Sterling Professor

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Sterling Professor, the highest academic rank at Yale University, is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered the best in their field. It is akin to the rank of distinguished professor at other universities.

The appointment, made by the President of Yale University and confirmed by the Yale Corporation, can be granted to any Yale faculty member, and up to forty professors can hold the title at the same time.<ref name="Fellman"/><ref name="Dockendorf" /> The position was established through a 1918 bequest from John William Sterling, and the first Sterling Professor was appointed in 1920.

History

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John W. Sterling, namesake of the title

The professorships are named for and funded by a $15-million bequest left by John W. Sterling, partner in the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling and an 1864 graduate of Yale College. In addition to financing the university's largest construction projects throughout the 1920s, including the Sterling Memorial Library and flagship facilities for many of its professional schools, Sterling stipulated the bequest would allow "to some extent, the foundation of Scholarships, Fellowships or Lectureships, the endowment of new professorships and the establishment of special funds for prizes."<ref name="Dockendorf">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Science">Template:Cite journal</ref> Sterling's trustees eventually left the university more than $5 million for this purpose—about $225,000 per chair.<ref name="Fellman">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Science1921">Template:Cite journal</ref>

The first Sterling Professor was chemist John Johnston, who was awarded the rank in 1920, and was joined later that year by school administrator Frank E. Spaulding, biochemist Lafayette Mendel, and astronomer Ernest William Brown.<ref name="Fellman"/><ref name="Science1921"/> By the mid-1920s, the endowment allowed eighteen Sterling Professors to be appointed.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1958, the Yale Corporation capped the number of simultaneous appointments at 27,<ref name="Fellman" /> but further endowment growth allowed this number to expand to 40 by 2011.<ref name="Dockendorf"/> In addition to currently appointed faculty, a number of former Sterling Professors retain emeritus appointments at the university and continue to teach.<ref name="Dockendorf"/>

The first woman to be named Sterling Professor was cell biologist Marilyn Farquhar, in 1987.<ref name="Fellman"/> After Farquhar left Yale in 1989, Middle English scholar Marie Borroff and geneticist Carolyn Slayman were the next women appointed, in 1991.<ref name="Fellman"/> Among the youngest appointees were John Farquhar Fulton, made Sterling Professor of Physiology in 1929 at age 30,Template:Sfn and later-U.S Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, appointed in 1932 at the age of 33.Template:Sfn Joan Steitz and Thomas Steitz, biochemists appointed in 1999 and 2001 respectively, were the first married couple to have both held the appointment. In 2021, Michael Della Rocca and Christine Hayes, professors of philosophy and religious studies, respectively, became the second married couple to be named Sterling Professors.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

