@farmerman,
There is no evidence that life "was created in a warm pond one day Daddy"
However if you want to consider that science, and to teach it to your university students, please do.
Now what university did you teach at again? As real professors are not scared of what they teach......
Robert Aumann Oskar Morgenstern professor, 1997 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [1]
Saul Bellow professor 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature [2]
Baruj Benacerraf professor 1956–1968 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3]
Joseph Brodsky fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature [4]
Robert F. Engle professor 1999– 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [5]
Rudolf Eucken lecturer 1913–1914 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature [6]
James Heckman associate adjunct professor 1972 2000 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [7]
Avram Hershko adjunct professor 1998– 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [8]
Eric R. Kandel MED 1955, M.D.; Associate Professor 1965–74 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [9]
Tjalling Koopmans professor, 1940 1975 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [10]
Wassily Leontief professor 1975–1999 1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [11]
Otto Loewi professor 1940–1961 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [12]
Rudolph Marcus professor 1960–1961, Courant Institute 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [13]
Robert S. Mulliken professor 1926–1928 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [14]
Gunnar Myrdal visiting professor 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [15]
Severo Ochoa professor 1942–1974 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [16]
Edmund Phelps professor 1978–1979 2006 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [17]
Edward C. Prescott Shinsei visiting professor 2005– 2004 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [18]
Paul A. Samuelson visiting professor 1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [19]
Thomas Sargent professor 2002- 2011 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [20]
Wole Soyinka Scholar-in-Residence 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature [21]
Michael Spence professor 2010– 2001 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics [22][23]
MacArthur Fellows[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Arthur G. Amsterdam Professor of Law 1989 MacArthur Fellow
Harold Bloom Berg Professor of English 1985 MacArthur Fellow
Joan Breton Connelly Professor of Art History 1996 MacArthur Fellow
Faye D. Ginsburg Professor of Anthropology 1994 MacArthur Fellow
Fritz John Professor of Mathematics 1984 MacArthur Fellow
Galway Kinnell Professor of Creative Writing 1984 MacArthur Fellow
Sylvia A. Law LAW 1968, J.D.; professor 1983 MacArthur Fellow
David Levering Lewis Professor of History 1999 MacArthur Fellow
Ruth Watson Lubic Adjunct Professor 1993 MacArthur Fellow
Paule Marshall Professor of English 1992 MacArthur Fellow
Deborah Meier Research Scholar, Steinhardt 1987 MacArthur Fellow
George Perle GSAS 1956, Ph.D.; professor of music 1974 MacArthur Fellow
Charles S. Peskin Professor of Mathematics 1983 MacArthur Fellow
Robert Shapley Professor of Neurology 1986 MacArthur Fellow
Anna Deavere Smith Professor of Performance Studies 1996 MacArthur Fellow
Deborah Willis Professor of Photography 2000 MacArthur Fellow
Rita P. Wright Professor of Anthropology 1988 MacArthur Fellow
Horng-Tzer Yau Professor of Mathematics 2000 MacArthur Fellow
National Medal of Science recipients[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Kurt O. Friedrichs professor 1938–1974 1976 National Medal of Science recipient
Michael Heidelberger professor 1964–1991 1967 National Medal of Science recipient
Severo Ochoa professor 1942–1974 1979 National Medal of Science recipient
College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Suketu Mehta Associate professor, journalism, current Writer best known for the book Maximum City [24]
Polytechnic Institute of NYU[edit]
Main article: List of NYU Polytechnic Institute people
Stern School of Business[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Vincent Bastien Professor, current TRIUM Global Executive MBA Professor
Jennifer N. Carpenter Professor, current Associate Professor of Finance
Aswath Damodaran Professor, current Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education
Ed Elton Professor, current Nomura Professor of Finance; Academic Director of Stern Doctoral Program
Ken Froewiss Professor, current Clinical Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Executive Programs
Dan Gode Professor, current Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting
Jonathan Haidt Professor, current Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
Peter Blair Henry Professor, current Dean, NYU Stern; Dean Richard R. West Professorship in Business; William R. Berkley Professor of Economics & Finance
