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Cleanup Note: Individuals who serve(d) on the faculty, but are/were not alumni, should be added solely to the Faculty section. We are in the processes of clarifying such individuals from various sections and trying to determine year of the degree from Columbia.

This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.

Contents

1 Nobel laureates 1.1 Chemistry 1.2 Economic Science 1.3 Literature 1.4 Peace 1.5 Physics 1.6 Physiology or Medicine 2 Politics, Military, and Law 3 Business 4 Arts and Literature 5 Performing Arts 6 Journalism 7 Science and Technology Alumni 8 Astronaut Alumni 9 Academics and History 10 Sports 11 Faculty 12 External Link

Nobel laureates

Chemistry

1932	Irving Langmuir	(metallurgical engineering degree, 1903; M.A., 1906)
1934	Harold C. Urey	(faculty member, 1929 to 1945)
1946	John H. Northrop	(B.S., 1912; M.A., 1913; Ph.D., 1915)
1960	Willard Libby	(faculty, 1941 to 1944)
1972	William H. Stein	(Ph.D., 1938)
1981	Roald Hoffmann	(B.A., 1958)
1985	Herbert A. Hauptman	(M.A., 1939)
1989	Sidney Altman	(graduate student, teaching assistant, 1960 to 1962)
2001	William S. Knowles	(Ph.D., 1942)

Economic Science

1971	Simon S. Kuznets	(B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926)
1972	Kenneth J. Arrow	(M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1951)
1976	Milton Friedman	(Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1964 to 1965)
1982	George J. Stigler	(faculty member, 1947 to 1958)
1987	Robert Solow	(fellowship year, 1949 to 1950)
1992	Gary S. Becker	(faculty member, 1957 to 1970)
1993	Robert W. Fogel	(M.A., 1960)
1996	William S. Vickrey	(M.A., 1937; Ph.D., 1948; faculty member, 1946 to 1996)
1997	Robert C. Merton	(B.S., 1966)
1999	Robert Mundell	(faculty member, 1974 to present)
2000	James Heckman	(faculty member, 1970 to 1974)
2001	Joseph Stiglitz	(faculty member, 2001 to present)

Literature

1987	Joseph Brodsky	(faculty member, 1978 to 1985)
1991	Nadine Gordimer	(faculty member, 1971 to 1972, 1976 to 1978, 1983)
1992	Derek Walcott	(faculty member, 1979, 1981 to 1983, 1984)

Peace

1906	Theodore Roosevelt	(Law, 1880 to 1882)
1931	Nicholas Murray Butler	(B.A., 1882; M.A., 1883; Ph.D., 1884, president of Columbia, 1902 to 1945)

Physics

1923	Robert A. Millikan	(Ph.D., 1895)
1938	Enrico Fermi	(faculty member, 1939 to 1945)
1944	I.I. Rabi	(Ph.D., 1927; faculty member, 1929 to 1988)
1949	Hideki Yukawa	(faculty member, 1949 to 1954)
1955	Polykarp Kusch	(faculty member, 1937 to 1972)
1955	Willis E. Lamb	(faculty member, 1938 to 1952, 1960 to 1961)
1957	Tsung Dao Lee	(faculty member, 1953 to present)
1963	Maria Goeppert Mayer	(faculty member, 1940 to 1946)
1964	Charles H. Townes	(faculty member, 1948 to 1961)
1965	Julian S. Schwinger	(B.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1939)
1972	Leon N. Cooper	(B.A., 1951; M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1954)
1975	James Rainwater	(M.A., 1941; Ph.D., 1946; faculty member, 1939 to 1986)
1975	Aage Bohr	(faculty member, 1949 to 1950)
1976	Samuel C.C. Ting	(faculty member, 1964 to 1967)
1978	Arno A. Penzias	(M.A., 1958; Ph.D., 1962)
1979	Steven Weinberg	(faculty member, 1957 to 1959)
1980	Val L. Fitch	(Ph.D., 1954; faculty member, 1953 to 1954)
1981	Arthur L. Schawlow	(faculty member, 1949 to 1951, 1960)
1984	Carlo Rubbia	(research fellow at Nevis , 1958 to 1960)
1988	Leon M. Lederman	(M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951; faculty member, 1951 to 1989)
1988	Melvin Schwartz	(B.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1958; faculty member, 1958 to 1966, 1991 to present)
1988	Jack Steinberger	(faculty member, 1950 to 1970, 1985 to 1986, 1988 to 1998)
1989	Norman F. Ramsey	(B.A., 1935; Ph.D., 1940; faculty member, 1941 to 1947)
1995	Martin L. Perl	(Ph.D., 1955)
1998	Horst L. Stormer	(faculty member, 1998 to present)

