This is a list of faculty and staff of Washington University in St. Louis.
Arts and sciences Name Field NotabilityJoined the facultyPatty Jo WatsonAnthropologyFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)Lee RobinsAnthropologyFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)Florence MoogBiologyHer research on enzymes in the intestinal tract led to a therapy to bring about normal lung functioning in premature infants Douglass Cecil NorthEconomicsNobel prize (1994), fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)Robert A. PollakEconomicsFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)Murray L. WeidenbaumEconomicsFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)Barbara Anna SchaalEvolutionary BiologyFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)William Howard GassLiteratureFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)Carl PhillipsLiteratureFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)Gerald Lyn EarlyLiterary CriticismFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)Nobuo SugaNeuroSciencesFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)Marcus E. RaichleNeuroSciencesFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)Clifford M. WillPhysicsFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)Henry L. Roediger IIIPsychologyFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)Mark S. WrightonChemistryFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988)William Henry DanforthMedicineFellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)
School of Medicine Name Position NotabilityJoined the facultyDavid Morris KipnisProfessor of Medicine National Institute of Medicine 1974Stuart KornfeldProfessor of Medicine National Institute of Medicine 1988Emil Raphael UnanueProfessor of Medicine National Institute of Medicine 1989Kenneth Marc LudmererProfessor of Medicine National Institute of Medicine 2002
National Academy of Medicine C. Robert Cloninger, Wallace Renard Professor and Director, Center for Psychobiology of Personality Graham Colditz, Niess-Gain Professor in Medicine Department of Surgery William Henry Danforth, Chancellor Eric M. Genden, Excellence in Teaching Award, 1998 David M. Kipnis, Distinguished University Professor Stuart Kornfeld, David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry Timothy J. Ley, Alan and Edith Wolff Professor of Medicine Professor of Genetics Colin Nichols, Carl Cori Endowed Professor Emil R. Unanue, Department of Pathology, Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology
National Academy of Engineering Bioengineering 2022: Farshid Guilak, Mildred B. Simon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering 2007: Jonathan S. Turner Roch Guérin, Harold B. & Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science, and chair of the Computer Science & Engineering Department
Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering 1984: John Zaborszky
National Academy of Sciences Anthropology 1988: Patty Jo Watson, Department of Anthropology, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Archaeology 1996: Erik Trinkaus, Department of Anthropology, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Physical Anthropology
Chemistry 1966: S.I. Weissman, Department of Chemistry
Evolutionary Biology 1999: Barbara A. Schaal, Department of Biology, first female vice president of the NAS
Immunology 1987: Emil R. Unanue, Department of Pathology, Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology 2007: Wayne Yokoyama, winner of the Lee C. Howley Prize (for arthritis research), researched natural killer cells' role in immunology
Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology 1982: Stuart Kornfeld, winner of the 2010 George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians 1986: Philip Majerus
Medical Physiology and Metabolism 2001: Jeffrey Gordon
Physics 1927: Arthur Holly Compton 1943: Lee A. DuBridge 1944: Edward Condon 1968: Henry Primakoff 1973: Robert M. Walker (geophysics) 1975: Eugene Feenberg 2004: Ramanath Cowsik 2007: Clifford Will
Psychology 1979: Ira Hirsh
Nobel laureates Chemistry 1970: Luis F. Leloir, Faculty of Medicine 1944 1980: Paul Berg, Faculty of Medicine 1954–1959 2004: Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc., Research Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and Visiting Professor of Pediatrics 1987–
Economic Science 1993: Douglass C. North (1920–2015), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1983– 2022: Philip H. Dybvig, Faculty of Olin Business School, 1990–
Medicine & Physiology 1943: Edward A. Doisy (1893–1986), Faculty of Medicine, 1919–1923 1944: Joseph Erlanger (1874–1965), chairman, Department of Physiology 1910–1946 1944: Herbert Gasser (1888–1963), Faculty of Medicine, 1916–1931 1947: Carl F. Cori (1896–1984), Faculty of Medicine 1931–1984 1947: Gerty T. Cori (1896–1957), Faculty of Medicine 1931–1957 1959: Arthur Kornberg, chairman, Department of Microbiology, 1952–1959 1959: Severo Ochoa, Faculty of Medicine 1940–1942 1969: Alfred Hershey (1908–1997), Faculty of Medicine 1934–1950 1971: Earl Sutherland (1915–1974), M.D. 42, resident in Internal Medicine 1943–1945, Faculty of Medicine, 1945–1953 1974: Christian de Duve, Faculty of Medicine 1946–1947 1978: Daniel Nathans (1928–1999), M.D. 54 1978: Hamilton O. Smith, Washington University Medical Service 1956–1957 1980: George D. Snell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1933–1934 1986: Stanley Cohen, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1953–1959 1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1948- 1992: Edwin G. Krebs, M.D. 43, resident in Internal Medicine; Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry 1945–1948 1998: Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine, 1949–1956
Physics 1927: Arthur H. Compton (1892–1962), Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1920–1923 and 1945–1962, chancellor 1945–1953
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