SB’32, SM’34, PhD’36; Nobel laureate in physics, 1968; National Medal of Science: Physical Sciences, 1963

PhB’31; President of Malawi (1966-94)

AM’51, PhD’53; Faculty, 1984, 1989; National Humanities Medal, 2005

SB’49, AM’50, PhD’52; Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development; known for his influential work on educational metrics and his many contributions to the statistical framework known as item response theory (IRT).

PhD’50; National Medal of Science: Mathematics & Computer Science, 1991; Partial Differential Equations Contributions To Studies Of Harmonic Analysis Pure Mathematics

President and CEO of the Bank of America (1970-81) and President of the World Bank (1981-86)

SM’53, PhD’55; University Professor Emeritus in Physics; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1980; National Medal of Science: Physical Sciences, 1999

Nobel laureate in Physics, 1938

AM’89, PhD’94; Author, journalist, and columnist for the Wall Street Journal

AB’36; Former author and columnist of ‘Mathematical Games” in the magazine Scientific American

AB’59, JD’61, MCL’63; National Humanities Medal 2005

SM’50, PhD’52; Nobel laureate in Chemistry 2019; Credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery; Awards: 2011 National Medal of Science, the Japan Prize in 2001 and the Enrico Fermi Award in 2009

AB’38; Former chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History, 1998; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002

AM’57, PhD’62; Author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar, then dubbed “the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis” by the New York Times

PhD’41; Physicist and professor in magnetism and superconductivity; developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships in World War II; his demonstration of the proof of non-interacting paramagnetic ions is used in a number of physics texts

AB’43; U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1981-83), Pakistan (1983-86), Costa Rica (1987-90), and Panama (1990-94)

AM’59; Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times (1958-84) and Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Watch (2010-13)

MD’66; Director of health programs at the Carter Center; former Deputy Director of International Health, Centers for Disease Control; recipient of the MacArthur fellowship award

Author, Poet, Playwright; Leader of the Harlem Renaissance

AM’49; U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1977-81) and the People’s Republic of China (1981-85)

SM’52, PhD’64; Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria; pan-Africanist; anti-apartheid advocate

SM’55; Director, National Institute of Education at Makerere University College (1964-77) and first African Fulbright Scholar to the United States

PhD’38, MD’50; Pharmacologist responsible for detecting Thalidomide danger

PhD’79; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003-05), Iraq (2005-07), and the United Nations (2007-09)

PhD’50; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957

AM’85; Minister of Education and Minister for Home Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania

PhD’55; former Director, General Civil Services of Liberia and the first African student to earn a PhD from the University of Chicago

PhD’21; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1966

AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77; Author of V.I. Warshawski detective novels

AM’51, PhD’51; Presidential appointee to City Council in Washington, D.C.

PhD’49; Clinical Psychologist; Diplomat, American Board of Professional Psychology

PhD’40; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); University trustee

AB’43; Co-founder of comedy troupe Second City

AM’47; NBC correspondent and Vice President of RCA (1975-86)

MBA’64, PhD’70; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1997

PhD’68; Economist; Winner of the National Humanities Medal, 2002; Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1980-present)

PhD’38; Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, 1982; National Medals of Science: Behavioral & Social Science, 1987

SM’63; PhD’67; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1998

PhD’48; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1957; National Medals of Science: Behavioral & Social Science, 1986