Physiology or Medicine

1933	Thomas Hunt Morgan	(faculty member, 1904 to 1928)
1946	Hermann J. Muller	(B.A., 1910; M.A., 1911; Ph.D., 1916; faculty member, 1918 to 1920)
1950	Edward C. Kendall	(B.S., 1908; M.A., 1909; Ph.D., 1910)
1956	Dickinson W. Richards	(M.A., 1922; M.D., 1923; faculty member, 1925 to 1973)
1956	Andre F. Cournand	(faculty member, 1935 to 1988)
1958	Joshua Lederberg	(B.A., 1944; faculty member, 1990 to 1999)
1964	Konrad E. Bloch	(Ph.D., 1938; faculty member, 1938 to 1946, 1966)
1967	George Wald	(M.A., 1928)
1969	Salvador E. Luria	(faculty member, 1940 to 1942)
1973	Konrad Lorenz	(Columbia College, 1922 to 1923)
1976	D. Carleton Gajdusek	(postgraduate training, 1946 to 1947)
1976	Baruch S. Blumberg	(M.D., 1951)
1978	Daniel Nathans	(intern and medical resident, 1954 to 1959)
1980	Baruj Benacerraf	(B.S., 1942)
1982	Sune Bergström	(research fellowship, 1940 to 1941)
1989	Harold E. Varmus	(M.D., 1966)
1990	E. Donnall Thomas	(faculty member, 1955 to 1963)
1998	Louis J. Ignarro	(B.S., 1962)
2000	Eric Kandel	(faculty member, 1972 to present)
2004	Richard Axel	(A.B., 1967; faculty member, 1978 to present)
2004	Linda Buck	(postdoctoral fellow 1980 to 1984; associate 1984 to 1991)

