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This is a list of notable faculty members and alumni of Boston University. Legend The following abbreviations and notes are used to represent BU schools and colleges: Academy Awards Pulitzer Prize winners Academia Mercy B. Jackson (MED 1860), physician, one of the first women to receive an MD, or Doctor of Medicine degree, in the United States Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED 1864), first African American woman in the United States to receive an MD, or Doctor of Medicine degree, one of first female physician authors in the 19th century Anna Oliver (STH 1876) – first woman in the United States to receive a degree in theology Helen Magill White (GRS 1877) – first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. Takeo Kikuchi (LAW 1877) – one of first Japanese to study law in the U.S., founder and president of Tokyo's Chuo University Charles Wesley Emerson (School of Oratory, 1877) – founder of Emerson College Marion Talbot (CAS 1880) – influential leader in the early 20th century higher education of women, fought against efforts to restrict equal access to educational opportunities as Dean of Women at the University of Chicago (1895–1925), co-founded the American Association of University Women with her mentor Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to MIT Nathan Abbott (LAW 1881) – founder of Stanford Law School and its first Dean Lelia Robinson Sawtelle (LAW 1881) – first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts Solon Irving Bailey (CAS 1881, GRS 1884) – astronomer, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1892 John Calvin Ferguson (CAS 1883) – art historian, influential in early 20th century education in China, founder of Nanking University, National Chiao Tung University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University in China Samuel G. Plantz (STH 1883) – President of Lawrence College Louisa Holman Richardson (CAS 1883) – Dean of Women at Ohio Wesleyan University John W. Bowen (STH 1885, STH 1887) – influential in early civil rights movement, creator of The Voice of the Negro and the first accredited black high school in St. Louis, second person of African descent, and the first person born a slave, to earn a doctorate in the U.S. James Geddes (CAS 1887) – linguist, spearheaded linguistic movement to create a universal alphabet for dictionaries of numerous languages, the precursor to the phonetic alphabet Charles Eastman (MED 1890) – physician, one of the first Native Americans to receive an MD in the U.S., prolific author and speaker on Sioux ethnohistory and Native American affairs Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch (CAS 1890) – pioneering urban planner and social worker, founder of Greenwich House Cora Smith Eaton (MED 1892) – suffragist, physician and mountaineer, first woman licensed to practice medicine in North Dakota Solomon Carter Fuller (MED 1897) – discovered Alzheimer's disease through observations of neurofibrillary tangles and miliary plaques, publishing the first comprehensive review of the disease, noted as the first Black psychiatrist in the United States Percy Jewett Burrel (School of Oratory, 1898) – creator of pageantry in the United States Gleason Archer, Sr. (CAS 1904, LAW 1906) – founder of Suffolk University and Suffolk University Law School Leonard Porter Ayres (GRS '10) – statistician, best-known work dealt with comprehensive statistical studies of American casualties in the first and second world wars Shields Warren (CAS '18) – pathologist, helped establish field of radiobiology, first to study the pathology of radioactive fallout, discovered that susceptibility to cancer varied from person to person, mentored Eleanor Josephine Macdonald Priscilla Fairfield Bok (CAS '18) – astronomer, author, director of Steward Observatory in Arizona, published a textbook "The Milky Way", coining the popular term 'milky way' David Helvarg (CAS '25) – founded the field of pediatric cardiology, known for her work in banning thalidomide, first woman and first pediatrician to be elected head of the American Heart Association, awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) Myrtle Bachelder (SED '39) – chemist noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, contributions to the purification of the rare elements and to astrochemistry, for her analysis of Moon rocks collected during the Apollo missions Fe Del Mundo (MED '40) – National Scientist of the Philippines and recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Nobel Prize of Asia, founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and is known for shaping the modern child healthcare system in the Philippines Samuel L. Myers Sr. (GRS '42) – economist, former university president, education adviser and civil rights advocate Esther A. H. Hopkins (CAS '47) – chemist, biophysicist, first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from Yale University, attorney for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection H. C. Robbins Landon (CFA '47) – musicologist, journalist, historian, BBC broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering neglected music by Haydn, correcting misunderstandings about Mozart Eldon Hall (GRS '47) – computer scientist, leader of hardware design efforts for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Apollo program Georgiana Jagiello (CAS '49) – physician, known for perfecting the technique for in vitro fertilization, first woman appointed to an endowed chair at Columbia University Medical School, first woman appointed to the Institute of Advanced Study at the UIUC Rollin Williams (SSW '49) – first African-American professor at the University of Connecticut Elma Lewis (SED '50) – one of the first women to receive a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founder of The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and National Center of Afro-American Artists, awarded National Medal of Arts by President Reagan Ray Hyman (CAS '50) – one of the founders of the modern skeptical movement, noted critic of parapsychology, research on Hick's Law Gertrude Hunter (MED '50) – doctor and professor of medicine, national director of health services Nathan Azrin (CAS '51, GRS '52) – psychologist, founder of Token Economics and the CRAFT model Raymond Coppinger (CAS '59) – biologist, expert in canine behavior and the origin of the domestic dog, professor at Hampshire College Alan L. Gropman (CAS '59) – professor of history and grand strategy, author and lecturer, National Defense University Jean Briggs (GRS '60) – anthropologist, American expert on Inuit languages, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Anthropological Association, a Royal Society of Canada fellow William E. Doll Jr. (GRS '60) – educator, curriculum theorist, Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Educational Research Association, among first group of scholars to introduce complexity thinking to education in the 1980s Hugo Bedau (GRS '61) .... Discover the Jenn Mckinlay popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jenn Mckinlay books.