Editing Texas A&M University (section)

===Notable faculty===

Notable Texas A&M faculty include eight [[Nobel Prize]] laureates; among them are [[Derek Barton]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://science.tamu.edu/news/1998/03/sir-derek-barton-dies-from-heart-attack/|title=Sir Derek Barton Dies From Heart Attack|access-date=December 3, 2021|date=March 17, 1998|publisher=Texas A&M University Office of University Relations}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9781860943089_fmatter|doi=10.1142/9781860943089_fmatter|chapter=Front Matter|title=The Bartonian Legacy|year=2000|pages=i-xi|publisher=Published by Imperial College Press and Distributed by World Scientific Publishing Co. |isbn=978-1-86094-246-4}}</ref> [[Sheldon Glashow]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/glashow-autobio.html |title=Sheldon Glashow |access-date=June 6, 2007|publisher=[[The Nobel Foundation]]}}</ref> [[Robert H. Grubbs]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2012/05/17/nobel-prize-winner-to-join-texas-am-university-at-qatar-faculty/ |title=Nobel Prize Winner To Join Texas A&M University at Qatar Faculty |access-date=May 23, 2012 |publisher=tamuTimes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210231258/http://tamutimes.tamu.edu/2012/05/17/nobel-prize-winner-to-join-texas-am-university-at-qatar-faculty/ |archive-date=February 10, 2014 }}</ref> [[Dudley R. Herschbach]],<ref name=dudref>{{cite news|url=https://theeagle.com/news/local/annual-physics-and-engineering-festival-set-for-april-8-9/article_eaf1ba05-b18b-5688-96f9-46397ebce355.html|last=Kuhlmann|first=Steve|date=April 6, 2016|title=Annual Physics and Engineering festival set for April 8–9|access-date=December 21, 2021|newspaper=[[The Bryan-College Station Eagle]]}}</ref> [[Jack Kilby]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2000/kilby-autobio.html |title=Jack S. Kilby |access-date=June 6, 2007|publisher=[[The Nobel Foundation]]}}</ref> [[David Lee (physicist)|David Lee]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.science.tamu.edu/articles/684/ |title=Nobel Prize Winner to Join Texas A&M Physics Faculty |access-date=May 26, 2011 |publisher=Texas A&M University College of Science |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100307181030/http://www.science.tamu.edu/articles/684 |archive-date=March 7, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/lee.html |title=David M. Lee |access-date=May 26, 2011 |publisher=[[The Nobel Foundation]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703021738/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/lee.html |archive-date=July 3, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Vernon L. Smith]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tias.tamu.edu/facultyfellows/2012-2013/smith |title=Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Fellows – Vernon Smith |access-date=November 8, 2012 |publisher=[[Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810220308/http://tias.tamu.edu/facultyfellows/2012-2013/smith |archive-date=August 10, 2014 }}</ref> In addition, [[Norman Borlaug]], a [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate, is one of only five people to have won both the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] and the [[Congressional Gold Medal]].<ref name="TAMU-formerstudent">{{cite web|url=http://vpr.tamu.edu/prospectus/formerstudent.html |title=Former Student Achievements |access-date=January 8, 2022<!--accessed via wayback machine-->|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223033019/http://vpr.tamu.edu/prospectus/formerstudent.html |archive-date=February 23, 2007 }}</ref> U.S. Senator [[Phil Gramm]] taught economics at the university,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://newsarchives.tamu.edu/stories/00/100200-7.html|title=Texas A&M Announces Phil Gramm Award|access-date=June 6, 2007|publisher=Texas A&M University Office of University Relations|date=October 2, 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070619080344/http://newsarchives.tamu.edu/stories/00/100200-7.html|archive-date=June 19, 2007}}</ref> [[C++]] computer language creator [[Bjarne Stroustrup]] taught computer science,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bio.html|title=Some Information about Bjarne Stroustrup|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701083013/http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bio.html|archive-date=1 July 2007|access-date=27 June 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cse.tamu.edu/people/faculty|title=Faculty – People – Computer Science & Engineering – College of Engineering|last=Communications|first=Texas A&M Engineering|date=8 September 2015|website=Cse.tamu.edu|access-date=9 June 2016|archive-date=12 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212155837/http://www.cse.tamu.edu/people/faculty|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Pulitzer Prize]] recipient [[Charles Gordone]] also taught at Texas A&M.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/101104gordone.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070927234434/http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/101104gordone.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |title=Honoring a life's work realized |access-date=June 6, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Bryan-College Station Eagle]] |date=October 10, 2004 }}</ref> Aviation pioneer [[Fred Weick]] did much of his post-war research at Texas A&M.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/findaids/pdf/Weick_Acc_XXXX-0425.pdf|title=Fred E. Weick Autobiographical Transcripts|access-date=June 17, 2007|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612001955/http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/findaids/pdf/Weick_Acc_XXXX-0425.pdf|archive-date=June 12, 2007}}</ref> [[Robert Gates]] served as [[List of Texas A&M University presidents|president of the university]] between leaving his post as [[Director of Central Intelligence]] and his appointment as the 22nd [[United States Secretary of Defense]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tresaugue|first=Matthew|date=November 8, 2006|title=Gates' departure stuns Texas A&M community|work=[[Houston Chronicle]]|url=https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Gates-departure-stuns-Texas-A-M-community-1492985.php|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref> [[John E. Sloan]], US Army major general, was assigned to Texas A&M as professor of military science and tactics.<ref name="Brown">{{cite book |last=Brown |first=John Sloan |date=1986 |title=Draftee Division: The 88th Infantry Division in World War II |url=https://88thinfantrydivisionarchive.com/88th-infantrydivision/drafteedivision-254pgs.pdf |location=Lexington, Kentucky |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |pages=22–23 |isbn=978-0-8131-5152-6}}</ref>