Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. It is popularly known as "Indiana University," IUB, or simply IU. It is located in Bloomington, Indiana, in Monroe County, Indiana.

Notable faculty

Former notable faculty

Notable faculty of Indiana University have included:

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• the late B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model,
• the late Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• the late Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine,
• the late Alfred Kinsey, founder of the academic discipline of sexology, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey Reports,
• the late Max August Zorn, mathematician and originatior of Zorns lemma
• the late David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist
• the late Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
• the late Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
• the late Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
• retired chemistry professor Harry G. Day, who is responsible for the incorporation of fluoride in toothpaste and public drinking water,
• Bobby Knight, coach of the IU men's basketball team from 1971 to 2000,
• Jerry Yeagley, coach of the IU men's soccer team from 1974 to 2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins.
• Ray E. Cramer, world famous professor of bands; former director of bands at Indiana University.

Current notable faculty

Notable current faculty of Indiana University include:

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• George M. von Furstenberg, economist
• Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, an IU professor of Cognitive Science, among other things
• the pianist Menahem Pressler (of Beaux Arts Trio fame)
• Olaf Sporns, worked at the Neurosciences Institute http://www.nsi.edu with Gerald Edelman, professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience
• the composer David Ward-Steinman
• Gustavo Sainz, Post-modernist Mexican novelist
• David Baker, notable jazz cellist and educator
• Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano
• Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor
• Timothy Noble, operatic baritone
• George Pinney, notable musical theatre actor and choreographer
• Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer