Notable Faculty
- Charles Emerson Beecher, paleontologist, member of the governing board
- William Henry Brewer, botanist, first chair of agriculture, as well as a graduate from the first class of the school
- August Jay DuBois (1849-1907), mechanical engineering
- Daniel Coit Gilman, geographer, helped plan and raise funds
- Thomas Lounsbury, American literary historian, professor of English and librarian at Sheff
- Chester S. Lyman (1814-1890), industrial mechanics; inventor of surveying and astronomical instruments
- Lafayette Mendel, biochemist
- Manfield Merriman (1848-1925), civil engineering; author of "A Treatise on Hydraulics and on the Strength of Materials", 1877
- John Pitkin Norton, chemist, founding faculty member
- William Augustus Norton, civil engineer, founding faculty member
- John Addison Porter, chemist
- Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, engineer chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1884-1909
- Benjamin Silliman, Jr., chemist, founding faculty member
- William Petit Trowbridge (1828-1892), mechanical engineering; published the first cantilever bridge design; Member, National Academy of Science
- Francis Amasa Walker, economist
- William Dwight Whitney, organized and taught in the department of modern languages; member of the governing board
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