# List of Washington University faculty and staff

This is a list of faculty and staff of Washington University in St. Louis.

## Arts and Sciences

| Name | Field | Notability |
| Patty Jo Watson | Anthropology | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) |
| Lee Robins | Anthropology | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999) |
| Carl Frieden | Biology | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004) |
| Florence Moog | Biology | Her research on enzymes in the intestinal tract led to a therapy to bring about normal lung functioning in premature infants |
| Douglass Cecil North | Economics | Nobel prize (1994) Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987) |
| Robert A. Pollak | Economics | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999) |
| Murray L. Weidenbaum | Economics | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) |
| Barbara Anna Schaal | Evolutionary Biology | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) |
| William Howard Gass | Literature | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982) |
| Elliot L. Elson | Biochemistry | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013) |
| Carl Phillips | Literature | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004) |
| Gerald Lyn Early | Literary Criticism | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) |
| Nobuo Suga | NeuroSciences | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992) |
| Marcus E. Raichle | NeuroSciences | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998) |
| Clifford M. Will | Physics | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) |
| N.J. Schofield | Political Science | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) |
| Henry L. Roediger III | Psychology | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) |
| Mark S. Wrighton | Chemistry | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988) |
| William Henry Danforth | Medicine | Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982) |

### School of Medicine

| Name | Position | Notability |
| David Morris Kipnis | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 1974 |
| Stuart Arthur Kornfeld | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 1988 |
| Phillip Warren Majerus | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 1988 |
| Emil Raphael Unanue | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 1989 |
| Larry Jay Shapiro | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 1995 |
| Kenneth Marc Ludmerer | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 2002 |
| Jeffrey Ivan Gordon | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 2004 |
| Helen M. Piwnica-Worms | Professor of Medicine | National Institute of Medicine 2007 |

## National Academy of Medicine

* John P. Atkinson, Samuel B. Grant Professor Professor of Medicine & Molecular Microbiology
* C. Robert Cloninger, Wallace Renard Professor and Director, Center for Psychobiology of Personality
* Graham Colditz, Niess-Gain Professor in Medicine Department of Surgery
* Jerome R. Cox, Jr., Senior Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
* William Henry Danforth, Chancellor
* Timothy J. Eberlein, Bixby Professor and chairman, Department of Surgery
* Alex S. Evers, Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor and Chairman Department of Anesthesiology
* Richard H. Gelberman, Fred C. Reynolds Professor and chair, Orthopaedic Surgery
* Eric M. Genden, Excellence in Teaching Award, 1998
* David M. Kipnis, Distinguished University Professor
* Stuart A. Kornfeld, David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
* Timothy J. Ley, Alan and Edith Wolff Professor of Medicine Professor of Genetics
* Susan E. Mackinnon, Sydney M. Schoenberg, Jr. & Robert H. Schoenberg Professor and Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
* Phillip W. Majerus, Professor of Medicine
* Phillip Needleman
* Colin Nichols, Carl Cori Endowed Professor
* John W. Olney, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuropathology
* William A. Peck, Alan A. and Edith L. Woolf Distinguished Professor Director, Center for Health Policy
* Marcus E. Raichle, Professor of Radiology and Neurology
* Lee N. Robins, University Professor of Social Science Emeritus
* Alan L. Schwartz, Harriet B. Spoehrer Professor and chairman, Department of Pediatrics
* Larry Jay Shapiro, Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor Executive Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs
* Emil R. Unanue, Department of Pathology, Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology
* Michael J. Welch, Professor of Radiology Division of Radiological Sciences
* Samuel A. Wells

## National Academy of Engineering
### Bioengineering

* 2022: Farshid Guilak, Mildred B. Simon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
* 2003: Yoram Rudy, Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, and director, Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center

### Computer Science and Engineering

* 2007: Jonathan S. Turner
* Roch Guérin, Harold B. & Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science, and chair of the Computer Science & Engineering Department

### Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering

* 1984: John Zaborszky

### Electronics Engineering

* 1991: Charles M. Wolfe

## National Academy of Sciences
### Anthropology

* 1988: Patty Jo Watson, Department of Anthropology, Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of Archaeology
* 1996: Erik Trinkaus, Department of Anthropology, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Physical Anthropology

### Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

* 1988: Carl Frieden, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Alumni Endowed Professor and former department chair

### Chemistry

* 1966: S.I. Weissman, Department of Chemistry

### Evolutionary Biology

* 1999: Barbara A. Schaal, Department of Biology, first Female Vice President of the NAS

### Immunology

* 1987: Emil R. Unanue, Department of Pathology, Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology
* 2007: Wayne Yokoyama, winner of the Lee C. Howley Prize (for arthritis research), researched natural killer cells' role in immunology

### Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology

* 1982: Stuart Kornfeld, winner of the 2010 George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians
* 1986: Philip Majerus

### Medical Physiology and Metabolism

* 1981: David Kipnis
* 2001: Jeffrey Gordon

### Physics

* 1927: Arthur Holly Compton
* 1943: Lee A. DuBridge
* 1944: Edward Condon
* 1968: Henry Primakoff
* 1973: Robert M. Walker (geophysics)
* 1975: Eugene Feenberg
* 2004: Ramanath Cowsik
* 2007: Clifford Will

### Physiology and Pharmacology

* 1987: Phillip Needleman

### Psychology

* 1979: Ira Hirsh

### Systems Neuroscience

* 1996: Marcus Raichle
* 1998: Nubuo Suga

## Nobel Laureates
### Chemistry

* 1970: Luis F. Leloir, Faculty of Medicine 1944
* 1980: Paul Berg, Faculty of Medicine 1954–1959
* 2004: Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc., Research Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and Visiting Professor of Pediatrics 1987-

### Economic Science

* 1993: Douglass C. North (1920-2015), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1983–
* 2022: Philip H. Dybvig, Faculty of Olin Business School, 1990–

### Medicine & Physiology

* 1943: Edward A. Doisy (1893–1986), Faculty of Medicine, 1919–1923
* 1944: Joseph Erlanger (1874–1965), chairman, Department of Physiology 1910–1946
* 1944: Herbert Gasser (1888–1963), Faculty of Medicine, 1916–1931
* 1947: Carl F. Cori (1896–1984), Faculty of Medicine 1931–1984
* 1947: Gerty T. Cori (1896–1957), Faculty of Medicine 1931–1957
* 1959: Arthur Kornberg, chairman, Department of Microbiology, 1952–1959
* 1959: Severo Ochoa, Faculty of Medicine 1940–1942
* 1969: Alfred Hershey (1908–1997), Faculty of Medicine 1934–1950
* 1971: Earl Sutherland (1915–1974), M.D. 42, Resident in Internal Medicine 1943–1945, Faculty of Medicine, 1945–1953
* 1974: Christian de Duve, Faculty of Medicine 1946–1947
* 1978: Daniel Nathans (1928–1999), M.D. 54
* 1978: Hamilton O. Smith, Washington University Medical Service 1956–1957
* 1980: George D. Snell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1933–1934
* 1986: Stanley Cohen, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1953–1959
* 1986: Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1948-
* 1992: Edwin G. Krebs, M.D. 43, Resident in Internal Medicine; Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry 1945–1948
* 1998: Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine, 1949–1956

### Physics

* 1927:Arthur H. Compton (1892–1962), Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1920–1923 and 1945–1962, Chancellor 1945–1953