Chancellors, presidents, and academic administrators •
Walter Adams (B.A. 1942), economist and president of
Michigan State University •
Glenn Altschuler (B.A. 1971), dean of the
Cornell University School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, noted for his work on the history of
American popular culture •
Samuel Baskin (B.A. 1942), psychologist and educational reformer and first President of the
Union Institute & University •
Barbara Aronstein Black (B.A. 1953),
dean at
Columbia Law School •
Carmen Fariña (M.S.Ed. 1968),
New York City Schools chancellor •
Leon M. Goldstein (died 1999), president of
Kingsborough Community College, and acting chancellor of the
City University of New York •
Alfred Gottschalk (B.A. 1952), president of
Hebrew Union College and leader in the
Reform Judaism movement •
Donald Kagan (B.A. 1954), historian; dean at
Yale University •
Barry Munitz (B.A. 1963), chancellor,
California State University (1991–98) •
Steven Schwartz (B.A. 1967), vice chancellor of
Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia •
Lisa Staiano-Coico, aka Lisa S. Coico (B.S. 1976), president of
City College of New York •
Robert S. Stone (B.A. 1942), pioneering
pathologist; dean of the
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, University of Oregon School of Medicine, and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine; director of The
National Institutes of Health 1973–1975 •
Robert H. Tamarin (B.A. 1963), former dean of the College of Sciences at the
University of Massachusetts; emeritus professor of biology, developed
radioisotope,
electrophoretic and
DNA fingerprinting techniques for use in the study of small mammals •
Frank P. Tomasulo (B.A. 1967), academic administrator at Ithaca College, Georgia State University, Southern Methodist University, and Florida State University; film professor, editor-in-chief of
Journal of Film & Video and
Cinema Journal •
Robert Ubell (B.A. 1961), former vice dean of Online Learning at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and noted science publisher (
Nature), and innovator in the field of on-line education •
Donald P. Zingale (B.A. 1967), president of the
State University of New York at Cobleskill Anthropology •
Jerome H. Barkow (B.A. 1964), Canadian anthropologist at
Dalhousie University, has made important contributions to the field of
evolutionary psychology •
Barbara Joans (B.A. 1956), anthropologist who researched
biker culture •
Melvin Konner (B.A. 1966),
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and associate professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at
Emory University •
Jeffrey Laitman (B.A. 1973), anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, president of the
American Association for Anatomy, 2011–2013 •
Sidney Mintz (B.A. 1943), anthropologist, known for his studies of Latin America and the
Caribbean •
Fredy Peccerelli (B.S. 1996),
forensic anthropologist, director of the
Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation •
Marjorie Shostak (B.A. 1966),
anthropologist; specialist in the
!Kung San people of the
Kalahari Desert in south-western Africa •
Richard J. Smith (B.A. 1969), Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at
Washington University in St. Louis Biochemistry and chemistry •
Stanley Cohen (B.A. 1943), biochemist and
Nobel laureate (
Physiology or Medicine, 1986) •
Kenneth B. Eisenthal (B.A. 1954), Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry Chair at
Columbia University and pioneering
physical chemist •
Aryeh Frimer (B.A. 1968), Professor of Chemistry at
Bar-Ilan University •
Martha Greenblatt (B.S. 1962), chemist at
Rutgers University, received the 2003
American Chemical Society's
Garvan-Olin Medal •
Arthur R. Grossman (B.S. 1973), biologist whose research ranges across
plant biology,
microbiology,
marine biology,
phytochemistry, and
photosynthesis •
Alan Lambowitz (B.S. 1968), professor in Molecular Biosciences and
Oncology at the
University of Texas at Austin, pioneer of bio-molecular processes and concepts, such as
intron splicing •
Jerry March (M.S. 1953), chemist and author of ''March's Advanced Organic Chemistry'' •
Arthur Nowick (B.A. 1943),
materials scientist •
Alexander H. Popkin (B.S. 1934), scientist and prolific inventor, developed
synthetic lubricant for car and truck engines and Esso Extra Gasoline, containing a detergent additive advertisers claimed "Put a Tiger in Your Tank" •
