Newton, Massachusetts has been the home of many notable people. == Academics == Daron Acemoglu, economist and professor of economics at MIT Frederick M. Ausubel, molecular biologist, professor at Harvard Medical School David Berson, neurobiologist, professor at Brown University Jean Briggs, anthropologist and expert on Inuit languages, raised in Newton J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist and archaeologist Stanley Fischer, former governor of the Bank of Israel, former professor at the MIT Department …