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Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a nonsectarian, private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853 and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than one hundred and twenty five nations. Twenty...
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Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 – December 2, 1987) was an Argentine doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the first Spanish-speaking scientist to ever receive the award. Although born in France, Leloir...
Douglass North
Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is an American economist known for his work in the history of economic thought. He is the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the words of...
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...
Ursula Goodenough
Ursula W. Goodenough (b. March 16, 1943) is currently a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the best selling book Sacred Depths of Nature. She earned her M.A. in zoology from Columbia University and in 1969 she...
Arthur Compton
Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953.
Arthur...
Edward J. Hoffman
Edward J. Hoffman, (1942 - July 1, 2004) helped invent the first human PET scanner, a commonly used whole-body scanning procedure for detecting diseases like cancer. Hoffman, with Michael Phelps, developed the Positron Emission Tomography scanner in...
Jonathan S. Turner
Jonathan Turner is the Barbara J. and Jerome R. Cox, Jr. Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include the design and analysis of high performance routers and switching systems, extensible...
Gerald Early
Gerald L. Early (born April 21, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American essayist and American culture critic. He is currently the Merle Kling Professor of Modern letters, of English, African studies, African American studies , American...
Murray Weidenbaum
Murray Lew Weidenbaum (born 1927), United States is an American economist. He is currently the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and Honorary Chairman of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy...
Carl Phillips
This article is about Carl Phillips the writer, for the programmer Carl Phillips see Carl Phillips (programmer)
Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at...
Charles Burson
Charles Wainman Burson was a legal counsel and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States under Al Gore. He assumed the position of legal counsel from Kumiki Gibson in February 1997 after serving almost a decade as Tennessee Attorney...
Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki (槇文彦, Maki Fumihiko) (born Tokyo, September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect and currently teaching at Keio University SFC. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills,...
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Jane Van Duyn (9 May 1921 – 2 December 2004) was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992.
Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She grew up in the small town of Eldora (pop. 3,200...
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of Nerve growth factor (NGF)....
William H. Gass
William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of...
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (29 February 1920 – 5 July 1991) was American poet, twice appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1964, and again from 1988 to 1990. He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for...
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Carl Ferdinand Cori (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo...
Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.
Elkin was born in...
Joseph P Vogel
Dr. Joseph P Vogel, Ph. D (b. June 9, 1963) is an associate professor at Washington University. He is currently conducting research on how pathogens are able to survive and replicate inside host cells. He has chosen to focus on one bacterial...
Mark Gregory Pegg
Mark Gregory Pegg (born 1963) is an Australian professor of medieval history, currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. He specializes in scholarship of the Albigensian Crusade and the Inquisition, the...
Leo Loeb
Leo Loeb, M.D. (September 21, 1869 – December 28, 1959), was a renowned American physician, educator, and experimental pathologist.
Loeb was born in 1869 in Prussia. He was orphaned as a child and grew up in the care of an uncle. Because of ill...
Roger N. Beachy
Roger N. Beachy (born 1944) is an American biologist and the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Roger N. Beachy was born in 1944 in the United States. He completed his BA in biology from Goshen...
Halsey Ives
Halsey Cooley Ives (27 October 1847 – 5 May 1911) was the founder of the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. The institution later became two distinct bodies; the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Washington University School of Art which...
Samuel Isaac Weissman
Dr Samuel Isaac Weissman (June 25, 1912 – June 12, 2007) was an American chemist and professor best known for his work on the application of electron spin resonance (ESR) to chemistry.
Weissman was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1912. He completed...
Michael Somogyi
Dr. Michael Somogyi (1883 - 1971) was an Austro-Hungarian- born professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October...
Herbert Spiegelberg
Herbert Spiegelberg (1904 - September 6, 1990) was an American philosopher who played a prominent role in the advancement of the phenomenogical movement in the United States.
Spiegelberg was born in Strasbourg, in the Alsatian region of northeastern...
John Heuser
Dr. John E. Heuser, M.D. (born August 29, 1942) is a Professor of Biophysics in the department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine. Heuser created quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy, a pioneering...
Arthur T. Denzau
Arthur T. Denzau (Born. June 15, 1947) is Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University, where he also serves as Associate Dean of the School of Politics and Economics.
My research is gradually coming to focus on a question that I heard...
Bernard Becker
Bernard Becker (born 1920) is professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine.
Becker is internationally honored as an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and continues...
Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender (born 1942) is Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his A.B. in 1964 from Cornell University, where he graduated summa cum laude and with Distinction in All Subjects. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D in...
Brian Blank
Brian Evan Blank is an associate professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 at Cornell University, with Anthony Knapp as advisor. His 20th century work involved harmonic analysis. He has also co...
Steven Zwicker
Steven Nathan Zwicker (born June 4, 1943) is an American literary scholar and the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Zwicker is an expert on Restoration-era English literature and...
William Masters
William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) was an American gynecologist, best known as the senior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with Virginia E. Johnson, he pioneered research into the nature of...
Imrat Khan
Imrat Khan (born 17 November 1935) is a leading sitar and surbahar player. He is considered India's leading publicly active surbahar (bass sitar) player. He is the younger brother of sitar player Vilayat Khan.
