Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover; Eurich and Faust after the unexpected death of Tresidder.[ 1] [ 2]
No.
Name
Term
Ref.
1.
David Starr Jordan
1891–1913
2.
John Casper Branner
1913 – December 31, 1915
3.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
January 22, 1916 – June 30, 1943
*
Robert Eccles Swain
March 5, 1929 – March 4, 1933
4.
Donald Bertrand Tresidder
October 14, 1943 – January 28, 1948
*
Alvin C. Eurich
January 28, 1948 – December 31, 1948
*
Clarence H. Faust
January 1, 1949 – April 1, 1949
[ 3]
5.
J. E. Wallace Sterling
April 1, 1949 – September 1, 1968
*
Robert J. Glaser
September 1, 1968 – December 1, 1968
[ 4]
6.
Kenneth Pitzer
December 1, 1968 – June 25, 1970
7.
Richard Wall Lyman
September 24, 1970 – August 1, 1980
8.
Donald Kennedy
August 1, 1980 – September 1, 1992
9.
Gerhard Casper
September 1, 1992 – August 31, 2000
10.
John L. Hennessy
September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2016
*
John Etchemendy
February 14, 2012 – June 8, 2012
11.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2023
*
Richard Saller
September 1, 2023 – July 31, 2024
12.
Jonathan Levin
August 1, 2024 – present
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The position was created in 1952.[ 5]
This position is often empty and has always been held by a former president.[ 9]
Provost Jenny Martinez (far right) leads a panel of deans (left to right) : Arun Majumdar , Daniel L. Schwartz , and Jennifer Widom .
Though Stanford did not originally have schools, over the years the departments have all been collected into schools.
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Law School [ 54] [ 55]
#
Name
Years
Notes
1
Nathan Abbott
1893–1907
Executive Head
*
Charles H. Huberich
1906
acting
2
Frederic Campbell Woodward
1908–1916
first to be called dean
3
Charles A. Huston
1916–1922
*
Arthur M. Cathcart
1917–1919
acting
4
Marion R. Kirkwood
1922–1945
*
Arthur M. Cathcart
1930–1931
acting
*
Lowell Turrentine
1945–1946
5
Carl B. Spaeth
1946–1962
*
Samuel D. Thurman
1952–1953
acting
*
John R. McDonough
1959–1960
acting
*
John R. McDonough
1962–1964
acting
6
Bayless Manning
1964–1971
7
Thomas Ehrlich
1971–1976
*
J. Keith Mann
1976
acting
8
Charles J. Meyers
1976–1981
acting
*
J. Keith Mann
1981–1982
acting
9
John Hart Ely
1982–1987
10
Paul Brest
1987–1999
11
Kathleen Sullivan
1999–2004
12
Larry Kramer
2004–2012
13
M. Elizabeth Magill
2012–2019
14
Jennifer Martínez
2019–present
Stanford faculty and affiliates
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Aeronautics and astronautics
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Sigrid Close , associate professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
William F. Durand , professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (1859–1958)
Charbel Farhat , professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Mechanical Engineering
G. Scott Hubbard , adjunct professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Antony Jameson , emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sanjay Lall , professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
Bradford Parkinson , professor emeritus, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stephen Rock , professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Debbie Senesky , assistant professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Electrical Engineering
George Springer , emeritus Faculty, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Biology/biochemistry/medicine
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Arthur Kornberg (National Library of Medicine portrait)
George W. Beadle , professor of biology, co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Caltech at time of award)
Paul Berg , emeritus (active) professor of biochemistry, co-winner of 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , pioneer in recombinant DNA technology
David Botstein , former professor of genetics, pioneer in Human Genome Project
Patrick O. Brown , professor of biochemistry, inventor of DNA microarray technology
Marion Buckwalter , Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, co-founder of the Stroke Recovery Program at Stanford
Eugene C. Butcher , professor of pathology, 2004 Crafoord Prize winner
Stanley Norman Cohen , professor of genetics and medicine, accomplished the first transplantation of genes between cells; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Carl Degler , professor of history, Pulitzer Prize for History (1972)
William C. Dement , professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
Christian Guilleminault , professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, pioneer in sleep research
Paul R. Ehrlich , professor of biology, 1990 Crafoord Prize winner
James Ferrell , systems biologist and the first chair of the Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology from its establishment until 2011
Andrew Z. Fire , professor of genetics and pathology, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Thomas J. Fogarty , clinical professor of surgery; member of National Inventors Hall of Fame ; owner of more than 100 surgical patents, including the Fogarty balloon catheter
Toby Freedman Space Medicine
Jessica Hellmann , professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, director of the Institute on the Environment
Daniel Herschlag , senior associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine , graduate education and postdoctoral affairs and professor of biochemistry and, by courtesy, of chemistry
Leonard Herzenberg , professor of genetics, winner of Kyoto Prize for development of fluorescent-activated cell sorting
