目前（2009）哈佛大学22位身望显赫的教授 University Professor

At Harvard University, the title of University Professor is an honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have attained particular distinction and influence. This honor was created in 1935 by Harvard's President and Fellows for "individuals of distinction ... working on the frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way as to cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties." The University Professorship is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post.

The number of University Professors fluctuates. Recently, in 2006, there were as many as 21 University Professors at Harvard. Presently, there are 22.

1、Adams University Professor
Christoph Wolff， 音乐学家

Christoph Wolff (born May 24, 1940) is a German-born musicologist, presently on the faculty of Harvard University. Born and educated in Germany, Wolff studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a Dr. Phil. in 1966. Wolff taught the history of music at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 as Professor of Music. Currently, he is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University.

Christoph Wolff is best known for his works on the music, life, and times of Johann Sebastian Bach. His books include Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (Cambridge, 1991), Mozart's Requiem (Berkeley, 1994), The New Bach Reader (New York, 1998), and Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York, 2000). Wolff (re)discovered a number of works by Bach (notably the Neumeister Chorales) that were previously unknown or deemed lost. Since 2001 he is director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig.

2、Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
Stanley Hoffmann，政治家

A French citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris and Nice before studying at the Institut d'études politiques. He followed an academic career in the United States and founded Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1968.

Hoffmann also participated as a political expert in the film The World According to Bush, dealing with the vicissitudes of the Bush administration after the 2000 presidential election.

3、John Cogan University Professor
Stephen Greenblatt，文学家

Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.

Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of New Historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term. Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of culture, Renaissance studies and Shakespeare studies and is considered to be an expert in these fields. His most popular work is Will in the World, a biography of Shakespeare that was on the New York Times Best Seller list for nine weeks.

4、James Bryant Conant University Professor
Stephen Owen，政治家

Stephen Owen, PC (born September 8, 1948) is the Vice-President (VP) External and Legal for the University of British Columbia. He is a former Canadian politician.

Owen was the Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra, encompassing the western end of the City of Vancouver. He was a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government, serving in cabinet as Canada's tenth Minister of Western Economic Diversification and as Minister of State for Sport.

5、Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Lawrence H. Summers，经济学家，奥巴马政府经济委员会主任

Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in several fields of economics and was Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Clinton Administration. Summers also served as the 27th President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty that resulted in part from Summers' conflict with Cornel West as well as a 2005 speech in which he suggested that women's under-representation in the top levels of academia is due to a "different availability of aptitude at the high end." Summers has also been criticized by some liberals for the centrist economic policies he advocated as Treasury Secretary and in later writings. Since returning to government in the Obama administration, he has come under fire for his numerous financial ties to Wall Street.

6、Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
Henry Louis Gates, 文学家

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities." The lecture resulted in his 2003 book, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley.

As the host of the 2006 and 2008 PBS television miniseries African American Lives, Gates explored the genealogy of prominent African Americans. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Michael Kinsley referred to him as "the nation's most famous black scholar."

7、Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
George M. Whitesides，化学家

George M. Whitesides (b. August 3, 1939, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. Whitesides is also known for his "outline system" for writing scientific papers. As of March 2008, he has the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists.

8、 Gerhard Gade University Professor
Barry C. Mazur，数学家

Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959, becoming a Junior Fellow at Harvard University from 1961-64. He is currently the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. In 1982 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Mazur has received the Veblen Prize in geometry, the Cole Prize in number theory, the Chauvenet Prize for exposition, and the Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research from the American Mathematical Society.

9. Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
Amartya Sen，经济学家，诺贝尔奖获得者

Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge . He is known "for his contributions to welfare economics" for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism. He is a distinguished economist-philosopher who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in the year 1998 for his work on welfare economics.

From 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, becoming the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college. He is also a former honorary president of Oxfam. Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. As of 2009 he has received over 80 honorary doctorates from several world renowned universities worldwide.

10. Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
William Julius Wilson，社会学家

William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard.

William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only 19 University Professors, the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty member. After receiving the Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1966, Wilson taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1972. In 1990 he was appointed the Lucy Flower University Professor and director of the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. He joined the faculty at Harvard in July 1996. He is affiliated with the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Wilson was an original board member of the progressive Century Institute.

11.  Bishop William Lawrence University Professor
Michael Porter，管理和经济学家

Michael Eugene Porter (born 1947) is a University Professor at Harvard Business School, with academic interests in management and economics. His work spans three broad areas: competition and company strategy (five forces, value chain), competition and economic development (clusters, diamond model), and competition and societal issues (health care, environment.)

Porter graduated from Princeton University in 1969 with a BSE in aerospace and mechanical engineering, where he was an outstanding intercollegiate golfer. In 1971 he received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.

12.  Carl M. Loeb University Professor

Laurence H. Tribe，法学家，生于中国上海

Laurence Henry Tribe (born in Shanghai, October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law scholars and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of American Constitutional Law (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court 34 times.

13. John and Natty McArthur University Professor
Robert Merton，社会学家

Merton was born in New York City to sociologist Robert K. Merton and Suzanne Carhart. He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mathematics from the School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University, a Masters of Science from the California Institute of Technology, and his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 under the guidance of Paul Anthony Samuelson. He then joined the faculty of the MIT Sloan School of Management where he taught till 1988. Subsequently, Merton moved to Harvard University, where he has held John and Natty McArthur University Professorship in the Graduate School of Business Administration since 1998.

