List of NYU Courant Institute people

Directors

 * Richard Courant (1935–1958)
 * James J. Stoker (1958–1966)
 * Kurt O. Friedrichs (1966–1967)
 * Jürgen Moser (1967–1970)
 * Louis Nirenberg (1970–1972)
 * Peter Lax (1972–1980)
 * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1980–1984)
 * Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1984–1988)
 * Henry McKean (1988–1994)
 * David W. McLaughlin (1994–2002)
 * Charles M. Newman (2002–2006)
 * Leslie Greengard (2006–2011)
 * Gerard Ben Arous (2011–present)

Notable Courant faculty
This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:


 * Gérard Ben Arous, Davidson Prize
 * Marsha Berger, NASA Software of the Year, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
 * Fedor Bogomolov
 * Richard Bonneau
 * Luis Caffarelli, Wolf Prize
 * Sylvain Cappell, Guggenheim Fellowship
 * Sourav Chatterjee, Davidson Prize
 * Jeff Cheeger, Veblen Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Max Planck Research Prize
 * Steven Childress, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellow
 * Demetrios Christodoulou, 1993 MacArthur Fellow
 * Richard J. Cole, Guggenheim Fellowship
 * Martin Davis, Steele Prize
 * Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1976 National Medal of Science
 * Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
 * Mikhail Gromov, 2009 Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Steele Prize, Kyoto Prize, Balzan Prize,
 * Larry Guth
 * Helmut Hofer, Ostrowski Prize, National Academy of Sciences
 * Fritz John, 1984 MacArthur Fellow
 * Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
 * Michel Kervaire
 * Subhash Khot, 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award
 * Morris Kline
 * Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
 * Lin Fanghua, Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Wilhelm Magnus
 * Andrew Majda, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Prize (SIAM)
 * Henry McKean, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * David W. McLaughlin, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Bud Mishra, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
 * Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1998 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Birkhoff Prize, Noether Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Jürgen Moser, Wolf Prize, James Craig Watson Medal
 * Assaf Naor, European Mathematical Society Prize, Packard Fellowship, Salem Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Blavatnik Award
 * Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Laxmi Parida, IBM Master Inventor and ISCB Fellow
 * Charles S. Peskin, 1983 MacArthur Fellow, Birkhoff Prize, National Medal of Science
 * Amir Pnueli, National Academy of Engineering, Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
 * Peter Sarnak
 * Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU
 * Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award (APS)
 * Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
 * Jonathan Sondow
 * Joel Spencer
 * K. R. Sreenivasan
 * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science
 * Daniel Stein, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * Demetri Terzopoulos, Guggenheim Fellow, IEEE and ACM Fellow, Academy Award for Technical Achievement, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
 * Akshay Venkatesh, Salem Prize, Packard Fellowship
 * Olof B. Widlund
 * Margaret H. Wright, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering
 * Lai-Sang Young, Satter Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Science
 * Theodore Rappaport, founder of NYU Wireless, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Notable Courant alumni
This is a small selection of Courant's alumni:


 * Anjelina Belakovskaia (Masters in Finance 2001), U.S. Women's Chess Champion
 * Anita Borg (PhD 1981), founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
 * Ivan Corwin (PhD 2011), professor at Columbia University
 * Charles Epstein (PhD 1983), hyperbolic geometry
 * Corwin Hansch (PhD 1944), statistics
 * Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
 * Barbara Keyfitz (PhD 1970), Director of the Fields Institute
 * Sergiu Klainerman (PhD 1978), Professor at Princeton
 * Morris Kline (PhD 1936), NYU professor (1938–1975)
 * David Korn (PhD 1969), creator of the KornShell
 * Martin Kruskal (PhD 1952), National Medal of Science, co-discoverer of solitons and the inverse scattering method for solving KdV
 * Peter Lax (PhD 1949), recipient of the Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
 * Chen Li-an (PhD 1968), Taiwanese Minister of Defence
 * Louis Nirenberg (PhD 1949), Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science, Chern Medal
 * Brian J. McCartin (PhD 1981), 2010 Chauvenet Prize
 * Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMS, professor emeritus at Courant Institute
 * Stanley Osher (PhD 1966), Level Set method, professor at University of California, Los Angeles
 * George C. Papanicolaou (PhD 1969), professor at Stanford University
 * Susan Mary Puglia (BA in Computer Science and Math), Vice President at IBM
 * Gary Robinson, software engineer noted for anti-spam algorithms
 * Shmuel Weinberger (PhD 1982), topology and geometry; Professor at University of Chicago
 * Jacob Wolfowitz (PhD 1942)
 * Wojciech Zaremba (PhD 2016), co-founder of OpenAI