<p>What are some famous people currently teaching at Princeton, other than Joyce Carl Oates and Toni Morrison?</p>
<p>John Conway!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if Andrew Wiles is still on sabbatical or what, but he proved Fermat’s Last Theorem</p>
<p>Jeffrey Eugenides is an English professor who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 book Middlesex… </p>
<p>On a side note, I feel like most of the Princeton professors are famous in varying degrees</p>
<p>Sunshine,
I listed as many famous faculty as I could in less than 5 minutes. A compressive list would take several hours and would leave out many outstanding young faculty. The definition of famous might depend on your field of study. In many ways your question is too open ended. I have excluded more famous faculty members than I have listed.
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; Emeritus
John F. Nash<em>50, 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, was a principal research physicist at the Plasma Physics Laboratory on Princeton’s Forrestal campus when he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1993.
Daniel C. Tsui, Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, won the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics; Emeritus
Eric F. Wieschaus, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, won the 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine.
Paul Krugman, Professor of Economic, won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2008
Eric S. Maskin, Visiting lecturer won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007. He is currently on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Mario Vargas Llosa, a visiting professor with the Program in Latin American Studies won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010
Christopher Sims, Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011.
Thomas Sargent, a visiting professor won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011.
Twenty faculty members have been named MacArthur Fellows. 72 faculty members are members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Alan Blinder 67 Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, on President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors of the Federal Reserve System from 1994 to 1996
Burton G. Malkiel *64 previously served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1975-1977), president of the American Finance Association (1978), and dean of the Yale School of Management (1981-1988).
Harvey S. Rosen was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors from 2003-2005, and he served as Chairman in 2005.
Josh Bolten '76 was George W. Bush’s Chief of Staff and formerly the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2003 to 2006.
Paul A. Volcker '49 Former Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan B. Krueger Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Assistant U.S. treasury secretary for economic policy and Chief Economist of the Treasury
Professor Elias M. Stein was awarded the National Medal of Science for his publications on harmonic analysis. He is also the winner of the Wolf Prize (1999), one of the highest awards in mathematics, and the Schock Prize, which is given by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Professor Charles Fefferman</em>69 won the Field Medal and the NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award for his work on mathematical analysis.
Professor Ingrid Daubechies has been named a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for her contributions to the theory of wavelets and computational harmonic analysis. In 1992 she won a McArthur Genius Fellowship.
Professor Sir Andrew John Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem which had been unsolved by mathematicians for 300 years.<br>
Professor Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov received the Field Medal for his contributions to bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry.</p>