List of Princeton University people
This is a table of notable people affiliated with Princeton University , including graduates, former students, and former professors. Some noted current faculty are also listed in the main University article. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category.
Elected politicians
Government / Law / Public policy
Business
Economics
Mathematics/Science
John Bardeen Ph.D 1936 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1956 and 1972 )
Manjul Bhargava Ph.D 2001 - Mathematician, professor at Princeton University
George Boolos , A.B. 1961 - Philosopher/logician, professor at MIT
Eugenio Calabi Ph.D 1950 - Mathematician, professor at University of Pennsylvania
Arthur Compton Ph.D 1916 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1927 )
Clinton Davisson Ph.D 1911 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1937 )
Charles Fefferman Ph.D 1969 - Mathematician, professor at Princeton University , winner of the (Fields Medal 1978 )
Richard Feynman Ph.D 1942 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1965 )
Michael Freedman Ph.D 1973 - Mathematician, professor at University of California at San Diego, winner of the (Fields Medal 1986 )
Phillip A. Griffiths Ph.D 1962 - Mathematician, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton; and the secretary of the International Mathematical Union
Robert Hofstadter Ph.D 1938 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1961 )
Nathan Jacobson Ph.D 1934 - Mathematician, professor at Yale University
Serge Lang Ph.D 1951 - Mathematician, professor at Yale University
George Lusztig Ph.D 1971 - Mathematician, professor at MIT
Juan Maldacena Ph.D 1996 - Physicist, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton
Barry Mazur Ph.D 1959 - Mathematician, professor at Harvard University
Edwin McMillan Ph.D 1933 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1951 )
John Milnor Ph.D 1954 - Mathematician, professor at SUNY-Stony Brook winner of the (Fields Medal 1962 )
John Nash , Ph.D 1950 - Nobel laureate (Economics 1994 )
Steven A. Orszag Ph.D 1966 - Applied mathematician, Percey F. Smith professor of Mathematics at Yale University
Gian-Carlo Rota , A.B. 1953 - Mathematician, professor at MIT
Richard Smalley Ph.D 1974 - Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1996 )
Norman Steenrod Ph.D 1936 - Mathematician, professor at Princeton University
Terence Tao Ph.D 1996 - Mathematician, professor at UCLA
John Tate Ph.D 1950 - Mathematician, professor at Harvard University and University of Texas
Richard Taylor Ph.D 1988 - Mathematician, involved in the completing the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem , professor at Harvard University
Kip Thorne Ph.D 1965 - Physicist, professor at Caltech
Cumrun Vafa Ph.D 1985 - Physicist at Harvard University
Steven Weinberg Ph.D 1957 - Nobel laureate (Physics 1979 )
John H. C. Whitehead Ph.D 1932 - Mathematician, professor at Oxford University
Arthur Wightman Ph.D 1949 - Physicist, professor at Princeton University
Frank Wilczek M.A. 1972 , Ph.D. 1974 - Nobel laureate (Physics 2004 )
Edward Witten Ph.D 1976 - Physicist, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, winner of the (Fields Medal 1990 )
Steven Zucker Ph.D 1974 - Mathematician, professor at Johns Hopkins University
Gregg J. Zuckerman Ph.D 1975 - Mathematician, professor at Yale University
Engineering/Technology
Hal Abelson , A.B. 1969 - directed implementation of the Logo programming language for the Apple II , Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Alonzo Church , A.B. 1924 , Ph.D.1927 - mathematician known for the Church-Turing thesis , developed the lambda calculus that exposed the "undecideability" problem and influenced the Lisp programming language
Charles "Pete" Conrad , B.S.E. 1953 - astronaut, third man to walk on the moon
Brian Kernighan Ph.D 1969 , electrical engineering. Professor, computer science. Co-inventor of the awk programming language , and co-author of the definitive textbook The C Programming Language .
Michael Stonebraker , S.B. 1965 - pioneer researcher in relational databases , founder of Ingres (acquired by Computer Associates ) and Illustra Information Technologies (acquired by Informix ) and initiator of PostgreSQL
Alan Turing Ph.D 1938 - pioneering computer scientist, formulated the Turing machine and the Turing test . The Turing award is named in his honor.
Robert Venturi A.B. 1947 , M.F.A. 1950 - architect, Pritzker Prize laureate 1991
Avi Wigderson Ph.D 1983 - theoretical computer scientist at the Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, Nevanlinna Prize laureate 1994
Literature
Sports
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