List of University of Texas at Austin faculty
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This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin
, Texas
that is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System
. Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997–2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
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Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
that is the flagship institution of The University of Texas System
University of Texas System
The University of Texas System encompasses 15 educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are academic universities and six are health institutions. The system is headquartered in Austin and has a total enrollment of over 190,000 students...
. Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997–2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.
Administration
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| Administration | 1977-present | President of The University of Texas at Austin | No | http://www.utexas.edu/president/bio.html |
School of Architecture
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College of Communication
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College of Education
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Cockrell School of Engineering
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| Chemical Engineering | ?-present | Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology | No | http://www.engr.utexas.edu/che/directories/faculty/peppas.cfm |
College of Fine Arts
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School of Information
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Jackson School of Geosciences
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| Dean's Office | 2009-present | Dean, William Stamps Farish Chair | No | http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/about/leaders/mosher.html |
School of Law
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College of Liberal Arts
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| Sociology | 2000-present | Political sociologist | No | http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/faculty/charradm | |
| 1971-present | Author | Yes | http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/profiles/friedman-alan-w.html | ||
| Linguistics Research Center | 1968–2000 | academic linguist & researcher on Uto-Aztecan and Finno-Ugric languages Finno-Ugric languages Finno-Ugric , Finno-Ugrian or Fenno-Ugric is a traditional group of languages in the Uralic language family that comprises the Finno-Permic and Ugric language families.... ; historian of Mesoamerican literature Mesoamerican literature The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from around the mid-1st millennium BCE. Many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica are known to have been literate societies, who produced a... and Nantucket local history |
No | http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/general/facultyhomes/frances.html |
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
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McCombs School of Business
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| Dean's Office | 2008-present | Dean, Centennial Chair in Business Leadership. | No | http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/dean/vita.asp | |
| Finance | 2001-present | Allied Bancshares Centennial Fellow; Executive Director, Real Estate Finance and Investment Center; Member Alpha Psi Omega - Trinity University | Yes | http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/jay.hartzell/ | |
| ETHICS | 1972-2007 | Chairman, Hegel Society of America | No | http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ | |
| IROM | 1988-present | Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce | No | http://www.utexas.edu/opa/experts/profile.php?id=422/ | |
| Marketing | 1987-present | Executive Director Marketing Science Institute Marketing Science Institute Founded in 1961, the Marketing Science Institute is a corporate-membership-based organization dedicated to bridging the gap between marketing theory and business practice... |
No | http://www.utexas.edu/opa/experts/profile.php?id=2087 |
College of Natural Sciences
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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| Physics | 1975 | Quantum Field Theory, Relativity, Mechanics | No | A.M. Harun-ar-Rashid A.M. Harun-ar-Rashid A.M. Harun-ar-Rashid is a Bangladeshi physicist and Bose Professor of Physics at the University of Dhaka. He is nephew of Shamsuddin Abul Kalam-Education and Training:* B.Sc in Physics, University of Dhaka, 1953... |
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| Chemistry | ?-present | No | http://www.cm.utexas.edu/Faculty-and-Research/Faculty-Directory/Individual-Faculty-Pages/brian_bocknack | ||
| Computer Science | 1981-2008 | Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm Boyer–Moore string search algorithm The Boyer–Moore string search algorithm is a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, and it has been the standard benchmark for the practical string search literature. It was developed by Bob Boyer and J Strother Moore in 1977... . Co-creator of the Nqthm Nqthm Nqthm is a theorem prover sometimes referred to as the Boyer–Moore theorem prover. It was a precursor to ACL2.- History :The system was developed by Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore, professors of computer science at the University of Texas, Austin. They began work on the system in 1971 in... and ACL2 theorem provers. |
Yes | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~boyer/ | |
| Biology | 1990-present | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology | No | http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/directory/details.aspx?id=2016 | |
| Computer Science | 1970-1989 | Distributed computing, including the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm for the determination of consistent global states | No | http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/people/mani | |