List of Sterling Professors

Current

Name	Field	Appointed	Notability	Reference
Bruce Ackerman	Law and Political Science	1987	Political philosophy; constitutional law	<ref name="Fellman"/>
Rolena Adorno	Spanish	2012	Colonial Latin American Literature	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Akhil Amar	Law and Political Science	2008	Constitutional law	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Elijah Anderson	Sociology	2018	Urban ethnography, cultural theory	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Harold Attridge	Divinity	2012	New Testament scholarship; Dean of Yale Divinity School (2002–2012)	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
R. Howard Bloch	French	2005		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ronald Breaker	Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology	2017	Discovery of riboswitches
David Bromwich	English	2006	Literary criticism; writings on politics, philosophy, education	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
David Blight	History	2019	Historian of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Francesco Casetti	Film and Media Studies, Humanities Program	2021	film's cultural impact; spectatorship; visual media; semiotics	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Nicholas A Christakis	Sociology, Medicine, Network Science	2018	contributions in network science; biosocial science; and public health	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ronald Coifman	Mathematics	2021	contributions to pure mathematics, leading the field in adapting to the capabilities of the digital computer	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Michael Della Rocca	Philosophy	2021	Early Modern Philosophy, Rationalism, Contemporary Metaphysics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0" />
Michael Donoghue	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	2011	plant evolution; TreeBASE; Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History (2003–2008)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Menachem Elimelech	Chemical and Environmental Engineering	2021	Water Science and Technology; Water-Energy Nexus	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Richard A. Flavell	Immunology	2002		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alan Gerber	Political Science	2022	Political Behavior, application of experimental methods to politics	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Steven Girvin	Physics	2024	Condensed Matter Physics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Roberto González Echevarría	Hispanic and Comparative Literature	1995	National Humanities Medal	<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Arthur Horwich	Genetics and Pediatrics	2007	Chaperonin action	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
William L. Jorgensen	Chemistry	2009	Computational chemistry	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Harold Koh	International Law	2003	Dean of Yale Law School; Legal Adviser to Department of State	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Kronman	Law	2003	Dean of Yale Law School	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Giuseppe Mazzotta	Italian Language and Literature	2003		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ruslan Medzhitov	Immunobiology	2017	Innate immunity	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Mary Miller	History of Art	2008	Mesoamerican art; Mayan history; Dean of Yale College (2008–2014)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Scott Miller	Chemistry	2024	Organic chemistry	<ref>Template:Cite news </ref>
William Nordhaus	Economics	2001	Economics of climate change; 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Peter C. B. Phillips	Economics	1989	Highly cited econometrician; finite-sample theory; time series regression	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Thomas D. Pollard	Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology	2006	Dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert Post	Law	2017	Constitutional law, First Amendment, Dean of Yale Law School (2009-2017)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Anna Marie Pyle	Molecular Biology	2018	RNA Folding	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
David Quint	Comparative Literature	2006		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Roberta Romano	Law	2011	Corporate law	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
James Rothman	Cell Biology	2017	Research on vesicles; winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert J. Schoelkopf	Physics and Applied Physics	2013	Inventor of the single-electron transistor, the transmon, and circuit quantum electrodynamics.	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alan Schwartz	Law	2001	Legal scholar of corporate finance and governance
James C. Scott	Political Science	2001	Peasant resistance; non-state spaces; infrapolitics; Seeing Like a State	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ian Shapiro	Political Science	2005	Democratic theorist and methodological realist	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert Shiller	Economics	2013	Real estate and financial markets; market bubbles; 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Daniel Spielman	Computer Science	2018	error-correcting codes; Kadison–Singer Conjecture	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Dieter Söll	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	2006		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Joan Steitz	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	1999		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ruth Yeazell	English	2018	gender studies	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Akiko Iwasaki	Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Immunology	2022	COVID-19, human immune defense against viruses, vaccine methodology	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Sherman Weissman	Genetics
Peter Salovey	Psychology	2024	President Emeritus of Yale University; Emotional Intelligence; Health Psychology	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Emeritus

Name	Field	Appointed	Notability	Reference
Robert Adair	Physics	1988		<ref name="Fellman"/><ref name="autogenerated1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sidney Altman	Biology	1989	Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Dean of Yale College	<ref name="Fellman"/>
Marie Borroff	English	1991	Middle English translation and criticism	<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Peter Brooks	Comparative Literature and French	2001		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Guido Calabresi	Law	1978	Dean of Yale Law School (1985–1994)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Mirjan Damaška	Law	1996	Scholar of comparative criminal law	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Peter Demetz	Germanic Language and Literature		President of the Modern Language Association	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Owen M. Fiss	Law		Legal theorist	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gerhard Giebisch	Cellular and Molecular Physiology	1970	Renal transport physiology	<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Christine Hayes	Religious Studies	2021	Talmudic-midrashic Studies and Jewish Law	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Marcia Johnson	Psychology	2011	Memory research; source-monitoring error and reality monitoring	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alice Kaplan	French	2020	Director of the Whitney Humanities Center	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alan E. Kazdin	Psychology	2015	Director of the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Howard Lamar	History	1994	Historian of the American frontier	<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
John H. Langbein	Law and Legal History	2001	Anglo-American and European legal history	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Jerry L. Mashaw	Law	1995	Administrative law
David Mayhew	Political Science	1998	American electoral politics; divided government	<ref name="Fellman" /><ref name="OPAC2717">Template:Cite news</ref>
Peter Moore	Chemistry	2002	Discovery of ribosome large subunit's atomic structure with Thomas Steitz	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Annabel Patterson	English	2001		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Joseph Roach	Theater	2008	History of theater and dramatic literature	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Robert G. Shulman	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	1994	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance techniques in biochemistry	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Jonathan Spence	History	1993	Historian of China; President of the American Historical Association	<ref name="Fellman" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
John C. Tully	Chemistry	2006		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Edward Zigler	Psychology	1976	Child psychologist; architect of Head Start Program	<ref name="Fellman" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Left

