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All types of affiliations, namely alumni and faculty members, count equally in the following table and throughout the whole page. [c]In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Princeton University (including emeritus staff).
James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution, fourth President of the United States, member of the Princeton Class of 1771, and Princeton's first graduate student.. This list of Princeton University people include notable alumni (graduates and attendees) or faculty members (professors of various ranks, researchers, and visiting lecturers or professors) affiliated with Princeton University.
The university invited a number of leading mathematics to conduct research at Princeton including Luther P. Eisenhart, Solomon Lefschetz, James W. Alexander II, James Jeans, J.H.M. Wedderburn, George David Birkhoff, Oswald Veblen. In 1928, Princeton created the first research professorship in mathematics in the United States.
Peter Robert Lamont Brown FBA (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian. He is the Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University.Brown is credited with having brought coherence to the field of Late Antiquity, and is often regarded as the inventor of said field.
The University of the Witwatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on Professor Peter Sarnak on 2 July 2014 for his distinguished contribution to the field of mathematics. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1990 in Kyoto [ 9 ] and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1998 in Berlin.
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) was a research program at Princeton University that studied parapsychology. [1] Established in 1979 by then Dean of Engineering Robert G. Jahn , PEAR conducted formal studies on two primary subject areas, psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing .
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, often called simply the James Madison Program (abbreviated JMP) or the Madison Program, is a scholarly institute within the Department of Politics at Princeton University espousing a dedication "to exploring enduring questions of American constitutional law and Western political thought."
Princeton University, founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, is a private Ivy League research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. [1] [2] The university is led by a president, who is selected by the board of trustees by ballot. [3] The president is an ex officio member of the board and presides at its meetings. [4]