List of Bow Tie Wearers - Bow Tie Wearers in The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries - Educators - College and University Professors

College and University Professors

• Leon Botstein (born 1946), president of Bard College
• George S. Bridges, Whitman College president
• George Campbell Jr. (born 1945), president of Cooper Union
• Donald J. Cram, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• William Durden, president of Dickinson College
• E. Gordon Gee (born 1944), president of Ohio State University and former president of Vanderbilt University, Brown University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and West Virginia University: "When E. Gordon Gee was fifteen years old, he made a defining sartorial decision. He began wearing a bow tie."
• Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• Eric R. Kandel (born 1929), neurobiology professor and Nobel Prize winner with a "trademark bow tie"
• Fred Lazarus IV, president of the Maryland Institute College of Art
• Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• William Lipscomb, physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• R. Bowen Loftin (born 1949), president of Texas A&M University. Quoted as saying "The similarity between Bowen and Bowtie tends to help people remember my name."
• Michael C. Maxey, 11th president of Roanoke College
• Paul Samuelson (1915–2009), professor emeritus of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel Prize winner.
• Erwin Schrödinger, the father of quantum physics.
• Andrew Sorensen, former president of the University of Alabama and the University of South Carolina, capitalized on his reputation for a "trademark bow tie" by calling his travels around South Carolina "Bow Tie Bus Tours".
• Gary Weedman, 6th president of Johnson University
• Jerry Herron, dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University.