Stuart A. Rice (B.S. 1952),
physical chemist, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service
Professor Emeritus at the
University of Chicago, Wolf Prize in Chemistry •
Robert Rosen (B.A. 1955), theoretical
biologist and professor of
Biophysics at
Dalhousie University •
Barnett Rosenberg (B.S. 1948),
chemist, known for his discovery of the anti-cancer drug
cisplatin •
Howard Sachs (B.S. 1949), biochemist; pioneer the study of
neuroendocrinology •
Nicholas Sand (B.A. 1966),
clandestine chemist and early proponent of
psychedelics •
Seymour Shapiro (B.S. 1935),
organic chemist, known for his pioneering work on a class of drugs used to treat symptoms of
adult-onset diabetes •
Karen Joy Shaw (B.S. 1976),
microbiologist and discoverer of novel
antifungal and
antibacterial compounds •
Harry Wiener (B.S. 1945) chemist, physician and psychologist, and pioneer in cheminformatics and chemical graph theory
Biological sciences, medicine, and epidemiology •
Annette Aiello (B.A. 1972),
entomologist at the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; specialist in
butterflies •
Samuel Ajl (B.A. 1945),
microbiologist and biochemist; expert in
microbial toxins •
Seymour Benzer (B.A. 1942), physicist, molecular biologist and
behavioral geneticist •
Baruch Brody (B.A. 1962),
bioethicist and director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at the
Baylor College of Medicine and professor of philosophy at Rice University •
Wylie Burke (B.A. 1970),
bioethicist and professor emerita at the
University of Washington, authority on the
translation of novel genomic technologies •
Florence Comite (B.A. 1973),
endocrinologist who has developed therapies for
osteoporosis,
endometriosis,
fibroid disease, and
infertility •
Eli Friedman (B.S. 1953),
nephrologist, inventor of the first portable
dialysis machine •
William Martin Gelbart (B.S. 1966), geneticist at Harvard University best known for his work with fly genetics, the discovery of
decapentaplegic (dpp), and the formation of
Flybase •
Henry N. Ginsberg (B.S. 1966), Irving Professor of Medicine at
Columbia University; expert on lipids, heart disease, and stroke •
Leon Glass (B.S. 1963), scientist; pioneered mathematical and physical methods to study biological systems, with special interest in vision, cardiac
arrhythmia, and
genetic networks •
Aaron Goldberg (B.A. 1939), botanist; parasitologist; known for the
Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution and phylogeny of the
Monocotyledon and
Dicotyledons •
Marc Goldstein (B.S. 1968),
urologist and the Matthew P. Hardy Distinguished Professor of
Reproductive Medicine, and Urology at
Weill Cornell Medical College of
Cornell University •
Jay M. Gould (B.A. 1936), statistician and
epidemiologist, founded the
Radiation and Public Health Project •
Madelyn Gould (B.A. 1972), Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at
Columbia University, notable for her study of youth suicide •
Leonard Herzenberg (B.S. 1952), developed the
fluorescence-activated cell sorter which revolutionized the study of cancer cells and is the basis for purification of adult
stem cells; recipient of the
Kyoto Prize in 2006 •
Gerald Imber (B.A. 1962),
plastic surgeon,
skincare-company founder, and author •
Howard W. Jaffe (B.A. 1942), geologist and mineralogist; a pioneer in the study of the
crystal chemistry of rock-forming minerals •
Edith Kaplan (B.A. 1949), creator of several important
neuropsychological tests, including the
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and the Boston Naming Test •
Selna Kaplan (B.S. 1948), pediatric endocrinologist •
Leslie Libow (B.A. 1954), professor of
geriatrics and
palliative medicine at the Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine, author of one of the first geriatric-medicine textbooks in the United States •
Robert I. Misbin (B.S. 1967), physician and author; longtime employee and later critic of the
Food and Drug Administration •
William E. Paul (B.A. 1956),
immunologist and co-discoverer of
interleukin 4 •
Flora G. Pollack (B.A. 1940),
mycologist at the
United States Department of Agriculture and the
American Type Culture Collection, best known for her work enhancing fungal preservation protocols and describing
coelomycetous fungal species •
Estelle Ramey (B.A. 1936),
endocrinologist,
physiologist, and
feminist •
Buddy Ratner (B.S. 1967), professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering and director of the Research Center for Biomaterials at the
