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List of Duke University people
This List of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University, which includes two undergraduate and nine graduate schools. The undergraduate schools include Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Pratt School of Engineering. The university's graduate and professional schools include the Graduate School, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Law, and the Divinity School.
Duke University alumni tied for third in giving rate among U.S. national universities in the 2005-2006 fiscal year. Famous alumni include U.S. President Richard Nixon, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, former cabinet member and current Senator Elizabeth Dole, philanthropist Melinda French Gates, and the chief executive officers of General Motors Corporation (Rick Wagoner), Morgan Stanley (John J. Mack), and Pfizer (Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.). Notable alumni media personalities include Dan Abrams, the former General Manager of MSNBC, Jay Bilas, a commentator on ESPN, Sean McManus, the President of CBS News and CBS Sports, Charlie Rose, the host of Charlie Rose and a 60 Minutes contributor, and Judy Woodruff, an anchor at CNN. William DeVries (GME 1971-1979), was the first doctor to perform a successful permanent artificial heart implantation, and appeared on the cover of Time in 1984.
Current notable faculty include Peter Agre, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Manny Azenberg, a Broadway producer whose productions have won 40 Tony Awards, Adrian Bejan, inventor of the constructal theory and namesake of the Bejan number, and David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times. Walter E. Dellinger III, formerly the United States Solicitor General, Assistant Attorney General, and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under Bill Clinton serves as a law professor. Ariel Dorfman, a novelist and playwright won the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award, while Peter Feaver was a member of the National Security Council under Clinton and George W. Bush. David Gergen served as an advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. John Hope Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton, while William Raspberry, a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. 18 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university, including one in virtually every one of the past several years.
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Faculty
Nobel laureates
- Peter Agre 2003 Nobel Laureate in chemistry
- Richard Axel 2004 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- John Bardeen 1956 and 1972 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Hans Bethe 1967 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Max Born 1954 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Mario Capecchi 2007 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- Hans Georg Dehmelt 1989 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Gertrude B. Elion 1988 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- James Franck 1925 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Robert Coleman Richardson 1996 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Oliver Smithies 2007 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- Craig Mello 2006 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- Joseph E. Stiglitz 2001 Nobel Laureate in economics
- Eric F. Wieschaus 1995 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- Kurt Wüthrich 2002 Nobel Laureate in chemistry
Current
- Peter Agre, winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, vice chancellor of Duke Medical School
- Manny Azenberg, legendary producer of American theater who has won 40 Tony awards
- Adrian Bejan, mechanical engineering professor, inventor of constructal theory and namesake of the Bejan number
- Tim Bollerslev, economist, expert on Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
- Geoffrey Brennan, philosopher associated with rational actor theory
- David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times
- Caroline Bruzelius, art historian, expert on medieval architecture
- Al Buehler, chairman of the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation department; United States Olympic Track coach at the 1972, 1984, and 1988 Summer Olympics. Member of North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
- Erwin Chemerinsky, law professor, noted constitutional scholar
- Miriam Cooke, literary critic
- Walter E. Dellinger III, law professor, former United States Solicitor General under President Bill Clinton
- Victor J. Dzau, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine
- Ariel Dorfman, novelist, playwright, human rights activist, 1992 winner of the Laurence Olivier Award
- Fred Dretske, philosopher of mind, winner of the Jean Nicod Prize
- Sir Harold Evans, author, editor of The Times, exposed Soviet spies
- Owen Flanagan, philosopher of mind, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
- Peter Feaver political scientist, served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
- Michael Ferejohn, expert on ancient philosophy
- John Hope Franklin, civil rights activist, historian, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
- Yegor Gaidar, Prime Minister of Russia
- David Gergen, former Duke professor and current Duke Trustee. Adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton.
