List of University of Pennsylvania people

• Benjamin Abella: professor of emergency medicine • Herman Vandenburg Ames: professor of constitutional history • Francesca Russello Ammon: urban historian, assistant professor in the city and regional planning as well as the historic preservation departments • John Andrews (1746–1813): Academy and College of Philadelphia, A.B., with distinguished honors, class of 1765, and M.A. class of 1767), professor of moral philosophy and logic (1789–1813) (where his courses included a course on United States Constitution); 4th Provost (1810–1813), 3rd vice provost (1789–1810) • Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867): physicist, scientist, and surveyor, professor of natural philosophy and chemistry, superintendent of the United States Coast Survey • Edmund Bacon: adjunct professor of architecture • E. Digby Baltzell: emeritus professor of history and sociology; scholar and author; creator of the acronym "WASP" • Aaron T. Beck: emeritus professor of psychiatry; considered the father of both cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy • Richard Beeman: John Walsh Centennial Professor of History; Fulbright Scholar • Janice R. Bellace: deputy provost and director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business • Charles Bernstein: Donald T. Regan Professor of English, prominent language poet • Mary Frances Berry: Geraldine Segal Professor of Social Thought; former chair US Civil Rights Commission • Joseph R. Biden, former Benjamin Franklin Professor of Presidential Practice: 2017– April 2019 (presently on "leave of absence") 46th president of the United States • Ray Birdwhistell: professor, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania • Matt Blaze: associate professor of computer science • Antony J. Blinken: US secretary of state under President Joseph R. Biden, director of the Penn Biden Center 2018–2020 • John Bowker: theologian • Eric Bradlow: K.P. Chao Professor, professor of marketing, statistics, education and economics • Ralph L. Brinster: Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology, creator of the transgenic mouse; National Medal of Science recipient • Lawton Burns: chair of the Health Care Management Department of the Wharton School; James Joo-Jin Kim Professor • Eugenio Calabi: Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, known for his development of the Calabi–Yau manifold • Arthur Caplan: Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics • Britton Chance: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics • Roger Chartier: professor of history; chair of history at the Collège de France; leading cultural historian • Pei-yuan Chia: senior fellow of the CSI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at the Wharton School; former vice chairman of Citicorp and Citibank, member of AIG's board of directors • Thomas Childers: Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History; author of numerous history publications and recipient of teaching awards • Wallace H. Clark Jr.: pathologist, cancer researcher • Mildred Cohn: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of biophysics and physical biochemistry • George Crumb: Pulitzer Prize winner in music for "Echoes of Time and the River" in 1968 and received a Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for "Star-Child" in 2001; Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Music Department at Penn (1965–1997) • Raymond Davis Jr.: National Medal of Science recipient; Nobel laureate; research professor of physics and astronomy • Emile B. De Sauzé: language educator known for developing the conversational method of learning a language • Frederick Dickinson: professor of Japanese history and co-director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies • John DiIulio: Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society • W. E. B. Du Bois: African-American literary figure, visiting scholar, 1896–1897 • Gideon Dreyfuss: Isaac Norris Professor Biochemistry and Biophysics • Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1937, MA and Ph.D.: Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History and Sociology of Science at Penn, anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer (such that Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern Thoreau" for broad scope of his writing reflected upon such topics as the mind of Sir Francis Bacon, the prehistoric origins of man, and the contributions of Charles Darwin) • Dwight David Eisenhower, honorary Doctor of Law, class of 1947: 34th president of the United States • Frederick Erickson: educational anthropologist • Warren Ewens: professor of biology; creator of Ewens's sampling formula • Peter Fader: Napster trial expert witness; Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing • Ann Farnsworth-Alvear: associate professor of History • Stubbins Ffirth: investigated yellow fever • Peter J. Freyd: professor of mathematics • Michael Fitts: legal scholar, former dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 14 years, president of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, Judge Rene H. Himel Professor of Law at the Tulane School of Law • Stewart D. Friedman: practice professor of management at the Wharton School; founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program • Paul Fussell: emeritus professor of literature; National Book Award winner; cultural and literary historian • Celso-Ramón García: former William Shippen Jr. Professor of Human Reproduction; helped to develop the combined oral contraceptive pill • George Gerbner: professor and dean, Annenberg School for Communication; founder of cultivation theory • Jacob Gershon-Cohen: professor of radiology; developer of mammography for detecting breast cancer • Murray Gerstenhaber: professor of mathematics and lawyer; discoverer of Gerstenhaber algebra • Erving Goffman: professor of sociology; author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums • Claudia Goldin (professor of economics 1979–1990): Nobel Prize in Economics • Paul Gyorgy: National Medal of Science recipient; professor of pediatrics, School of Medicine • Steven Hahn: Pulitzer Prize winner; Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History • David Harbater: Cole Prize recipient, known for solving the Abhyankar conjecture • Lothar Haselberger: professor of architectural history • De'Broski Herbert: professor of immunology • Robin M. Hochstrasser: professor of chemistry • Daniel Hoffman: poet, Felix E. Schelling professor of English, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress • Kathleen Hall Jamieson: professor of communications, Annenberg School for Communications; author; media analyst • Daniel H. Janzen: professor of biology • A.T. Charlie Johnson: Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy • Vaughan Jones: Fields Medal winner, professor of mathematics • Aravind Joshi: Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive science • Louis Kahn: architect; works include the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Bangladesh and Jonas Salk Institute in California; professor of architecture • Elihu Katz: Distinguished Trustee Professor of Communications • E. Otis Kendall: professor of mathematics, 1855–1894 • Junhyong Kim: Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Endowed Professor of Biology • Alan Kors: National Humanities Medal recipient, free speech advocate; George Walker Professor of History • Bruce Kuklick: Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History • William Labov: professor of linguistics; founder of quantitative sociolinguistics • Ian Lustick: Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science; author of Trapped in the War on Terror • Robert Litzenberger: professor emeritus at Wharton • Jerre Mangione: novelist and scholar of the Italian-American experience • Mihailo Marković: professor of philosophy • E. Ann Matter: associate dean for Arts & Letters, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies • Walter A. McDougall: Pulitzer Prize winner; Alloy-Ansin Professor of History and International Relations • Olivia S. Mitchell: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; executive director of the Pension Research Council and Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research • Irv Mondschein: track coach • Roy F. Nichols: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of history • James J. O'Donnell: former vice provost for information systems and computing • Brendan O'Leary: Lauder Professor of Political Science and Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict • Burt Ovrut: professor of physics; pioneer of the heterotic string theory • Robert Patterson (1743–1824): professor of mathematics 1779–1814 at, and 1810–1813 also served as vice provost of, University of Pennsylvania; in 1805, President Thomas Jefferson appointed him director of the United States Mint • Bob Perelman: professor of English; language poet • Samuel H. Preston: Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography; known for his development of the Preston curve • Amir Pnueli: associate professor at the Moore School of Engineering 1976–1978; Turing Award winner • Hans Rademacher: Scott Chair, professor of mathematics; known for his theory of the reciprocity law for Dedekind sums • Ravi Radhakrishnan: Herman P. Schwan Chair of Bioengineering • Jagmohan Raju: Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Marketing; known for his research on pricing • Robert A. Rescorla: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Psychology; co-creator of the Rescorla–Wagner model • Russell Burton Reynolds: US Army major general; assistant professor of military science and tactics • David Rittenhouse: professor of astronomy; vice provost; trustee • Rafael Robb: professor of economics • George Rochberg: Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and professor of music • C. Brian Rose: James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology; president of the Archaeological Institute of America; known for co-directing the modern excavations at Troy • Philip Roth: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of comparative literature and literary theory • Brian M. Salzberg: neuroscientist, biophysicist and professor • Florence B. Seibert: professor of biochemistry; winner of the Garvan–Olin Medal and member of the National Women's Hall of Fame • Martin E. P. Seligman: Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology • Jeremy Siegel: Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance; financial news commentator • Rangita de Silva de Alwis: member-elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women; senior adjunct professor of global leadership • Rogers Smith: Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science • Lee Stetson: dean of undergraduate admissions, 29 years • Peter Sterling: neuroscientist and co-founder of the concept of allostasis • Thomas J. Sugrue: Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of History and Sociology • Babu Suthar: Gujarati lecturer in South Asia Studies • Iosif Vitebskiy: Soviet/Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion épée fencer • Michael Vitez: Pulitzer Prize winner; professor of creative writing • Donald Voet: associate professor of chemistry and co-author of several biochemistry textbooks • Susan M. Wachter: Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate; co-director of Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) • Arthur Waldron: Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History; Scholar of Asian and Chinese history, especially in respect to war and nationalism • Richard Wernick: Pulitzer Prize winner; composer; professor of Humanities • Howard Winklevoss: professor of actuarial science • Lightner Witmer: professor of psychology; inventor of the term clinical psychology • Tukufu Zuberi: Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations; professor of sociology ==Academia==