PrincetonUniversity
A Princeton Profile, 2004-05
The Faculty
In spring 2004, the faculty (including visitors and part-time faculty) totaled 1,146, including 470 professors, 55 associate professors, 180 assistant professors, 12 instructors, 310 lecturers, and 119 visitors.
Seventy-five percent of the professorial faculty is tenured. Excluding visitors, approximately 281 members of the faculty are women, and 171 are identified as members of minority groups. There were 97 tenured women on the faculty in spring 2004.
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.
Nine 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;
• Chloe Anthony Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993;
• 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 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on Princeton's Forrestal campus;
• John F. Nash, senior research mathematician, won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economic sciences;
• Eric F. Wieschaus, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, won the 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine;
• Daniel C. Tsui, Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, won the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics; and
• Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of psychology and public affairs, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences.
Twenty faculty members have been named MacArthur Fellows.