List of State University of New York at Stony Brook people
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This is a list of people connected to State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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[edit] Notable faculty
This list includes both present and former faculty members.
| Name | Known for | Relationship to Stony Brook |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas J. J. Altizer | literary critic, philosopher and theologian | Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies |
| Robert Aumann | Nobel laureate in Economics | Visiting Leading Professor, Founding member of Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook |
| Laurence Baxter | statistician | there is an annual lecture in his memory.[1] |
| Jorge Benach | co-discoverer of Lyme Disease | Currently a professor, director of the Stony Brook Center for Infectious Diseases, and Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. |
| Paul M. Bingham | Microbiologist and proponent of his own theory of human evolution | Currently professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in the School of Medicine. |
| William Chittick | Many influential books on Sufism and Islamic philosophy | Currently professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook.[2] |
| Richard Clark | dermatologist and biomedical engineer | Currently a professor in the Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook. |
| Lawrence Dutton | viola player of the Emerson String Quartet, 1977-present. | Presently Artist in Residence in the music department at the Staller Center at Stony Brook.[3] |
| Douglas J. Futuyma | Evolutionary Biologist, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences | |
| Richard J. Gambino | Materials Science, winner of the National Medal of Technology, 1995. Helped invent magnetic materials used for erasable optical data storage. | |
| H. Bentley Glass | Geneticist | |
| James Glimm | mathematician, President of the American Mathematical Society, member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of the National Medal of Science | |
| George W. Hart | Professor of Computer Science | |
| Jukka Jernvall | Research in mammalian dentition | Research Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology [4] |
| Allan Kaprow | developer of Happenings | Department of Fine Arts, 1961-1968; Professor |
| Lee Koppelman | longtime Executive Director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board | Director of Stony Brook University's Center for Regional Policy Studies. |
| Donald Kuspit | Art critic | |
| Richard Leakey | Prominent paleontologist and conservationist | Visiting Professor of Anthropology |
| Don Ihde | philosopher of science | Currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook. |
| Masayori Inouye | an early researcher in antisense RNA | At the time (1984) faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook [5]. |
| Michael Kimmel | sociologist | Currently professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Stony Brook. |
| Paul Lauterbur | winner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 for work in MRI in 1970s at SB [6] | |
| John Marburger III | physicist, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and science advisor to former President George W. Bush | President of the university (1980-1994) |
| Dusa McDuff | mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1994 | |
| Lynne Meadow | theatrical director of the Manhattan Theatre Club | |
| Harold Metcalf | Laser cooling research | Currently a professor in the Physics Dept. at Stony Brook. |
| John Milnor | Fields Medal-winning mathematician (1962), Abel Prize-winning mathematician (2011) | Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook [7] |
| Massimo Pigliucci | author | Evolutionary biologist |
| Jim Simons | Founder of Renaissance Technologies, multi-billion dollar making hedge fund manager. | Chairman of Mathematics Dept and largest donor to Stony Brook Foundation. |
| Louis Simpson | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Stony Brook |
| 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 and the Wolf Prize. | |
| Eckard Wimmer | creator of the first synthetic virus | Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook [8] |
| Chen Ning Yang | winner, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1957, shared with Tsung-Dao Lee for their theory on weak nuclear forces and parity | Was professor at Stony Brook from 1965 to 1999 and is now emeritus [9] |
| Shing-Tung Yau | Fields Medal-winning mathematician (1982) | Was an assistant professor at Stony Brook from 1972-4. |
| Ron Overton | author and recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts | Professor at Stony Brook. |
[edit] University Presidents