Name	Field	Appointed	Notability	Reference
Nancy Cott	History and American Studies	2001	Historian of marriage, gender, and sexuality	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Samuel J. Danishefsky	Chemistry	1989		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Marilyn Farquhar	Medicine	1987		<ref name="Fellman" /><ref name="Lentz">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Richard P. Lifton	Genetics	2002	Genetics of hypertension	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ira Mellman	Cell Biology	2002	Discovery of endosomes	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alanna Schepartz	Chemistry	2017	Chemical and synthetic biology
Samuel O. Thier	Medicine	1975	Effects of health policy on academic institutions
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer	Chemistry	2021	Theoretical chemistry	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Deceased

Name	Field	Appointed	Notability	Reference
Erich Auerbach	Romance Philology	1956	Literary critic; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
E. Wight Bakke	Economics	1940	Economic sociologist of labor and unemployment	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Frank A. Beach	Psychology	1952	Ethologist; Patterns of Sexual Behavior	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Samuel Flagg Bemis	Diplomatic History and International Relations	1945	Historian of United States diplomacy; 1927 Pulitzer Prize for History; 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Biography	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Thomas G. Bergin	Romance Languages and Literature	1957	Scholar of Italian literature and Dante Alighieri	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Jerome A. Berson	Chemistry	1992		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Alexander Bickel	Law	1974	US Supreme Court historian and scholar of judicial restraint	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Boris Bittker	Law	1970	Scholar of tax law; proponent of black reparations	<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Charles Black	Law	1975		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Francis Gilman Blake	Medicine	1927	Dean of the Yale School of Medicine	Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Brand Blanshard	Philosophy	1945		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Harold Bloom	Humanities	1983	Literary criticism; The Anxiety of Influence; The Western Canon	<ref name="Fellman"/>
Leonard Bloomfield	Linguistics	1940	Bloomfieldean linguistics	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Edwin Borchard	International Law	1929	Scholar of wrongful conviction
David Allan Bromley	Sciences	1994	Nuclear physicist; Science Adviser to George H. W. Bush; Dean of Engineering (1994–2000)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
C. F. Tucker Brooke	English	1949	Scholar of Elizabethan dramatic literature and Shakespeare Apocrypha; Founder of The Yale Shakespeare	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ernest William Brown	Mathematics	1921	Lunar theory	<ref name="Science1921"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Robert L. Calhoun	Historical Theology	1963		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Brevard Childs	Divinity	1992	Canonical criticism	<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Charles Edward Clark	Law	1929	Dean of Yale Law School (1929–1939); Judge for the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1939–1963)	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Donald J. Cohen	Child Psychiatry	2000	Tourette's syndrome; Autism	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Wilbur Cross	English	1922	Dean of the Graduate School (1916–1930); Governor of Connecticut (1931–1939)	Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Donald Crothers	Chemistry	1997	Physical chemistry of nucleic acids	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Harvey Cushing	Neurology	1933	Neurosurgery pioneer; Cushing's disease	Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite bookTemplate:Dead link</ref>
Robert A. Dahl	Political Science	1964	Democratic theorist; polyarchy; pluralism; Johan Skytte Prize (1995)	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
David Brion Davis	American History	1978	Historian of American slavery; 1967 Pulitzer Prize for History	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Leonard W. Doob	Psychiatry	1997	1960 Guggenheim Fellow	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
William O. Douglas	Law	1931	Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court	Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
J. G. Dusser de Barenne	Physiology	1930		Template:Sfn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Alvan Feinstein	Medicine and Epidemiology	1991		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
William Fellner	Economics	1959		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Albert Feuillerat	French	1929		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Frederic Brenton Fitch	Philosophy	1974	Logician; symbolic and combinatory logic; Fitch-style calculus	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
John Farquhar Fulton	Physiology and History of Medicine	1930	Primate neurophysiology	Template:Sfn
