List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Name	Department	Elected	Notability	Reference

Sallie W. Chisholm	Civil and Environmental Engineering	2015	Discovery and biology of the Prochlorococcus marine cyanobacteria

Ann Graybiel	Brain and Cognitive Sciences	2008	Basal Ganglia; National Medal of Science (2001)

John Harbison	Music and Theater Arts	1995	Composer; Pulitzer Prize (1987) for Flight into Egypt; MacArthur Fellow (1989)

Robert S. Langer	Chemical Engineering & Biological Engineering	2005	Drug delivery and tissue engineering; youngest person to be elected to three American academies; Lemelson-MIT Prize (1998), Draper Prize (2002), National Medal of Science (2007), Millennium Technology Prize (2008)

Thomas Magnanti	Mechanical Engineering	1997	Operations research; Dean of Engineering (1999–2007)

Ron Rivest	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	2015	Co-inventor of the RSA (cryptosystem) algorithm; founder of Verisign, RSA Security

Phillip Sharp	Biology	1999	RNA interference and splicing; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993)

Marcus Thompson	Music and Theater Arts	2015	Violist; Artistic Director of Boston Chamber Music Society

Daniel I.C. Wang	Chemical Engineering	1995	Biochemical process engineering

Sheila Widnall	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering	1998	Secretary of the Air Force (1993–1997); first MIT alumna appointed to MIT engineering faculty; first woman to chair the MIT faculty

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Robert Samuel Langer is one of the 10 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

final_sentence: Robert Samuel Langer is one of the 10 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.