Army Ordnance Missile Command (ABMA), planned Invasion of Normandy; professor Isidor Isaac Rabi Professor, PhD from Columbia (1927), Nobel Laureate, Discoverer of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Mario Salvadori Architect, Structural Engineer, Professor (1940s–1990s), consultant on Manhattan Project, inventor of thin concrete shells Klaus Lackner, Professor of Environmental Engineering Chien-Shiung Wu "Chinese Marie Curie", first lady of physics, and Professor (1944–1980) who disproved "conservation of parity" Cyril M. Harris, Professor of Electrical Engineering and architect Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam spectroscopy. Professor (1940–1947), B.A. PhD Columbia. Frank Press Geophysicist, work in seismic activity and wave theory, counsel to four presidents. M.A., PhD Columbia, and researcher. Leon M. Lederman A Nobel Laureate, discoverer of muon neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989). M.A., PhD Columbia Eric Kandel Biophysicist, Nobel Laureate, uncovered secrets of synapses. Professor Physicians & Surgeons (1974–); research with the Biomedical Engineering department. Joseph F. Traub Founding chairman of the computer science department at Columbia Emanuel Derman, Professor and Director of Columbia's financial engineering program, co-authors of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language, winner of the 2020 Turing Award Gertrude Fanny Neumark one of the world's leading experts on doping wide-band semiconductors Charles Hard Townes professor and an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped to invent the laser Jacob Millman Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of Millman's Theorem John R. Dunning School Dean, physicist who played key roles in the development of the atomic bomb Steven M. Bellovin Professor of Computer Science Philip Kim Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics Mihalis Yannakakis Professor of Computer Science, famous scholar noted for his work in the fields of Computational complexity theory, Databases Maria Chudnovsky, professor of operations research and industrial engineering David E Keyes, professor of applied mathematics Awi Federgruen, Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Nicholas F. Maxemchuk Professor of Electrical Engineering Clifford Stein Professor of operations research and industrial engineering Ronald Breslow Professor of chemical engineering, now University Professor Santiago Calatrava (Honorary Doctorate, 2007), world renowned architect, sculptor and structural engineer, designer of Montjuic Communications Tower and World Trade Center Transportation Hub Ferdinand Freudenstein, Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering Henry Spotnitz, Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Thomas Christian Kavanagh, professor of civil engineering Vladimir Vapnik, Professor of Computer Science and co-developer of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory Jaron Lanier, visiting scholar