Ernest Kurnow Professor, current Business Statistics professor; born 1912, on NYU faculty since 1948
Alexander Ljungqvist Professor, current Research Professor of Finance; Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurship; Research Director, Berkley Center
Sonia Marciano Professor, current Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
Michael Posner Professor, current Professor of Business and Society
Thomas Pugel Professor, current Vice Dean of Executive Programs and Professor of Economics and Global Business
Paul Romer Professor, current Professor of Economics
Nouriel Roubini Professor, current Professor of Economics and International Business
Thomas Sargent Professor, current William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business
Anthony Saunders Professor, current John M. Schiff Professor of Finance
Michael Spence Professor, current William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business
Raghu Sundaram Professor, current Professor of Finance; Yamaichi Faculty Fellow
Arun Sundararajan Professor, current Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences; NEC Faculty Fellow
Richard Sylla Professor, current History of Financial Institutions and Markets professor
Lawrence J. White Professor, current Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics
Eitan Zemel Professor, current Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Quality and Productivity
Larry Zicklin Professor, current Clinical Professor at Stern; Neuberger Berman’s Chairman of the Board
Tisch School of the Arts[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
D. B. Gilles Teaches screenwriting Four plays published by Dramatists Play Service [25]
Marketa Kimbrell Taught directing and acting Taught film directing and acting from 1970 to 2006;
Founder of the New York Street Theater Caravan [26]
Susan Sandler Teaches Screenwriting/Directing Wrote plays and screenplays including Crossing Delancey [27]
Professor emeriti and other notable faculty[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Notability
Reference
Yehuda Amichai Poet in residence Awarded the 1969 Brenner Prize, 1976 Bialik Prize, and 1982 Israel Prize
Thomas A. Abercrombie Professor, current Winner of the 2004–2005 Guggenheim Fellowship
Awam Amkpa Professor current, Director of NYU's Africana studies Drama professor and professor
Philip Alston Professor, current John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions.
Edward Altman Professor, 1977 – Inventor of the "Z-Score"
Jacob M. Appel Visiting faculty, current Bioethicist, authority on euthanasia [28]
Roger S. Bagnall Visiting Professor Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU
Henry Martyn Baird B.A., 1850, Professor 1859–1906 Historian of the Huguenots
William Baumol professor member, National Academy of Science
Saul Bellow Professor 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
Baruj Benacerraf Professor 1956–1968 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Carl Bernstein Professor 1973 Pulitzer Prize (Watergate)
Marsha Berger professor member, National Academy of Science
Ben Bernanke Visiting Professor 1993 Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
Ned Block Professor 1996– contributed to matters of consciousness and cognitive science
Paul Boghossian Professor current, Professor of Philosophy
Richard Bona Professor current Jazz bassist and composer
Steven Brams Professor 1969 – best known for his research on voting systems and approval voting
McGeorge Bundy Professor of History (1979–1989) National Security Advisor under John F. Kennedy
Norman Cantor Professor 1978–2004 medievalist
John Canemaker Professor, current Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian
Jorge Castañeda Visiting Professor Secretary of State of Mexico
Domingo Cavallo Guest Lecturer former Minister of Finance, Republic of Argentina
Paul Chaikin professor, current Physicist
Herrick Chapman Professor since 1992 Prominent historian of France
Jeff Cheeger Professor member, National Academy of Science
Stephen F. Cohen Professor eminent scholar on history and foreign relations of Russia
Dalton Conley Professor, current American sociologist
Joan Breton Connelly Professor, current Classical Archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University, Appointed to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President George W. Bush in 2003 and awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996
David Copperfield Professor taught a course on magic at the age of sixteen
Richard Courant Professor noted for the development of the finite element method
E. L. Doctorow Professor author of Ragtime
Denis Donoghue Professor, current Irish literary critic. He is currently the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University
Norman Dorsen Professor, current Former president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1976 to 1991
John William Draper Professor, 1840–1881 founder and former president of the Medical School