Andrew D. Huberman , professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, known for discoveries of brain function, plasticity and regeneration
David Katzenstein , virologist and AIDS researcher and associate medical director of the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit at Stanford
Robert Kerlan Sports Medicine pioneer
Peter S. Kim , professor of biochemistry, former president of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), 2003–2013
Brian Kobilka , professor in medical school, 2012 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
Arthur Kornberg , professor of biochemistry, winner of 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Roger D. Kornberg , professor of structural biology, winner of 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Langston , neurologist; founder, CEO, and scientific director of the Parkinson's Institute
Joshua Lederberg , founder of the Stanford Department of Genetics, co-recipient of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Michael Levitt , professor in medical school, 2013 Nobel prize winner in chemistry
Kate Lorig , chronic disease self-management, patient education, director of the Stanford Patient Education Center
Nicole Martinez-Martin , assistant professor of biomedical ethics , ethics of AI and digital health , STS[ 61]
José Gilberto Montoya , professor in medical school, founder of the Immunocompromised Host Service
Peter Raven , professor of botany; coauthor with Paul Ehrlich in 1964 of the seminal work Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution ; Missouri Botanical Garden, 1971–2010; board of trustees of National Geographic; International Prize for Biology, 1986; Pontifical Science Academy; Time Magazine "Hero for the Planet" 1999
Robert Sapolsky , John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor in Biological Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery; author and recipient of awards including MacArthur Fellowship genius grant, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience
Matthew P. Scott , professor of developmental biology, discoverer of homeobox genes
Oscar Elton Sette , lecturer and Chief of Ocean Research, pioneer of fisheries oceanography and modern fisheries science
Norman Shumway , professor at Stanford Medical School, father of the heart transplantation technique
Lubert Stryer , professor of biology, 2006 National Medal of Science winner, known for micro-array gene chip
Thomas Sudhof , professor at Stanford Medical School, winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Edward L. Tatum , co-winner of 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at time of award)
Jared Tinklenberg , professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Donald Redelmeier , internist, Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto , noted expert in medical decision making
Carolyn R. Bertozzi , professor of chemistry, winner of 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carl Djerassi , professor emeritus in chemistry; father of birth control pill ; winner of National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, and Wolf Prize ; inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Paul Flory , former professor of chemistry, winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Johnson , former professor in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
Harden M. McConnell , professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
Vijay S. Pande , associate professor in the Chemistry Department, founder of Folding@home distributed computing project
Linus Pauling , former professor in chemistry, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry (1954) and in Peace (1962)
John Ross , professor emeritus in chemistry, National Medal of Science winner
Henry Taube , former professor in chemistry, winner of 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Zare , professor in chemistry, winner of National Medal of Science and Wolf Prize
Graduate School of Business
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Donald Knuth in 2005
Vinton Cerf , former faculty, Turing Award -winning computer scientist
Douglas Engelbart , Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, former researcher, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Edward Feigenbaum , Turing award-winning computer scientist, father of expert system, coinventor of Dendral
Robert Floyd , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Alexandra Illmer Forsythe , wrote the first series of introductory computer science textbooks
George Forsythe , founder of the Department of Computer Science and president of the Association for Computing Machinery
Gene Golub , former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
David Gries , former faculty. First text on compilers, winner of four national education awards
Leonidas J. Guibas , Allan Newell award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms
John L. Hennessy , pioneer in RISC, president of Stanford
Sir Antony Hoare , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
John Hopcroft , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Alan Kay , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Donald Knuth , professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of TeX , author of The Art of Computer Programming , Turing award winner
Daphne Koller , professor in CS
John Koza , pioneer in genetic programming
Barbara Liskov , first woman to earn a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford, Turing award-winning computer scientist
John McCarthy , responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence , and inventor of the Lisp programming language and time sharing , Turing award winner