| Computer Science | 1984-2000 | Numerous foundational contributions to various computing disciplines, especially programming languages, formal verification, and distributed computing. Turing Award Turing Award The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the... for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages. ACM Fellow. |
No | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ | |
| Computer Science | ?-present | Turing Award Turing Award The Turing Award, in full The ACM A.M. Turing Award, is an annual award given by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the... for "developing model checking Model checking In computer science, model checking refers to the following problem:Given a model of a system, test automatically whether this model meets a given specification.... into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries" |
Yes | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~emerson/ | |
| Chemistry | 1990-present | Catalytic Antibodies | No | http://research.cm.utexas.edu/biverson/ | |
| Computer Science | 1977-present | Co-inventor of Secure Sockets Layer. ACM Fellow. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences... . |
No | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lam/ | |
| Computer Science | 1981-1988, 1997-present | Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm Boyer–Moore string search algorithm The Boyer–Moore string search algorithm is a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, and it has been the standard benchmark for the practical string search literature. It was developed by Bob Boyer and J Strother Moore in 1977... . Co-creator of the Nqthm Nqthm Nqthm is a theorem prover sometimes referred to as the Boyer–Moore theorem prover. It was a precursor to ACL2.- History :The system was developed by Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore, professors of computer science at the University of Texas, Austin. They began work on the system in 1971 in... and ACL2 theorem provers. ACM Fellow. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences... . Department chair 2001-2009. |
No | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/ | |
| Integrative Biology | 1990-present | Specialist in the history and philosophy of science | No | http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/ib/faculty/indexb.html | |
| Computer Science | 1987-present | No | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~rvdg/ | ||
| Physics | Nobel Laureate, author | No | http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html |
School of Nursing
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College of Pharmacy
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School of Social Work
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Administration
- William C. PowersWilliam C. PowersWilliam Charles Powers Jr. is the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin, a position he has held since February 1, 2006....
— law professor, President of The University of Texas at Austin - Paul WoodruffPaul WoodruffPaul Woodruff is a classicist, professor of philosophy, and dean at the University of Texas at Austin, where he once chaired the department of philosophy and has more recently held the Hayden Head Regents Chair as director of Plan II Honors program, which he resigned in 2006 after 15 years of...
— Dean of Undergraduate Studies - Darlene GrantDarlene GrantDarlene Grant is an associate professor in the School of Social work and an associate dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the University of Texas in 1994. She was named 2006 Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers. Her work...
— Associate Dean of Graduate Studies - Eugene C. BarkerEugene C. BarkerEugene Campbell Barker was a distinguished professor of Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the first living person to have a UT campus building, the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, named in his honor. The structure is part of the Center for American History and was...
— Chairman, Departmetn of History (Barker History Center) - Ben G. StreetmanBen G. StreetmanBen G. Streetman is the former Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned a Ph.D in electrical engineering from Texas in 1966, and became a professor there in 1982. He founded the university's Microelectronics Research Center and holds the Dula D...
— Dean, Cockrell School of Engineering - Lawrence SagerLawrence SagerLawrence Gene Sager is dean of the The University of Texas School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin, holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair, and is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars...
— Dean, School of Law - James SteinbergJames SteinbergJames Braidy "Jim" Steinberg is an American academic and political advisor, and former Deputy Secretary of State. He is currently Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.-Early career:He...
— Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Architecture
- Charles Willard MooreCharles Willard MooreCharles Willard Moore was an American architect, educator, writer, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.-Life and career:...
— architect - David HeymannDavid HeymannDavid Heymann is an American architect who was commissioned by President George W. Bush to design an environmentally friendly house for the Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas....
— architect - Lawrence Speck — architect
Arts and entertainment
- Ellen SpiroEllen SpiroEllen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. Spiro is known for making humorous social issue films for national and international television broadcasts and theatrical release....
, award-winning documentaryDocumentary filmDocumentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
filmmaker - Chad OliverChad OliverSymmes Chadwick Oliver was an American science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin...
— science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and WesternWestern fictionWestern fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the mid 20th century...
writer
Athletics
- Fred AkersFred Akers-External links:*...