Imrat was born in Calcutta into a...
David K. Levine
David Knudsen Levine is the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research includes the study of intellectual property and endogenous growth in dynamic general equilibrium models, the...
Barbara A. Schaal
Barbara Anna Schaal (born 1947 in Berlin, Germany, naturalized in 1956) American scientist, evolutionary biologist, is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences. She is the first woman...
Thomas H. Eliot
Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (June 14, 1907-October 14, 1991) was a lawyer, politician, and academic, serving as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and in the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. A great-grandson of Samuel Atkins...
Tzvi Blanchard
Tzvi Blanchard is a rabbi and works for National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) in New York City in addition to teaching at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He has taught at...
George B. Johnson
Dr George B. Johnson (born 11 June 1942, Newport News, Virginia) is a science writer who wrote the weekly column "On Science" in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is also a biology professor at Washington University and a genetics professor at their...
Hyman Minsky
Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996), was an American economist and professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of...
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Carter Revard
Carter Curtis Revard (born March 25, 1931) is an American poet, writer and scholar. He is part Osage on his father's side. He is also known by his Osage name, Nom-Peh-Wah-The (Nompehwahthe) given to him in 1952 by his grandmother, Mrs. Josephine...
Andrew Sobel
Andrew Sobel is a professor of political science at the Washington University in St. Louis. His area of expertise is the politics of international finance and International Political Economy.
Sobel is the author of four books, Domestic Choices,...
P. Roy Vagelos
Pindaros Roy Vagelos, better known as P. Roy Vagelos or Roy Vagelos (born 1929 in Westfield, New Jersey), was president and chief executive officer (1985) and chairman (1986) of the multinational pharmaceutical company Merck. He attracted research...
Patty Jo Watson
Patty Jo Watson is an American archaeologist renowned for her work on Pre-Columbian Native Americans, especially in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky. She is now Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Archaeology at Washington University in...
Werner Ploberger
Werner Ploberger (born 5 August 1956 in Vienna) is an Austrian economist. He graduated in mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology. Beginning in 1997, he was a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Effective July 1, 2006...
Edgar Anderson
Edgar Anderson (November 9, 1897 – June 18, 1969) was an American botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics.
Anderson was born in Forestville, New York, when he was three his...
Calvin M. Woodward
Calvin Milton Woodward (August 25, 1837 – January 12, 1915) was born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts to Isaac Burnap Woodward and Eliza W. (Wetherbee) Woodward. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in 1860.
His first job was to serve as...
Otto Brendel
Otto J. Brendel (born 1901 Nuremberg, Germany; died New York City September 1973) was an art historian and scholar of Etruscan art and archaeology.
In 1928 he received his Ph.D. from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg under Ludwig Curtius on...
Holbrook Mann MacNeille
Holbrook Mann MacNeille (May 11, 1907 – September 30, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission before becoming the first Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society.
MacNeille was born...
Mildred Trotter
Mildred Trotter (February 3, 1899 – August 23, 1991) was an important 20th century forensic anthropologist.
Trotter was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. in zoology and physiology from Mount Holyoke College in 1920 and her Ph.D....
Derek Hirst
Derek Hirst (born 1948, Isle of Wight) is an English historian of early modern Britain.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of four books and over thirty articles, Professor Hirst holds a B.A. (1969) and Ph.D (1974) from Cambridge...
Martin Kennedy
Martin Kennedy (born March 24, 1978) is an English-American composer of classical music. He is a former student of Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, Don Freund, David Dzubay, and Claude Baker.
He received a Doctor Musical Arts (DMA) from the Juilliard...
Raymond Tucker
Raymond Tucker (December 4, 1896 – November 23, 1970) was the thirty-eighth Mayor of St. Louis, serving from 1953 to 1965.
Tucker was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where he later received degrees from Columbia University and Washington University. He...
Laurence Meyer
Laurence Meyer (born March 8, 1944) is an economist and was a United States Federal Reserve System governor from June 1996 to January 2002.
Meyer received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in economics from the...
Clifford Martin Will
Clifford Martin Will (born 1946) is a Canadian born mathematical physicist who is well known for his contributions to the theory of general relativity.
Will was born in Hamilton, Canada. In 1968, he earned a B.Sc. from McMaster University. At...
Ebba Segerberg
Ebba Segerberg is an academic and translator, noted for her translations of Swedish literature into English.
Segerberg is Adjunct Lecturer in Swedish at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary...
Erik Trinkaus
Erik Trinkaus, PhD, (December 24, 1948) is a prominent paleoanthropologist and expert on Neanderthal biology and human evolution. Trinkaus researches the evolution of the species Homo sapiens and recent human diversity, focusing on the...
Victor Wickerhauser
Mladen Victor Wickerhauser, born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1959. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, and Yale University.
He is currently Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University...
Jean Sutherland Boggs
Jean Sutherland Boggs, CC, FRSC (born June 11, 1922) is a Canadian academic, art historian, and civil servant.
Born in Negritos, Peru, An alumna of Alma College (St. Thomas) Boggs would later receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of...
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1951 – March 31, 2005) was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis. In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to...
