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Cornell is the only university in the world with three female winners of unshared Nobel Prizes among its graduates; Cornell alumni Pearl S. Buck, Barbara McClintock, and Toni Morrison each were unshared recipients of the prize. [5] [6] Many alumni maintain university ties through the university's homecoming. Its alumni magazine is Cornell ...
The 2008 graduation ceremony at Schoellkopf Field on the campus of Cornell University. This list of Cornell University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, in the field of natural sciences and related subjects. For other ...
John Cranford Adams (B.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1935) – 2nd president of Hofstra University (1944–1964); Ilesanmi Adesida (postdoctoral researcher 1979–1984) – dean of College of Engineering (2005–2012) and provost (2012–2015) at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; member of National Academy of Engineering (2006) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Robert Otto Pohl (December 17, 1929 – August 30, 2024) was a German-American physicist, specializing in condensed matter physics topics such as solid state physics, thermal conductivity, and thin films, [1] who was the Goldwin Smith Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cornell University where he has been on the faculty since the 1950s.
Adam Leibovich graduated from Cornell University with his Bachelor of Arts in physics, magma cum laude with honors, and attended the California Institute of Technology for his Ph.D. After completing his doctoral degree in 1997, he accepted postdoctoral positions at Carnegie Mellon University and Fermilab. [2]
The Cornell Alumni News is an independent, alumni-owned publication founded in 1899 [85] It is owned and controlled by the Cornell Alumni Association, a separate nonprofit corporation and is now known as Cornell Alumni Magazine.
In 1980, he joined the physics faculty at Cornell University where he became a professor. [1] He received academic tenure in 1984 after only four years on the university faculty. [2] From 1999 to 2003, he was the chair of Cornell's physics department. He was appointed the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, serving from 2003 ...
After graduating from Harvard College in 1982, Jones went to the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar to study for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, earning a master's degree there. She completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1988, with research on the Kondo model of quantum impurities supervised by Chandra Varma. [1] [2]