— former head football coach - Major ApplewhiteMajor ApplewhiteMajor Lee Applewhite is the Co-Offensive Coordinator and Running Backs Coach for the University of Texas. Prior to Texas, Applewhite served as offensive coordinator at Rice University under Todd Graham in 2006, and at the University of Alabama under Nick Saban in 2007...
— current football co-offensive coordinator - Rick BarnesRick BarnesRichard Dale Barnes is the current head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns men's basketball team. He has coached Texas for the last twelve seasons, taking the team to the NCAA Tournament each year, including a Final Four appearance led by T. J. Ford in 2003...
— head basketball coach - Mack BrownMack BrownWilliam Mack Brown is head coach of The University of Texas at Austin Longhorn football team.Prior to his head coach position at Texas, Brown was head coach at Appalachian State, Tulane, and North Carolina. Brown is credited with revitalizing the Texas and North Carolina football programs...
— current head football coach - Jody ConradtJody ConradtJody Conradt is a retired women's basketball coach. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin . Her coaching career spanned 38 years, with the last 31 years at UT from 1976 to 2007. She also served concurrently as the UT women's athletic director from 1992 to 2001...
— former women's basketball coach - Gary DarnellGary DarnellGary Brent Darnell is a former American college football player and coach. Darnell is native of Arkansas and an alumnus of Oklahoma State University, where he played college football...
— former football defensive coordinator - Greg Davis — current football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
- DeLoss DoddsDeLoss DoddsDeLoss Dodds is the current men's athletic director of The University of Texas at Austin. During his tenure beginning in the fall of 1981, Texas has claimed 13 National Championships and 103 conference titles through September 29, 2011....
— current athletic director - Augie GarridoAugie GarridoAugust Edmun Garrido, Jr. is a coach in NCAA Division I college baseball. As of June 12, 2011, Garrido has compiled a record of 1,817 wins, 823 losses, and 8 ties. He is currently in his 43rd season of collegiate coaching...
— current baseball coach - John MackovicJohn MackovicJohn Mackovic is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of United States national American football team, which was formed to compete in the American Football World Cup...
— former head football coach - Will MuschampWill MuschampWilliam Larry "Will" Muschamp is an American college football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators football team of the University of Florida. He is a native of Georgia and attended the University of Georgia, where he played for the Georgia Bulldogs...
— former football defensive coordinator - Greg RobinsonGreg Robinson-External links:**-References:...
— former football co-defensive coordinator - Darrell RoyalDarrell RoyalDarrell K Royal is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University , the University of Washington , and the University of Texas at Austin , compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5...
— former football head coach
Business
- Frank W. McBee — mechanical engineer, co-founder of Tracor, Inc.TracorTracor was a major North American defense electronics contractor which was acquired by Marconi Electronic Systems , a subsidiary of General Electric Company plc, in 1998. Following the purchase of MES by British Aerospace in November 1999 to form BAE Systems, Tracor became BAE Systems Integrated...
Education
- Robert Lee MillsRobert Lee MillsRobert Lee Mills was an American educator who was the longest-serving president of Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky....
— educator and former president of Georgetown College, Kentucky - Marye Anne FoxMarye Anne FoxMarye Anne Payne Fox is a physical organic chemist and university administrator. She was the first female chief executive of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In April 2004, Fox was named Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.-Early years:Fox was born in...
— chemist, Chancellor of University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
and formerly North Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...
Journalism and publishing
- J. Frank DobieJ. Frank DobieJames Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...
— American folklorist, writer, and columnist - Marvin OlaskyMarvin OlaskyMarvin Olasky is editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including The Tragedy of American Compassion, and Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy at Patrick Henry College...
— Journalist and conservative pundit - Gail CaldwellGail CaldwellGail Caldwell was the chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she was on staff from 1985 to 2009. Caldwell was the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The award was for eight Sunday reviews and two other columns written in 2000...
Law and government
- James K. GalbraithJames K. GalbraithJames Kenneth Galbraith is an American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topics. He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Senior...
— head of the University of Texas Inequality Project at the LBJ School of Public AffairsLyndon B. Johnson School of Public AffairsThe Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is a graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970 to offer professional training in public policy analysis and administration for students interested in pursuing careers in government and public affairs-related areas... - Barbara JordanBarbara JordanBarbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...
— the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House - Oran M. RobertsOran M. RobertsOran Milo Roberts , was the 17th Governor of Texas from January 21, 1879 to January 16, 1883. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Roberts County, Texas, is named after him....
— Governor of TexasGovernor of TexasThe governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Texas Legislature, and to convene the legislature...
from January 21, 1879 to January 16, 1883 - John Dzienkowski- professor of law and legal ethics scholar
- Mark GunnMark GunnMark Pierre Gunn is a former professional American football player who played defensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the New York Jets , the New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles -References:...
- Associate Director of Technology - T. K. SeungT. K. SeungT. K. Seung is a Korean American philosopher and literary critic. His academic interests cut across diverse philosophical and literary subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural hermeneutics, and ancient Chinese philosophy....
— professor of philosophy, government, and law
Philosophy
- Louis Mackey — professor of philosophy
- Robert S. BoyerRobert S. BoyerRobert Stephen Boyer, aka Bob Boyer, is a retired professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore...
— professor of philosophy, computer science, and math - Jonathan DancyJonathan DancyJonathan Peter Dancy is a British philosopher, working on epistemology and on ethics. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading and Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin.-Biography:...
— professor of philosophy - Robert KaneRobert Kane (philosopher)Robert Hilary Kane is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently on phased retirement....
— professor of philosophy - Brian LeiterBrian LeiterBrian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is currently John Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and founder and Director of Chicago's new Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values and the editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report. He taught from...
— professor of philosophy and law - A.P. MartinichA.P. MartinichAloysius P. Martinich is an analytic philosopher and is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy and Professor History at University of Texas at Austin. His area of interest is the nature and practice of interpretation; history of modern philosophy; the philosophy of language and...
— professor of philosophy (world renowned for his knowledge of Thomas Hobbes) - Mark SainsburyMark SainsburyMark Sainsbury may refer to:*Mark Sainsbury , United Kingdom philosopher*Mark Sainsbury , New Zealand current affairs presenter...
— professor of philosophy - T. K. SeungT. K. SeungT. K. Seung is a Korean American philosopher and literary critic. His academic interests cut across diverse philosophical and literary subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural hermeneutics, and ancient Chinese philosophy....
— professor of philosophy, government, and law - Tara Smith — professor of philosophy
- Robert C. SolomonRobert C. SolomonRobert C. Solomon was a professor of continental philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA.-Early life:...
— professor of philosophy - Paul WoodruffPaul WoodruffPaul Woodruff is a classicist, professor of philosophy, and dean at the University of Texas at Austin, where he once chaired the department of philosophy and has more recently held the Hayden Head Regents Chair as director of Plan II Honors program, which he resigned in 2006 after 15 years of...
— professor of philosophy
Science and technology
- Willis AdcockWillis AdcockDr. Willis Alfred Adcock was a Canadian-American physical chemist, electrical engineer, and university professor who worked on the first atomic bomb and assisted with the invention of the silicon transistor, as well as the integrated circuit...
— chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of the first silicon transistor at Texas InstrumentsTexas InstrumentsTexas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology... - Mark Anderlik — Baud rate specialist who discovered serial port cables in excess of 200 feet need baud rates of 4800 bps.
- Eric J. BarronEric J. BarronEric J. Barron is the President of Florida State University and a former Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado . He previously served as Dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas-Austin, where he held the Jackson Chair in Earth...
, former dean of College of Geosciences and current Direct of National Center for Atmospheric ResearchNational Center for Atmospheric ResearchThe National Center for Atmospheric Research has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and sponsored by the National Science Foundation... - Adi BulsaraAdi BulsaraArdeshir "Adi" Ratan Bulsara is a scientist in the area nonlinear dynamics. He studied under the Nobel Prize winner Ilya Prigogine...
