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30 unusual facts about Princeton


Amrep Corporation

AMREP Corporation is a real estate and media services company based in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, and was founded in 1961 as The American Realty and Petroleum Corporation.

Andrew Hatcher

Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Hatcher graduated from Witherspoon School for Colored Children in 1937 and Princeton High School in 1941.

Arne Beurling

Arne Carl-August Beurling (3 February 1905 – 20 November 1986) was a Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Berlitz Corporation

Berlitz Corporation is a global leadership training and language education company with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey.

Browder J. Thompson

Thompson was co-director of RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1942 until December, 1943, when he accepted a special assignment for the Secretary of War.

Burton L. French

Born in Carroll County, Indiana, French was the fourth of nine children and moved with his parents in 1880 to Kearney, Nebraska, and to Princeton, Idaho via San Francisco two years later.

David E. Johnson

David E. Johnson (born December 21, 1946 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American linguist.

Eosalmo

Fossils from this genus have also been found at sites in Princeton, British Columbia, the McAbee Fossil Beds in B.C., and Republic, Washington, USA.

Erik Routley

He was chaplain of Mansfield from 1948 to 1959 and then held appointments as minister in Edinburgh and Newcastle before becoming Professor of Church Music at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey in 1975.

Frank Spitzer

Spitzer's first academic appointments were at the California Institute of Technology (1953–1958), but most of his academic career was spent at Cornell University, with leaves at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden.

Fred Norcross

From April 1912 to December 1917, Norcross lived in Greenwood and later Princeton, British Columbia.

George Partridge

He was reappointed continuously until 1785, although he missed the session held in Princeton, New Jersey in 1783.

Heartland Payment Systems

Founded by Robert O. Carr in 1997, Heartland Payment Systems is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Jean Gottmann

He found refuge in the United States, where he received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to attend the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

John Hoar

Hoar departed Lancaster on April 28, 1676 with two native guides, Nepphonet and Peter Tatatiquinea to meet King Philip's War party at Wachusett Lake, located in what is now Princeton, Massachusetts.

Loum N. Neloumsei Elise

She is a recipient of an Education Testing Certificate (International Testing and Training Programs) from Princeton, New Jersey.

Marshall Clagett

Clagett held two visiting appointments (1958–59 and 1963) at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and in 1964 he was appointed permanently to the faculty of the School of Historical Studies.

Marshall Clagett (January 23, 1916, Washington DC – October 21, 2005, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American historian of science who specialized in medieval science.

Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2006

Sharkey's campaign was jeopardized on January 30, 2006 when he was arrested in Princeton, Minnesota on felony charges stemming from allegations of stalking and flight, in Indiana.

Murray H. Protter

Since his graduation, he worked as assistant professor at Syracuse University (1947–51), was a researcher at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1951–53) and at University of California at Berkeley (1953–88) where he also was the chairman (1962–65).

Ong Beng Hee

In August, Beng Hee clinched the World Junior Open title in his second successive final, beating Egypt’s Wael El Hindi in the final in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Opinion Research Corporation

Opinion Research Corporation is a demographic, health, and market research company based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Princeton, Massachusetts

The 2006 film The Legend of Lucy Keyes is a movie about Princeton and its old legend.

Sandor Salgo

In 1939 (with no formal training in English) Sandor Salgo taught at the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.

The Boyd Company, Inc.

, is a corporate site selection firm founded in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1975.

Thelma Estrin

They moved to Princeton, New Jersey, in the early 1950s, where Gerald joined the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and became associated with the group that formed around John von Neumann.

Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was an experimental tokamak built at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (in Princeton, New Jersey) circa 1980.

USRowing

In 2006, USRowing moved its corporate headquarters to Princeton, N.J., home of the USRowing National Team Training Center.

Venkat Viswanathan

He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of LatentView Analytics Corporation, a predictive analytics and enterprise decision management services firm based in Princeton, New Jersey that provides decision science and analytics services.

Walther Mayer

In 1933, after Hitler's assumption of power, he followed Einstein to the United States and became an associate in mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.


Antony Polonsky

The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland, co-editor with Joanna B. Michlic, (Princeton University Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0-691-11306-7

Arthur Stephen Lane

Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Lane received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1934, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.

Barbara Ess

Carlo McCormick, "The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984", Princeton University Press, 2006

Bill Edwards

Big Bill Edwards (1877–1943), American football player, guard for Princeton University football team, first president of first American Football League

Branchburg, New Jersey

Also within driving distance are Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE, formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport) near Allentown, Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport in New York, as well as the Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton and Princeton in Mercer County.

Burleigh Cruikshank

Sportswriter Walter S. Trumbull of the The New York Sun suggested that the Michigan Aggies, Washington & Jefferson, Chicago University, and Notre Dame were the new "Big 4 of College Football" instead of the traditional grouping of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Penn.

