This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Minnesota .
Faculty
Nobel laureates
Philip S. Hench , Medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1923–1965; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Edward C. Kendall , Biochemistry, Mayo Foundation, 1914–1951; 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
John Bardeen , Physics, 1938–1941; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972
John H. van Vleck , Physics, 1923–28; 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics
William Lipscomb , Chemistry, 1946–1959; 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul D. Boyer , Biochemistry, 1945–1963; 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Saul Bellow , English, 1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
Milton Friedman , Economics, 1945–1946; 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
George J. Stigler , Economics, 1938–46; 1982 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Edward C. Prescott , Economics, 1980–2003; 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Leonid Hurwicz , Economics, 1951–2008; 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Christopher A. Sims , Economics, 1970–1990; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Thomas J. Sargent , Economics, 1971–1987; 2011 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Robert J. Shiller , Economics, 1972–1974; 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Pulitzer Prize winners
University of Minnesota presidents
Chancellors
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Professors
Karen Ashe , Alzheimer's researcher, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at the Medical School[311]
Bernard Bachrach , professor of history, medieval historian
M. A. R. Barker , professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies, and creator of the Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game
Lou Bellamy , professor of theatre arts, founder of Penumbra Theatre Company
Daphne Berdahl , anthropology professor
John Berryman , literature professor, poet
John Joseph Bittner , Professor of Cancer Research; Director of the Division of Cancer Biology (1943–1961)
Theodore C. Blegen , Dean of the Graduate School (1940–1960)
Norman Borlaug , referred to as the "father of the Green Revolution "
Marilyn Carroll , neuroscience professor
Maxim Cheeran , Associate professor of virology and neurovirology; Department of Veterinary Population Medicine[312]
Eli Coleman , Director of the Program in Human Sexuality; Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
Christopher J. Cramer , chemistry professor and vice president for research
Paul Crowell , professor of physics
Paul John Ellis , stellar astrophysics, nuclear physics
Herbert Feigl , member of the Vienna Circle , a group of philosophers of the twentieth century; founder of the world's first center to study philosophy of science, the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
Edward Monroe Freeman , professor of botany; dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics
Laura Gagliardi , theoretical and computational chemistry
Seymour Geisser , founder of the School of Statistics; DNA evidence expert
Florence Goodenough , psychology
Irving I. Gottesman , psychology
Alok Gupta , information scientist, economic engineer, and academic
Sheng He , psychology
Walter Heller , Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under JFK
Geoffrey Hellman , professor of philosophy
Lawrence R. Jacobs , political science
Timothy R. Johnson , political science and law; noted for his work covering the Supreme Court of the United States
James Kakalios , professor of physics, noted for his work with comic book fans
Pinar Karaca-Mandic , professor of healthcare management
Ancel Keys , nutritionist, inventor of K-rations
Frederick Klaeber , Beowulf scholar
Izaak Kolthoff , "father of analytical chemistry "
Sylvain Lesné , Alzheimer's research at the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Medical School[311]
Anatoly Liberman , Germanic scholar; author of An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
David Lykken , professor of psychology and psychiatry; founder of Minnesota Twin Family Study
George Morrison , art professor
Richard T. Murphy, Jr. , landscape architecture professor
Katherine Nash , sculpture professor
Edward P. Ney , astronomy and physics professor; discovered cosmic ray heavy nuclei
Julia Anna Norris , physical education director
Peg O'Connor , Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College , Wittgensteinian, feminist philosopher
Michael Osterholm , School of Public Health professor
Suhas Patankar , mechanical engineering; mechanical engineering; computational thermofluids
Daniel Pesut , professor of nursing
Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan , Assistant Professor Emeritus of English
Ralph Rapson , architect and head of the school of architecture
Juan Rosai , Professor of Anatomical pathology and discoverer of medical conditions such as the Rosai-Dorfman disease and desmoplastic small round cell tumor , appointed Professor and Director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Minnesota Medical School 1974–1985
Eugene Rousseau , saxophone instructor
Naomi Scheman , Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
B. F. Skinner , former psychology professor, behaviorist
Aaron Sojourner , professor of management
Ephraim Sparrow , mechanical engineering; thermodynamics and heat transfer
Ellen Stekert , professor of English and folklorist
Maurice Cole Tanquary , professor of entomology
Allen Tate , literature professor, poet
Valerie Tiberius , professor of philosophy
Andrew H. Van de Ven , Vernon H. Heath Chair of Organizational Innovation and Change, Professor Carlson School of Management
Gabriel P. Weisberg , Professor of Art History Emeritus
David Weissbrodt , Regent Professor Emeritus, scholar of human rights law and co-founder of the Center for Victims of Torture
James Wright , literature professor, poet
Blong Xiong , first Hmong in the US to receive tenure at a major university
Zhi-Li Zhang , computer science professor
Jack Zipes , German professor, translator and scholar of fairy tales
Present Regents Professors
Megan Gunnar , Child Psychology, Institute for Child Development
Patricia Hampl , English
Timothy P. Lodge , Chemistry
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin , Law
Lawrence Que Jr. , Inorganic Chemistry
Steven Ruggles , History and Population Studies
David Tilman , Ecology, Evolution , and Behavior
Donald Truhlar , Chemistry
Christopher Uggen , Sociology
Vipin Kumar , Computer Science and Engineering [313]