List of institute professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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<onlyinclude>'''Institute professor''' is the highest title that can be awarded to a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It is analogous to the titles of distinguished professor, university professor, or regents professor used at other universities in recognition of a professor's extraordinary research achievements and dedication to the school. At MIT, institute professors are granted a unique level of freedom and flexibility to pursue their research and teaching interests without regular departmental or school responsibilities; they report only to the provost.<ref name="MITdefinition"/> Usually no more than twelve professors hold this distinction at any one time.<ref name="MITdefinition"/>

Institute professors are initially nominated by leaders representing either a department or school. The chair of the faculty then consults with the Academic Council and jointly appoints with the president an ad-hoc committee from various departments and non-MIT members to evaluate the qualifications and make a documented recommendation to the president. The final determination is made based upon recommendations from professionals in the nominee's field. The case is then reviewed again by the Academic Council and approved by the executive committee of the MIT Corporation.<ref name="MITdefinition"/> The position was created by President James R. Killian in 1951, and John C. Slater was the first to hold the title.<ref>{{cite news|date=September 18, 1951|title=Slater Takes New Post as Roving Physics Professor|newspaper=The Tech|url=http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_071/TECH_V071_S0128_P002.pdf|access-date=2007-04-22}}</ref>

==List of institute professors== </onlyinclude><noinclude>

===Current=== </noinclude><onlyinclude> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%" ! width="15%" | Name ! width="20%" | Department ! width="5%" | Elected ! width="50%" | Notability ! width="*" | Reference |- valign="top" |- valign="top" | Daron Acemoglu |align="center" | Economics |align="center" | 2019 | Author of ''Why Nations Fail''; John Bates Clark Medal (2005); Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2024) |align="center" | <ref name="InstProf">{{cite web |title=Daron Acemoglu named Institute Professor |first=Peter |last=Dizikes |url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/daron-acemoglu-institute-professor-0710 |website=news.mit.edu |publisher=MIT News Office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711175057/http://news.mit.edu/2019/daron-acemoglu-institute-professor-0710 |archive-date=11 July 2019 |date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Suzanne Berger |align="center" | Political Science |align="center" | 2019 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; chevalier of France's Legion of Honour (2009) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/suzanne-berger-institute-professor-0710 |title=Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M. Deutch Institute Professor |date=July 2019 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2019-07-18}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Arup Chakraborty |align="center" | Chemical Engineering |align="center" | 2021 | Fellow of all three United States National academies; founding director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science | align="center" | <ref name="MIT News Office">{{cite news|url=https://news.mit.edu/2021/paula-hammond-arup-chakraborty-institute-0506 |title=Paula Hammond and Arup Chakraborty named Institute Professors |date=May 2021 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2021-08-10}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Sallie W. Chisholm |align="center" | Civil and Environmental Engineering |align="center" | 2015 | Discovery and biology of the ''Prochlorococcus'' marine cyanobacteria |align="center" | <ref name=":0" /> |- valign="top" | Ann Graybiel | align="center" | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | align="center" | 2008 | align="left" | Expert on the basal ganglia; National Medal of Science (2001) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/institute-prof-1103.html |title=Ann Graybiel named institute professor |date=November 2008 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2008-03-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/graybiel.html |title=MIT's Ann Graybiel awarded national medal of science |access-date=2008-03-04}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Paula T. Hammond |align="center" | Chemical Engineering |align="center" | 2021 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and all three United States National academies | align="center" | <ref name="MIT News Office"/> |- valign="top" | Robert S. Langer | align="center" | Chemical Engineering & Biological Engineering | align="center" | 2005 | align="left" | Drug delivery and tissue engineering; youngest person to be elected to all three United States National academies; Millennium Technology Prize (2008), National Medal of Science (2007), Draper Prize (2002), and Lemelson-MIT Prize (1998) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/langer-0302.html |title=Bob Langer named an Institute Professor |author=Elizabeth A. Thomson |date=March 2, 2005 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2007-03-23}}</ref><includeonly> |}</includeonly></onlyinclude> |- valign="top" | Thomas Magnanti | align="center" | Mechanical Engineering | align="center" | 1997 | align="left" | Operations research; Dean of Engineering (1999–2007) | align="center" | <ref name="DMM"/> |- valign="top" | Marcus Thompson |align="center" | Music and Theater Arts |align="center" | 2015 | align="left" | Artistic director of Boston Chamber Music Society |align="center" | <ref name=":0" /> |- valign="top" |}