Caribbean lanternshark

Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2

Cloister Inn

Notable alumni include Ian Caldwell, author of the bestselling novel The Rule of Four, which was set at Princeton and includes several scenes that take place at Cloister; as well as Chris Ahrens, gold medalist in the Men's Eights event while Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Cylinders of Nabonidus

The translation was made by A. Leo Oppenheim and is copied from James B. Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 1950 Princeton.

David Dobkin

David P. Dobkin (born 1948), computer scientist and the Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University

David Sutherland Hibbard

After graduating from Princeton in 1896, Hibbard served as a pastor at a local church in Lyndon, Kansas for three years.

Edmund Yard Robbins

Edmund Yard Robbins (b. 29 May 1867, Windsor, New Jersey – d. 30 May 1942, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American philosopher.

False lanternshark

Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 978-0-691-12072-0

George E. Kimball

He returned to Princeton's chemistry department to be a graduate student on a graduate fellowship and worked under Hugh Taylor.

H. Vinson Synan

As Synan was making preparation for his academic career, Oral Roberts, a friend of the family, offered him a full scholarship to earn a Ph.D. in theology at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton if he would return and teach at Oral Roberts University.

Hans-Walter Rix

He was Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1991-1994, then returned to the University of Arizona, and has been director of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg since 1999.

Herbert Butterfield

Butterfield was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the 1950s and at Cambridge from 1928 to 1979.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Hideo Levy

He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies, and later received his doctorate from the same school for studying Kakinomoto no Hitomaro.

Howard C. Petersen

Petersen was chairman of the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the Marshall Foundation, and chairman and advisory committee member of Export-Import Bank.

Ira Condict

A graduate of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Condict was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian faith.

Jacksonville metropolitan area

Noted for its campus, which includes Henry Flagler's former Ponce de León Hotel, it is currently included in The Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges Rankings.

James Tilton

He served with distinction and saw action at the battles of Brooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton.

Log College

Six months after the granting of Princeton's charter in October 1746, and shortly before classes started in May 1747, Log College alumni Samuel Blair, Samuel Finley, and William Tennent, Jr., along with adherents Gilbert Tennent and Richard Treat, accepted election as Princeton trustees.

Mathematica Policy Research

Mathematica Policy Research is a policy research organization with offices in Princeton, New Jersey; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, DC; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Oakland, California.

Michael A. Barry

Prior to coming to Princeton, Barry spent many years in Afghanistan with the International Federation for Human Rights, Médecins du Monde and the United Nations, working in often perilous conditions to provide and coordinate humanitarian assistance for the Afghan people from 1979 to 2001.

Michael Murray

Michael L. Murray (born 1974), folklorist currently on faculty of Princeton University

NRG Energy

is a large American energy company, dual-headquartered in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, near Princeton and Houston, Texas.

Patrick Kerney

He was a member of the 1996 Cavalier squad that advanced to the NCAA championship game and lost to Princeton 13-12 in overtime.

Patty Kazmaier-Sandt

Her father, Dick Kazmaier, also a graduate of Princeton University, won the Heisman Trophy in 1951.

PLOrk

Composers and performers from Princeton and elsewhere developed new pieces for the ensemble, including Paul Lansky (Professor of Music at Princeton), Brad Garton (Director of the Columbia Computer Music Center), Pauline Oliveros, PLOrk co-founders Dan Trueman and Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, Ge Wang, and others.

Princeton Battlefield

The park is maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, and is located on Mercer Road (Princeton Pike), about 1.5 miles south of Princeton University and 3.8 miles north of Interstate 295/95.

Reuben A. Holden III

In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.

SciLands

Founded in 1977 by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, Gerard O'Neill, Princeton University professor and author of The High Frontier, SSI sponsored and conducted research into areas such as solar power satellites, lunar bases, space colonies, asteroid mining, and mass drivers.

Sprint football

Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, played sprint football for Princeton and was a captain.

Steven S. Smith

Smith's monographs include Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings), Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, and The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (Princeton), with Thomas Remington.

T. B. Irving

As a scholar, Irving taught and studied at a number of leading universities in the U.S. and Canada, including McGill, Princeton, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee.

The Teachings of the Mystics

The Teachings of the Mystics is a 1960 work of popular philosophy by the Princeton philosopher Walter T. Stace that lays out his philosophy of mysticism and compiles writings on mystical experience from across religious traditions.

Tim de Zeeuw

After stints in the USA at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at Caltech, he returned to the Netherlands in 1990 to become Professor of Theoretical Astronomy at Leiden.

Tomandandy

Milburn and Hajdu moved to New York after Princeton and started collaborating with film director Mark Pellington at MTV and film editors Hank Corwin and Bruce Ashley in the UK.

Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing

The institute is partnered with Institutes for Defence Analysis, CCR Princeton, CCR La Jolla, CCS Bowie, the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, Carleton University, the University of Calgary and is working to create partnerships with other research institutes, government agencies and universities.

Wingate Memorial Trophy

The first intercollegiate lacrosse tournament was held in 1881 with Harvard beating Princeton 3-0 in the championship game.