, PhD, 1978 (physics) - a leading physicist in the area of nonlinear dynamics - Edith ClarkeEdith ClarkeEdith Clarke was an electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the first woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, as well as the country's first female professor of electrical engineering.Clarke studied mathematics and astronomy at...
— power engineer, developed the method of symmetrical components, first female professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin - Franklin C. CrowFranklin C. CrowFranklin C. Crow or Frank Crow is a computer scientist who has made important contributions to computer graphics, including some of the first practical anti-aliasing techniques. Crow also proposed the shadow volume technique for generating geometrically accurate shadows...
— computer scientist - Bryce DeWittBryce DeWittBryce Seligman DeWitt was a theoretical physicist renowned for advancing gravity and field theories.-Biography:...
— physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe") - John B. GoodenoughJohn B. GoodenoughJohn Bannister Goodenough is an American professor and prominent solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin...
— materials scientist whose research led to the first lithium ion batteryLithium ion batteryA lithium-ion battery is a family of rechargeable battery types in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive electrode during discharge, and back when charging. Chemistry, performance, cost, and safety characteristics vary across LIB types... - G.B. Halsted — mathematician
- William H. JefferysWilliam H. JefferysWilliam H. Jefferys is an American astronomer. He is a Harlan J. Smith Centennial Professor of Astronomy of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Vermont....
— astronomer - Chris Mack — photolithographerPhotolithographyPhotolithography is a process used in microfabrication to selectively remove parts of a thin film or the bulk of a substrate. It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask to a light-sensitive chemical "photoresist", or simply "resist," on the substrate...
- Hans MarkHans MarkHans Michael Mark is a former Secretary of the Air Force and a former Deputy Administrator of NASA. He is an expert and consultant in aerospace design and national defense policy...
— aerospace engineer, former Deputy Administrator at NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
and Secretary of the Air Force - Hermann Joseph MullerHermann Joseph MullerHermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation as well as his outspoken political beliefs...
— geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine - Yale PattYale PattYale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon...
, inventor of the WOS module, the first complex logic gateLogic gateA logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, that is, it performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has for instance zero rise time and...
implemented on a single piece of silicon - Ilya PrigogineIlya PrigogineIlya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalized Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.-Biography :...
— physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - Jonathan SesslerJonathan SesslerJonathan Sessler is a professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for his pioneering work on expanded porphyrins and their applications to biology and medicine...
— chemist, pioneering work on expanded porphyrins - Bill SchelterBill SchelterWilliam Frederick Schelter was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer. Schelter is credited with the development of the GNU Common Lisp implementation of Common Lisp and the GPL'd version of the computer algebra system Macsyma called...
— mathematician, LispLisp programming languageLisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older...
developer - Roy SchwittersRoy SchwittersRoy F. Schwitters is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He was formerly a professor of physics at Harvard and Stanford. His undergraduate and doctoral degrees are both from MIT....
— physicist, former director of the now-defunct Superconducting Super ColliderSuperconducting Super ColliderThe Superconducting Super Collider was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas that was set to be world's largest and most energetic, surpassing the current record held by the Large Hadron Collider. Its planned ring circumference was with an energy... - Elliott SeeElliott SeeElliot McKay See, Jr. , was an American astronaut, selected in the second group of astronauts.Elliot See was born in Dallas, Texas and attended Highland Park High School. After initially attending The University of Texas where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, he then attended the United...
— astronaut - John TateJohn TateJohn Torrence Tate Jr. is an American mathematician, distinguished for many fundamental contributions in algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry and related areas in algebraic geometry.-Biography:...
— mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics - Karen UhlenbeckKaren UhlenbeckKaren Keskulla Uhlenbeck is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas in Austin. In 1998 she was selected to be a Noether Lecturer. In 2000, she became a recipient of the National Medal of Science...
— mathematician, National Medal of Science - Harry VandiverHarry VandiverHarry Schultz Vandiver was an American mathematician, known for work in number theory.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John Lyon and Ida Frances Vandiver...
— mathematician - Steven WeinbergSteven WeinbergSteven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....
