List of University of Pennsylvania people

This is a list of notable faculty, alumni and scholars of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.

Faculty 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)"John Andrews". University of Pennsylvania. 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 therapyFolsom, Timothy D., et al. "Profiles in history of neuroscience and psychiatry." The Medical Basis of Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY, 2016. 925–1007"Department of Psychiatry : Aaron T. Beck, M.D.". September 14, 2017. Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2018. 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 Sidney A. Bludman: physicist 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)Kaplan, Amy. (February 7, 2022). "Former Penn professor and Grammy-winning composer George Crumb dies at 92". The Daily Pennsylvanian. Retrieved February 8, 2022. 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)Eiseley's reputation was established primarily through his books, including The Immense Journey (1957), Darwin's Century (1958), The Unexpected Universe (1969), The Night Country (1971), and his memoir, All the Strange Hours (1975).Science author Orville Prescott praised him as a scientist who "can write with poetic sensibility and with a fine sense of wonder and of reverence before the mysteries of life and nature."Naturalist author Mary Ellen Pitts saw his combination of literary and nature writings as his "quest, not simply for bringing together science and literature ... but a continuation of what the 18th and 19th century British naturalists and Thoreau had done."In praise of "The Unexpected Universe", Ray Bradbury remarked, "[Eiseley] is every writer's writer, and every human's human ... One of us, yet most uncommon ...".According to his obituary in The New York Times, the feeling and philosophical motivation of the entire body of Eiseley's work was best expressed in one of his essays, The Enchanted Glass: "The anthropologist wrote of the need for the contemplative naturalist, a man who, in a less frenzied era, had time to observe, to speculate, and to dream." Blum, Howard. (July 11, 1977). "Loren Eiseley, Anthropologist, 69; Eloquent Writer on Man and Nature". The New York Times (obituary). 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"Biography of Michael A. Fitts". Tulane University. Archived from the original October 12, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016. 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