Cornell University

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The Cornell University has its main campus in Ithaca, New York (USA). It is, as well as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Past and present

It was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell University Cornell, a businessman and a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, and Andrew Dickson White, a noted scholar and politician. The 1865 formulated by Ezra Cornell motto of the university is "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study" ("I wanted to create an institution where any person can study any subject "); Short-form is found in the coat of arms of the university.

Today, more than 20,000 people study at the three main sites in Ithaca, New York City ( Medicine ) and Doha ( Qatar). Cornell is the numerically largest member of the Ivy League, and can point to today on 40 Nobel Prize winners among the students and faculty members. The University of cuts in various rankings as regularly in the top 15 in the world. The Cornell University is member of the Association of American Universities, an existing network of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.

In December 2011, plans for a large graduate school of the Technion and Cornell University were published at New York: On Roosevelt Iceland is with investment of 2 billion U.S. dollars on the previous site of the Goldwater Memorial Hospital, a new campus of New York City Tec arise. A private donor is involved.

Organization

Undergraduate Colleges and Schools

• Architecture, Art and Planning
• Hotel management
• Human Ecology
• Industrial and labor relations
• Engineering
• Arts and Sciences
• Agriculture and Life Sciences

Graduate Colleges and Schools

• Medicine ( Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City located )
• Medicine ( on campus in Qatar)
• Medical Sciences ( Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences )
• Law
• Veterinary medicine
• Economics ( SC Johnson Graduate School of Management )
• Graduate School
• School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Other Facilities

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library with the

Sports

The sports teams of Cornell Big Red, the Cornell University is a member of the Ivy League.

Famous people

• Hans Bethe, Nobel laureate in physics ( Bethe- Weizsäcker formula )
• Malcolm Bilson, Pianist
• Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, a civil engineer, architect and Suffragette
• Urie Bronfenbrenner, a developmental psychologist
• Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize winner for literature
• Edmund M. Clarke, computer scientist and Turing Award winners
• Harriet B. Creighton, Mitentdeckerin of crossing over in maize
• Henrique de Curitiba, the Polish- Brazilian composer
• Louis Dale, Basketball Player
• Tom DeMarco, well-known writer for Software Development
• Jörg Dräger, science Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Eugene Dynkin, mathematicians, the Dynkin diagrams developed for the classification of Lie algebras
• Richard Fariña, writers and musicians
• Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in physics
• Reginald Fils -Aime, president of Nintendo of America
• Michael E. Fisher, Physicist
• George Friedman, director of the Think Tank " Stratfor "
• Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Thomas Gold, astrophysicist
• Greg Graffin, lead singer of the band " Bad Religion "
• Otto Hahn, discoverer of nuclear fission and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Laurens Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ
• Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Nikola Holmes, ice hockey player
• Rafael Larco Hoyle, archaeologist
• Hu Shi, Chinese intellectuals
• Frank Hunter, tennis players
• Dakis Joannou, Cypriot industrialist and collector of contemporary art
• Rem Koolhaas, Architect
• Stephen D. Krasner, American political scientist
• Numan Kurtulmus, professor and politician
• Frederic C. Lane, economic historians in particular Venice
• Lee Teng- hui, former Taiwanese President
• Huey Lewis, rock musician
• Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize in Physiology; Mitentdeckerin of crossing over in maize, discoverer of the transposon
• Douglas McIlroy, computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers and programmers
• N. David Mermin, a physicist
• Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer
• Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winner for literature
• Vladimir Nabokov, writer, literary critic and butterfly researchers
• John Naisbitt, author, futurist
• Thomas Pynchon, writer
• Christopher Reeve, actor ( Superman, among others )
• Steve Reich, composer
• Irene Rosenfeld, CEO of Kraft Foods
• Matt Ruff, author
• Carl Sagan, astronomer, awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize
• Gerard Salton, computer and information scientists
• Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Philosophy ( 1886-1892 ). Later, U.S. Ambassador to Germany
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, theorist of post-colonialism
• Ratan Tata, managers and entrepreneurs
• William Thurston, mathematician, was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his ideas on the geometrization of three-dimensional manifolds
• Cody Töpper, Basketball Player
• Oswald Mathias Ungers, Architect
• Joseph Dommers Vehling, chef, author, translator, cook book historians and collectors
• Kurt Vonnegut, writer
• Duncan Watts, a sociologist
• Sanford I. Weill, chairman of Citibank
• Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Harvey D. Williams, lecturer, engineer and inventor
• Paul Wolfowitz, former President of the World Bank
• Georg Henrik von Wright, philosopher

Others

The Cornell University is the setting for the novel Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. In addition, the film The Sure Thing was filmed, among other things on the campus of Cornell University. The Cornell Plantations, a botanical garden, including Cornell University and situated on the territory of the Town of Ithaca.