Politics, Military, and Law

• Bella Abzug - progressive US congresswoman from NY
• Madeleine Albright - President Clinton's Secretary of State
• Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar - architect of India's constitution, Minister of Law
• Hafizullah Amin - was the second President of Afghanistan
• Marek Belka - Prime Minister of Poland since March 2004
• Harold Brown - Secretary of Defense under the Carter Administration
• Pat Buchanan (Journalism) - Conservative commentator, speechwriter, senior advisor to three U.S. presidents
• Benjamin Cardozo - Chief Justice of US Supreme Court
• DeWitt Clinton - Former governor of New York State, former mayor of New York City, main proponent of the Erie Canal
• Colgate Darden - Governor of Virginia, president of UVA
• William Donovan (Wild Bill) - wartime head of the OSS (predecessor to the CIA)
• Charles Van Doren (GSAS 1959) - see below
• Gray Davis (Law) - former Governor of California
• Thomas E. Dewey - (Law) Governor of New York, defeated presidential candidate
• William O. Douglas - US Supreme Court justice
• Crystal Eastman
• Millicent Fenwick - New Jersey member of U.S. House of Representatives, US Ambassador to the United Nations
• Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg - (Law) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Jack Greenberg - litigator of Brown v. Board of Ed.
• Alan Greenspan - Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, studied for PhD in economics
• Judd Gregg - Republican Senator fron New Hampshire (2005)
• Alexander Hamilton - Founding father, co-author of The Federalist Papers
• John D. Hawke, Jr - US Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency
• Jim Hightower - progressive activist
• Johan Jørgen Holst - Norwegian Foreign Minister, The Oslo Accord of 1994 between Israel and the Palestinians
• Charles Evans Hughes - US Supreme Court Justice
• Jacob Javits - NY State Senator
• John Jay - Founding Father, First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, political theorist
• Jeane Kirkpatrick - (SIA) US ambassador to UN under Reagan
• Wellington V. Koo - Chinese diplomat
• Frank Lautenberg - Democratic Senator from New Jersey (2005)
• John Lindsay - Mayor of NYC
• Robert Livingston - Founding Father, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Minister to France , negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase
• Seth Low - University president, Mayor of New York City
• John McLaughlin - political commentator
• Li Lu - Law/Business, leader of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
• James Meredith - American civil rights movement figure
• Jim McGreevey - New Jersey Governor
• Gouverneur Morris - Founding father, creator of Manhattan street grid system, a builder of the Erie canal
• Robert Moses - leader of mid-centry urban "renewal" who re-shaped NYC for better and worse
• Constance Baker Motley - first black woman federal court judge, NYS Senator, Manhattan Borough president
• Barack Obama - Democratic Senator from Illinois (2005), first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review
• George Pataki (Law) - Governor of New York
• Norman Podhoretz- distinguished editor of Commentary Magazine, a founder of Neoconservatism
• Stanley Forman Reed - US Supreme Court justice
• Hyman G. Rickover - USN Admiral, father of the US nuclear submarine fleet
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Law) - 32nd President of the United States
• Theodore Roosevelt (Law) - 26th President of the United States
• Charles F.C. Ruff - Washington lawyer, represented Anita Hill (vs. Clarence Thomas) and Bill Clinton (impeachment)
• Mikhail Saakashvili (Law) - President of Georgia
• Donna Shalala - Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Clinton Administration
• Thomas Sowell
• Ben Stein (CC 1966) - actor, conservative commentator
• George Stephanopoulos - Senior advisor to Bill Clinton, television anchor
• Harlan Fiske Stone - US Supreme Court Justice
• Telford Taylor - chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials
• George Tenet - Former director of Central Intelligence Agency under President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
• Daniel D. Tompkins - 6th Vice-President of the U.S.
• Shao-yi Tong - first Prime Minister of Republic of China

Business

• John Jacob Astor III - one of the super rich of the 19th century, slum-lord
• Donald Clifford Brace, CC 1904 - Co-Founder of Harcourt Brace
• Warren Buffett (Economics) - Investor, president of Berkshire Hathaway
• Bennett Cerf - Founder of Random House
• Jason Epstein - Editorial director at Random House
• Mario Gabelli - investor
• Michael Gould - CEO of Bloomingdale's
• Larry Grossman - former CEO of PBS and NBC
• Stephen Friedman - Chairman of Goldman Sachs, National Economic Council director
• Armand Hammer - President, Occidental Petroleum, noted internationalist
• Alfred Harcourt, CC 1904 - Co-Founder of Harcourt Brace
• Herman Hollerith, E.M. 1879, PhD 1890- founder of the Tabulating Machine Company, a predecessor to IBM
• Alfred A. Knopf, CC 1912 - Founder of Alfred Knopf Publishers
• Henry Kravis (MBA 1969) - Investment banker who invented the leveraged buyout
• Rochelle Lazarus - CEO of Ogilvy and Mather
• Frank Lorenzo, CC 1961 - corporate raider
• George Macy - founder of Macy's Department Stores
• John MacArthur, CC 1978 - president and publisher of Harper's, the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the country
• Philip Milstein - CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank
• Robert Moog - inventor of Moog synthesizer
• Ben Rosen - Founder of Compaq
• Samuel Rosen - Chairman of 20th Century Fox
• Robert Rosencrans, CC 1949, formed the USA Network, inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame in 2000.
• David O. Selznick - legendary movie producer
• Max Lincoln Schuster, CC 1919, - Co-Founder of Simon & Schuster
• Robert Shaye - CEO of New Line Cinema
• Richard L. Simon - Co-Founder of Simon & Schuster
• Martha Stewart, BC 1963 - doyenne of gracious living and convicted inside-trader
• Richard Vault - former president of NBC News division, former senior vice-president of ABC News
• S. Robson Walton - Chairman of the Board, Wal-Mart