- David B. Goldstein, population geneticist
- Moo-Young Han, discoverer of the quark color charge
- Michael Hardt, literature professor and Marxist, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire and Multitude
- Stanley Hauerwas, theologian and author
- Richard B. Hays, theologian
- Jerry F. Hough, political scientist, author, and professor
- Reinhard Hütter, Catholic theologian
- Fredric Jameson, Marxist literary theorist and former Chair of the Literature Program
- Erich Jarvis, National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award recipient, Popular Science's Brilliant 10 of 2006 under the age of 45, Discover top 100 science discoveries of 2005 (avian brain nomenclature listed at #51), People's "Sexiest Brain Researcher" for 2006
- Abdul Sattar Jawad, literary theorist, fled Mustansiriya University after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
- Bruce Jentleson, director of Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore
- Kristina M. Johnson, Director of Boston Scientific Corporation, Former Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering
- Claudia Koonz, feminist historian
- Joanna Lambert, head of physical anthropology division of the National Science Foundation
- Nan Lin, sociologist
- Julian Lombardi, computer scientist, inventor
- Mark McCahill, creator of Internet Gopher, POP mail, and Croquet; coined the phrase "surfing the Web"
- Walter Mignolo, literary theorist
- Toril Moi, literary theorist associated with feminist theory
- V. Y. Mudimbe, philosopher associated with philosophy of language, phenomenology, and structuralism
- Miguel Nicolelis, brain-computer interface pioneer
- Henry Petroski, Civil engineer and writer
- Ronen Plesser, string theorist
- Reynolds Price, renowned author and professor of literature
- William Raspberry, Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Olaf von Ramm, Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering, first patent on a 3-D ultrasound
- Paul Rehak, archaeologist
- Alexander Rosenberg, philosopher, winner of Lakatos Award in philosophy of science, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lecturer
- Kathy Rudy, social constructionist
- David H. Sanford, philosopher
- Tad Schmaltz, editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, feminist theorist, literary theorist
- Barbara Ramsay Shaw, chemist, cancer researcher, expert on signal transduction
- David Smith, invisibility cloak pioneer
- J. E. R. Staddon, behavioral psychologist
- Kristine Stiles, art historian
- Timothy Tyson, historian
- Geoffrey Wainwright, Methodist theologian
- E. Roy Weintraub, economist
- Judy Woodruff, news anchor, journalist
- Wu Jinglian, economist
- Anthony Zinni, decorated American general
Former
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher, author of In My Father's House and The Ethics of Identity
- Red Auerbach, assistant men's basketball coach (1946-1950). NBA Coach. Won 9 championships with the Boston Celtics
- John Spencer Bassett, historian who initiated the Bassett Affair, an important victory for academic freedom
- Hans Bethe, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Helen Bevington, celebrated poet and author
- Utpal Bhattacharya, expert on business ethics
- Harry Binswanger, Objectivist philosopher and philosopher of mind
- Edgar Bowers, poet, For Louis Pasteur, Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1989, Guggenheim Fellowship twice
- David S. Broder, current Washington Post and former New York Times reporter
- H. Keith H. Brodie, psychiatrist, educator and eventual president of Duke
- Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton, advocate of women's education
- Hubie Brown, assistant men's basketball coach (1969-1972). NBA Coach and Commentator
- George Elliott Clarke, author, poet
- G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kalman J. Cohen, economist, pioneer of market micro-structure
- Chuck Daly, assistant men's basketball coach (1963-1969). NBA Coach.
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles, politician involved in the affairs of post-World War II Germany, Bretton Woods Conference, US State Department
- Mike Duffy, television host
- Gertrude Elion, 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Stanley Fish, former Chair of the English Department, deconstructionist literary critic
- Robert C. Frasure, American ambassador to Estonia
- Henry Louis Gates, Chair of African-American Studies at Harvard
- René Girard, philosopher, literary critic, and historian; member of the Académie française
- Peter J. Gomes, American preacher and theologian from Harvard University's Divinity School
- Gerald Heard, philosopher, historian
- Charles Honorton, parapsychologist
- Aldous Huxley, novelist, mystic
- Edward E. Jones, social psychologist, developed fundamental attribution error
- Randall Kenan, author
- Robert Keohane, neoliberal International Relations scholar
- Juanita M. Kreps, United States Secretary of Commerce
- Anne O. Krueger, World Bank Chief Economist
- Weston La Barre, anthropologist, worked in ethnography
- Bernard Lefkowitz, sociologist, journalist, investigative reporter
- Raphael Lemkin, human rights activist; coined the word "genocide"
- Fritz London, physicist, won the Lorentz Medal
- Alasdair MacIntyre, philosopher, virtue ethicist
- William McDougall, psychologist, author of An Introduction to Social Psychology
- Karl Menger, mathematician
- Thom Mount, film producer, President of the Producers Guild of America
- Francis Murray, mathematician and founder of functional analysis, winner of the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
- Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, theoretical physicist
- Albert Outler, Methodist theologian
- G. B. Pegram, key administrator of Manhattan Project
- William Howell Pegram, chemist
- Anton Peterlin, physicist
- David Price, United States Representative
- James Rachels, philosopher and cultural relativist
- Joseph B. Rhine, psychologist and parapsychologist, recognized as founder of modern studies of psychical phenomena
- John Ridpath, intellectual historian
- Sócrates Rizzo, former mayor of Monterrey and former governor of Nuevo León
- E. P. Sanders, British Academy member and leading figure in the third Historical Jesus movement
- David Scheffer, United States diplomat
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith, literary theorist
- Cordwainer Smith, author
- William Stern, psychologist, philosopher
- Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Paul Tillich, theologian
- Sander Vanocur, ABC and NBC correspondent, The Washington Post television editor, The New York Times reporter
- Robert Ward, composer
- Kenny Williams, author, winner of the MidAmerica Award
- Mary Lou Williams, composer
- William H. Willimon, Methodist theologian
- Kwasi Wiredu, philosopher
- Karl Zener, parapsychologist
Men's basketball head coaches
- 1981 to present: Mike Krzyzewski, three-time national champion men's basketball coach, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
- 1975 to 1980: Bill Foster
- 1974: Neill McGeachy
- 1970 to 1973: Bucky Waters
- 1960 to 1969: Vic Bubas, member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
- 1951 to 1959: Harold Bradley
- 1943 to 1950: Gerry Gerard
- 1929 to 1942: Eddie Cameron, namesake of Cameron Indoor Stadium and member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
- 1925 to 1928: George Buchheit
- 1923 to 1924: J.S. Burbage
- 1922: James Baldwin
- 1921: Floyd Egan
- 1920: W.J. Rothensies
- 1919: H.P. Cole
- 1917 to 1918: Chick Doak
- 1916: Bob Doak
- 1914 to 1915: Noble Clay
- 1913: Joseph Brinn
- 1906 to 1912: W.W. Card
Football head coaches
- 2007 to Present: David Cutcliffe
- 2003 to 2007: Ted Roof
- 1999 to 2003: Carl Franks
- 1994 to 1998: Fred Goldsmith
- 1990 to 1993: Barry Wilson
- 1987 to 1989: Steve Spurrier, ACC Coach of the Year in 1988 and 1989.