Raymond Fuoss	Chemistry	1945		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Ralph Henry Gabriel	History	1948		<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
John Gassner	Playwriting	1956	Drama critic	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Peter Gay	History	1984	Western cultural history; life of Sigmund Freud	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Grant Gilmore	Law	1973		<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Albrecht Goetze	Assyriology and Babylonian Literature	1956		<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Abraham S. Goldstein	Law	1978	Criminal law scholar; historian of insanity defense; Dean of Yale Law School (1970–1975)	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Henry S. Graves	Forestry	1922	Founder of Yale School of Forestry; Chief of the United States Forest Service	Template:Sfn
Ross Granville Harrison	Biology	1927	Embryologist; inventor of artificial tissue culture	<ref name="Lentz" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Geoffrey Hartman	English and Comparative Literature		Literary criticism; deconstructionism	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Eric A. Havelock	Classics	1963		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Heinrich E. K. Henel	German	1963		<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Hajo Holborn	History	1959	Historian of modern Germany	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
John Hollander	English	1995	Poet; translator; scholar of prosody	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Carl Hovland	Psychology	1947		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Vernon Hughes	Physics	1978		<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Clark L. Hull	Psychology	1947	Learning theorist; Drive reduction theory	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
G. Evelyn Hutchinson	Zoology	1952	Limnologist; "Father of modern ecology"	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Treat Baldwin Johnson	Chemistry	1928		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
John Johnston	Chemistry	1920		<ref name="Fellman" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Donald Kagan	Classics and History	2002	Historian of the Peloponnesian War, Dean of Yale College	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Eugen Kahn	Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene	1930		Template:Sfn
Andrew Keogh	Bibliography	1924	Yale University Librarian (1916–1938)	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Friedrich Kessler	Law	1964		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
John Gamble Kirkwood	Chemistry	1956	Kirkwood approximation	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Adolph Knopf	Physical Geology	1938		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
George Kubler	History of Art	1975	Art historian of Pre-Columbian and Ibero-American Art	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Kenneth Scott Latourette	Missions and Oriental History	1949	Historian of Christianity and Christian missions	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Theodore Lidz	Psychiatry		Schizophrenia researcher	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Charles E. Lindblom	Political Science and Economics		Critique of polyarchy; Incrementalism; The Science of "Muddling Through"	<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Ralph Linton	Anthropology	1946		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Juan Linz	Political and Social Science	1989	Regime types; democratic transitions; Johan Skytte Prize (1996)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Cyril Long	Chemistry	1938	Dean of the Yale School of Medicine; diabetes researcher	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Robert S. Lopez	History	1970	Director of Peabody Museum of Natural History (1922–1938); proponent of orthogenetic evolutionary theory	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Charles T. Loram	Education	1930		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Floyd Lounsbury	Anthropology		American Indian linguist	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Richard Swann Lull	Paleontology	1927	Director of Peabody Museum of Natural History (1922–1938); proponent of orthogenetic evolutionary theory	<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Maynard Mack	English	1965	Shakespeare scholar; Biographer of Alexander Pope	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Paul de Man	Comparative Literature and French	1979	Major figure in literary deconstruction and Yale school	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Benoit Mandelbrot	Mathematical Sciences	1999	Fractal geometry; Mandelbrot set	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Louis L. Martz	English	1971		<ref name="Fellman" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Georges C. May	French	1971	Scholar of the French Enlightenment; Dean of Yale College (1963–1971); Yale Provost (1979–1981)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Edwin McClellan	Japanese Literature	1999	Translator of Japanese literature	<ref name="OPAC2717" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Myres McDougal	International Law	1958	Founder of New Haven School of Jurisprudence	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Lafayette Mendel	Physiological Chemistry	1921		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Clarence W. Mendell	Latin Language and Literature	1947	Dean of Yale College (1926–1937)
