Cornell University has over 1,550 full-time and part-time academic faculty members, and an additional 1,600 affiliated with
its medical divisions. The 2003-04 Cornell faculty included 4 Nobel
laureates, a Crawford
Prize winner, 2 Turing Award winners, a Fields Medal winner, 2 Legion of Honor
recipients, a World Food Prize winner, 4 National Medal of Science winners, 2 Wolf
Prize winners, 4 MacArthur Award winners, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 13 Alexander von Humboldt Award winners, 2 Eminent
Ecologist Award recipients, a Carter G. Woodson Scholars Medallion recipient, 3 Presidential Early Career Award holders, 23
National Science Foundation CAREER grant holders, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in
Research, a winner of the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, a recipient of the Heineman
Prize for Mathematical Physics, a Packard Foundation grant holder, a Searle Scholar, a Keck Distinguished Young Scholar, 2
Beckman Foundation Young Investigator grant holders, and a NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic
Research) early career award winner.Among Cornell's notable former professors are Carl Sagan, Norman Malcolm, Vladimir Nabokov, Hans
Bethe, Clinton
Rossiter, Richard Feynman, Kip S. Thorne, Bill Nye, John Cleese and Allan Bloom.