The Univeristy of Chicago has fostered groundbreaking study in the fields of atomic weaponry and neo liberal capitalism.

Notable faculty and alumni (including prominent fictional characters) include:
John Ashcroft, Harry Burns & Sally Albright, John Dewey, Roger Ebert, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Enrico Fermi, Milton Friedman, Philip Glass, Edwin Hubble, Henry “Indiana” Jones. Jr., Leopold & Loeb, Jack McCoy, Barack Obama, David Rockefeller, Philip Roth, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Antonin Scalia, Susan Sontag, Leo Strauss, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Wolfowitz