University of Washington •
Michael Salzhauer (B.A. 1993), cosmetic and
plastic surgeon, author and inventor •
Joseph D. Schulman (B.S. 1962), specialist in
human genetics and
infertility; founder the Genetics & IVF Institute •
Debra T. Silverman (B.A. 1970), biostatistician and epidemiologist specializing in
bladder cancer epidemiology and the
carcinogenicity of
diesel exhaust •
Dennis P. Tarnow (B.A. 1968), dentist and pioneer in
implant research •
Edward Taub (B.S. 1953), behavioral neuroscientist on faculty at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham •
Armin Tehrany (B.A. 1991),
orthopaedic surgeon and film producer •
Jay Tischfield (B.A. 1967), MacMillan Professor and the Chair of the Department of Genetics at
Rutgers University •
Wolf V. Vishniac (B.A. 1945),
microbiologist; inventor of the "Wolf Trap," which tests for the possibility of life existing on other planets; namesake of the crater •
Michael Weitzman (B.A. 1968), pediatrician specializing in public health and policy including groundbreaking research on
lead poisoned children, prenatal tobacco and childhood secondhand smoke exposure, and childhood nutrition and obesity
Computer science •
Martin Goetz (B.A. 1953), pioneer in the development of the commercial software industry; holds the first U.S.
software patent •
Ellis Horowitz (B.S. 1964),
computer scientist and professor of
computer science and electrical engineering at the
University of Southern California (USC) •
Lawrence Landweber (B.S. 1963), Internet pioneer, helped develop
CSNET, founding member and president of the
Internet Society •
Jack Minker (B.S. 1949), authority in
artificial intelligence,
deductive databases,
logic programming and
non-monotonic reasoning •
George Radin (B.A. 1951)
computer scientist, helped develop the
PL/I programming language and design the
OS/360 and
TSS/360 systems •
Gerard Salton (B.S. 1950), pioneering computer scientist in the field of
information retrieval •
Salvatore J. Stolfo (B.S. 1974), professor of computer science at
Columbia University and an expert in computer security •
Joan Targ (B.A. 1960), pioneer in computer education and older sister of chess champion
Bobby Fischer Economics •
Zvi Bodie (B.A. 1965), economist,
Boston University Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management and expert in pension finance •
Paul Davidson (B.S. 1950),
macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the
Post Keynesian school in economics •
Israel Kirzner (B.A. 1954), economist •
David Laibman (M.A. 1969), professor emeritus of Economics at Brooklyn College; Editor of
Science & Society •
Leonard Mirman (B.A. 1963), mathematician and economist at the
University of Virginia, known for his contributions to
economics of uncertainty •
Richard Scheffler (M.A. 1967), Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the
Graduate School of Public Health, his research focuses on applying
health economics to public policy both nationally and globally
Education and librarianship •
Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed (B.S. 1973), educator and representative for District 92 of the
Florida House of Representatives •
Zoia Horn (B.A. 1939), first librarian ever jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in
intellectual freedom •
Martin Haberman (B.A. 1953), educator and Distinguished Professor at the
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, developed interviewing techniques for identifying teachers and principals who will be successful in working with poor children
Geology and planetary science/astronomy •
John Castagna (B.S. 1976, M.A. 1980); geophysicist, known for the
Mudrock line, currently the Margaret S. and
Robert E. Sheriff Endowed Faculty Chair in Applied Seismology at the
University of Houston •
Doris Malkin Curtis (B.S. 1933),
paleontologist,
stratigrapher, geologist and first female president of the
Geological Society of America •
Sol Katz (B.A. 1978), geologist, computer scientist, and early pioneer of Geospatial Free and Open Source Software •
Joel S. Levine (B.S. 1964), planetary scientist at
NASA, author, and research professor in applied science at the
College of William & Mary •
Stephen P. Maran (B.S. 1959), astronomer and
popularizer; author of
Astronomy for Dummies •
George Plafker (B.A. 1949), geologist and seismologist, known for pioneering research in
subduction,
tsunami, and the geology of Alaska
History •
