List of NYU Courant Institute people

• 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)

This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:^[1]

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Theodore Rappaport, founder of NYU Wireless, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
• Peter Sarnak
• Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU
• Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award
• Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
• 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 FRS FRSC, 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