===Emeritus=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%" ! width="15%" | Name ! width="20%" | Department ! width="5%" | Elected ! width="50%" | Notability ! width="*" | Reference |- valign="top" |- valign="top" | Emilio Bizzi | align="center" | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | align="center" | 2002 | align="left" | Motor control; President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006–2009) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/bizzi-0605.html |title=Bizzi is named an Institute Professor |author=Elizabeth A. Thomson |date=June 5, 2002 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2007-03-23}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Noam Chomsky | align="center" | Linguistics and Philosophy | align="center" | 1976 | align="left" | Generative grammar; Kyoto Prize (1988); political activist and one of the most widely cited scholars alive<ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/citation-0415.html |publisher=MIT News Office |title=Chomsky Is Citation Champ |date=April 15, 1992 |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref><ref> "According to a recent survey by the Institute for Scientific Information, only Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Freud are cited more often in academic journals than Chomsky, who edges out Hegel and Cicero." Samuel Hughes, [http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/200107--.htm ''The Pennsylvania Gazette''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095612/http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/200107--.htm |date=2007-09-29 }}, July/August, 2001 </ref> | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/may22/24734.html |title=Chomsky Named Killian Lecturer |date=May 22, 1991 |access-date=2007-03-26 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041125142800/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/may22/24734.html |archive-date = 2004-11-25}}</ref> |- valign="top" | John M. Deutch | align="center" | Chemistry | align="center" | 1990 | align="left" | Director of Central Intelligence (1995–1996); Deputy Secretary of Defense (1994–1995); Provost of MIT (1985–1990) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/deutch/biography.html |title= John M. Deutch Biography |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N56/deutch.56n.html |title=Deutch named Institute professor |date=December 7, 1990 |access-date=2007-04-04}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Peter A. Diamond | align="center" | Economics | align="center" | 1997 | align="left" | Social Security reform; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010) | align="center" | <ref name="DMM">{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1997/professors-0604.html |title=Diamond, Magnanti and Molina are Institute Professors |date=June 4, 1997 |access-date=2007-03-24 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Jerome I. Friedman | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1991 | align="left" | Quantum chromodynamics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1990) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/may29/24749.html |title=Friedman Named Institute Professor |date=May 29, 1991 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2007-03-23 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040511163848/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/may29/24749.html |archive-date = 2004-05-11}}</ref> |- valign="top" | John Harbison | align="center" | Music and Theater Arts | align="center" | 1995 | align="left" | MacArthur Fellow (1989); Pulitzer Prize for Music (1987) for ''The Flight into Egypt'' | align="center" | <ref name="BHW">{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1995/40249/40276.html |title=Baltimore, Harbison, Wang elevated to ranks of Institute Professors |date=June 7, 1995 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2007-03-24 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070212231749/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1995/40249/40276.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-02-12}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Barbara Liskov | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 2008 | align="left" | Contributions to data abstraction and programming languages; Turing Award (2008) and John von Neumann Medal (2004) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/liskov-0630.html |title=Barbara Liskov named Institute Professor |access-date=2008-07-01}}</ref> |- valign="top" | John D.C. Little | align="center" | Management | align="center" | | align="left" | Little's law and Branch and bound; contributions to marketing and e-commerce | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/popup-if.cfm?in_spseqno=69&co_list=F |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718072454/http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/popup-if.cfm?in_spseqno=69&co_list=F |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-18 |title=MIT Sloan Faculty webpage |access-date=2007-03-26 }}</ref> |- valign="top" | Ron Rivest |align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |align="center" | 2015 | Co-inventor of the RSA algorithm; founder of Verisign and RSA Security |align="center" | <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Chisholm, Rivest, and Thompson appointed as new Institute Professors| date=29 June 2015 |url = http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/chisholm-rivest-thompson-institute-professors-0629|access-date = 2015-06-29}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Phillip Sharp | align="center" | Biology | align="center" | 1999 | align="left" | RNA interference and splicing; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1999/sharp-0310.html |title=Sharp named an Institute Professor |date=March 10, 1999 |access-date=2007-03-23 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> |- valign="top" | Sheila Widnall | align="center" | Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering | align="center" | 1998 | align="left" | Secretary of the Air Force (1993–1997); first woman to chair the MIT faculty; first MIT alumna appointed to MIT engineering faculty | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/widnall.html |title=Former Secretary of Air Force named Institute Professor by MIT |date=December 1, 1998 |access-date=2007-03-23 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> |}