Frank J. Coppa (B.A. 1960), historian, author, and educator who has written widely on the papacy •
Michael S. Cullen (B.A. 1962), historian, journalist and publicist, based in
Berlin; credited with inspiring
Christo and Jeanne-Claude to
wrap the Reichstag •
Jules Davids (B.A. 1942), Professor of Diplomatic History at
Georgetown University, aided
John F. Kennedy in writing
Profiles in Courage •
Hal Draper (B.A. 1934), socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the
Berkeley, California,
Free Speech Movement •
Theodore Draper (B.A. 1933), historian and political writer; wrote seminal works on the formative period of the
American Communist Party,
Cuban Revolution, and
Iran-Contra Affair •
Melvyn Dubofsky (B.A. 1955), professor of history and sociology at the
Binghamton University, and a well-known labor historian •
Yaffa Eliach (B.A. 1967), historian, author, and scholar of
Judaic Studies and the
Holocaust •
John A. Garraty (B.A. 1941), historian, biographer, and president of the Society of American Historians •
Eugene Genovese (B.A. 1953), historian of the
American South and
American slavery •
Stuart D. Goldman (B.A. 1964), historian, author, and scholar in residence at the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research at the
Wilson Center in Washington, DC •
Judith R. Goodstein (B.A. 1960),
historian of science,
historian of mathematics, book author, and University Archivist Emeritus at the
California Institute of Technology •
Greg Grandin (B.A. 1991), historian; professor of history at
New York University; winner of the 2020
Pulitzer Prize for History •
Charles J. Halperin (B.A. 1967), historian specializing in the political and military history of late
Kievan Rus', the
Golden Horde, and early
Muscovy •
Oscar Handlin (B.A. 1934), Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus,
Harvard University; winner of the
Pulitzer Prize in history, author •
Linda Heywood (B. A. 1973), professor of
African American studies and history at the
University of Boston •
Raul Hilberg (B.A. 1948), Austrian-born American political scientist and historian, author of
The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) •
Gertrude Himmelfarb (B.A. 1942), historian and conservative
cultural critic •
Elisheva Carlebach Jofen (B.A. 1976), scholar of early modern Jewish history •
Thomas Kessner (B.A. 1963), American historian, Distinguished Professor at
City University of New York, specializing in
social history and the history of
New York City •
Aileen S. Kraditor (B.A. 1950) American historian, specializing in the history of
feminism •
David Kranzler (B.A. 1953), librarian and historian specializing in the
rescue of Jews during the
Holocaust •
Shnayer Leiman (B.A. 1964)), scholar specializing in Jewish studies, known as the "
Sherlock Holmes of Jewish History" •
John Mahon (B.A. 1952), historian, author of ''New York's Fighting 69th'' •
John Parascandola (B.A. 1963),
medical historian •
Moses Rischin (B.A. 1947), Jewish historian and
Emeritus Professor of History at
San Francisco State University •
Michele R. Salzman (B.A. 1973),
classicist at the
University of California, Riverside, scholar of the religious and social history of
late antiquity •
Lillian Schlissel (B.A. 1951), American historian, professor and author, specializing in narratives from the
Old West •
Albert A. Sicroff (B.A. 1940),
Hispanist, Professor of Spanish,
Queens College •
Joel H. Silbey (B.A. 1955), historian and President White Professor of History at
Cornell University •
Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963),
cultural critic and historian of the Western United States •
Clarence Taylor (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of History at
Baruch College and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America
Law •
Alan S. Becker (B.A. 1966), attorney, member of the
Florida House of Representatives, 1972–1978 •
Alan M. Dershowitz (B.A. 1959),
Harvard Law School professor and author •
Stephen Gillers (B.A. 1964),
New York University School of Law professor and expert in
legal ethics •
Gerald Gunther (A.B. 1949), William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at
Stanford Law School, among the 20 most widely cited legal scholars of the 20th century •
Mary Noe (B.A. 1982), educator; writer; lecturer; assistant professor of Law, division of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies,
St. John's University •