Arts and Literature

• John Ashbery - poet
• Paul Auster
• Isaac Asimov, B.A. 1939, Ph.D. 1948 - science fiction author, I, Robot
• Bela Bartok - composer
• James Blish - SF author
• Andrew Delbanco - English Professor, named Best Cultural Critic by Time Magazine
• Mark Van Doren - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Walter Farley, CC 1941 - author, The Black Stallion
• Paul Gallico, author, The Snow Goose, The Poseidon Adventure, The Silent Miaow
• Allen Ginsberg, CC 1948 - Beat Generation poet
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston - author, Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Erica Jong - BC author, Fear of Flying
• Joseph Heller - author, Catch-22
• Kentaro Kaji
• Jack Kerouac, CC 1940-1942 - dropped out, founder of the Beat Generation movement in poetry and literature, On the Road
• Joyce Kilmer - poet, author of Trees
• Ursula K. Le Guin - SF author, The Earthsea Cycle
• Federico Garcia Lorca - writer and poet
• Eric Van Lustbader - author, The Ninja
• Gabriela Mistral
• Carson McCullers - author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Isamu Noguchi - sculptor
• Georgia O'Keeffe - artist
• Upton Sinclair - populist author, The Jungle ; presidential candidate
• Robert A. M. Stern - architect
• Herman Wouk - Pulitzer Prize-winning author, War and Remembrance
• Roger Zelazny - SF auther
• Katherine Zien - Jewish-American writer and modern drama scholar

Performing Arts

• Laurie Anderson, BC 1969 - performance artist
• Emanuel Ax, CC 1970 - pianist, won Avery Fisher prize at age 30, won three Grammy Awards along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma; also awarded the John Jay award by the University
• Kathryn Bigelow - director, Strange Days
• Sorrell Booke, CC 1949- actor, best known as "Boss Hogg" on the weekly series Dukes of Hazzard
• Sidney Buchman, CC 1923 - screenwriter, won an Academy Award for writing for Here Comes Mister Jordan.
• James Cagney, CC 1922 - Legendary Actor, White Heat and Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Brian Dennehy, CC 1960 - Actor
• Brian DePalma- movie director, Carrie and The Untouchables
• I.A.L. Diamond, CC 1941 - co-winner of an Academy Award for writing for The Apartment
• Jill Eikenberry, BC 1969 - Actress, best known for role as an attorney on the television series L.A. Law, received four Emmy Award nominations, won a Golden Globe Award.
• Art Garfunkel, CC 1965 - Of Simon and Garfunkel
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Actor, Donnie Darko, The Good Girl
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - Actress, Secretary
• Oscar Hammerstein II - Lyricist and librettist of such musicals as the Pulitzer Prize winning Oklahoma! , The King and I and The Sound of Music, collaborator with Richard Rodgers
• Lauryn Hill - R&B singer, one-time Fugees frontwoman, (only attended first year)
• Jean Kelly - Actress
• Alicia Keys - singer, composer
• Tony Kushner - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Angels in America
• William Ludwig, CC 1932 - screenwriter, co-winner of an Academy Award in 1955 for Interrupted Melody, founder of the Screen Writers Guild (known now as the Writers Guild of America)
• Herman J. Mankiewicz, CC 1917, won an Academy Award for co-writing Citizen Kane; older brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, CC 1928, won four Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for writing. Younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
• Terrence McNally, CC 1960, dramatist, winner of four Tony Awards, an Emmy, a Pulitzer Prize, and two Guggenheim Fellowships
• Anna Paquin - Academy Award-winning actress, The Piano and X-Men
• Amanda Peet - Actress, The Whole Nine Yards
• Joan Rivers, BC 1954 - Comedienne
• Richard Rodgers - Composer of such musicals as the Pulitzer Prize winning Oklahoma! , The King and I and The Sound of Music, collaborator with Oscar Hammerstein
• Telly Savalas - Actor
• George Segal, CC 1955- Actor, Just Shoot Me
• Julia Stiles - Actress, Save the Last Dance
• Twyla Tharp, BC 1963- choreographer, dancer
• Suzanne Vega, BC 1981 - singer, songwriter

