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Description:
A
Sterling Professorship
is the highest academic rank at
Yale University
, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 39.
History
The
professorships
are named for and funded by an approximately $10 million endowment left by
John William Sterling
of the Yale Class of 1864, name partner in the New York law firm
Shearman & Sterling
.
The first Sterling Professor was the chemist John Johnson, who was awarded the rank in 1920.
Other past recipients include Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas
(Law),
Wilbur Lucius Cross
(English),
Jaroslav Pelikan
(history),
Nobel Prize
winner
James Tobin
(Economics),
C. Vann Woodward
(History) and
Alvan Feinstein
(Medicine and
Epidemiology
).
Among the most famous current Sterling Professors are legal scholar
Bruce Ackerman
,
Nobel Prize
-winning biochemists
Sidney Altman
and
Thomas Steitz
, literary critic
Harold Bloom
, economist
William Nordhaus
, Judge
Guido Calabresi
, political scientist
James C. Scott
, historian of China
Jonathan Spence
, medieval scholars
R. Howard Bloch
,
Giuseppe Mazzotta
, and
MarĂa Rosa Menocal
, historian of Ancient Greece and presidential advisor
Donald Kagan
, and Head Start founder
Edward Zigler
. Current Sterling Professors Emeriti include political scientists
Robert A. Dahl
and
Charles E. Lindblom
, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
David Brion Davis
, historian and former Yale President
Howard Lamar
and...
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