Bruce Winick (B.A. 1965), the Silvers-Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the
University of Miami and theorist on
mental health law Literary scholarship (English and other languages; translation of literary works) •
Joyce Sparer Adler (B.A. 1935), critic, playwright, teacher and
Melville scholar •
William Alfred (B.A. 1948), playwright and professor of
English literature at
Harvard University •
Evelyn Torton Beck (B.A. 1954), comparative literature, Yiddish scholar, and eventually activist, Jewish Women's studies and Lesbian Studies •
Betty T. Bennett (B.A. 1962), scholar on the life of
Frankenstein author
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Distinguished Professor of Literature and
dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at
American University •
Livia Bitton-Jackson (B.A. 1961), academic, author, and
Holocaust survivor •
Eva Brann (B.A. 1950), longest-serving tutor (1957–present) at
St. John's College, Annapolis and a 2005 recipient of the
National Humanities Medal •
Anatole Broyard (attended 1937–41, did not graduate), writer, literary critic and editor for
The New York Times •
Jules Chametzky (B.A. 1950), literary critic, writer, editor, and unionist •
Jonathan Chaves (B.A. 1965), professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the
George Washington University and translator of
classical Chinese poetry •
Rose Leiman Goldemberg (B.A. 1949), playwright, screenwriter, poet, and biographer of
Sylvia Plath,
Sophie Tucker and
Molly Picon; best known for the TV movie
The Burning Bed (1984) •
Dinah Hawken (M.F.A. 1987), New Zealand poet, teacher, physiotherapist and social worker. In 2025 she received the
Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement •
Michelle Herman (B.A. 1976), writer and professor of English at
Ohio State University, and director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing •
Stanley Hochman (B.A. 1949), editor and translator of
Émile Zola,
Jules Renard,
Vitaliano Brancati and
Simone Signoret among others •
Paul Ilie (B.A. 1954), specialist in modern and contemporary
Spanish literature •
Eva Kollisch (B.A. 1951), writer, literary scholar,
pacifist and feminist •
Annette Kolodny (B.A. 1962), feminist literary critic and activist •
Joseph Natoli (B.A. 1966), academic, known for works on
postmodernism •
Gerald J. Prince (B.A. 1963), academic and literary theoretician at the
University of Pennsylvania and leading scholar of narrative poetics; shaped the discipline of
narratology •
Patrice Rankine (B.A. 1992), professor of Classics at the
University of Chicago and leading scholar in the area of
classical reception •
Jack M. Sasson (B.A. 1962), emeritus Mary Jane Werthan Professor of
Jewish Studies and
Hebrew Bible at
Vanderbilt Divinity School whose research focuses primarily on
Assyriology and
Hebrew Scriptures •
Ivan Schulman (B.A. 1953), major scholar of Spanish American Modernismo and the leading US scholar of the works of
José Martí •
Naomi Seidman (B.A. 1981),
Yiddish scholar; Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts at the
University of Toronto; previously Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the
Graduate Theological Union in
Berkeley; leading scholar of the
Bais Yaakov movement in women's education •
Augusta Strong North (B.A. 1934),
Marxist writer, linguist and teacher of
Black literature •
Regina Weinreich (B.A. 1970), writer, journalist, teacher, and scholar of the artists of the
Beat Generation •
Rose Zimbardo (B.A., 1956), professor of English literature •
Feenie Ziner (B.A. 1941), professor at the
University of Connecticut; children's literature writer
Mathematics •
Milton Abramowitz (B.A. 1940, M.S. 1942), mathematician, co-author of the
Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables (1964) •
Ruth Aaronson Bari (B.A. 1939), mathematician known for her work in
graph theory and
homomorphisms •
Anatole Beck (B.A. 1951), mathematician, known for his
linear search problem •
Richard Bellman (B.A. 1941),
applied mathematician and inventor of
dynamic programming •
Paul Cohen (1953), winner of the
Fields Medal •
Sol Garfunkel (B.A. 1963), mathematician and long-time executive director of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications •
Edna Grossman (B.S. 1968), mathematician •
Violet Haas (B.A. 1947), applied mathematician specializing in
control theory and
optimal estimation; professor of electrical engineering at
Purdue •
Frank Harary (B.A. 1941, M.A. 1945), mathematician, specializing in
