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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President of Princeton University
Office of the President
As Princeton's 20th president, he has been a steady, principled voice for the value of research and liberal education, and we are grateful for that stewardship.
Provost; Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science
Office of the Provost
A world-class networks researcher now leading Princeton's academic life as provost, she shows how deep technical craft and generous service can live in one person.
Dean of the Faculty; William S. Tod Professor of English
Office of the Dean of the Faculty
A Princeton graduate who returned to lead its faculty, and whose award-winning life of Paul Laurence Dunbar reminds us that careful scholarship is its own act of gratitude.
Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Her work listening carefully to the Arab world, and her leadership of SPIA, model a politics grounded in real people's voices.
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science; Anthony H. P. Lee '79 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
A Princeton valedictorian turned quantum-computing leader, now guiding the whole engineering school, he carries the field's future with real humility.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
A Turing Award pioneer whose algorithms and data structures quietly power the software the world runs on every day, and whom we are grateful to learn from.
Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
His PCP theorem reshaped complexity theory, and now he leads Princeton Language and Intelligence, working to understand why modern AI actually works.
Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
His Nobel-winning insight into topological phases opened whole new landscapes in physics, and he has taught at Princeton with that curiosity since 1991.
Robert Gunning-Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
A Fields Medalist who finds beauty and even music in number theory, and shares that joy with students as one of the world's great mathematicians.
Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
A former child prodigy and Fields Medalist whose lifelong work in analysis continues to shape the field, taught here with quiet generosity.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
A steelworker's son from Scotland who won the Nobel Prize for greener ways to build molecules, and who wears that achievement with warmth.
Andrew K. Golden University Professor; Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
She discovered how bacteria talk to one another, and teaches with a contagious delight that has made her one of science's great communicators.
Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
She reads the oldest light in the universe through the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Simons Observatory, and makes the cosmos feel close in her teaching and writing.
Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus
Department of Physics
A gentle giant of cosmology who spent his whole career at Princeton mapping the young universe, still teaching and writing long after his Nobel Prize.
Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, Emeritus
Department of Molecular Biology
His Nobel-winning work on how a fruit fly embryo patterns itself helped reveal the genetics of life's beginnings, and he still studies it with wonder.
President of Princeton University, Emerita; Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, Emerita
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton's first woman president and a pioneering geneticist, she widened access and returned to the lab bench, leading by example on every front.
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics; Director of the Bendheim Center for Finance
Department of Economics
His study of bubbles, liquidity, and systemic risk helps the world see financial crises coming, and he shares that thinking generously through Princeton's finance center.
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director of the James Madison Program
Department of Politics
A serious scholar of jurisprudence who champions vigorous, civil debate, and who has taught constitutional thought at Princeton since 1985.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus
Economics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
A Nobel laureate whose careful measurement of consumption, poverty, and wellbeing keeps human welfare at the center of economics.
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus
Economics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
She pioneered the economics of child development and health, showing with hard evidence how early life shapes a whole future.
George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History
Department of History
A Bancroft Prize historian of American democracy who has taught at Princeton since 1979, writing our national story with rigor and heart.
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus
University Center for Human Values
For twenty-five years he pressed students to take ethics seriously in everyday choices, and few living philosophers have moved more people to act.
Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Emeritus
Department of History
After fifty years on the faculty, his histories of books, readers, and even the footnote remind us that scholarship itself has a human story.
Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities, Emerita; Professor of Creative Writing, Emeritus
Program in Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts
For thirty-six years she taught young writers at Princeton, and her own tireless, fearless work has shaped generations of American storytelling.
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