Edward McCluskey , professor in EE, IEEE John Von Neumann Prize winner
Robert Metcalfe , former faculty, co-inventor of Ethernet , inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Robin Milner former faculty, Turing award -winning computer scientist
Allen Newell Turing award-winning computer scientist
Andrew Ng , faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
John Ousterhout , faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
Amir Pnueli postdoc, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Raj Reddy , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Ronald Rivest former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Tim Roughgarden , faculty in CS, winner of Grace Murray Hopper Award
Arthur Samuel , former faculty; pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence; his checkers-playing program appears to be the world's first self-learning program, and an early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence (AI)
Dana Scott , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Robert Tarjan , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
Sebastian Thrun , director of Stanford AI LAB; team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry Stanley won the 2005 DARPA grand challenge
Jeff Ullman , professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
Terry Winograd , faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
Keith Winstein , faculty in CS, author of Mosh
Niklaus Wirth former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist, inventor of PASCAL
Andrew Yao , former faculty, Turing award-winning computer scientist
William Yeager , inventor of multi-protocol internet router
Kenneth J. Arrow , Nobel Prize -winning economics professor
Gary Becker , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
Ben Bernanke , Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
Gérard Debreu , Nobel Prize winner in economics, former staff
Milton Friedman , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
Francisco Gil Díaz , economist, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico
Avner Greif , economist
Caroline Hoxby , professor of economics
Ro Khanna , visiting lecturer of economics (2012–2016), deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce (2009–2011), U.S. Congressman (2017–present)
Jonathan Levin , professor of economics, won the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal
Paul Milgrom , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover fellow
Douglass North , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor, Hoover Institution
Paul Romer , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
Alvin E. Roth , Nobel prize-winning economics professor
Myron Scholes , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
William F. Sharpe , professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner
Thomas Sowell , economist and popular author, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution
Michael Spence , professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
Joseph Stiglitz , professor emeritus, School of Business, Nobel prize winner in economics
John B. Taylor , economist, Hoover Fellow, developed the Taylor rule , Under Secretary of the Treasury for International affairs
Robert B. Wilson , Nobel Prize-winning economics professor
Margaret Lee Chadwick , headmistress and founder of the Chadwick School and author
William Damon , pioneer in peer collaboration and project-based learning
Linda Darling-Hammond , education advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign
Nathaniel Gage , pioneer in the scientific understanding of teaching
Richard Wall Lyman , former provost of Stanford University
Fred Swaniker , co-founder of African Leadership Academy , CEO and co-founder of African Leadership University
Lewis Terman , creator of the Stanford Binet IQ test
John Willinsky , Open Access educator, activist and author
Andreas Acrivos , former professor, National Medal of Science winner
Stephen Barley , organizational theorist and developer of adaptive structuration , co-director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization
Sally Benson , professor of engineering
Arthur E. Bryson, Jr. , professor emeritus in Aeronautics and Astronautics, father of modern optimal control theory
Roland Doré , former president of the Canadian Space Agency
William F. Durand , professor and head of Mechanical Engineering (1904–24), aerodynamics pioneer and chair of NASA forerunner NACA
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz , pioneer of discontinuous automatic control theory
Kenneth E. Goodson , mechanical engineer and endowed professor in the School of Engineering
William Webster Hansen , former professor, contributed to the development of microwave technology[ 63]
Siegfried Hecker , professor, former director of Los Alamos National Lab
Ronald A. Howard , professor, father of decision analysis , founding director and former chairman of Strategic Decision Group
Mark Z. Jacobson , professor of engineering
Elizabeth Jens , NASA engineer
Rudolf Kálmán , former professor in EE, the father of modern control theory, noted for Kalman filter, National Medal of Science winner
Rudolf Kompfner , former professor, National Medal of Science winner
Bruce Lusignan , emeritus professor of electrical engineering, made contributions to communication satellites and reusable launch vehicles
Bridgette Meinhold , artist and author with a focus on sustainability
Dwight Nishimura , Addie and Al Macovski professor in the School of Engineering, who leads the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory
William Perry (A.M. 1950), engineer, entrepreneur, diplomat, and 19th Secretary of Defense of the United States
Calvin Quate , professor, National Medal of Science winner
Paul V. Roberts , pioneer of environmental engineering
Stephen Timoshenko , pioneer of modern engineering mechanics
Powtawche Valerino , NASA JPL space navigation engineer
Giovanni De Micheli , former professor of Electrical Engineering
Teresa Meng , Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering
Thomas A. Bailey , professor of history, former Organization of American Historians president, former Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook The American Pageant
Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.) , professor of military and naval history
Jennifer Burns , historian
Bipan Chandra , emeritus professor of history , Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi and chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
Don E. Fehrenbacher , Pulitzer Prize winner author (1979, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law & Politics ); William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies from 1953
Paula Findlen , professor of history of science
David M. Kennedy , professor of history and Pulitzer Prize -winning author
Mark Edward Lewis , Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Chinese Culture
Sabine G. MacCormack , award-winning professor of late antique history
Aron Rodrigue , historian
Londa Schiebinger , professor of history of science
James J. Sheehan , professor of history and former American Historical Association president
Payson J. Treat (Ph.D. 1910), professor of Far Eastern history
Gordon Wright , professor of history, former American Historical Association president
International relations
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Jared Bernstein , Adjunct Professor
Eve V. Clark , Richard Lyman Professor in the Humanities, emerita
Michael C. Frank , associate professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
Miyako Inoue , associate professor of anthropology and, by courtesy, of linguistics
Dan Jurafsky , professor of linguistics and of computer science, and chair, Department of Linguistics
Ronald M. Kaplan , Adjunct Professor
Lauri Karttunen , Adjunct Professor
Martin Kay , professor of linguistics
Paul Kay , Adjunct Professor
Paul V. Kiparsky , Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Beth Levin , William H. Bonsall Professor in the Humanities
Jay McClelland , Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
John R. Rickford , J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in the Humanities, emeritus (recalled to active duty 2017–2019)
Elizabeth Traugott , professor of linguistics and of English, emerita
Tom Wasow , Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and professor of linguistics, emeritus and academic secretary to the university
Annie Zaenen , Adjunct Professor
Arnold M. Zwicky , Adjunct Professor
Bahram Beyzai , Persian playwright and filmmaker, taught at Stanford from 2010.
Gerald M. Ackerman , Assistant Professor of Art History (1965–1971)
Judith Bettina , soprano
Bahram Beyzai , Persian playwright and filmmaker
Eavan Boland , Irish poet, professor
George Hardin Brown , medieval literature
Scott Bukatman , film and media professor
Albert Elsen , Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities (1968–1995)
Lowell Gallagher , literary theorist and associate professor, earned Ph.D. in 1989
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht , literary theorist
John L'Heureux , novelist and creative writing professor
D. R. MacDonald , creative writing
Alexander Nemerov , professor of art and art history[ 64]
Juan Bautista Rael , linguist and folklorist
Jack Rakove , professor in history, 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner
Adrienne Rich , poet and critic; 1974 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry ; 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Wallace Stegner , 1972 winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Yvor Winters , poet and critic
Mathematics and statistics
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Theodore W. Anderson , professor in statistics, NAS member
Harald Bohr (1887–1951), Danish Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician; brother of Niels Bohr
Emmanuel Candès , professor in mathematics and statistics, winner of Alan Waterman award
Paul Cohen , former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient, National Medal of Science winner
Brian Conrad , professor in mathematics
George Dantzig , former professor in operations research, inventor of the simplex algorithm , father of linear programming , National Medal of Science (1975) winner
Keith Devlin , executive director Center for the Study of Language and Information
Persi Diaconis , professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
David Donoho , professor in statistics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
Bradley Efron , professor in statistics, inventor of bootstrap, National Medal of Science winner, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
Solomon Feferman , professor in mathematics and philosophy, Schock Prize recipient
Jerome H. Friedman , professor in statistics, NAS member
Samuel Karlin , professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
Joseph Keller , professor in mathematics, National Medal of Science winner
Maryam Mirzakhani , professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
Amnon Pazy , Israeli mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
George Pólya , former professor in mathematics, author of How to solve it