14.  Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Dale W. Jorgenson，经济学家

Dale Weldeau Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government. (BA, economics Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1955 and a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1959). He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997.

He was a Founding Member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council in 1991 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 1998. He also served as Chairman of Section 54, Economic Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2003 and was President of the Econometric Society in 1987 and President of the American Economic Association in 2000.

Jorgenson received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1971. This Medal is awarded every two years to an economist under forty for excellence in economic research.

He was also an advocate for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions as a means of reducing global warming when he testified before congress in 1997. His research has also been used to advocate for the FairTax, a tax reform proposal in the United States to replace all federal payroll and income taxes (both corporate and personal) with a national retail sales tax and monthly tax rebate to households of citizens and legal resident aliens. However, Jorgenson supports a tax plan of his own design, which he calls Efficient Taxation of Income, described in his book Investment, Vol. 3: Lifting the Burden: Tax Reform, the Cost of Capital, and U.S. Economic Growth. The approach would introduce different tax rates for property-type income and earned income from work.

15. Pellegrino University Professor
Peter L. Galison，物理学家

Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.

Galison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in both Physics and the History of Science in 1983. His publications include Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (1997) and Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time. His most recent book (2007), co-authored with Lorraine Daston, is titled Objectivity.

Before moving to Harvard, Galison taught for several years at Stanford University where he was professor of History, Philosophy, and Physics. He is considered part of the "Stanford School" of philosophy of science along with Ian Hacking, John Dupré, and Nancy Cartwright (philosopher).

16．Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
Robert Darnton，历史学家

He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, and was President of the American Historical Association in 1999.

He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1968, and was Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European History. On July 1, 2007, he transferred to emeritus status at Princeton, and was appointed Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library, succeeding Sidney Verba.

17．A. Kingsley Porter University Professor
Helen Vendler，诗歌评论家

Vendler has written books on W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats and Seamus Heaney. She is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she has had a position since 1981. She has taught at Smith and Boston University. She married (then later divorced) the philosopher Zeno Vendler with whom she had one son. In 1992 Vendler received a Litt. D. from Bates College.

Vendler did not major in English as an undergraduate. She earned an A.B. in chemistry at Emmanuel College. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for mathematics, before earning her Ph.D. in English & American Literature from Harvard.

In 2004, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Vendler for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. Vendler's lecture, entitled "The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar," used a number of poems by Wallace Stevens to argue for the role of the arts (as opposed to history and philosophy) in the study of humanities.

18．Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich，历史学家

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938), is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people"—an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience."

19．Timken University Professorship
Irwin Shapiro，天体物理学家

Irwin Shapiro was born in New York City. After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School, Shapiro did an undergraduate in mathematics at Cornell University, and a master's and PhD in physics at Harvard University. Shapiro joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1954 and became a professor of physics at MIT in 1967. In 1982, Shapiro became a professor at Harvard University and also director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Irwin won the Charles A. Whitten Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 1991. In 1997, he became the First Timken University Professor.

Shapiro's research includes using gravitational lenses to assess the age of the universe.

20．Robert Walmsley University Professor
Frank Michelman，法学家

Frank Michelman is a Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He wrote the famous law review article, Property, Utility and Fairness, (80 Harv. L. Rev. 1165 (1967)) on the economic reasons for just compensation in the 5th Amendment Takings clause to the United States Constitution. This article was cited by the majority in its opinion in Penn Central v. New York City, the Supreme Court case that dealt with the authority of a local New York City landmark law that forbade the railroad company from putting up a skyscraper above the historic Grand Central Terminal structure. Michelman's analysis relies on uating whether the nuisance costs and value to society were worth it.

Michelman served as Vice-President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy 1994-96 and as its President, 1998-2001.

21．Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor
Gary King，政治学家

In 1980, King graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He earned an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison the next year. He continued graduate studies at UW and received a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1984.

King's career in academia began in 1984, when he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. He joined the faculty of Harvard's Department of Government in 1987 and has taught there since. To date, he has authored or coauthored seven books (six published and one forthcoming) and nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters.

22．John Franklin Enders University Professor
Mark W. Kirschner，生物学家

Marc W. Kirschner, Ph.D. is founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology. He and John Gerhart are co-authors of Cells, Embryos, and Evolution (Blackwell, 1997) and their newly published book, The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin¹s Dilemma (Yale University Press, 2005). Dr. Kirschner was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London and as a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea in 1999. He was the 2001 recipient of the William C. Rose Award, presented by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Later that year, he received a 2001 International Award by the Gairdner Foundation of Toronto. He was awarded the Rabbi Shai Shacknai Lectureship Prize for 2003 at the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In December 2003, Kirschner received the E.B. Wilson Medal, the American Society of Cell Biology¹s highest scientific honor named for an early 20th century pioneer of American biology who advocated the chromosomal theory of inheritance, is awarded by scientific peers to those who have made significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career. He received the Dickson Prize for Science from Carnegie Mellon University for his outstanding contributions to science in 2004. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and as President of the American Society for Cell Biology. Dr. Kirschner¹s laboratory investigates three broad, diverse areas: regulation of the cell cycle, the role of cytoskeleton in cell morphogenesis, and mechanisms of establishing the basic vertebrate body plan.

In 1993, Dr. Kirschner arrived at Harvard Medical School from the University of California, San Francisco, where he had served on the faculty as Professor for fifteen years. Dr. Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. Following postdoctoral research at Berkeley and at the University of Oxford, he was appointed an Assistant Professor at Princeton University in 1972.