graph theory •
William Kantor (B.S. 1964), mathematician, specializing in
group theory and geometry •
Julian Keilson (B.S. 1947), mathematician, known for his work in
probability theory •
Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (B.A. 1947), mathematician and computer programmer at
Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at
Columbia University; led work that calculated the orbit of planets, phases of the moon, and trajectories of asteroids using
IBM tabulating machines •
Elaine Koppelman (B.A. 1957), mathematician; James Beall Professor of Mathematics at
Goucher College •
Seymour Lipschutz (B.A. 1952, M.A., 1956), author of technical books on
pure mathematics and
probability, including a collection of
Schaum's Outlines •
Edith H. Luchins (B.A. 1942), a mathematician and researcher in
gestalt psychology; first female professor at the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute •
Nancy Lynch (B.A. 1968), mathematician and professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; winner of the 2007
Knuth Prize for contributions to the foundations of computer science •
Abraham Nemeth (B.S. 1940), mathematician and inventor; developed the
Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation •
Gloria Olive (B.A. 1944), New Zealand academic mathematician •
Stanley Osher (B.A. 1962), pioneering mathematician in applied mathematics, computational science, and scientific computing •
Allen R Miller (B.S. 1965), mathematician and major contributor to the field of
special functions, especially
confluent hypergeometric functions •
Teri Perl (B.A. 1947), mathematics educator, co-founder of
The Learning Company, pioneering educational software publisher •
Richard M. Pollack (B.A. 1956),
geometer and professor emeritus at the
Courant Institute of New York University; founding co-editor of the journal
Discrete and Computational Geometry •
Irving Reiner (B.A. 1944), mathematician, dealt with representation theory of algebras and groups, and
number theory •
Theodore J. Rivlin (B.A. 1948), mathematician, specializing in
approximation theory •
Donald Solitar (B.A. 1953), American/Canadian mathematician, known for his work in
combinatorial group theory •
Steven Sperber (B.A. 1966),
mathematician, professor at the
University of Minnesota, noted for work in on arithmetic
algebraic geometry, p-adic
differential equations, and their applications in advanced
number theory and
mathematical structures •
Henry Wallman (B.S. 1933), mathematician, known for his work in
lattice theory,
dimension theory,
topology, and
electronic circuit design •
Gerard Washnitzer (B.S. 1947), mathematician
Meteorology •
Frank Field (B.S. 1947), meteorologist and science editor •
Seymour Hess (B.A. 1941), meteorologist and planetary scientist •
Lester Machta (B.A. 1939), meteorologist, first director of the
Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration •
Raphael Miranda (B.S. 2006), meteorologist and weather producer at
WNBC in New York City
Philosophy •
Jules Coleman (B.A. 1968), scholar of the philosophy of law and jurisprudence and the
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of
Jurisprudence and professor of Philosophy at
Yale Law School •
Allan Gotthelf (B.A. 1963), professor of philosophy at the
University of Pittsburgh and specialist in
Objectivism and
Aristotle •
Murray Greene (B.A. 1940), professor of philosophy, known for his expertise on
Hegel's philosophy •
Eli Hirsch (B.A. 1960), philosopher, the Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy at
Brandeis University •
Sheldon Krimsky (B.S. 1963), bioethicist, science and private interests, professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at
Tufts University •
Christia Mercer (B.A. 1974), Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University •
Jay Newman (B.A. 1973), philosopher concerned with the
philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, and the ethics of
mass communication •
Ben-Ami Scharfstein (B.A. 1939), prominent Israeli philosopher; winner of the 2005
Israel Prize •
Israel Scheffler (B.A. 1945), philosopher of science and education
Physics •
Alexander Calandra (B.A 1935), scientist, educator, and author, professor of physics at
Washington University in St. Louis •
Esther M. Conwell (B.S. 1942), physicist, contributed to development of semiconductors and lasers •
Stanley Deser (B.S. 1949),
physicist known for his contributions to