===Deceased=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%" ! width="15%" | Name ! width="20%" | Department ! width="5%" | Elected ! width="50%" | Notability ! width="*" | Reference ! |- valign="top" |- valign="top" | Mildred S. Dresselhaus | align="center" | Physics & Electrical Engineering | align="center" | 1985 | align="left" | Carbon nanotubes; National Medal of Science (1990) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/millie_dresselhaus.html |title=MIT Physics Faculty |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Murray Eden | align="center" | Electrical Engineering | align="center" | 1959–1994 | align="left" | Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program ''directors award'' | align="center" | <ref>''[https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2020/10/02/longtime-engineering-authority-eden-mourned Longtime Engineering Authority Eden Mourned]'', at ''NIH record'', October 2, 2020</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Casanova|first=Stephanie|title=Murray Eden, a biomedical engineer with a love of singing, dies in Tucson at 99|url=https://tucson.com/news/local/murray-eden-a-biomedical-engineer-with-a-love-of-singing-dies-in-tucson-at-99/article_30e24a8e-7b61-56e7-9b32-bc521fb11707.html|date=2020-08-18|access-date=2021-01-04|website=Arizona Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Manson Benedict | align="center" | Nuclear Engineering | align="center" | 1969 | align="left" | National Medal of Science (1975) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/obit-benedict-0927.html |title=Manson Benedict, 98, chemist on Manhattan Project, dies |date=September 27, 2006 |access-date=2007-04-04}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Joel Moses | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1999 | align="left" | Algebraic manipulation algorithms and MACSYMA; Provost of MIT (1995–1998); Dean of Engineering (1991–1995) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.mit.edu/2022/joel-moses-institute-professor-emeritus-dies-0531 |title=Joel Moses, Institute Professor Emeritus and computer science trailblazer, dies at 80 |date=May 31, 2022 |access-date=2023-11-23 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Norbert Wiener | align="center" | Mathematics | align="center" | 1959 | align="left" | National Medal of Science (1964) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc22.html | title=Guide to the Papers of Norbert Wiener, dies at 69 |date=March 18, 1964 |access-date=2014-11-06}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Gordon S. Brown | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1973 | align="left" | Automatic feedback-control systems and computer numerical control; Dean of Engineering (1959–1968) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/brown-obit.html |title=Gordon Brown, pioneer electrical engineer, educator at MIT, dies at 88 |access-date=2007-04-22 |date=August 26, 1996 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Martin Julian Buerger | align="center" | Mineralogy | align="center" | 1956 | align="left" | Crystallography | align="center" | <ref>Azaroff, L. V. ''J. Appl. Crystallogr.'' (1986) '''19''', 205-207.</ref> | |- valign="top" | Morris Cohen | align="center" | Material Science and Engineering | align="center" | 1974 | align="left" | Metallurgy of steel | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/obit-cohen.html |title=Institute Professor Morris Cohen dies |author=Sarah H. Wright |publisher=MIT News Office |date=May 31, 2005 |access-date=2007-03-23}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Charles S. Draper | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1966 | align="left" | Inertial guidance and gyro gunsight; founder of the Instrumentation Laboratory | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.draper.com/corporate/profile/docslab.htm |title=Dr. Draper & His Lab |publisher=Draper Labs |access-date=2007-04-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017081159/http://www.draper.com/corporate/profile/docslab.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2006 }}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1966 | align="left" | High-speed photography; Co-founder of EG&G; National Medal of Science (1973) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1990/jan10/22634.html |title=MIT Loses a Colorful, Beloved Professor |date=January 10, 1990 |access-date=2007-04-04 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070514185357/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1990/jan10/22634.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-05-14}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Herman Feshbach | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1983 | align="left" | Nuclear reaction theory; National Medal of Science (1986) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/feshbach-0110.html |title=Renowned nuclear physicist Feshbach, Institute Professor emeritus, dies at 83 |date=January 10, 2001 |access-date=2007-03-23 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Edwin R. Gilliland | align="center" | Chemical Engineering | align="center" | 1971 | align="left" | Fractional distillation columns and fluidized catalytic cracking; President's Science Advisory Committee (1961–1965) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=578&page=97 |title=Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 1 (1979) |publisher=National Academies Press |access-date=2007-04-22 |author=P.L. Thibaut Brian}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Hermann Anton Haus | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1986 | align="left" | Optical communications; National Medal of Science (1995) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/haus-0604.html |title=Institute Professor Hermann Haus, quantum optics pioneer, dies at 77 |publisher=MIT News Office |date=June 4, 2003 |access-date=2007-03-23}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Arthur von Hippel | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1962 | align="left" | Dielectric materials | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/vonhippel-0114.html |title=Institute Prof. von Hippel dies at 105; was leader in materials research |date=January 14, 2004 |access-date=2007-03-23 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Arthur Thomas Ippen | align="center" | Civil Engineering | align="center" | 1970 | align="left" | Hydraulic engineering and water resources | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=578&chapselect=yo&page=127 |title=Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 1 (1979) |publisher=National Academies Press |access-date=2007-04-22 |author=Hunter Rouse}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Roman O. Jakobson | align="center" | Linguistics and Philosophy | align="center" | | align="left" | Expert on Russian formalism, Slavic studies and linguistics | align="center" | <ref>{{cite journal|jstor=540396 |title=Obituary: Roman Jackobson (1896–1982) |journal=Journal of American Folklore |last1=Parpulova |first1=Lyubomira D. |last2=Gribble |first2=Charles E. |last3=Bailey |first3=James O. |year=1984 |volume=97 |issue=383 |pages=57–60 }}</ref> | |- valign="top" | György Kepes | align="center" | Architecture | align="center" | 1970 | align="left" | Founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies; Bauhaus contributor; Hungarian Medal of Honor and Middle Cross (1996) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/kepes.html |title=Gyorgy Kepes, founder of CAVS, dies at 95 |publisher=MIT News Office |date=January 16, 2002 |access-date=2007-04-22}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Norman Levinson | align="center" | Mathematics | align="center" | 1971 | align="left" | Non-linear differential equations, mathematical analysis, and analytic number theory; testified at 1953 House Un-American Activities Committee | align="center" | <ref name="1973 Tech">{{cite web |url=http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_093/TECH_V093_S0303_P002.pdf |title=3 Institute Profs Selected |date=September 21, 1973 |access-date=2007-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Levinson.html |title=Levinson biography |access-date=2007-04-22 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Francis E. Low | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | | align="left" | Condensed matter physics; Provost of MIT (1980–1985) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/obit-low.html |title=Physicist Francis E. Low, former MIT provost, dies at 85 |publisher=MIT News Office |date=February 20, 2007 |access-date=2007-03-23}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Franco Modigliani | align="center" | Economics & Management | align="center" | 1970 | align="left" | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1985) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/modigliani.html |date=September 25, 2003 |title=Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani dies at 85 |access-date=2007-04-04}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Mario Molina | align="center" | Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences | align="center" | 1997 | align="left" | Stratospheric ozone chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1995) | align="center" | <ref name="DMM"/> | |- valign="top" | Philip Morrison | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1973 | align="left" | Theoretical astrophysics | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/morrison.html |title=Institute Professor Philip Morrison dies at 89 |date=April 25, 2005 |publisher=MIT News Office |access-date=2007-03-07}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Walle J. H. Nauta | align="center" | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | align="center" | 1973 | align="left" | Nauta Silver Impregnation Method used to trace degenerating nerve fibers | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/nauta-0330.html |title=Institute Professor Walle J.H. Nauta dies |date=March 30, 1994 |access-date=2007-03-24 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Walter A. Rosenblith | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1975 | align="left" | Psychoacoustics; elected to all three United States National academies; Provost of MIT (1971–1980) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/rosenblith.html |title=Retired MIT Professor Rosenblith dies at 88; Pioneered use of computers to study brain |date=May 3, 2002 |access-date=2007-03-23 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Bruno Rossi | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1966 | align="left" | X-ray astronomy and discovery of cosmic rays; Wolf Prize (1987) and National Medal of Science (1983) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1993/rossi-1201.html |title=Dec. 15 memorial planned for Bruno Rossi |date=December 1, 1993 |access-date=2007-04-22 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Paul Samuelson | align="center" | Economics | align="center" | 1966 | align="left" | National Medal of Science (1996), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1970), and John Bates Clark Medal (1947) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/samuelson.html |title=Economist Paul Samuelson of MIT to Receive National Medal of Science |date=June 11, 1996 |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Francis O. Schmitt | align="center" | Biology | align="center" | 1955 | align="left" | Biological electron microscopy | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1995/schmitt-1004.html |title=Institute Professor Francis O. Schmitt dies at 91 |date=October 4, 1995 |access-date=2007-03-24 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Nevin