author of The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo Ezra Pound, class of 1905 - poet, modernist polemicist, critic Kamila Shamsie, class of 1995 - novelist Clinton Scollard, class of 1881 - poet Evan Smith, class of 1987 - Texas Tribune CEO and editor-in-chief Charles Dudley Warner, class of 1851 - essayist Alexander Woollcott, class of 1909 - critic and commentator; early contributor to The New Yorker; member of the Algonquin Round Table Scientists, physicians, psychologists, mathematicians and researchers Lauren Ackerman, class of 1927, American physician and pathologist, who championed the subspecialty of surgical pathology in the mid-20th century. Edward L. Deci, class of 1964, psychologist famous for studies of human motivation ("self-determination theory") Paul Greengard, class of 1948 - neuroscientist awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000 Edward Skinner King, class of 1887 - astronomer and developer of the King Tracking Rate William Howell Masters, class of 1938 -physician and research pioneer in the fields of hormone replacement therapy and sexology; co-author (with Virginia E. Johnson) of Human Sexual Response (1966) Jonathan Schooler, class of 1981, psychologist who developed the theory of verbal overshadowing B.F. Skinner, class of 1926 - behavioral psychologist considered the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. Augustus William Smith, class of 1825 - mathematician and astronomer Lawrence Weed, class of 1945 - academic physician and inventor of the problem-oriented medical record Edward J. Wickson- class of 1868, American agronomist and researcher at University of California, Berkeley John Werner - class of 1992, Founding managing director for MIT Media Lab's Emerging Worlds Special Interest Group (SIG) Academics and scholars (not otherwise listed) Robert Livingston Allen - linguist credited with developing "Sector Analysis" (professor at Columbia University) David K. Backus- financial economist (Heinz Riehl Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business) John J. Donohue III- law and economics scholar (professor at Yale Law School and Stanford Law School) Theodore William Dwight - pioneering legal educator who served on Hamilton faculty before serving as founding dean at Columbia Law School Benjamin A. Elman - Sinologist (Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University) Samih Farsoun - influential Arab Studies scholar Daniel Willard Fiske (did not graduate) - archivist, chess writer (co-author of Paul Morphy) and Icelandic studies scholar at Cornell University Erica Flapan - mathematician Charles L. Flynn, Jr. - historian and President of the College of Mount Saint Vincent John