general relativity, especially as co-developer of
ADM formalism, Ancell Professor of Physics at
Brandeis University •
Robert Ehrlich (B.S. 1959),
particle physicist and educator; author of books about the
tachyon, a hypothetical particle that travels faster than light •
James Forde (B.A. 1949), technician on the
Manhattan Project 1944–1945 •
Herbert Friedman (B.S. 1936), pioneer in the use of
sounding rockets to conduct research for
solar physics,
aeronomy, and
astronomy; Wolf Prize in Physics •
Jerry Goldstein (B.S. 1993), space physicist and professor •
David L. Goodstein (B.S. 1960), physicist, educator, vice-
provost and Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor of the
California Institute of Technology •
Abraham Klein (B.A. 1947), theoretical physicist •
Joel Lebowitz (B.S. 1952), survived Auschwitz; acknowledged for his contributions to
statistical physics and
statistical mechanics; studied Coulomb interactions and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics at
Rutgers University •
Arthur Oliner (B.A. 1941), physicist and electrical engineer, best known for his contributions to engineering electromagnetics and
antenna theory •
Leon Pape (B.S. 1949),
medical physicist specializing in
biophysics, radiological
health physics,
electron microscopy, and membrane biophysics •
Charles M. Sommerfield (B.S. 1953),
high-energy physicist and one of the namesakes of the
Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound •
Larry Spruch (B.A. 1943), physicist specializing in theoretical
atomic physics and
astrophysics •
Sheldon Stone (B.S. 1967), physicist at
Syracuse University best known for his work in experimental elementary particle physics, including the
Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment •
Martin Summerfield (B.S. 1936),
physicist and
rocket scientist, co-founder of
Aerojet, and the inventor of
regenerative cooling for
liquid rocket engines
Political science •
Ada Finifter (B.A. 1959),
political scientist specializing in American public opinion and voting behavior •
Marilyn Gittell (B.A. 1952), political scientist, education reformer, founder of the
Urban Affairs Review •
Dennis Hale (M.A. 1969), political scientist; Associate Professor of Political Science at
Boston College •
Milton Heumann (B.A. 1968), professor of
Political Science at
Rutgers University •
Ruth Mandel (B.A. 1960), professor of political science, director of the
Eagleton Institute of Politics at
Rutgers University •
Allen Schick (B.A. 1956), governance fellow of the
Brookings Institution, professor of political science at the
Maryland School of Public Policy of
University of Maryland, College Park, founding editor of the journal
Public Budgeting and Finance •
Marvin Schick (B.A. 1956),
Hunter College and
New School for Social Research political science and constitutional law professor, known for his work in Jewish education •
Mitchell A. Seligson (B.A. 1967), Centennial Professor Emeritus of Political Science at
Vanderbilt University, founder of the
Latin American Public Opinion Project •
Aaron Wildavsky (B.A. 1954), political scientist
Psychology and psychiatry •
David Bakan (B.A. 1942), professor of Psychology at the
University of Chicago and
York University •
Robert A. Baron (B.A. 1964), professor of Psychology and Wellington Professor of Management at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's
Lally School of Management •
Jack Block (b.a. 1945),
psychology professor at
UC Berkeley, creator, with his wife
Jeanne Block, of the
Block Study, a longitudinal study of children in Los Angeles •
Jason Brandt (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Neurology at
Johns Hopkins University; clinical neuropsychologist •
William Breitbart (B.S. 1973),
psychiatrist, leader in the fields of
psychosomatic medicine,
psycho-oncology, and
palliative care •
Jean Lau Chin (B.A. 1966),
clinical psychologist known for her work on diversity in
leadership,
cultural competence in
mental health care, and dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at
Adelphi University •
Emory L. Cowen (B.A. 1944),
psychologist who pioneered the promotion of wellness in mental health •
Leah J. Dickstein (B.A. 1955, M.A. 1961), psychiatrist; founder and president of the Association of Women Psychiatrists •
Dorothy Dinnerstein (B.A. 1944), cognitive psychologist, co-founder of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers University •
