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List of Duke University people
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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. colleges and universities in the 2005-2006 fiscal year.[1] 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 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 Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and 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.
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- Peter Agre 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Hans Bethe 1967 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Hans Georg Dehmelt 1989 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Gertrude B. Elion 1988 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
- Robert Coleman Richardson 1996 Nobel Laureate in physics
- Joseph E. Stiglitz 2001 Nobel Laureate in economics
- 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
- 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
- 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, Russian politician
- David Gergen, former Duke professor and current Duke Trustee. Adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton.
- 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
- Gary Hull, Objectivist philosopher, founder of Founders College
- 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, Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering
- Claudia Koonz, feminist historian
- Nan Lin, sociologist
- Julian Lombardi, computer scientist, inventor
- John MacDougal, taxonomist
- Walter Mignolo, literary theorist
- Toril Moi, literary theorist associated with feminist theory
- V. Y. Mudimbe, philosopher associated with philosophy of language, phenomenology, and structuralism
- Henry Petroski, Civil engineer and writer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Richard Salsman, economist, critic of the Federal Reserve
- 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
- 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
- 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: J.E. Brinn
- 1906 to 1912: W.W. Card
- 2003 to Present: 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. Later won national championship as head coach at Florida, and in 2001 signed the largest coaching contract in NFL history to coach the Washington Redskins.
- 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
| 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 |
Donors who have contributed at least $20 million to the university or founding donors:
| Donor | Total Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Duke Endowment | $970+ million[2][3][4] | 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 [5] |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | $106.5+ million | 2002-2007 | $46.5 for AIDS research[6], $30 million for a new science facility and $5 million for student life initiatives [7], $15 million for DukeEngage, a civic engagement program,[8] $9 million for undergraduate financial aid and $1 million for Fuqua students financial aid[9] |
| Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. | $35 million | 1999 | To endow the School of Engineering[10] |
| Disque D. Deane | $20 million ($34 million in 2005 dollars) |
1986 | To "establish a research institute on the human future"[11] |
| Michael J. and Patty Fitzpatrick | $25 million | 2000 | For a center for advanced photonics and communications[12] |
| 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[13] |
| Bill and Melinda Gates | $20 million | 1998 | For undergraduate scholarships[14] |
| 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 |
- ^ Alumni Giving Rates. U.S. News & World Report. Accessed on 12 January 2007.
- ^ Duke Launches Initiative to Make Civic Engagement Integral Part of Undergraduate Education. Duke News & Communications. 12 Feb 2007.
- ^ Duke Endowment Awards More Than $20 Million to Duke University for Nursing School, Library, Other Priorities. DukeMed News. 27 Jan 2004.
- ^ Duke Endowment Gives Record $75 Million for Financial Aid
- ^ Largest Gift In Duke History Closes Campaign At Record $2.36 Billion. Duke News and Communication. 8 Jan 2004.
- ^ Eaglin, Adam. Duke nets $46.5M for AIDS research. The Chronicle. 25 August 2006.
- ^ Duke Receives $35 Million From The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Duke News & Communication. 9 May 2002.
- ^ DukeEngage launches. The Chronicle. 13 Feb 2007.
- ^ Gates Give $10M for financial aid. The Chronicle. 21 Feb 2007.
- ^ The Pratt Gift. Pratt School of Engineering. Accessed on 25 June 2006.
- ^ Articles About Duke University. New York Times. 12 Dec 1986.
- ^ The Fitzpatrick Gift. Pratt School of Engineering. Accessed on 25 June 2006.
- ^ Sue and William Gross Donate $23 Million
- ^ Sue and William Gross Donate $23 Million