- 1983 to 1986: Steve Sloan
- 1979 to 1982: Shirley "Red" Wilson
- 1971 to 1978: Mike McGee
- 1966 to 1970: Tom Harp
- 1951 to 1965: William D. "Bill" Murray
- 1946 to 1950: Wallace W. Wade (see below)
- 1942 to 1945: Eddie Cameron, namesake of Cameron Indoor Stadium and member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
- 1931 to 1941: Wallace W. Wade, namesake of Wallace Wade Stadium and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- 1926 to 1930: James "Jimmy" DeHart
- 1925: James P. "Pat" Herron
- 1924: Howard H. Jones
- 1923: S.M. Alexander
- 1922: Herman Steiner
- 1921: James A. Baldwin
- 1920: Floyd J. Egan
- 1888 to 1889 : Dr. John F. Crowell
University Presidents
| President | Tenure |
|---|---|
| Brantley York | 1838–1842 |
| Braxton Craven | 1842–1863 |
| William Trigg Gannaway* | 1864–1865 |
| *Appointed president pro tempore during the break in Craven's presidency | |
| Braxton Craven | 1866–1882 |
| Marquis Lafayette Wood | 1883–1886 |
| John Franklin Crowell | 1887–1894 |
| John Carlisle Kilgo | 1894–1910 |
| William Preston Few | 1910–1924 |
| University officially established as Duke University in 1924 | |
| William Preston Few | 1924–1940 |
| Robert Lee Flowers | 1941–1948 |
| Arthur Hollis Edens | 1949–1960 |
| Julian Deryl Hart | 1960–1963 |
| Douglas Knight | 1963–1969 |
| Terry Sanford | 1969–1985 |
| H. Keith H. Brodie | 1985–1993 |
| Nannerl O. Keohane | 1993–2004 |
| Richard H. Brodhead | 2004–present |
Major philanthropists
Donors who have contributed at least $20 million to the university or founding donors:| Donor | Total Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Duke Endowment | $970+ million | 1924- 2006 | Various |
| James B. Duke | $40 million ($458 million in 2006 dollars) | 1924 | For endowment; established The Duke Endowment later that year |
| Peter and Ginny Nicholas | $130 million | 1999- 2004 | $100 million for the School of the Environment and Earth Sciences |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | $106.5+ million | 2002-2007 | $46.5 for AIDS research, $30 million for a new science facility and $5 million for student life initiatives , $15 million for DukeEngage, a civic engagement program, $9 million for undergraduate financial aid and $1 million for Fuqua students financial aid |
| Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. | $35 million | 1999 | To endow the School of Engineering |
| David H. Murdock | $35 million | 2007 | For "translational medicine" research by the Duke Medical School |
| Disque Deane | $20 million ($34 million in 2005 dollars) | 1986 | To "establish a research institute on the human future |
| Michael J. and Patty Fitzpatrick | $25 million | 2000 | For a center for advanced photonics and communications |
| William and Sue Gross | $23 million | 2005 | $15 million for undergraduate scholarships, $5 million for medical students' scholarships, and $3 million to support faculty members of the Fuqua School of Business |
| Bill and Melinda Gates | $20 million | 1998 | For undergraduate scholarships |
| Bruch and Martha Karsh | $20 million | 2008 | For international student financial aid |
| Washington Duke | $385,000 ($7.9 million in 2005 dollars) | 1892 | For original endowment and construction |
| Julian S. Carr | N/A | 1892 | Donated site of East Campus |
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