James McNaughton Hester, former professor and Dean of both undergraduate and graduate schools of arts and science at NYU. He became 11th President of NYU.
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
Jane M. Carlton, Professor of Biology, recipient of the 2010 Stoll-Stunkard Memorial Lectureship Award, 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Stephen Arnold, physicist, helped create the interdisciplinary field of Microsphere Photonics, an optical biosensor sensitive enough to detect unlabeled molecules such as protein molecules and strands of DNA.[38]
H. Johnathan Chao, patented the first integrated circuit chip that demonstrates the feasibility of SONET/ATM networks, allowing large volumes of information–audio, date, image and video–to transmit at high speeds.[38]
Boris Aronov, computer scientist, Sloan Research Fellow
Bruce Garetz, invented (with former Polytechnic professor and current MIT professor Allan Myerson[39]) a method for using laser light to control the arrangement of molecules in a crystal.[38]
Dan Bailey, physicist, fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer
George Bugliarello – Chairman of the Board of Science and Technology for International Development of the National Academy of Sciences; of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; and of the National Academy of Engineering Council's International Affairs Committee
Edward Weil, discovered a new family of chemicals that inhibit corrosion and could be used in protective coatings.[38] Invented and developed many flame retardants for textiles, polymers, foams, agricultural chemicals, plasticizers and other polymer additives. Also invented and developed numerous agricultural chemicals, polymer additives, and manufacturing processes. Holder of over 200 patents.[41]
Francis Crick – co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Paul M. Doty – emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry; specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules; involved in peace and security policy issues
R. Luke DuBois – composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer, pedagogue
Paul Peter Ewald – inventor of X-ray diffraction method for determination of molecular structure; Physics Department chair until 1957
Zivan Zabar, developed a computer code for Con Edison that helped restart the electronic network after a 1983 blackout; the program was again used after 9/11 to restore power in lower Manhattan.[38]
Antonio Ferri – leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel[38]
R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines.
David and Gregory Chudnovsky – mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989; now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing at Polytechnic
Leslie Greengard, mathematician, physician and computer scientist. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method in 1987.[42]
S. L. Greitzer – mathematician; founding chairman of the US Mathematical Olympiad; publisher of the pre-college mathematics journal Arbelos
Paul Levinson – author of The Plot To Save Socrates; media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor; Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987–1988
Donald Othmer – co-author of Kirk–Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; inventor of the Othmer Still, a laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements
Beth Simone Noveck, United States deputy chief technology officer for open government
Nicholas J. Hoff, award-winning engineer specializing in aeronautics and astronautics. His calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design.[38]
Maurizio Porfiri, Italian electrical engineer, noted for his work with robotic fish.
Ramesh Karri, researcher specializing in trustworthy hardware, high assurance nanoscale integrated circuits, architectures and systems. He and his students at NYU Tandon School of Engineering generated the first research on attack-resilient chip architecture, presented the first research paper on split manufacturing, a means of thwarting counterfeiting by an untrusted foundry by dividing a chip's blueprint into several components and distributing each to a different fabricator, and won numerous best-paper awards from ACM, USENIX, and the IEEE, among others.[46]
David Goodman (electrical engineer), introduced the first practical application of a wireless infostation that can communicate information to and from a PDA or notebook computer.[38]
Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
Robert Dewar, IFIP WG 2.1 member, chairperson 1978–1983; Courant Institute associate director 1994–1997, GNAT cocreator, AdaCore cofounder, president, CEO
Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science
Louise Rosenblatt, author of Literature as Exploration, noted scholar on the teaching of literature, and director of NYU's doctoral program in English Education
Hale Woodruff, printmaker, muralist, draftsman, painter
Stefaan Verhulst, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Senior Associated Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Alan Altshuler, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation (1972–75)
NYU Law has the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard.[56]
holds a Research Professorship on "Globalization and the Rule of Law" at the Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB) and Humboldt University in Berlin
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