...
John Cowper Granbery
John Cowper Granbery (1829-1907) was an American clergyman of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church, born at Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated at Randolph Macon College in 1848, entered the Methodist ministry, and acted as chaplain in the...
Kenneth C. Catania
Kenneth C. Catania (born 1965) is a neurobiologist. Catania is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where he studies star-nosed moles and naked mole rats. In 1989, Catania received a BS in zoology from the...
M. Eric Johnson
M. Eric Johnson is a Professor of Operations Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.. He is also Director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies. He joined the Tuck...
Karl Dean
Karl Foster Dean (born September 20, 1955) is the sixth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. He was sworn in on September 21, 2007. From 1999 to January 9, 2007, Karl Dean served as Nashville's Director...
Tom Dillehay
Tom Dillehay is an American anthropologist who is the anthropology department chair at Vanderbilt University. While working in Universidad Austral de Chile he was involved in the excavations at Monte Verde in Chile where human remains of an age...
Houston A. Baker Jr.
Houston Alfred Baker Jr. (born March 22, 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American scholar specializing in African American literature and currently serving as a Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University in the English...
James Barr
The Revd. Professor James Barr FBA (born March 20, 1924, Glasgow, Scotland; died October 14, 2006, Claremont, California) was a Scottish Old Testament scholar.
He held professorships at Manchester, and at Vanderbilt University in the United States...
Arthur Demarest
Arthur Demarest is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his studies of the Maya civilization.
Demarest, a Louisiana Cajun, studied Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology in Tulane University, where he graduated. In 1981...
Bjarni Jónsson
Bjarni Jónsson (born 1920) is an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He is emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra...
Charlotte Froese Fischer
Acad. Prof. Dr. Charlotte Froese Fischer PhD (b. 1929) is a Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist who gained world recognition for the development and implementation of the Multi-configurational Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach...
Tony Earley
Tony Earley (born 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in North Carolina. His stories are often set in North Carolina.
Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after...
Albert Gore, Sr.
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Sr. (December 26, 1907 – December 5, 1998) was an American politician, serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee.
Gore had two children, Nancy LaFon Gore, born in 1938, who...
Taylor Wang
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang (simplified Chinese: 王赣骏; traditional Chinese: 王贛駿; pinyin: Wáng Gànjùn) (born June 16, 1940) is an American scientist and in 1985, became the first ethnic Chinese person to go into space. While an employee of the Jet Propulsion...
John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee- July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio) was an American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic.
Ransom was the third of four children of a Methodist minister. His...
John Donald Wade
John Donald Wade (September 28, 1892 - October 9, 1963) was an American biographer, author, essayist, and teacher.
Wade was born in Marshallville, Georgia. His father was a country doctor. Wade was descended from the first Governor of Georgia.
Wade...
Alain Connes
Alain Connes (born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France, IHÉS and Vanderbilt University.
Alain Connes is one of the leading specialists on operator algebras. In his early work on von Neumann algebras...
Harold Ford, Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.
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Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National...
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Richard L. Daft
Richard L. Daft is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. He has made fundamental contributions to the study of organization behavior and organization design, and...
