List of Cornell University faculty
This list of Cornell University faculty includes notable current and former instructors and administrators of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.
Nobel laureates
Chemistry
- Peter Debye — Chemistry 1936; National Medal of Science
- Manfred Eigen — Chemistry 1967
- Richard R. Ernst — Chemistry 1991
- Paul Flory — Chemistry 1974; National Medal of Science
- Otto Hahn — Chemistry 1944
- Gerhard Herzberg — Chemistry 1971
- Roald Hoffmann — Chemistry 1981; National Medal of Science
- Linus Pauling — Chemistry 1954; the bulk of his most influential scientific book The Nature of the Chemical Bond was completed while he was at Cornell and was published by Cornell University Press in 1939
- James B. Sumner — Chemistry 1946
- Henry Taube — Chemistry 1983; National Medal of Science
- Vincent du Vigneaud — Chemistry 1955; Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Peace, Literature, or Economics
- Norman Borlaug — Peace 1970; National Medal of Science
- Linus Pauling — Peace 1962
- Octavio Paz — Literature 1990
- Amartya Sen — Economics 1998; National Humanities Medal
- Wole Soyinka — Literature 1986
- Richard Thaler — Economics 2017; member of the National Academy of Sciences
Physics
- Hannes Alfvén — Physics 1970
- Hans Bethe — Physics 1967; National Medal of Science
- Richard Feynman — Nobel Prize in Physics 1965; National Medal of Science
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — Physics 1991
- Brian D. Josephson — Physics 1973
- David Lee — Physics 1996
- Anthony James Leggett — Physics 2003; Wolf Prize in Physics
- Roger Penrose — Physics 2020
- Robert Coleman Richardson — Physics 1996
- John Robert Schrieffer — Physics 1972; National Medal of Science
- George Paget Thomson — Physics 1937
- Kip Thorne — Physics 2017
- Kenneth G. Wilson — Physics 1982; Wolf Prize in Physics
Physiology or Medicine
- James P. Allison — Physiology or Medicine 2018, Wolf Prize in Medicine
- Robert F. Furchgott — Physiology or Medicine 1998
- Herbert Spencer Gasser — Physiology or Medicine 1944
- Paul Greengard — Physiology or Medicine 2000
- Haldan Keffer Hartline — Physiology or Medicine 1967
- Robert W. Holley — Physiology or Medicine 1968
- Har Gobind Khorana — Physiology or Medicine 1968; National Medal of Science
- Fritz Albert Lipmann — Physiology or Medicine 1953; National Medal of Science
- Peter Medawar — Physiology or Medicine 1960
- Harold E. Varmus — Physiology or Medicine 1989; National Medal of Science
MacArthur awards
- Archie Randolph Ammons — poetry 1981
- William Dichtel — Chemistry 2015
- Craig Fennie — materials science 2013
- Mitchell J. Feigenbaum — physics 1984; Wolf Prize in Physics, member of the National Academy of Sciences and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Alice Fulton — poetry 1991
- Deborah Estrin — computer science 2018; member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. — literary critic ; National Humanities Medal recipient
- Paul Ginsparg — physics 2002
- Jon Kleinberg — computer science 2005
- Stephen Lee — chemistry 1993
- Michal Lipson — optical physics 2010; member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Robert Parris Moses — educator and philosopher
- Rebecca J. Nelson — plant pathologist
- Sheila Nirenberg — neuroscience 2013
- Margaret W. Rossiter — historian of science 1989
- Gregory Vlastos — classicist and philosopher 1990
Sports
- Bob Blackman — member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Charles E. Courtney — rower and rowing coach
- Melody Davidson — head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team and the Canadian 2006 Winter Olympics women's hockey team
- Hilary Gehman — two-time Olympian; six-time member of the U.S. national rowing team
- Edward Moylan — tennis player; gold medal winner at the 1955 Pan American Games with Art Larsen
- Nicole Ross — Olympic foil fencer; won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil title
- Michel Sebastiani — Olympic fencing coach and member of the US Fencing Association Hall of Fame; his women’s team won the Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association National Championship in 1967, 1968, and 1969, and his fencers also won the NIWFA individual title in 1968, and another won the NCAA men’s épée title in 1968
- Michael Slive — commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, 2002–15
- Phil Sykes — U.S. Olympic field hockey defender
- Al Walker — former basketball player and college coach, now a scout for the Detroit Pistons of the NBA
Education
- Arthur S. Adams — president of the University of New Hampshire ; president of the American Council on Education
- Charles Kendall Adams — president of the University of Wisconsin, 1892–1901
- John L. Anderson — president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, provost and university vice president of Case Western Reserve University, dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University ; member of the National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Elisha Andrews — president of Denison University and Brown University ; chancellor of the University of Nebraska
