Sterling Professor

A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 34.

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The professorships are named for and funded by an approximately $10 million endowment left by John William Sterling Yale 1864.

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The first Sterling Professor was chemist John Johnson, named in 1920.

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Other past recipients include Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (Law), Wilbur Lucius Cross (English), Jaroslav Pelikan (history), Bank of Sweden Prize winner James Tobin (Economics), and C. Vann Woodward (History).

Related Topics:
William O. Douglas - Wilbur Lucius Cross - Jaroslav Pelikan - Bank of Sweden Prize - James Tobin - C. Vann Woodward

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Among the most famous current Sterling Professors are legal scholar Bruce Ackerman, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sidney Altman, literary critic Harold Bloom, economist William Nordhaus, political scientist James C. Scott, and Head Start founder Edward Zigler. Current Sterling Professors Emeriti include political scientist Robert A. Dahl, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis, mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, historian and former Yale President Howard Lamar and architectural historian Vincent Scully.

Related Topics:
Bruce Ackerman - Nobel Prize - Sidney Altman - Harold Bloom - William Nordhaus - James C. Scott - Edward Zigler - Robert A. Dahl - David Brion Davis - Benoit Mandelbrot - Howard Lamar - Vincent Scully

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