Journalism

• R.W. Apple - Senior Correspondent, Associate Editor, former Washington Bureau chief, The New York Times
• Rose Arce, BC 1986 - member of the Newsday team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for spot news reporting.
• Richard L. Berke - Washington editor New York Times
• Suzanne Bilello, BC 1977 - member of a team of Newsday reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for spot news reporting
• Max Frankel - Executive editor New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Joseph Lelyveld - Executive editor NY Times
• Robert Lipsyte, CC 1957 - winner of an Emmy Award in 1990, host of The Eleventh Hour on PBS, correspondent for The New York Times and ABC Nightly News
• Eileen McNamara, BC 1974 - won the Pulitzer Prize (Commentary) in 1997 for her Boston Globe columns
• Anna Quindlen - Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist
• Claire Shipman, CC 1986 - Senior National Correspondent for ABC, winner of an Emmy Award for her CNN coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , winner of the 1991 Peabody Award
• Richard Smith - CEO of Newsweek
• Gideon Yago - CC 2001 - rising star of MTV News staff

Science and Technology Alumni

• Roy Chapman Andrews - dinosaur bone hunter
• Oswald Avery, M.D. 1904 - discoverer of DNA's role in transmitting genetic information
• Edwin Armstrong, B.S. 1913 - Inventor of radio circuitry such as the regenerative circuit and FM radio, pioneer in feedback amplifiers
• Virginia Apgar, M.D. 1933 - created the Apgar score which is used to evaluate the health of newborn babies
• John Backus, B.A. (mathematics) 1949 - inventor of Fortran programming language
• Charles Drew, M.D. 1940 - inventor of blood plasma preservation system
• Helene Gayle, B.A. 1976 - AIDS researcher
• Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D. 1967 - Paleontologist and author
• Ben Graham, B.A. 1914 - Father of Modern Security Analysis and value investing, taught Warren Buffett
• Robert Jastrow, B.A, M.A. Ph.D. Astronomer
• Arthur Jensen, Ph.D. 1956 - Educational psychologist who argued for heritability of intelligence
• William Barclay Parsons, B.S. 1879 - Civil Engineer
• Michael Pupin, B.S. 1883 - inventor of telephone transmission coils and scientist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography
• Benjamin Spock, M.D. 1929 - Medicine Olympic rower, physician, author
• John Stevens, A.B. 1768 - built first steam railroad, responsible for first patent law in the US
• Ruth Westheimer, Ed.D (Teachers College). - Sex therapist and radio personality. Otherwise known as Dr. Ruth

Astronaut Alumni

• Kenneth D. Bowersox, M.S. 1979
• Kevin P. Chilton, M.S. 1977
• William Gregory, M.S. 1980
• Michael J. Massimino, B.S. 1984
• Story Musgrave, M.D. 1964
• Eugene H. Trinh, B.S. 1972

Academics and History

• Mortimer Adler - founder of the Great Books movement
• Frederick A.P. Barnard - University president, founder of Barnard College
• William Theodore de Bary - Leading Asian studies scholar
• Jacques Barzun - historian
• Walter Block - PhD in Economics
• Konrad Emil Bloch
• Franz Boas - Father of American Anthropology
• Joseph Campbell - noted professor of mythology
• Nicholas Butler - University President, United States presidential candidate in 1920, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• John Dewey - Philosopher, developed theory of instrumentalism
• Richard Epstein - Noted legal scholar
• Milton Friedman - Father of the Chicago School of Economics, 1976 Nobel Prize laureate in Economics
• Jane Jacobs - urban theorist
• Marshall Kay - noted geologist
• Grayson Kirk - University President
• Paul Lazarsfeld
• Margaret Mead - noted anthropologist
• Robert C. Merton - 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Edward Sapir - linguist and anthropologist
• William Sloane - Founder of the U.S. Olympic Committee
• Lionel Trilling - Literary critic