Peter F. Drucker Professor, 1950–1972 major contributor to management theory
Troy Duster Professor, current Sociologist
Ronald Dworkin Professor, current Clerked for Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, winner of the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize
William Easterly Professor 2003– economist
Robert F. Engle Professor 1999– 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
Niall Ferguson Professor author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Hartry Field Professor, current Philosopher
Zelda Fichandler Professor, current National Medal of Arts winner in 1996, inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1999
Kit Fine Professor, current Silver Professor of Philosophy
Joel Fink Professor, former Current Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
Erich Fromm Professor of psychiatry 1962–1974 German-American psychologist and philosopher
Mark L. Gertler Professor, current American macroeconomics, Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics at New York University, Guggenheim Fellowship
Carol Gilligan Professor best known for her on ethical community and ethical relationships
Vivien Goldman Professor, Clive Davis School of Recorded Music Wrote the first biography of Bob Marley
Rinne Groff Professor, Tisch School of the Arts Recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for plays
Stephen Jay Gould Vincent Astor Visiting Professor known for his development of the evolutionary biology theory of Punctuated equilibrium and his scientific writings
Percy Grainger Professor, 1932–1940 inventor of the "Free Music Machine", the forerunner of the synthesizer
Mikhail Gromov Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics made major contributions to metric geometry and symplectic geometry
David Heeger Professor, current Neuroscientist, son of Nobel laureate chemist Alan J. Heeger
Daniel Webster Hering Dean credited with taking the first human x-ray in the United States
Avram Hershko Adjunct Professor 1998– 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sidney Hook Professor, 1927–1972 philosopher who championed pragmatism
Paul Horwich Professor, current Philosopher, Guggenheim Fellowship
Natalie Jeremijenko Professor, current Prominent photographer, founder of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic
Jotham Johnson Chairman of Classics Archaeologist, past-President of Archaeological Institute of America [29]
Boyan Jovanovic Professor, current Economist, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tony Judt Professor director of Erich Maria Remarque Institute and author of Postwar
Frances Kamm Professor Philosopher, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship
Eric Kandel Professor Past faculty member at the New York University Medical School, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Richard Kayne Professor of Linguistics, current developed the theory of antisymmetry
Israel Kirzner Professor emeritus, current Economist, leading proponent of the Austrian School of Economics.
Elias Khoury Professor Lebanese writer and critic
Jason King Professor, Artistic Director of NYU's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music writer, pop critic, music manager
Stewart Krentzman Instructor CEO of Oki Data Americas, Inc.
Mattias Kumm Professor, current also holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin
Carol Herselle Krinsky Professor architectural historian [30]
Saul Krugman Professor developed first vaccine against Hepatitis B
Peter Lax Professor, current member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Abel Prize in 2005
Spike Lee Current film professor in the Tisch School of the Arts actor, director, producer, social activist
Wassily Leontief Professor, 1975–1999 1973 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
David Levering Professor, current Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History
Joseph E. LeDoux Professor, current neuroscientist
Otto Loewi Professor 1940–1961 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Gary Marcus Professor, Current Psychology Robert L. Fantz award, cognitive development
Colin McLeod Professor, 1941–1970 established that genes are made of DNA
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Professor, current – Political scientist
Cheryl Mills Current Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration former Deputy Counsel to President Bill Clinton; lead defense attorney in his 1999 Senate Impeachment
Ludwig von Mises Professor, 1945–1969 leader of the Austrian School of Economics
Cathleen Synge Professor, current Mathematician, winner of the National Medal of Science in 1983 and 1988
Brian Morton (American author) Professor, current American academic and novelist
Samuel F. B. Morse Professor, 1832–? inventor of the Morse Code
Robert S. Mulliken Professor, 1926–1928 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gunnar Myrdal Visiting professor 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
Marion Nestle Professor, current Nutritionist