María Rosa Menocal	Humanities	2006		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
James W. Moore	Law	1943	Legal realist	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Underhill Moore	Law	1929		Template:Sfn
Edmund Morgan	History	1965	Biographer of Ben Franklin; historian of Puritanism; Pulitzer Special Citation (2006); National Humanities Medal	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
John Spangler Nicholas	Biology	1939		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
H. Richard Niebuhr	Theology and Christian Ethics	1954	Historian of American religion and theology	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
F. S. C. Northrop	Philosophy and Law	1947		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Wallace Notestein	English History	1928	Historian of witchcraft	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Julian J. Obermann	Semitic Languages	1951		<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Øystein Ore	Mathematics	1931		<ref name="Fellman"/><ref>Template:MacTutor Biography</ref>
George E. Palade	Cell Biology	1975	Discovery of ribosome; protein transport; 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine	<ref name="Lentz" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Edwards A. Park	Pediatrics	1922		Template:Sfn
Jaroslav Pelikan	History	1972	Historian of Christianity and Christian theology; Kluge Prize awardee (2004)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Henri Peyre	French	1938	1930 Guggenheim Fellow; President of the Modern Language Association	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Jerome J. Pollitt	Classical Archeology and History	1995	Hellenistic architecture and sculpture	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Frederick A. Pottle	English	1944	Editor of James Boswell's papers	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Martin Price	English	1978	1957 Guggenheim Fellow	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Eduard Prokosch	Germanic Languages	1930		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Lloyd George Reynolds	Economics	1952	1954 Guggenheim Fellow	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Frederic M. Richards	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	1989		<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Abraham Robinson	Mathematics	1967	Non-standard analysis	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
James Harvey Rogers	Political Economy	1931	Economic policy advisor to Franklin Roosevelt administration; monetary policy theorist	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Franz Rosenthal	Near Eastern Languages and Literatures	1964	Scholar of Islamic and Arabic literature	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Michael Rostovtzeff	Ancient History and Classical Archeology	1925	Social and economic historian of Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Eugene V. Rostow	Law and Public Affairs	1964	Dean of Yale Law School (1955–1965)	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Frank Ruddle	Biology	1988	Founder of Human Genome Project	<ref name="Fellman" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Edward Sapir	Anthropology and Linguistics	1931	Founder of descriptive linguistics; Sapir–Whorf hypothesis	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Herbert Scarf	Economics	1979		<ref>Template:Cite conference</ref>
Vincent Scully	History of Art	1983		<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Milton Senn	Pediatrics and Psychiatry	1964		<ref name="Fellman" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Charles Seymour	History	1922	Biographer of Woodrow Wilson; Yale President (1937–1950); Yale Provost (1928–1937)	Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Harry Shulman	Law	1940	Dean of Yale Law School (1954–1955); labor arbitration scholar	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Edmund Ware Sinnott	Botany	1940	Dean of the Yale Graduate School; Plant morphogenesis	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Carolyn Slayman	Genetics	1991		<ref name="Fellman" />
Albert J. Solnit	Pediatrics and Psychiatry	1970		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Frank E. Spaulding	School Administration	1921		<ref name="Science1921"/>
Nicholas J. Spykman	International Relations	1934		Template:Sfn
Thomas Steitz	Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry	2001	2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; discovery of ribosome large subunit's atomic structure with Peter Moore	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Thomas W. Swan	Law	1922	Dean of the Yale Law School (1916–1927); Judge for the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals	Template:Sfn
Chauncey Brewster Tinker	English Literature	1923	Rare books collector	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
James Tobin	Economics	1957	Nobel Laureate in Economics	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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