Sports

• Roone Arledge - pioneer of sports and news broadcasting with ABC
• Jose Raul Capablanca - World Chess Champion
• Annie Duke - professional poker player
• Amelia Earhart - (Extension) most famous aviatrix
• Lou Gehrig - CC 1921–1923 - Baseball player for the New York Yankees, enshrinee of the baseball hall of fame
• Sandy Koufax - (GS) Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
• Sid Luckman American football quarterback, enshrinee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Paul Robeson (Law) - American football All-American, attorney, musician, activist
• David Stern - NBA Commissioner
• Marcellus Wiley - American football player, Pro-Bowl defensive end, now with the Dallas Cowboys

Faculty

• Alfred Aho - Computer Science professor, the "A" in the programming language AWK.
• Charles Beard
• Jagdish Bhagwati - Economics professor, author of In Defense of Globalization
• Lee Bollinger - University President/law professor, First Amendment scholar, Affirmative Action advocate
• Alan Brinkley - professor of American history and University Provost; son of legendary newscaster David Brinkley
• Zbigniew Brzezinski - National Security Advisor under the Carter Administration, taught Foreign Affairs
• Richard Bulliet - History professor and Middle East scholar, author of Kicked to Death by a Camel
• William Theodore De Bary - Famous scholar and translator of East Asia, particularly the classical Chinese canon
• Charles Frederick Chandler - pioneering chemist, president of the New York Metropolitan Board of Health, inventor of the flush toilet
• John Dewey - Former Philosophy professor
• Theodosius Dobzhansky - researcher in population genetics
• Mark Von Doren
• Dwight Eisenhower - Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, President, Columbia University, 34th President of the United States
• William Maurice Ewing - Earth scientist and pioneer
• Enrico Fermi Manhattan Project member, founder of Fermilab, Nobel laureate
• Milos Forman - film director, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt
• Erich Fromm - noted pyschologist
• Fred W. Friendly - Pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar
• Benjamin Graham - father of value investing, mentor of Warren Buffet
• Bradford Garton- Composer
• Brian Greene - Mathematics and Physics professor, researcher and popular author in String Theory
• Richard Hofstadter - noted historian
• Annette Insdorf - film studies professor, noted film historian.
• Kenneth T. Jackson - Preeminent historian of New York City
• Eric Kandel - neuroscientist, 2000 Nobel laureate
• Kenneth Koch - Poet
• Polykarp Kusch - Nobel laureate
• Tsung Dao Lee - Physics professor, Nobel laureate
• Konrad Lorenz - Psychology professor, Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1973)
• Eben Moglen - Law and the Internet Society, General Counsel of FSF
• Thomas Hunt Morgan - proved chromosomes are the carrier of genes, Nobel laureate in Medicine
• Robert Mundell - Economics professor, 1999 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Mira Nair - director of Monsoon Wedding, film studies professor
• Richard Pena - head of the New York Film Festival, film studies professor
• Charles Lane Poor - Astronomer
• Jeffrey Sachs - Former head of the World Bank, Economics professor
• Edward Said (d. 2003) - Former English professor, Palestinian activist, author of Orientalism, widely considered founder of Postcolonial studies
• Andrew Sarris - Film Studies professor and famous auteur theorist
• James Schamus - Film Studies professor, co-president of Focus Features, screenwriter and producer
• Gayatri C. Spivak - English professor
• Joseph E. Stiglitz - Economics professor, 2001 Nobel laureate in Economics, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
• Horst Stormer - Applied Physics professor, 1998 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Samuel Ting - Physics professor, Nobel laureate
• Charles H. Townes - one of the inventors of the Maser, 1964 Nobel laureate in Physics
• Charles Van Doren - English professor, involved in deception on TV quiz show "Twenty-One"
• William Vickrey - Economics professor, 1996 Nobel laureate in Economics
• Kenneth Waltz - Political Science professor and noted neorealism scribe
• Chien-Shiung Wu - Physics professor, first woman to head the American Physical Society
• Chen Ning Yang - Physics professor, Nobel laureate

External Link

• Nobel Prize Winners associated with Columbia University (http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/nobel_laureates/by_year.html)
• Columbians Ahead of Their Time (http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/) - list of notable Columbians created by Columbia University for their 250th anniversary.

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