List of University of Georgia people explained

This list of University of Georgia people includes alumni, affiliates and current students of the University of Georgia. Honorary degree recipients are not included.

Alumni

Economics and finance

• • Eugene Robert Black, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Eugene R. Black Sr. former president of the World Bank, chairman of the Brookings Institution, Special Adviser to the President on Southeast Asian Social and Economic Development, board member multiple corporations and foundations, honorary Doctor of Laws from Princeton University, Chair of the Peabody Award Board of Jurors
• Robert D. McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Bernard Ramsey, senior vice president and chairman of the executive committee of Merrill Lynch
• Charles S. Sanford Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bankers Trust

Ministry and religion

• Benjamin M. Palmer, American writer and theologian who was the first national moderator of Presbyterian Church, professor at Amherst College and Columbia Theological Seminary, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian of New Orleans (1856–1902)
• George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, president of Wesleyan College and Emory University
• David Platt, pastor and author of the New York Times best seller Radical
• Isaac P. Mendes, rabbi

Scientific research

• Wyatt Anderson, geneticist, professor of Genetics at University of Georgia, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science^[1]
  • Cornelia Bargmann, award winning neurobiologist, Wiesel Professor of Genetics and Neurosciences at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, British plant scientist and geneticist; post-doctoral fellow 1978–1980, now Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge
• Alfred Blalock, medical doctor, pioneered heart surgery and performed groundbreaking research on shock
• Eugene T. Booth, Rhodes Scholar, nuclear physicist; member of the historic Columbia University team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States; worked on the Manhattan Project
• James E. Boyd, physicist, mathematician, and founder of Scientific Atlanta, part of Cisco
• David F. Clayton, neuroscientist, biochemist, and academic. Professor and the Chair of the Department of Genetics & Biochemistry at Clemson University
• A. Jamie Cuticchia, bioinformatics pioneer with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics who was responsible for the collection of the data constituting the human gene map and who is director of human genome database
• Leonard DeLonga, sculptor, painter, and professor at Mount Holyoke College
• Charles Herty, academic, chemist and businessman; namesake of UGA's Herty Field
• Cynthia Kenyon, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, University of California-San Francisco, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author, professor, president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center, former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI), internationally known for his best-selling book The Skeptical Environmentalist
• Eugene Odum, American biologist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, author of the first ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology
• Kerwin Swint, political scientist and author, known for his research and writing in the fields of political campaigns, mass media, and political history

Sports

Distinguished faculty and staff

The University of Georgia has boasted many distinguished researchers and scholars on its faculty. Notable past and present faculty and staff include:

Administration

• Donald R. Eastman III, served as the vice president for university relations at the University of Georgia 1991–1998; vice president for strategic planning and public affairs at the University of Georgia 1998–2001^[2]
• Karen Holbrook, former senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UGA; former president of Ohio State University^[3]

Education

• Donna Alvermann, educator, currently university-appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at University of Georgia^[4]

Mathematics

• Andrew Granville, professor of mathematics and David C. Barrow Chair of Mathematics at the University of Georgia, 1991–2002^[5]
• Carl Pomerance, former professor of mathematics at University of Georgia, distinguished number theorist (Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff conjecture)^[6]
• Robert Rumely, professor of Mathematics at the University of Georgia and numbers theory researcher (Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test)^[7]

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Notes and References

1. http://www.genetics.uga.edu/directory/wyatt-anderson Wyatt Anderson
2. Dr Eastman, Curriculum Vitae, Eckerd College.
3. http://www.erau.edu/administration/trustees/tr-holbrook.html Karen Holbrook, Ph.D.
4. Donna E. Alvermann, faculty page, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia
5. Granville, Andrew, professional resume, Andrew Granville's personal website.
6. Pomerance, Carl, "Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Paul Erdos and me", USNA Midshipman-Faculty Colloquium, April 25, 2002
7. Shearer, Lee, "Math professor brings students into the fold with origami", Online Anthens, July 26, 2009.