Galway Kinnell Professor, 1993 – 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Pierre N. Leval Professor Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Theodor Meron Professor President, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Thomas Nagel Professor scholar, philosophy of mind
Ronald K. Noble Professor of law Interpol Secretary General 2000–present
Bertell Ollman Full professor
Amir Pnueli Professor of Computer Science, current Winner of the 1996 Turing Award
Debraj Ray Professor, current- Economist
Ngugi wa Thiongo Visiting professor Kenyan activist
Conor Cruise O'Brien Professor Irish politician and academic
Severo Ochoa Professor, 1942–1974 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sharon Olds Professor, current English creative writing teacher
Henry Bamford Parkes Professor author of Gods and Men, The Origins of Western Culture and A History of Mexico
Cyrus Patell Professor, current American literature and cultural critic
Adam Penenberg Professor uncovered the journalistic fraud of The New Republic reporter Stephen Glass
F. E. Peters Professor, 1961– pioneer in comparative study of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Martin Pope Professor Emeritus Physical chemist, winner of the 2006 Davy Medal
Neil Postman 1959–2003 author, Amusing Ourselves to Death; founder, media ecology program
Mary Louise Pratt Professor, current – Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
Joseph Ransohoff Professor, 1962–1992 Physician
Richard Revesz Professor, current Dean of New York University School of Law
Robert Rosenblum Professor Art historian and curator
Kristin Ross Professor, current Professor of comparative literature, recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship from 1999 to 2000
Ariel Rubinstein Professor, current Israeli economist
Curt Sachs Professor, 1937–1953 co-author of the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme
Paul A. Samuelson Visiting professor 1970 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics
Thomas Sargent Professor one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution, Berkley Professor of Economics and Business
Peter Sarnak Professor, 2001–2005 Mathematician
Mary Schmidt Professor, current Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John Scofield Professor, current Jazz fusion guitarist and composer
Richard Sennett Professor, current Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities
Bob Shrum Professor Democratic Political Consultant
Richard Sieburth Professor, current Translator, essayist and editor
Alan Sokal Professor known for the Sokal Affair
Darin Strauss Adjunct Professor, 2000–present Author of Chang & Eng and The Real McCoy; 2005 teaching award-winner; 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship
Marti G. Subrahmanyam Professor, current Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business
Edward Sullivan Professor Taught English as a Second Language at New York University for 15 years
Henry Philip Tappan Professor of philosophy First President of the University of Michigan
Allen Tate Professor, 1948–1951 author, "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
Lewis Thomas Dean, NYU School of Medicine
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Professor, current Mathematician, 2007 winner of the Abel Prize
Akshay Venkatesh Professor, current Mathematician, winner of the 2007 Salem Prize
Lawrence Weschler Professor, current Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities
Suzanne Weyn Guest instructor, 1988–1989 author of over forty novels
Lawrence Wright Professor, current Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, author of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Thomas Wolfe American author
Robert J.C. Young Professor, current Postcolonial theorist, writer and historian
Ronald W. Zweig Professor, current Israeli historian, member of the Historical Advisory Panel to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
New York University Presidents[edit]
Name
Relation to NYU
Years
Reference
James M. Matthews 1st President of NYU (1831–1839)
Theodore Frelinghuysen 2nd President of NYU (1839–1850), U.S. Senator [31]
Isaac Ferris 3rd President of NYU (1853–1870)
Howard Crosby 4th President of NYU (1870–1881)
John Hall 5th President of NYU (1881–1891)
Henry Mitchell MacCracken 6th President of NYU (1891–1911) developer of the University Heights Campus
Elmer Ellsworth Brown 7th President of NYU (1911–1933)
Harry Woodburn Chase 8th President of NYU (1933–1951)
James Loomis Madden Acting Chancellor (1951–1952)
Henry Townley Heald 9th President of NYU (1952–1956)
Carroll Vincent Newsom 10th President of NYU (1956–1962)
James McNaughton Hester 11th President of NYU (1962–1975)
John C. Sawhill 12th President of NYU (1975–1980)
Ivan Loveridge Bennett Acting President (1980–1981)
John Brademas 13th President of NYU (1981–1991), United States House of Representatives
L. Jay Oliva 14th President of NYU (1991–2002)
John Sexton 15th President of NYU (2003–present)
