- 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. - John von Neumann
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), … - 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. - Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801) was an American theologian and linguist. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he was the second son of Jonathan Edwards, the elder. He graduated from Princeton in 1765, then studied theology under Joseph Bellamy, of Bethlehem, Conn. He was tutor in Princeton (1767-69), and pastor in White Haven, Connecticut (1769 -95). After serving as pastor in Colebrook, Connecticut (1795 - 99), he went to Schenectady, … - Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is regarded as a founding figure in postcolonial theory. - Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is the junior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior to joining the Supreme Court. - 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. - Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is the Governor of New Jersey. He was sworn into office on January 17, 2006, for a four-year term ending in 2010. He represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2001 until 2006, when he stepped down to take his seat as Governor. Prior to his political career, Corzine was Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. He resides at Drumthwacket, the New Jersey Governor's official residence in Princeton, … - Robert Smith
Robert Smith (November 3, 1757 - November 26, 1842) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811. He was the brother of Senator Samuel Smith. Smith was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental Army and participated in the Battle of Brandywine. He graduated from Princeton in 1781 and began to practice law in Maryland. - Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis (October 16, 1754 - April 7, 1844) was an American lawyer, politician and military commander. Of Welsh descent, he was the son of Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) in 1773 and began to study law on the advice of his father. His studies were interrupted by military service during the Revolutionary War, and ultimately he became Quartermaster General for New York. - Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University's 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president. Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. - Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol holds a three-year appointment, effective February 3, 2006, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University as a senior advisor in the social sciences. Skocpol’s research focuses on US politics in historical and comparative perspective. She has studied the development of US social policies and, most recently, changing patterns of voluntary group activity and civic engagement in American democracy. - Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Nozick, schooled at Columbia, Oxford and Princeton, was a prominent American political philosopher in the 1970s and 1980s. He did additional but less influential work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" (1974) was a libertarian answer to John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice", published in 1971. - Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney (born August 7, 1972) is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond. Prior to taking the helm of the Spiders basketball program, he was the head coach at Air Force. In his only year there, he led the Falcons to their second best record in school history (18-12). He played college basketball at Princeton. As a four year starter at Princeton, he ranks 20th on the schools all-time leading scoring list with 1,071 points, … - George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers. In the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, … - 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 . - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. A former research student of Andrew Wiles, he returned to Princeton to help his advisor complete the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Taylor received the 2007 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his work on the Langlands program with Robert Langlands. - William Bradford
William Bradford (1719 - September 25, 1791) was a printer, soldier, and leader during the American Revolution from Philadelphia. He was born in New York City in 1719, and was the grandson of the printer William Bradford. He was apprenticed to (and later a partner of) his uncle Andrew Bradford in Philadelphia. This relationship ended in 1741. He visited England that year, returning in 1742 with equipment to open his own printing firm as well as a library. - Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich and then Princeton, he is closely identified with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski. His research has had major significance for theoretical physics as well as pure disciplines including number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, … - Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory. He is a widely known popularizer of science, the host of two radio programs, and the author of numerous books. - Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania) is the current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his four-year term on January 10, 2005. - Michael Green
Michael Boris Green (born 22 May 1946) is a physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory. After many years in collaboration with John H. Schwarz, they discovered the anomaly cancellation in type I string theory in 1984. This insight initiated the First Superstring Revolution. He has also worked on Dirichlet boundary conditions in string theory which led to the discovery of D-branes. He is a professor of Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in England. - Walter Raleigh
Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (September 5, 1861 - May 13, 1922) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author. Raleigh was educated at the City of London School, Edinburgh Academy, University College London, and King's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh (1885-87), Professor of Modern Literature at the University College Liverpool (1890-1900), … - Luther Martin