S. Scrimshaw | align="center" | Nutrition and Food Science | align="center" | 1980 | align="left" | Eliminating nutritional deficiency; World Food Prize (1991) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/aug28/25277.html |date=August 28, 1991 |title=Scrimshaw to Receive Food Prize |access-date=2007-03-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040911052842/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/aug28/25277.html |archive-date=September 11, 2004 }}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Ascher H. Shapiro | align="center" | Mechanical Engineering | align="center" | 1975 | align="left" | Fluid mechanics and biomedical engineering | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news |url=http://tech.mit.edu/V113/N60/rossi.60n.html |title=Bruno B. Rossi |publisher=MIT The Tech |date=November 23, 1993 |access-date=2007-04-22}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Isadore Singer | align="center" | Mathematics | align="center" | 1987 | align="left" | Atiyah–Singer index theorem; Abel Prize (2004) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://math.mit.edu/people/profile?pid=249 |title=MIT biography on Singer |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | John C. Slater | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1951 | align="left" | Quantum theory and electromagnetic theory of microwaves; advisor to William Shockley | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/s/slater.pdf |title=John C. Slater papers |publisher=American Philosophical Society |access-date=2007-04-22|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926185242/http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/s/slater.pdf |archive-date = 2007-09-26}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Cyril S. Smith | align="center" | Materials Science & Humanities | align="center" | | align="left" | Metallurgy, crystallography, and metallography of archaeological artifacts | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/cyril-0902.html |title=Cyril Stanley Smith Dies at 88 |date=September 2, 1992 |access-date=2007-04-22}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Carl R. Soderberg | align="center" | Mechanical Engineering | align="center" | 1959 | align="left" | Steam turbine electric generators; Dean of Engineering (1954–1959); consultant on the J-57 turbojet | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=565&page=267 |title=Carl Richard Soderberg (1895–1979) |publisher=National Academies Press |access-date=2007-04-22 |author=Ascher H. Shapiro}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Charles H. Townes | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1961 | align="left" | Quantum Electronics and Maser; National Medal of Science (1982) and Nobel Prize in Physics (1964) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/townes-0411.html |title=Nobelist and former Institute Professor to speak at MIT |date=April 11, 2001 |access-date=2007-03-24 |publisher=MIT News Office}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Daniel I.C. Wang | align="center" | Chemical Engineering | align="center" | 1995 | align="left" | Biochemical process engineering | align="center" | <ref name="BHW"/> | |- valign="top" | John S. Waugh | align="center" | Chemistry | align="center" | | align="left" | Computational studies of spin systems | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/waugh.html |title=MIT Chemistry faculty webpage |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Victor Weisskopf | align="center" | Physics | align="center" | 1965 | align="left" | Co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists; Wolf Prize (1981) and National Medal of Science (1980) | align="center" | <ref name="1973 Tech"/> | |- valign="top" | Jerome Wiesner | align="center" | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | align="center" | 1980 | align="left" | Chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee (1961–1964); Dean of Science (1964–1966); Provost of MIT (1966–1971); President of MIT (1971–1980) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1994/weisner-obit-1026.html |title=President emeritus Jerome Wiesner is dead at 79 |date=October 26, 2004 |access-date=2007-04-04}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Jerrold R. Zacharias | align="center" | Nuclear Science and Engineering | align="center" | 1966 | align="left" | Atomic beams and clocks; microwave radar; educational reform | align="center" | <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/jzacharias.html |title=Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905–1896) |author=Norman F. Ramsey |access-date=2007-04-22}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Chia-Chiao Lin | align="center" | Mathematics | align="center" | 1966 | align="left" | Fluid mechanics | align="center" | <ref name="1973 Tech"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/facts/faculty.html |title=MIT Facts 2007: Faculty |access-date=2007-04-04}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Morris Halle | align="center" | Linguistics and Philosophy | align="center" | 1981 | align="left" | Phonology; Author of ''The Sound Pattern of English'' | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/halle/index.html |title=MIT Department of Linguistics faculty homepage |access-date=2007-03-26}}</ref> | |- valign="top" | Robert M. Solow | align="center" | Economics | align="center" | 1973 | align="left" | National Medal of Science (1999), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1987), and John Bates Clark Medal (1961) | align="center" | <ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1995/solow.html |title=Students Persuade Solow to Teach One Last Course |access-date=2007-04-04 |date=November 7, 1995}}</ref> | |- valign="top" |David Baltimore | align="center" |Biology | align="center" |1995 | align="left" |Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975) | align="center" |<ref name="BHW" /> | align="center" | |}

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