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In spring 2002, the faculty (including visitors and
part-time faculty) totaled 1,099, including 455 professors,
55 associate professors, 175 assistant professors, 12
instructors, 297 lecturers, and 107 visitors.
Seventy-five percent of the professorial faculty is
tenured. Excluding visitors, approximately 280 members of
the faculty are women, and 167 are identified as members of
minority groups. There were 89 tenured women on the faculty
in spring 2002.
Approximately half of Princeton's tenured faculty members
were promoted to tenure while at Princeton; the other half
were hired with tenure from other institutions.
All faculty members at Princeton are expected to teach as
well as engage in scholarly research. Faculty members work
most closely with undergraduates in the supervision of
junior-year independent work and senior theses.
A number of members of the Princeton faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize:
- Philip W. Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1977;
- Val L. Fitch, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics Emeritus, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1980;
- Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002;
- Chloe Anthony Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993;
- John F. Nash, senior research mathematician, won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economic sciences;
- Dean of the Faculty Joseph H. Taylor, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics, shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1993 with Russell A. Hulse, principal research physicist at the Plasma Physics Laboratory on Princeton's Forrestal campus;
- Daniel C. Tsui, Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, won the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics; and
- Eric F. Wieschaus, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, won the 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine.
Nineteen faculty members have been named MacArthur Fellows.
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