- Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as president of Princeton University then became the reform governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. - Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective. In addition, he holds an atheistic view of the world. - Amy Gutmann
Amy Gutmann (1949 -), Ph.D., is the 8th President of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a political theorist who taught at Princeton University from 1976 to 2004 and served as its Provost. Upon succeeding former University of Pennsylvania president Judith Rodin, Gutmann became the first female president to succeed a female president of an Ivy League university. In her inaugural address, she launched the Penn Compact, … - John Milnor
John Willard Milnor (b. February 20, 1931 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, and for his influential books, which are widely considered to be examples of fine mathematical writing. He won the Fields Medal in 1962. As of 2005, John Milnor is a distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His wife, Dusa McDuff, is also a professor at Stony Brook. - Andrew Wiles
Andrew Wiles , Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, has been named one of 23 winners of 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. Wiles's fellowship provides $275,000 over five years. A member of the faculty since 1982, Wiles created an international sensation in 1994 when he published a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, solving a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for 350 years. - Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (born March 5, 1934 in Tel Aviv), is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his pioneering work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory. Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Israel in 1946. He received his B.Sc. - Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and current Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Slaughter received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1980, her M.Phil. in International Affairs from Oxford University in 1982, her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985, … - Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialog, and richly detailed African American characters; among the best known are her novels "The Bluest Eye", "Song of Solomon", and "Beloved", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. - Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer was German foreign minister and Vice Chancellor in the government of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. He was a leading figure in the German Green Party and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on 22 November, 2005. - Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations. He was born in Moscow into a Jewish family (his parents were Turkish citizens) who moved shortly after that to Paris. He was educated there in engineering, but emigrated to the USA in 1905. He was badly injured in an industrial accident in 1907, losing both hands. - Cornel West
And he's been impressing people for quite a while. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in only three years in 1973, the Sacramento native launched himself headfirst into academia, earning his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1980, then teaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1987, he returned to Princeton as a professor of religion and head of the department of African-American studies. - Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, … - Hector García Garcia-Molina
Héctor García Molina is a Mexican computer scientist. He served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from January 2001 to December 2004 and is a member of Oracle Corporation's Board of Directors since October 2001. In 1999 he was laureated with the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award. - Brian Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought. He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. - Elias M. Stein
Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Born in Belgium, Stein graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1949 and received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1955, under the direction of Antoni Zygmund. He has been a professor at Princeton since 1963. His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), … - Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26 1911 - December 3 2004) was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century. In English, Chern pronounced his name "Churn," and this pronunciation is now universally accepted among English-speaking mathematicians and physicists. In Mandarin, however, his last name is pronounced "Chen". Chen is a common Chinese surname, and by choosing a non-standard transliteration, … - Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen (24 June 1880 in Decorah, Iowa - 10 August, 1960) was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905. - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London (where his Ghanaian father was a law student) but moved as an infant to Ghana, where he grew up. He was educated at Cambridge University in England, where he took both BA and PhD degrees in philosophy. His dissertation explored the foundations of probabilistic semantics; once revised, these arguments were published by Cambridge University Press as Assertion and Conditionals . - Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She is the author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers. - Yakov G. Sinai
Yakov G. Sinai, (1935-) is one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. He obtained numerous groundbreaking results in the theory of dynamical systems, in Mathematical Physics and in Probability theory. Especially his ingenious insights and pioneering works practically shaped the modern Metric Theory of Dynamical Systems (also often called after Kolmogorov the theory of Stochasticity of Dynamical Systems). - Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907 - 10 May 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory. - Robert F. Goheen
Robert Francis Goheen (born 1919, Vengurla, India) is an American academic, educated at The Lawrenceville School and graduating from Princeton University in 1940. He was an intelligence officer in the United States Army during World War II, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He returned to graduate school at Princeton after the war, earning an M.A. (1947) and Ph.D. (1948) in classics. - Charles Fefferman
Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is a renowned American mathematician at Princeton University. A child prodigy, Fefferman entered college by twelve and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. After receiving his bachelor's degrees in physics and mathematics at the age of 17 from the University of Maryland and a PhD in mathematics at 20 from Princeton University under Elias Stein, … - Robert Keohane
Robert O. Keohane (born 1941) is an American academic and international relations theorist. Keohane helped develop the neoliberal strand of international relations. He is currently a Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. - Albert W. Tucker
Albert William Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician, who made important contributions in topology, game theory and non-linear programming. Albert Tucker was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1928. In 1932, he completed his Ph.D. at the Princeton University under the supervision of Solomon Lefschetz, with the thesis "An Abstract Approach to Manifolds". In 1932–33 he was a National Research Fellow at Cambridge, … - Alonzo Church
Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the foundations of theoretical computer science. Born in Washington, DC, he received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1924, completing his Ph.D. there in 1927, under Oswald Veblen. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Göttingen, he taught at Princeton, 1929–1967, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1967–1990. - Andrei Okounkov
Andrei Okounkov is a mathematician who works on representation theory and its applications to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability theory and special functions. He received his doctorate at Moscow State University in 1995 under Alexander Kirillov. He has been a professor at Princeton University since 2002, and was previously an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. - Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the uranium fuel) and disproved the conservation of parity. Her nicknames to many scientists are “First Lady of Physics”, “Madame Curie of China” and also “Madame Wu”. She was killed by her second stroke at noon on February 16, 1997. - Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular". She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." - Elaine Pagels
Elaine Pagels, is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the gnostic gospels. - John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. He shared the 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (also called the Nobel Prize in Economics) with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. He is best known in popular culture as the subject of the Hollywood movie, "A Beautiful Mind", … - Alan Blinder
Alan Stuart Blinder (October 14, 1945 -) is an American economist, on the faculty of Princeton University, and was an adviser to John Kerry during the latter's 2004 presidential campaign. He graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton, graduating summa cum laude in 1967. - Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz (born 1951 in New York City) is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. Wilentz took his B.A. at Columbia University in 1972, before earning another B.A. at Oxford University on a Kellett Fellowship and his Ph.D. at Yale University. His historical scholarship has focused mainly on the early years of the American republic. - Elliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932 in Boston) is an eminent American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis. In particular, his scientific works pertain to: statistical mechanics (e.g., Bose gas sources), the quantum and classical many-body problem, the stability of matter, atomic structure, the theory of magnetism, and the Hubbard model. - Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944 in New York) is an electronic music or computer music composers, and has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day (see discography, below). A former student of George Perle, he is a currently professor of music composition at Princeton University, and in addition to his music is known as a pioneer in the development of computer music languages for algorithmic composition ("see" Real-Time Cmix). - Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and New College, Oxford (DPhil). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz. - Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff (b. 22 March 1953) is currently Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. - Elizabeth Gould
Elizabeth Gould is professor of psychology at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in 1988 at UCLA. She was one of the first to find evidence of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. She has found evidence of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus and olfactory bulb of rats, marmosets and macaque monkeys. In her early studies, she laid the groundwork for understanding the relationship between stress and adult neurogenesis. - Sheldon Hackney
Sheldon Francis Hackney (born 1933) is a prominent U.S. educator. He is the Boies Professor of United States History at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as the provost of Princeton University from 1972 to 1975, the president of Tulane University from 1975 to 1980, and the president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1993. He was also the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from 1993 to 1997, … - Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. His research interests span algebraic number theory, combinatorics, and representation theory. He graduated from Harvard University in 1996 and received his doctorate from Princeton in 2001, working under Andrew Wiles. His breakthrough Ph.D. thesis surprised the mathematical community by generalizing the classical Gauss composition law for quadratic forms to many other situations.
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