Name | Known for | Relationship to Stony Brook |
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Thomas J. J. Altizer | Literary critic, philosopher and theologian | Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies |
Saïd Amir Arjomand | Sociologist, author | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus [1] |
Robert Aumann | Nobel laureate in economics | Visiting Leading Professor; founding member of Center for Game Theory in Economics |
Amiri Baraka | Poet, playwright, activist | Professor Emeritus, Department of Africana Studies |
Laurence Baxter | Statistician | |
Jorge Benach | Microbiology, helped discover causative agent of Lyme disease [2] | Professor, Director of the Stony Brook Center for Infectious Diseases, and Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
Paul M. Bingham | Molecular biologist and evolutionary biologist [3] and Vice President for Research at Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals. [4] | Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in the School of Medicine |
Justus Buchler | Philosopher and metaphysician | Professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy [5] |
Martin Canin | Pianist | Artist in Residence, Music Department at the Staller Center (1965–1993) |
Jeff Cheeger | Mathematician; recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship (1971–1973); Guggenheim Fellowship (1984), elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (1997); received the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2001) | Professor, Department of Mathematics (1969–1992) [6] |
William Chittick | Author of numerous books on Sufism and Islamic philosophy | Distinguished Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies [7] [8] |
Richard Clark | Dermatologist, biomedical engineer | Professor, Health Sciences Center |
Rose Laub Coser | Sociologist; vice-president of the American Sociological Association; president of the Eastern Sociological Society; contribution to medical sociology, role theory, and sociology of the family | Professor Emeritus of Sociology [9] |
Joanne Davila | Clinical Psychologist | Professor, Department of Psychology [10] |
Simon Donaldson | Mathematician, Fields Medallist (1986), Shaw Prize recipient (2009), Breakthrough Prize laureate (2014) | Permanent member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics [11] |
Lawrence Dutton | Violist, Emerson String Quartet, 1977–present | Artist in Residence, Music Department at the Staller Center [12] |
Thomas Flanagan | Writer, National Book Critics Circle Award winner (1979) | Professor, Department of English (1978–1996) |
Douglas J. Futuyma | Evolutionary biologist, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences | Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution |
John Gagnon | Sociologist, Pioneer in the field of human sexuality | Professor, Department of Sociology (1968-1998) [13] |
Richard J. Gambino | Materials science; recipient of the National Medal of Technology, 1995; helped invent magnetic materials used for erasable optical data storage | Professor of Materials Science and engineering |
H. Bentley Glass | Geneticist | |
James Glimm | Mathematician; president of the American Mathematical Society; member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the National Medal of Science | Former chairman, Department of Applied Mathematics |
Mark Granovetter | Sociologist, the author of "The Strength of Weak Ties." | Associate to Full Professor of Sociology in 1977–1992 |
George W. Hart | Artist | Professor of Computer Science |
Robert Harvey | Literary theorist, philosopher | Distinguished University Professor |
Benjamin Hsiao | Materials scientist, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | Chief Research Officer and Vice-President for Research (2012– ) |
Don Ihde | Philosopher of science | Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy |
Masayori Inouye | Researcher in antisense RNA | Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology [14] |
Jukka Jernvall | Research in mammalian dentition | Research Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology [15] |
Lowell E. Jones | Co-creator of the Farrell–Jones conjecture | Professor |
Allan Kaprow | Developer of Happenings | Department of Fine Arts, 1961–1968; Professor |
Alfred Kazin | Writer, literary critic, and winner of the first Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism | Distinguished Professor, Department of English (1963–?) |
Michael Kimmel | Sociologist | Professor in the Department of Social Sciences |
Lee Koppelman | Executive director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board | Director of Stony Brook University's Center for Regional Policy Studies |
Ron Kovic | Writer, anti-war activist, author of Born on the Fourth of July | Writer-in-residence (1983) |
Donald Kuspit | Art critic | |
Paul Lauterbur | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 for work in developing magnetic resonance imaging [16] | Professor, Department of Chemistry and Radiology (1969-1985) |
Richard Leakey | Paleontologist and conservationist | Visiting Professor of Anthropology |
Benjamin Whisoh Lee | Theoretical Physicist, head of theoretical research group at Fermilab who was influential in the development of standard model | Professor of Physics |
Daniel Levy | Sociologist | Professor in the Department of Sociology |
John Marburger III | Physicist; director of Brookhaven National Laboratory; Science advisor to former President George W. Bush | University President (1980–1994) |
Dusa McDuff | Mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1994 | |
Lynne Meadow | Theatrical director of the Manhattan Theatre Club | |
Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr. | Communication and cognition of chimpanzees | Professor of psychology |
John Milnor | Mathematician; Fields Medal winner (1962); Abel Prize laureate (2011); member of US National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the National Medal of Science; Wolf Prize laureate; three-time winner of the AMS Steele Prize in mathematics | Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook [17] |
Joseph S. B. Mitchell | Computer scientist; mathematician; Gödel Prize(2010); ACM Fellow | Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. [18] |
Homer A. Neal | Particle physicist | Provost (1981–1986) [19] |
Patrice Nganang | | Associate Professor of Comparative Literature |
Andrew J. Nicholson | Indologist, scholar of Hinduism | Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies [20] |
Mel Pekarsky | Artist | Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, Department of Art |
Massimo Pigliucci | Author, evolutionary biologist | Former professor of ecology and evolution |
Philip Roth | Author | Visiting lecturer (1967–68) |
Jim Simons | Recipient of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry; member of the US National Academy of Sciences; founder of Renaissance Technologies; philanthropist; benefactor of Stony Brook and other universities | Former chairman, Department of Mathematics |
Louis Simpson | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English |
Dennis Sullivan | Mathematician; recipient of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, the Prix Élie Cartan of the French Academy of Sciences, the King Faisal International Prize for Science, the National Medal of Science, the AMS Steele Prize, the Balzan Prize and the Wolf Prize | |
Esther Takeuchi | Chemist | Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
George C. Williams (biologist) | Author, evolutionary biologist | professor of biology |
Eckard Wimmer | | Distinguished Professor [21] |
Patricia Wright | Primatologist, physical anthropologist | Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology, and director, Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments [22] |
Chen Ning Yang | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1957, shared with Tsung-Dao Lee for work on weak nuclear forces and parity | Professor (1965–1999) [23] |
Shing-Tung Yau | Fields Medal-winning mathematician (1982) | Assistant professor (1972–1974) |
Marci Lobel | Health psychologist, known for her research on women’s reproductive health. | Professor of Psychology, [24] Senior researcher and director of the Stress and Reproduction (STAR) Lab [25] |