Presidents of The University of Chicago - Science

Science

• Zonia Baber – Geographer and geologist
• Myrtle Bachelder – chemist and Women's Army Corps officer, who is noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals.
• Ralph Buchsbaum – Invertebrate zoologist.
• Marcela Carena – Particle physicist.
• Sean M. Carroll – Cosmologist.
• Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin – Influential geologist. Developed planetesimal theory.
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – 1983 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
• Fay-Cooper Cole – Witness at the Scopes Monkey Trial
• Andrew M. Davis – Professor of Astronomy and Geophysical Sciences. He studies the origins of the Solar System for which he working on building ion nanoprobe. Developed resonant ionization mass spectrometry.
• Savas Dimopoulos – Particle physicist.
• Enrico Fermi – 1938 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
• James Franck – Nobel laureate.
• T. Theodore Fujita –
• Murray Gell-Mann – 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Developed model for nuclear shell structure at the University of Chicago, for which she received a Nobel in Physics in 1963.
• James Hartle – Theoretical physicist at the Enrico Fermi Institute.
• Gerhard Herzberg – 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.
• Edwin Hubble –
• Ole J. Kleppa – Pioneer in High Temperature Thermochemistry; inventor of the Kleppa Calorimeter
• Edward W. Kolb – Cosmologist.
• Bruce Lahn –
• Ernest Lawrence – 1939 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
• Richard Lewontin – Pioneered use of molecular biology on questions of evolution and genetic variation.
• Joseph Lykken – Particle physicist.
• Albert Abraham Michelson – First American Nobel laureate in the sciences. Known for the famed Michelson-Morley experiment, a cornerstone of Relativity Theory. Measured the speed of light.
• Robert Millikan – Nobel laureate in Physics. Known for his measurement of the charge of the electron and the photoelectric effect. Performed famed oil-drop experiment at the University of Chicago's Ryerson Laboratory, which has been designated a historic physics landmark by the American Physical Society.
• Yoichiro Nambu – Winner of Sakurai Prize, Wolf Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, and the National Medal of Science. Considered founder of string theory. Known for "color charge" in quantum chromodynamics and work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics.
• Eugene Parker – Astrophysicist, known for his work on the solar wind.
• Stuart Rice – Chemist. National Medal of Science winner.
• Florence B. Seibert – Biochemist, winner of the Garvan–Olin Medal and member of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
• Paul Sigler – Former Professor. Worked out the structure of the RNA molecule responsible for the initiation of protein synthesis.
• Maria Spiropulu – Particle physicist.
• Edward Teller – "Father of the hydrogen bomb".
• Michael S. Turner – Cosmologist.
• Harold Urey – Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Carlos E.M. Wagner – Particle physicist.
• Frank Wilczek –
• Sewall Wright – National Medal of Science winner. One of the founders of population genetics.