Princeton University

For other Princetons, see Princeton. Most of them are named after the University.

Notable Princeton professors

Professors who are also Princeton alumni are listed in italics:

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• Ben Bernanke - professor of economics and public affairs, member of the Federal Reserve Board
• Alan Blinder A.B. 1967 - professor of economics, Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Bill Clinton
• Richard Bott - A.B. in Chemical Engineering, current Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley
• John H. Conway - professor of mathematics
• Elizabeth Diller - architect, professor of architecture, winner of McArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant 1999-2004
• Charles Fefferman - professor of mathematics, Fields Medalist
• Robert P. George - professor of jurisprudence, constitutional law scholar
• Jan Gross - professor of history
• William Howarth - professor of English and environmental studies
• Brian Kernighan Ph.D. 1969 - professor of computer science, co-inventor of the C programming language, AWK, AMPL
• Yusef Komunyakaa - poet, professor in the Creative Writing Program (Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
• Saul Kripke - professor of philosophy, winner of the 2001 Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
• Paul Krugman - professor of economics, New York Times columnist, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
• Paul Lansky - composer, professor of music
• David K. Lewis - professor of philosophy
• Perry Link - professor of East Asian Studies
• John Nash Ph.D 1950 - professor emeritus of mathematics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1994)
• George A. Miller - professor emeritus of psychology, author of the article The Magical Number Seven
• Toni Morrison - professor in the Creative Writing Program, Nobel laureate (Literature 1993)
• Joyce Carol Oates - professor in the Creative Writing Program
• John McPhee A.B. 1953 - Humanities Council professor, 1999 Pulitzer Prize recipient
• Harold Shapiro Ph.D 1964 - professor of economics, president of Princeton until 2001
• Goro Shimura - professor emeritus of mathematics, fundamental contributions to number theory and automorphic forms, especially in Langlands program
• Yakov G. Sinai - professor of mathematics
• Peter Singer - professor of human values, expert on practical ethics
• Anne-Marie Slaughter A.B. 1980 - professor of politics and international affairs, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School, president of the American Society of International Law Involved in a controversy in 2003 when she defended artwork that desecrated Christian religious symbols as "educational" but said she would not allow work that desecrated other religions' symbols.
• Elias M. Stein - professor of mathematics, recipient of the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), the National Medal of Science (2002), and Stefan Bergman Prize (2005).
• Robert Tarjan - professor of computer science, inventor of many algorithms related to graph theory, winner of the 1986 Turing award, recipient of the 1982 Nevanlinna Prize
• Daniel Tsui - professor of applied physics and electrical engineering, Nobel laureate (Physics 1998)
• Cornel West Ph.D 1980 - professor of religion and African American studies
• Andrew Wiles - professor of mathematics, proved Fermat's last theorem, winner of the Schock Prize (1995), Royal Medal (1996), Cole Prize (1996), Wolf Prize (1996), King Faisal Prize (1998) and Shaw Prize (2005).
• Yu Ying-Shih - chair professor of history and East Asia Language and Civilization