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Undergraduate Colleges /
Yale University |
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Famous professors |
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Professors who are also Yale alumni are listed in italics. Nobel laureates
- Sidney Altman – Chemistry, 1989.
- James Tobin - Economics, 1981.
Others
- Harold Bloom (Ph.D 1955), writer and critic, author of
"Genius"
- Yung-Chi
(Tommy) Cheng, pharmacology, inventor of AIDS drug 3TC, known as Epivir.
- Donald Kagan, ancient Greek historian
- Harold Hongju Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, Assistant
Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, in the Clinton Administration
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War
historian
- David Gelernter (1976), computer scientist, co-creator of
the Linda programming language
- Paul Hudak, computer scientist,
known for his work on the Haskell
programming language, author of "The Haskell School of Expression"
- Paul Kennedy, historian, coiner of the term
"imperial overstretch" and author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician, known for fractal
geometry
- James Mitchell, actor, most known for his role
as Palmer Cortlandt on All My Children
- William
Nordhaus (1963), economist
- Jaroslav Pelikan,
historian, author of "The Christian Tradition"
- William Prusoff,
pharmacologist, inventor of AIDS drug d4T, known as Zerit.
- Herbert Scarf,
economist
- Robert Shiller, economist, author of "Irrational Exuberance", well known for his work
in investor psychology
- Jonathan Spence, historian, author of "The Search For Modern
China."
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Interesting Fact |
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Chancellors at the College of William and Mary have included some very famous retired statesmen, including Margaret Thatcher (UK Prime Minister), Henry Kissinger (US Secretary of State), Warren E. Burger (US Chief Justice), and, currently, Sandra Day O'Connor (US Associate Justice). |
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