The following is a list of some notable people associated with the University of Colorado Boulder.
Nobel laureates faculty and staff
Thomas R. Cech, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1989
Stanley Cohen, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1986
Eric Allin Cornell, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2001
John L. Hall, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2005
Herbert Kroemer, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2000
Carl Wieman, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2001
Paul Komor, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007
David J. Wineland, Nobel laureate in Physics in 2012
Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006
Nobel laureates alumni
Sidney Altman, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1989
Craig Mello, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2006
Norman Ramsey, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1989
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011
Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 2020
Notable faculty and staff
Waleed Abdalati, scientist, Chief Scientist of NASA
Patricia A. Adler, professor emerita of sociology
Bernard Amadei, civil engineer, founder of Engineers Without Borders
Mark Amerika, artist and author
Fred Anderson, historian, author of The Crucible of War
Albert Allen Bartlett, physicist, popular writer on exponential growth in populations and energy resources Petr Beckmann, physicist, engineer Kenneth Boulding, economist Stan Brakhage, filmmaker Sara Branham Matthews, microbiologist Storm Bull, Professor Emeritus at the College of Music and Head of the Division of Piano Adolf Busemann, pioneering aerospace engineer Sarvadaman Chowla, mathematician Ward Churchill, former ethnic studies professor noted for inflammatory statements dealing with 9/11, dismissed from CU-Boulder 2007 Robert T. Craig, communication theorist and author of Communication Theory as a Field William Duane, physicist Max Mapes Ellis, explorer and physiologist Larry Esposito, discoverer of Saturn's fourth ring Charbel Farhat, Chairman of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stanford University George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist Alice F. Healy, psychologist Clayton Heathcock, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley Robert Hill, harpsichordist and fortepianist Linda Hogan, Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories Janet L. Jacobs, gender and religion sociologist Deborah S. Jin, physicist Daniel Kellogg, composer Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian and occasional New York Times columnist Morris Massey, Professor of Marketing, marketing innovator, and Fortune 500 consultant Margaret Murnane, physicist, pioneer of femto-second laser research; MacArthur fellow Carter Pann, composer Steven Pollock, physicist, U.S. Professor of the Year Hobart Muir Smith, most published herpetologist of all time; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Joseph R. Tanner, former astronaut John Taylor, physicist Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician James F. Williams, Dean of Libraries Muriel Sibell Wolle, artist and author James Voss, former astronaut Betty Woodman, ceramic artist George Woodman, ceramicist, painter, and photographer Melanie Yazzie, sculptor, painter, and printmaker Brad Goode, jazz trumpeter Phil Solomon, filmmaker, mentor