— Nobel Laureate in Physics, author - John A. WheelerJohn Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission...
— physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole' - Robert E. WyattRobert E. WyattRobert E. Wyatt is a professor of chemistry at University of Texas at Austin, Department Chemistry and Biochemistry.- Work :His work is focussed on theoretical chemistry, including the quantum theory of chemical reactions and the theory of intramolecular energy transfer...
, chemist
Social sciences
- Mounira M. Charrad — Political Sociologist
- Eugene C. BarkerEugene C. BarkerEugene Campbell Barker was a distinguished professor of Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the first living person to have a UT campus building, the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, named in his honor. The structure is part of the Center for American History and was...
— Texas historianHistorianA historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is... - Walter Dean BurnhamWalter Dean BurnhamWalter Dean Burnham is a leading expert on American elections and voting patterns. He is best known for quantitative analysis of national trends and patterns in the popular vote, in developing the "Party Systems" model, and for assembling county election returns for the whole...
— political scientist - Scott FreemanScott FreemanScott John Freeman was an American economist. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983...
— economist - James K. GalbraithJames K. GalbraithJames Kenneth Galbraith is an American economist who writes frequently for mainstream and liberal publications on economic topics. He is currently a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and at the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Senior...
— economist - J. Evetts HaleyJ. Evetts HaleyJames Evetts Haley, Sr., usually known as J. Evetts Haley , was a Texas-born political activist and historian who wrote multiple works on the American West, including an enduring biography of legendary cattleman Charles Goodnight...
— historian of the American West - Ian HancockIan HancockIan Hancock is a linguist, Romani scholar, and political advocate. He was born and raised in England, and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies....
— linguist and Romani scholar - David M. Oshinsky — historian and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryPulitzer Prize for HistoryThe Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography...
for Polio: An American StoryPolio: An American StoryPolio: An American Story is a book by David M. Oshinsky, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, which documents the polio epidemic in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s and the race to find a cure....
. - Linda ScheleLinda ScheleLinda Schele was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography. She played an invaluable role in the decipherment of much of the Maya hieroglyphics. She produced a massive volume of drawings of stelae and inscriptions, which, following her wishes, are free for use to scholars...
— expert in the field of MayaMaya civilizationThe Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
epigraphyEpigraphyEpigraphy Epigraphy Epigraphy (from the , literally "on-writing", is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; that is, the science of identifying the graphemes and of classifying their use as to cultural context and date, elucidating their meaning and assessing what conclusions can be...
and iconographyIconographyIconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Greek "image" and "to write". A secondary meaning is the painting of icons in the... - David BussDavid BussDavid M. Buss is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection.-Biography:...
— evolutionary psychology - John TraphaganJohn TraphaganJohn Willis Traphagan is an associate professor of Asian Studies, Anthropology, and Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Traphagan's research has largely focused on rural Japan, with most of his research conducted in Iwate Prefecture...
— anthropology - Madonna ConstantineMadonna ConstantineMadonna G. Constantine is a former psychology and education professor at Columbia University's Teachers College. She was fired in 2008 on grounds of plagiarism.- Education and early career :...
— Counseling Psychologist - Thomas PangleThomas PangleThomas Lee Pangle BA PhD FRSC is an American political scientist. He currently holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1979 to 2004 was University Professor in the Department of Political Science at the...
professor of government - T. K. SeungT. K. SeungT. K. Seung is a Korean American philosopher and literary critic. His academic interests cut across diverse philosophical and literary subjects, including ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, cultural hermeneutics, and ancient Chinese philosophy....
— professor of philosophy, government, and law - Philip L. WhitePhilip L. WhitePhilip Lloyd "Phil" White was an American history academic and civil community organizer. A tenured professor of early American history at the University of Texas at Austin from the 1960s through 2000, White is acknowledged by many citizens of Austin, Texas, to have been a primary architect of...
— professor of Colonial America and Nationality, 1955-2000; Political Activist and Academic free-speech leader
See also
- List of University of Texas at Austin presidents
- List of University of Texas at Austin alumni