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The professorships are named for and funded by an approximately $10 million endowment left by John William Sterling of the Yale Class of 1864. The first Sterling Professor was the chemist John Johnson, who was awarded the rank in 1920. Other past recipients include Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (Law), Wilbur Lucius Cross (English), Jaroslav Pelikan (history), Bank Of Sweden Prize winner James Tobin (Economics), and C. Vann Woodward (History). Among the most famous current Sterling Professors are legal scholar Bruce Ackerman , Nobel Prize -winning chemist Sidney Altman , literary critic Harold Bloom , economist William Nordhaus , political scientist James C. Scott , Chinese historian Jonathan Spence , medieval scholar María Rosa Menocal and Head Start founder Edward Zigler . Current Sterling Professors Emeriti include political scientists Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Brion Davis , mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot , historian and former Yale President Howard Lamar and architectural historian Vincent Scully . Yale recently awarded Sterling Professorships to María Rosa Menocal , John C. Tully , Thomas D. Pollard , and Dieter Söll . CURRENT STERLING PROFESSORS
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