List of institute professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Columns: Name | Department | Elected | Notability
Daron Acemoglu | Economics | 2019 | Author of Why Nations Fail , John Bates Clark Medal ( 2005 ) | Suzanne Berger | Political Science | 2019 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , chevalier of France 's Légion d'Honneur | 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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Answers:
Music and Theater Arts | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Chemical Engineering & Biological Engineering | Economics