List of NYU GSAS people
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This is a list of people associated with the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Notable faculty[]
Saul Bellow | Writer | Professor | 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature |
Harold Bloom | Literary critic | Berg Professor of English | 1985 MacArthur Fellow |
Faye D. Ginsburg | Scholar | Professor of Anthropology | 1994 MacArthur Fellow |
Galway Kinnell | Poet | Professor | 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
Wassily Leontief | Economist | Professor 1975–1999 | 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics |
Otto Loewi | Pharmacologist | Professor 1940–1961 | 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Ruth Watson Lubic | Scholar | Adjunct Professor | 1993 MacArthur Fellow |
Paule Marshall | Writer | Professor of English | 1992 MacArthur Fellow |
Robert S. Mulliken | Physicist, chemist | Professor 1926–1928 | 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Rita P. Wright | Scholar | Professor of Anthropology | 1988 MacArthur Fellow |
Alumni[]
(*did not graduate)
Nobel laureates[]
Julius Axelrod | Biochemist | M.Sc. 1941 | 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Friedrich Hayek | Economist | Postgraduate, 1923–1924 | 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics |
Frederick Reines | Physicist | Ph.D. 1944 | 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics |
Clifford Shull | Physicist | Ph.D. 1941 | 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics |
Pulitzer Prize winners[]
Dorothy Rabinowitz | Journalist and commentator | Ph.D. 1960 | 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary |
James Ford Rhodes | Historian | 1865- * | 1918 Pulitzer Prize for History for History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 |
Harold C. Schonberg | Music critic, journalist | M.A., 1939 | 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism |
John Patrick Shanley | Playwright | M.A., 1977 | 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
Neil Simon | Playwright | 1944–1945* | 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers) |
Other[]
Gloria Allred | Feminist, lawyer | M.A., 1971 | |
Chairman, president and CEO of Fiduciary Trust Company International.[1] | Masters in Economics | ||
David Antin | Poet | M.A., 1966 | PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry |
Rita Mae Brown | Author | M.A., 1964 | Rubyfruit Jungle |
Lawrence Joseph DeNardis | M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989 | United States House of Representatives | |
Stavros Dimas | Politician | M.A., 1969 | European Commissioner for the Environment |
William Henry Draper, Jr. | Diplomat | M.A., 1917 | Under Secretary of War and the Army |
Robert Patrick John Finn | Diplomat | M.A. | U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan |
Artist | M.A. | Inventor of electronic art | |
Joseph Heller | Author | M.A. in English 1945 – * | Catch-22 |
Bernard Herrmann | Composer | Student under Percy Grainger at NYU | Academy Award 1941, All That Money Can Buy |
Heather M. Hodges | Diplomat | M.A. | U.S. Ambassador to Moldova |
Rush Holt | M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981 | United States House of Representatives (1999–) | |
Meir Kahane | Founder of the U.S. Jewish Defense League | M.A., 1957 | Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset |
Senior VP, IBM | M.A., M.B.A. | ||
Elodie Lauten | Composer | M.A., 1986 | |
Evelyn Lear | Soprano | Grammy Award 1966 for her performance of Berg's Wozzeck | |
John McGrath | Artistic Director | Ph.D., 1999 | Artistic Director and CEO of the Manchester International Festival |
Raymond Joseph McGrath | M.A., 1968 | United States House of Representatives (1981–1993) | |
Leonard Peikoff | Philosopher | M.A., 1957, Ph.D., 1964 | Leading advocate of Objectivism |
B. Caroll Reece | M.A., 1916 | United States House of Representatives (1921–1961) | |
J.D. Salinger | Author | coursework* | Catcher in the Rye |
Agnes Varis | Entrepreneur | M.A., 1977, M.B.A., 1979 | Founder of Aegis Pharmaceuticals |
Judith Weis | Marine Biologist | M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1967 | |
Saul Williams | Poet | M.A., 1995 | Amethyst Rock Star |
John Woodruff | Athlete | M.A., 1941 | Olympic gold medalist, 1936 |
Minoru Yamasaki | Architect | M.A., 1951 | Works include the World Trade Center |
Mary Carlin Yates | Diplomat | M.A., Ph.D. | U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana |
(*did not graduate)
References[]
- ^ "Anne Tatlock". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
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