Former notable faculty
Notable faculty of Indiana University have included:
- the late Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the
1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
- the late Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine,
- the late Alfred Kinsey, founder of the academic discipline of
sexology, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey
Reports,
- the late Max August Zorn, mathematician and originatior of
Zorns lemma
- the late David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and
peace activist
- the late Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later
professor of music at IU
- the late Robert Daniel Carmichael,
mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
- the late Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on
asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
- retired chemistry professor Harry
G. Day, who is responsible for the incorporation of fluoride in toothpaste and
public drinking water,
- Bobby Knight, coach of the IU men's basketball team from 1971 to
2000.
Current notable faculty
Notable current faculty of Indiana University include:
- Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, an IU professor of cognitive science
- the composer David Ward-Steinman
- the pianist Menahem Pressler (of Beux Arts Trio fame)