Luther Martin (February 9, 1748-July 8, 1826) was a politician and one of United States' Founding Fathers, but refused to sign the Constitution because he felt it violated states' rights. Like many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Luther Martin attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), from which he graduated at the head of a class of 35 in 1766. Though born in Metuchen, New Jersey, in 1748, … - James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for "Battle Cry of Freedom", his most famous book. He was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003, and is a member of the editorial board of "Encyclopædia Britannica". Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, … - Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as the author of numerous screenplays, dramas, and short stories; however, Fuentes is best known for his novels, which use complex and innovative narrative techniques to probe Mexican history. Born in 1928 in Panama City, the son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes was raised in Washington, D.C. Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. - Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. (June 26, 1914 - March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1931, received his BA from Yale University in 1935, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, where he was advised by Henry Norris Russell. He is one of the key figures of 20th century physics, who helped lay down the fundamentals of the physics of plasmas and the astrophysics of the interstellar medium. - Saul Kripke
Professor Saul Kripke (Philosophy), who had been a visiting professor at The Graduate Center since Spring 2002, now joins the faculty as a Professor of Philosophy. He is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. While a high school student in Nebraska, he wrote a series of papers that transformed modal logic and remain canonical works in the field. - Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioural Economics at Duke University and a visiting Professor at MIT's Media Lab. He is an expert on how people actually act (irrationally)-and why they act-in all kinds of business and economic environments, and what this means for business innovation, strategy and marketing. Ariely is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Predictably Irrational . Few heavy thinkers are as funny or as engaging as he is. - Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis (born November 8, 1928) is an Canadian and American historian of early modern Europe. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened. For example, "Trickster's Travels" (2006) views Italy, Spain, Morocco and the rest of North Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. Born in Detroit, Davis graduated from Cranbrook Kingswood School and was subsequently educated at Smith College, Radcliffe College, … - Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist who received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational complexity. He was educated at Technion and Princeton. He is a currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. - Walter F. Murphy
Walter F. Murphy is a 20th century American political scientist and writer. He won a Distinguished Service Cross for his service as a Marine in Korea, eventually retiring with the rank of Colonel. He held the chair of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. In addition to non-fiction works on political science, he has written three popular novels, "Vicar of Christ", "The Roman Enigma", and "Upon This Rock". - Maria Klawe
Dr. Maria Klawe became fifth president of Harvey Mudd College in July, 2006. Prior to joining HMC, Maria served as Dean of Engineering and a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and in several positions at the University of British Columbia including Dean of Science, Vice-President of Student and Academic Services, and Head of Computer Science. Maria has also worked at IBM Research in California, and at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. and B.Sc. - Oliver O'Donovan
Oliver O'Donovan (b. 1945) FBA is a foremost scholar in the field of Christian ethics and is considered one of the most prominent working theologians in the world. He has made large contributions to political theology, both contemporary and historical. O'Donovan is currently the Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the School of Divinity, New College, University of Edinburgh, … - Lemon
Lemon (Real name Andrew Anderson) (1975-) (official website: www.lemonshood.com) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Lemon is a critically acclaimed poet, spokenword artist, and actor. As a poet he has the most aired episodes on HBO's Def Poetry, eight times in six seasons, and was an original cast member of the TONY Award winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. - Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley (born July 31, 1987) is an American soccer player, who currently plays as a midfielder for SC Heerenveen of the Dutch Eredivisie. Bradley was born in Princeton, New Jersey. With his father, Bob Bradley, in charge of the Chicago Fire, Bradley lived in Palatine, Illinois as a teenager. He then moved to the Bradenton Academy, the United States's dedicated facility in Florida for the training of its Under-17 national team for four semesters, … - Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett F.B.A., D. Litt, (born 1925) is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and metaphysics. He also devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count, and has written scholarly works on tarot. - Alan Ryan
Alan James Ryan FBA is Warden of New College, Oxford, and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was born 9 May 1940, and was educated at Christ's Hospital, Balliol College, Oxford, and University College, London. Elected a fellow of New College in 1969, he returned in 1996 to take up the Wardenship. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1986. Ryan is a recognised authority on the work of John Stuart Mill, … - Dan Trueman
Dan Trueman is a composer, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theory at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and composition at Princeton University. He taught composition at Columbia, Colgate, and since 2002, at Princeton. - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning American country/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist with a diverse musical style.
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