- Sanford Soverhill Atwood — president of Emory University
- Sarah Gibson Blanding — president of Vassar College, 1946–1964
- Detlev Bronk — president of Johns Hopkins University and of the Rockefeller Institute; member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Robert F. Chandler — president of the University of New Hampshire ; winner of the World Food Prize, 1988
- James Mason Crafts — president of MIT, 1897–1900
- Cornelis W. de Kiewiet — president of the University of Rochester
- Lloyd Hartman Elliott — president of the University of Maine and George Washington University
- Thomas E. Everhart — chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, president of the California Institute of Technology ; member of the National Academy of Engineering and foreign fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- W. Kent Fuchs — president of the University of Florida, 2015-
- Richard H. Gallagher — president of Clarkson University and member of National Academy of Engineering
- Charles De Garmo — president of Swarthmore College
- Theodore L. Hullar — chancellor of UC Riverside and UC Davis
- Harry Burns Hutchins — president of the University of Michigan, 1909–1920
- William Rea Keast — president of Wayne State University, 1965–1971
- David C. Knapp — president of the University of Massachusetts
- Asa S. Knowles — president of the University of Toledo and of Northeastern University
- Edward H. Litchfield — twelfth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh
- Carolyn Martin — chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, 2008–2011; president of Amherst College, 2011–
- Alan G. Merten — president of George Mason University
- John Niland — vice-chancellor and principal of the University of New South Wales, Australia
- Paul Olum — president of the University of Oregon, 1980–1989
- Russell K. Osgood — president of Grinnell College 1998–2010
- Robert A. Plane — president of Clarkson University and of Wells College
- Don Michael Randel — president of the University of Chicago, 2000–2006
- Charles Ashmead Schaeffer — president of the University of Iowa, 1887–1898
- Benjamin Ide Wheeler — president of the University of California, 1899–1919
- Roy A. Young — chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 1976–1980
Engineering and computer science
Computer science
- Robert L. Constable — Work connecting programs and mathematical proofs, especially the Nuprl system
- Richard W. Conway — industrial engineering, simulation, scheduling theory, PL/C and other programming languages and dialects for instructional use, first director of the Office of Computing Services
- R. Keith Dennis — Known for his work in algebraic K-theory
- Carla Gomes — Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability
- Paul Ginsparg — developer of the arXiv e-print archive, MacArthur Award
- David Gries — author of The Science of Programming, 4 national education awards
- Joseph Halpern — computer scientist; recipient of the Gödel Prize, member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Juris Hartmanis — Turing Award recipient, 1993; member of the National Academy of Engineering
- John Hopcroft — Turing Award recipient, IEEE John von Neumann Medal recipient, member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Sciences
- Jon Kleinberg — MacArthur Award and Nevanlinna Prize, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences
- Dexter Kozen — computer scientist specializing in dynamic logic
- Trevor Pinch — Chair of the Science and Technology Studies department
- Gerard Salton — father of information retrieval; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, ASIS Award for Best Information Science Paper, Best Information Science Book, the first Gerard Salton Award for Outstanding Contributions to Information Retrieval, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Science Award, the ASIS Award of Merit ; ACM Fellow
- David Shmoys — ACM Fellow and INFORMS Fellow, and recipient of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
- Fred B. Schneider — member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Éva Tardos — recipient of the Fulkerson Prize, the George B. Dantzig Prize and the Gödel Prize ; member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Robert Tarjan — computer scientist and mathematician, known for discovering several graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm; co-inventor of splay trees and Fibonacci heaps; Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University; recipient of Turing Award
- Tim Teitelbaum — known for his early work on integrated development environments, syntax-directed editing, and incremental computation
- David P. Williamson — Editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics; recipient of the Fulkerson Prize and the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
- Theodore Paul Wright — aeronautical engineer and educator