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In 1958, the Yale Corporation capped the number of simultaneous appointments at 27, [1] but further endowment growth allowed this number to expand to 40 by 2011. [2] In addition to currently appointed faculty, a number of former Sterling Professors retain emeritus appointments at the university and continue to teach. [2]
A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in their field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 40.
Gifford Pinchot (Yale College graduate, 1889), governor of Pennsylvania (1923–27, 1931–35), first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–10), and founder of and professor in Yale School of Forestry; Winthrop Rockefeller (Class of 1935), attended Yale 1931–34; governor of Arkansas (1967–71)
From 2002 until 2006, he was employed as a professor at Boston College; during his tenure, he won the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2004. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2006, Miller was appointed a professor of chemistry at Yale University , and was named Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry in 2008. [ 6 ]
She was on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine, [1] where she was appointed Sterling Professor in 1991. [2] [3] On March 11, 1937, she was born in Portland, ME and would become the first scientist in her family. [4] In 1958, she graduated from Swarthmore College with highest honors in biology and chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
William L. Jorgensen (born October 5, 1949, in New York) is a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. [1] He is known for his work in the field of computational chemistry . Some of his contributions include the TIP3P, TIP4P, and TIP5P water models , the OPLS force field, free-energy perturbation theory for modelling reactions in ...
David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for
Treat Baldwin Johnson (29 March 1875 – 28 July 1947) was an American organic chemist and Sterling Professor at Yale University from 1928–1943. Early life and education [ edit ]