Survey and predicted the eponymous Gunn–Peterson trough Joseph Henry – professor of natural philosophy Thomas H. Jordan – former professor of earth sciences; current director of the Southern California Earthquake Center Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – professor of physics Karl Jöreskog – professor of statistics Celeste Rohlfing – Deputy Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation and Chief Operating Officer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Daniel Kahneman – Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics Nicholas Katz – professor of mathematics Brian Kernighan – co-author of AWK and AMPL, author of The C Programming Language Elon Lindenstrauss – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist Juan Martin Maldacena – professor emeritus of physics, 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize Fernando Codá Marques – professor of mathematics George A. Miller – professor emeritus of psychology, seminal contributions in cognitive psychology and cognitive science Gananath Obeyesekere – professor of anthropology Andrei Okounkov – professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist Gerard K. O'Neill – professor of physics, leader in field of space colonization, author of The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space Jeremiah Ostriker – professor of astrophysics and recipient of the National Medal of Science Philip James Edwin Peebles – professor emeritus of physics, one of the first to predict the nature of the cosmic microwave background radiation Peter Sarnak – professor of mathematics Nathan Seiberg – professor emeritus of physics, 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize Paul Seymour – professor of mathematics Yigong Shi – professor of molecular biology, leader in the field of apoptosis Osamu Shimomura – researcher honored with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on GFP Goro Shimura – professor emeritus of mathematics, fundamental contributions to number theory and automorphic forms, especially in Langlands program Yakov G. Sinai – professor of mathematics David Spergel – professor of astrophysics, leading astrophysicist Elias M. Stein – professor of mathematics, recipient of the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), the National Medal of Science (2002), and Stefan Bergman Prize (2005) Paul Steinhardt – Albert Einstein professor of physics; recipient of the Dirac Medal (2002) Robert Tarjan – professor of computer science, inventor of many algorithms related to graph theory, winner of the 1986 Turing Award, recipient of the 1982 Nevanlinna Prize Joseph Hooton Taylor – professor of physics, 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics Daniel C.