Jack Drescher (B.A. 1972), psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst known for his work on
sexual orientation and
gender identity •
Hillel J. Einhorn (B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966), psychologist who played a key role in the development of the field of behavioral
decision theory •
Herbert J. Freudenberger (B.A. 1952), psychologist, first to describe the symptoms of
burnout and conduct research on the concept •
Marvin Goldfried (B.A. 1957), psychologist, co-founder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration •
Howard E. Gruber (B.A. 1943), psychologist and pioneer of the psychological study of creativity •
Howard S. Hoffman (M.A. 1953), experimental psychologist •
David Kantor (B.A 1950, M.A. 1952),
systems psychologist •
Louise Kaplan (B.A. 1950), psychologist and psychoanalyst best known for her research into sexual perversion and
fetishism •
Saul Kassin (B.A. 1974), psychologist, author, and distinguished professor at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York •
Herbert Kelman (B.A. 1947), professor of
social ethics at
Harvard University, known for his work on conflict resolution in the
Middle East •
Howard H. Kendler (B.A. 1940), psychologist who conducted research on
latent and
discrimination learning •
Sandra Leiblum (B.A. 1965), author, lecturer, and researcher in
sexology •
Zella Luria (B.A. 1944), psychologist and
feminist, known for her pioneering work on the development of
gender identity •
Salvatore R. Maddi (B.A. 1954, M.A. 1956), professor of Psychology at
University of California, Irvine, expert on
resilience and founder of the
Hardiness Institute •
Carol Nadelson (B.A. 1957), psychiatrist; first female president of the
American Psychiatric Association •
Ira Progoff (B. A. 1941),
psychotherapist, best known for his development of the
Intensive Journal Method •
Leanne Rivlin (B.A. 1952), pioneer in
environmental psychology •
Milton Rokeach (B.A. 1941), professor of
social psychology and developer of the
Rokeach Value Survey •
Gerald Rosenbaum (B.A. 1943), Distinguished Professor of Psychology at
San Diego State University, author of numerous works on
alcoholism,
anxiety disorders,
neuropsychology, and
schizophrenia •
Julian Rotter (B.A. 1937), psychologist, pioneered research on locus of control •
Janina Scarlet (B.A. 2005, M.A. 2008) Ukrainian-born American author and
clinical psychologist known for utilizing
popular culture references in treating patients •
Irvin S. Schonfeld (B.S. 1969), City College and CUNY Graduate Center psychology professor, noted for studies of job-related depression and
burnout and the development of
psychometric instruments for job-related mental health assessment •
Francine Shapiro (B.A. 1968, MA, 1972), psychologist and educator who originated and developed
EMDR •
Irwin Silverman (B.A. 1958), professor of psychology at
York University, best known for work in
evolutionary psychology and
sex differences in intelligence •
Roberta Temes (B.A. 1962), author, psychotherapist, and clinical
hypnotist •
Dorothy Tennov (B.A. 1950), psychologist, introduced the term "
limerence" to describe the state of being in love •
Hans Toch (B.A. 1952), prolific author and
social psychologist involved in
criminology and
criminal justice administration •
Rhoda Unger (B.A. 1960), feminist psychologist, pioneering figure in the
Association for Women in Psychology •
Beatrice A. Wright (B.A. 1938), psychologist known for her work in
rehabilitation counseling •
Philip Zimbardo (B.A. 1954),
social psychologist and designer of the
Stanford Prison Experiment Sociology •
Helen A. Berger (B.A. 1971),
sociologist known for her studies of the
Pagan community in the United States •
Joseph Berger (B.A. 1949), theoretical
sociologist and senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution •
Leo Bogart (B.A 1941), sociologist, media and marketing expert •
Helen Fein (B.A. 1955), historical sociologist, professor, specialized on
genocide, human rights, collective violence and other issues •
Arne L. Kalleberg (B.A. 1971), Kenan Distinguished Professor of
Sociology at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; faculty fellow at the
Carolina Population Center •
Omar Lizardo (B.A. 1997),
sociologist, LeRoy Neiman Term chair, professor of Sociology at UCLA •
Seymour M. Miller (B.A. 1943), economic-political sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at
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