| Name | Years served |
|---|---|
Dr. John Lee[disambiguation needed  ] |
1961 |
| Dr. John S. Toll | 1965-1978 |
| Dr. John Marburger III | 1980-1994 |
| Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny | 1994-2009 |
| Dr. Samuel L. Stanley | 2009- |
[edit] Notable alumni
| Name | Known for | Relationship to Stony Brook |
|---|---|---|
| Joe Nathan | pitcher for the Texas Rangers | |
| Scott G. Abbey | Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of UBS AG | B.S. (1972) Mathematics & Psychology, M.S(1974) & Ph.D(1975) Computer Science |
| Craig Allen | WCBS-TV and WCBS-AM meteorologist | B.S., Meteorology |
| Scott Amron | American conceptual artist and electrical engineer | B.E., Electrical Engineering |
| Michael R. Anastasio | Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | M.A., Ph.D., Theoretical Nuclear Physics |
| Kenneth Andrews | Sociologist | PhD 1997 |
| Joy Behar | Comedienne, TV personality, Talk show host | M.A., English Education |
| Peter Bucknell | classical violist | D.M. |
| Errol Cockfield Jr. | Press secretary to the Governor of New York | B.A., English, 1994 |
| Daniel Corbett | BBC Weather forecaster | B.S., Meteorology |
| Eric Corley | radio show host and publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly magazine | |
| Jane Delgado | President and CEO of National Alliance for Hispanic Health | Ph.d., Clinical Psychology, 1981 |
| Glenn Dubin | Co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management | B.A., Economics, 1978 |
| Diane Farr | Author & Actress, best known as Megan on NUMB3RS on CBS | B.A., 1995 |
| Mitchell B. Fox | Group President of Conde Nast Publications | B.S., Political Science |
| Robert Gallucci | Former ambassador and current dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University | B.A. 1967 |
| Steven K. Galson | Acting Surgeon General of the United States | |
| David Gelernter | Professor at Yale University, and victim of the Unabomber | Ph.D., Computer Science |
| Christine Goerke | Opera singer | BA |
| Ned Goldreyer | Television writer | BA |
| Stuart Goldstein | Squash player | |
| John L. Hennessy | President of Stanford University | M.A., Ph.D., Computer Science |
| Scott Higham | Investigative journalist for the Washington Post and winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize | |
| Hao Huang | concert pianist and Professor at Scripps College | D.M.A. in piano performance |
| Rachel Vetter Huang | violinist and Lecturer in Music at Scripps College | D.M.A. in violin performance |
| Perry Kivolowitz | Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement winner | B.S. 1981, Computer Science |
| Adam Klein | Opera singer | BA |
| Joseph E. LeDoux | neuroscientist | Ph.D. in 1977 |
| Nick Mamatas | Author | BA |
| Geoffrey K. Martin | mathematician | Ph.D 1983 |
| Fulvio Melia | Author, Physicist, and Astrophysicist at the University of Arizona | M.S. 1980 |
| Britta Merwin | NBC Weather Plus meteorologist | B.S., Meteorology |
| Steffen Mueller | Microbiologist | Ph.D. 2002 |
| Horaţiu Năstase | physicist | PhD in May 2000 |
| Joe Nathan | Professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins | |
| Ron Nehring | current Chairman of the California Republican Party | B.A. 1992 |
| James S. Olson | Historian | PhD |
| Jon Oringer | Founder/CEO of Shutterstock | B.S., Computer Science 1997, B.S. Mathematics 1997 |
| Sandy Pearlman | Rock music promoter | B.A. 1965, 1966 |
| Terry Pinkard | noted Hegel scholar and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University | Ph.D., 1974 |
| Joshua (Josh) Prager | Director of Center for Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; President of North American Neuromodulation Society | MD, MS, B.S. 1972 Stony Brook's SAB Concert Chairman |
| Norman Prusslin | President of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System and board member of the Press Club of Long Island | B.A. 1973 |
| Jeff Raskin | Author and co-creator of the Macintosh computer at Apple Computer, Inc. | B.S. 1964, B.A. 1965 |
| Alia Sabur | world's youngest college professor (age 18), B.S. at age 14 | B.S. 2003 applied mathematics summa cum laude [10] |
| Laura Schlessinger | American commentator, host of the Dr. Laura radio call-in show | B.S. 1968 |
| Abraham Silberschatz | Professor and Chair of the Computer Science department at Yale University | |
| Isabel Soveral | Composer | |
| Michael Stebbins | geneticist | PhD |
| Srinidhi Varadarajan | Director of the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech and as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science | |
| Susan R. Wessler | molecular biologist and geneticist | BA, 1974 |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- State University of New York at Stony Brook – Official website
