Historical faculty and alumni

We are pleased to make available this index of listings about some of our faculty and notable alumni who have been involved with the College for the last 150 years. To learn more about current faculty and their research, visit our faculty directories.

  • Alumni are marked with an asterisk (*).
  • Nobel Laureates are marked with a dagger (†).
  • Faculty who left for other institutions (❖).
  • Faculty who have recently passed away (❀).

❖Acrivos, Andres
*❖Alivisatos, Paul
Andersen, Richard Allan
Armentrout, Peter
❖Armstrong, William
Arnold, John
*†Arnold, Frances
Arnold, Polly
*Baranger, Anne
Barlett, Paul Allan
Bartlett, Neil
Bartlett, Paul
Bednarski, Mark
Bell, Alexis Tarassov
Bergman, Robert George
*†❖Bertozzi, Carolyn
Biddle, Henry Chalmers
Blanch, Harvey Warren
Blasdale, Walter Charles
Boering, Kristie
*Booth, Edward
Boudart, Michel
Branch, Gerald Eyre Kirkwood
Bray, William Crowell
Brewer, Leo
Bromley, LeRoy Alton
Browne, Doug
Cairns, Elton James
Calvin, Melvin
Carr, Ezra Slocum
Cason, James
Cate, Jamie
Cerny, Joseph
Chandler, David
Chang, Chris
Chang, Michelle
Chen, Yongqin
*Christy, Samuel Benedict
Clark, John
*Cohen, Ronald
Connick, Robert Elwell
Cottrell, Frederick Gardner
Cuk, Tanja
*Cunningham, Burris Bell
Dauben, William Garfield
Dawson, Ken
Denn, Morton Mace    
Donaghey, Lee
†Doudna, Jennifer
Eastman, Ermon Dwight
Ellman, Jonathan
*Ferguson, Lloyd Noel
Fischer, Felix
Fisher, Robert A.
Fleming, Graham
Foss, Alan Stuart
Francis, Matthew
Frechet, Jean
❀*Geissler, Phillip
*†Giauque, William Francis
Gibson, (George) Ernest
Gin, Doug
*Ginsberg, Naomi
Goren, Simon Land
Gray, John Hatfield
Grens, Edward Anthony, II
Grove, Andrew
Groves, Jay
*Gwinn, William Dulaney

*❖Hammond, Ming
Hanson, Donald Norman
Harris, Robert Arthur
Harris, Charles Bonner
*Hartwig, John
Hawkins, Joel
Haymet, Tony
Head-Gordon, Martin
Head-Gordon, Teresa
Hearst, John Eugene
Heathcock, Clayton Howell
Herm, Ron
†❖Herschbach, Dudley Robert
Hess, Dennis William
Hildebrand, Joel Henry
Hill, Craig
Hoffman, Darleane Christian
Hogness, Thorfin Rusten
Hubbel, Wayne Lester
*Inouye, Kaoru
Jensen, Frederick Richard
Johnston, Harold Sledge
*Jolly, William Lee
Jura, George
❖Kayalar, Celik
Kenyon, George
Kim, Sung-Hou
Kirsch, Jack
*Vera Kistiakowsky
King, C. Judson
Klinman, Judith Pollock
*Koshland, Daniel E.
❖Krantz, Bryan
Kuriyan, John
Kwabena, Bediako
Latimer, Wendell Mitchell
Leahy, James
†*Lee, Yuan Tseh
Lester, William Alexander, Jr.
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
*Libby, Willard Frank
*Limmer, David
*Long, Jeffrey
Lynn, Scott
*Lyon, David Nathaniel
MacMillan, David
Mahan, Bruce Herbert
Maier, Wilhelm
Majda, Marcin
Markowitz, Samuel Solomon
Marletta, Michael
Mathies, Richard Alfred
†❖MacMillian, David
McClain, Martin
*McClure, Don
McCusker, Jim
Merrill, Robert Perkins
Miler, Evan
Miller, Bill
Miller, William Hughes
Modrich, Paul
*†Mario Molina
*Moore, (Charles) Bradley
Moretto, Luciano Giuseppe
Morgan, William Conger
Muetterties, Earl Leonard
❀*Myers, Rollie John
*Neumark, Dan
*Neuscamman, Eric
*Newman, John Scott
Nitsche, Heino
Novak, Bruce
Noyce, Donald Sterling
O'Konski, Chester Thomas
*O'Neill, Edmond
Olander, Donald Raymond
Olson, Axel Ragnar
Orlemann, Edwin Franklyn
Pedersen, Steve

*Perlman, Isadore
Petersen, Eugene Edward
Phillips, Norman Edgar
*Pimentel, George Claude
Pines, Alexander
*Pitzer, Kenneth Sanborn
Porter, Charles Walter
Porter, Jack
Powell, Richard Edward
Pratt, Lawrence
Prausnitz, John Micheal
*Rabani, Eran
Radke, Clayton John
Randall, Merle
Rapoport, Henry
Rasmussen, John Oscar, Jr.
Raymond, Ken
Reimer, Jeffrey A.
*Richmond, Geraldine 
Rising, Willard Bradley
Rittle, John
*Rollefson, Gerhard Krohn
*Ruben, Samuel
Sarpong, Richmond
Sauer, Kenneth
Saykally, Richard James
Schaefer, (Henry) Frederick, III
Schaefer, Fritz
Schepartz, Alanna 
Schultz, Peter
*Schutz, Phillip William 
†*Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
*Sharwood, William John
Shen, Mitchel Ming-Chi
Shin, Yeon-Kyun
*Shirley, David Arthur
*Simpson, Miriam Elizabeth 
Smart, James
Somorjai, Gabor Arpad
Soong, David Syhlih
Stacy, Angelica
Sternlicht, Himan
Stevens, Raymond
*❖Stillman, John Maxson
Strauss, Herbet Leopold
Street, Kenneth, Jr.
Streitwiser, Andrew, Jr. 
Stewart, (Thomas) Dale
†*❖Taube, Henry
Tauner, Dirk
*Templeton, David Henry
Templeton, Lilo
*Thompson, Stanley G.
*Tilley, T. Don
Tinoco, Ignacio Jr.
Tobias, Charles William
Tolman, Richard Chace
Toste, Dean
*Urey, Harold
Vermeulen, Theodore
*Vold, Marjorie
Vollhardt, (Kurt) Peter Christian
Wang, James C.
Washburn, William
Wemmer, David
Whaley, Birgitta
Wilke, Charles Robert 
Williams, (Ford) Campbell
Williams, Evan
❀❖ Williams, Micheal Charles
Winn, John
Xu, Ke
Yaghi, Omar
Yang, Peidong
†* Zewail, Ahmed
Zimm, Bruno Hasbrouck
Zuerch, Michael