Curated playlist
Cornell University faculty
- Richard SwedbergRichard Swedberg moved from a law degree to a sociology PhD. He then studied markets and money as social life.
- Carl SaganCarl Sagan once asked a librarian for a book on stars and got one about movie stars.
- Jon KleinbergJon Kleinberg found that a web page can matter because of where it sends you.
- Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman's last words, spoken after a long coma, were "This dying is boring." The remark suited an American theoretical physicist who never lost his taste for blunt, irreverent honesty. He was a man who treated authority, ceremony…
- Vladimir NabokovNovelist Vladimir Nabokov also named butterfly species, and later genetic research backed his theory.
- Bronisław MalinowskiBronisław Malinowski pitched a tent in the middle of a village and stayed.
- Daniel HuttenlocherIn 2019, Daniel Huttenlocher became the first dean of MIT's new Schwarzman College of Computing.
- Richard ThalerEconomist Richard Thaler played himself in the 2015 film The Big Short.
- Frank RosenblattA 1969 book led many to wrongly think Rosenblatt's learning machines were fatally limited.
- Peter DebyeA unit of measurement, a lunar crater and a minor planet all carry Peter Debye's name.