Richard Schoen , professor in mathematics, MacArthur Fellow, NAS member
David O. Siegmund , professor in statistics, NAS member
Charles Stein , professor in statistics, NAS member
Gábor Szegő , former professor in mathematics, founder of Stanford Math department
Robert Tibshirani , professor in statistics, NAS member
Ravi Vakil , professor in mathematics, one of seven four-time Putnam Fellows
Akshay Venkatesh , former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
Shing-Tung Yau , former professor in mathematics, Fields Medal recipient
Grant Sanderson , YouTuber , podcaster and owner of mathematics channel 3blue1brown , contributor to Khan Academy .[ 65]
Condoleezza Rice , 66th Secretary of State of the United States
Coit D. Blacker , political science professor, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; and senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs, National Security Council; Executive Office of the President
Larry Diamond , professor, mentor, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute
Morris P. Fiorina , political scientist and author
Francis Fukuyama , senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law since 2010
Terry Karl , professor of Latin American studies
Alexander Kerensky (1881–1970), Russian revolutionary leader, Hoover Institute fellow
Condoleezza Rice , political science professor, Secretary of State
Douglas Rivers , political science professor, chief scientist of YouGov
Felix Bloch , 1952 Nobel Laureate, physics professor
Steven Chu , 1997 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor; professor at Stanford 1987–2004
Eric Cornell (B.S. 1985), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
Jerome Friedman , 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC as research associate (1957–1960)
Sheldon Glashow , 1979 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor (1961–1962)
Theodor Hänsch , 2005 Nobel prize winner in physics, worked at Stanford 1972–1986
Conyers Herring , physics professor and the winner of Wolf Prize in Physics in 1984/85
Robert Hofstadter , 1961 Nobel prize winner in physics, former professor
Henry Way Kendall , 1990 Nobel prize winner in physics, assistant professor at Stanford (1958–1961)
Willis Eugene Lamb , former professor, 1955 Nobel prize winner in physics
Robert Laughlin , 1998 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, professor at Stanford 1989–2004
Ann Nelson , 2018 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipient
Douglas Osheroff , 1996 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
Martin L. Perl , 1995 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
Burton Richter , 1976 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
Arthur Schawlow , 1981 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of laser , inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Leonard Schiff , physics professor
Melvin Schwartz , 1988 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
William Shockley , 1956 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor, co-inventor of transistor , inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Leonard Susskind , physics professor, originator of string theory
Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1962), 1990 Nobel Prize-winning physics professor
Carl Wieman (Ph.D. 1977), 2001 Nobel Prize winner in physics
Kenneth G. Wilson , 1982 Nobel Prize winner in physics, worked at SLAC (1969–1970)
Philip Zimbardo , Former President, American Psychological Association
Richard Atkinson , professor of psychology 1956–1980, former president, University of California
Albert Bandura , professor of psychology since 1964, David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Science in Psychology since 1973, known for his work on social learning theory and, more recently, on social cognitive theory and self efficacy
Gordon H. Bower , professor of psychology, 2005 National Medal of Science winner
Carol Dweck , professor of psychology, known for her work on the mindset psychological trait
Jennifer Eberhardt , professor of psychology, 2014 MacArthur Fellow
Kalanit Grill-Spector , professor of psychology[ 66]
Roger Shepard , professor of psychology, National Medal of Science winner
Edward Kellog Strong, Jr. (1884–1963), professor of psychology at Stanford University 1923–1963
Lewis Terman , former professor, pioneer in I.Q. testing
Leanne M. Williams , professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences since 2013
Philip Zimbardo , former professor of psychology, former president of the APA, researcher
Amado M. Padilla , professor of psychology
Jim Mattis , U.S. Secretary of Defense (2017–2019)[ 67]
Abbas Milani , political scientist and historian
George Shultz , U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1972–1974), U.S. Secretary of Labor (1969–1970), also lectured at the Graduate School of Business
Amy Zegart , political scientist and intelligence reform expert
Dick Gould , greatest tennis coach in history; from 1966 to 2004 he won 17 NCAA Team titles with 50 All-American players
Payton Jordan , track coach 1957–1979; head coach of the 1968 US Olympic track team
Bill Walsh , twice head coach of the football team; also served as interim athletic director; coach of the three-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers ; inventor of the West Coast Offense
Glenn Scobey Warner , College Football Hall of Fame coach known as "Pop" Warner, brought the following mechanics to football: the screen pass, spiral punt , single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets red for backs and white for ends
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