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20 unusual facts about Princeton University


Acheson J. Duncan

A native of Leonia, New Jersey, he attended Princeton University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1925, a master's in 1927 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1936.

Duncan spent 13 years on the faculty at Princeton University and three years in the US Army before coming to Johns Hopkins University in 1946 as an associate professor of statistics in the School of Business.

Arthur Wightman

Advised by John Wheeler, his 1949 Princeton doctoral dissertation was entitled The Moderation and Absorption of Negative Pions in Hydrogen.

Chronovisor

Dr. Katherine Owen Eldred of Princeton University is the author of an English rendition of the text which is included as an appendix to the American printing of Peter Krassa's book on the Chronovisor (see below).

Edwin F. Russell

After graduating from Princeton University, he worked during the 1940s as the associate publisher of The (Newark, NJ) Star-Ledger.

Foreign Reports

Nathaniel Kern (also Nat Kern) joined his father at Foreign Reports in 1972 after graduating from Princeton University and attending the University of Riyadh from 1970-71 as the first non-Arab student.

Fred Tappert

Tappert began his scientific career in the field of plasma physics, receiving his Ph. D. from Princeton University in 1967.

Kirkmichael

This serves as the village hall and in 1898 was gifted to the village by James McCosh, President of Princeton University, whose family came from this part of Ayrshire.

Laura Breckenridge

In the fall of 2002, Breckenridge began her studies at Princeton University, soon joining the BodyHype Dance Company and getting involved in the theater scene on campus.

Lindenwold High School

Princeton University recognized Lindenwold High School's Ann Ryan as one of four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers at its Commencement ceremonies on June 6, 2006.

Mass Driver 1

The mass driver was inspired and designed by Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton University (who was on sabbatical at MIT during the 1976-77 academic year) and Henry Kolm of MIT.

New Jersey in the American Revolution

In the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall of Princeton University.

Oleg Timofeyev

A recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including IREX and Fulbright fellowships, he has taught and lectured at Maimonides State Academy (Moscow), Duke University, the University of Kansas, Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Smithsonian.

Sabrina Le Beauf

The character's first appearance was in the Season 1 episode "Bonjour, Sondra." Sondra was known for her philosophical statements and intelligence, traits she displayed as an undergraduate at Princeton University.

Samuel M. Inman

He went to college at Princeton College and at the age of 18 he joined Company K of the First Tennessee Cavalry during the American Civil War.

South of the Border, West of the Sun

He wrote it in 1992 while he was a visiting scholar at the Princeton University in the United States.

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

As a young woman at Oxford University, Catherine had the chance of a fellowship to study at Princeton University but her then-tutor Hilary Rees-Benson (later a political opponent) recommended another student instead, in part due to jealousy of Catherine—the two remain rivals even when serving together in Ros's cabinet.

Vangelis Petsalis

His works have been presented in Classical Discoveries, by Princeton University's radio station WPRB, during a segment called "A Visit with Greek composer, Vangelis Petsalis".

Walter L. Morgan

He graduated from Princeton University in 1920, and shortly thereafter became the youngest CPA in Pennsylvania.

William Stryker Gummere

Gummere was captain of the Princeton football team that met Rutgers in 1869 in the first intercollegiate football game played in America.


A Sense of Where You Are

In A Sense of Where You Are, John McPhee profiles Bill Bradley during Bradley's senior year at Princeton University. Bradley, who would later play in the National Basketball Association and serve in the United States Senate, was widely regarded as one of the best basketball players in the country, and his status as a Rhodes Scholar playing in the Ivy League only added to his allure.

Alison Boden

Alison L. Boden is the Dean of Religious Life and the Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University.

Allison Balson

She graduated valedictorian from her high school and went on to receive a Bachelor's Degree from Princeton University and a Master's Degree from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Andrei Linde

Among the various awards he's received for his work on inflation, in 2002 he was awarded the Dirac Medal, along with Alan Guth of MIT and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University.

Arthur M. Sackler

He endowed galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University in Beijing, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., and the Jillian & Arthur M. Sackler Wing at the Royal Academy, London.

Arthur Pardee

In 1961 Pardee became Professor in Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University while in 1975 he moved to Boston to become Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as well as Chief for the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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.

Barry Conyngham

He was a Fellow of Princeton University 1973–74, and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1974–75.

Benson Everett Legg

After receiving his education at the preparatory school Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in the class of 1966, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1970.

Bonnie Marranca

She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .

College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.

David D. Kirkpatrick

He was born in Buffalo, New York, earned a B.A. in history and American studies at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, and attended the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.

DIMACS

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Applied Communication Sciences, and NEC.

Economic globalization

Nevertheless, Princeton University professor Robert Gilpin argues that though economic globalization seems to be irreversible, nations' various economic policies have suppressed the impetus for their own economies to move forward, which he states has been shown in the past, thus debunking Shanquan's theory of economic globalization as a primarily irreversible phenomena.

Ed Tittel

He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Texas and worked for American software corporation, Novell from 1987–1994, where his final position was Director of Technical Marketing (1993–1994).

Edwin Augustus Stevens

She was the daughter of Albert Baldwin Dod (1805-1845), professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and Caroline Smith Bayard, who was the daughter of Samuel Bayard (1766-1840) and granddaughter of Continental Congressman John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1808).

Edwin McClellan

In addition to his committee work at Chicago and Yale, McClellan served on the Board of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), the American Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation, the American Oriental Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the editorial board of the Journal of Japanese Studies, and visiting committees in East Asian studies at Harvard and Princeton.

George Kateb

As a member of the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values he was involved with the search committee that somewhat controversially appointed noted Australian philosopher Peter Singer to a chair in bioethics at Princeton in 1999.

Golandsky Institute

Led by Edna Golandsky, Artistic Director, the Institute holds an annual seminar at Princeton University and hosts symposia and master classes worldwide.

Grid-oriented storage

Starting in January 2007, demonstrations were presented at Princeton University, Cambridge University Computer Lab and others.

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.

John M. Gaver, Sr.

Born in Mount Airy, Maryland, John Gaver graduated from Princeton University then worked as a prep school language teacher before eventually embarking on a career in Thoroughbred racing.

John McKecknie

Born in Clarksville, Ohio, McKechnie studied for two years at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, (1880-82) before entering Princeton University (AB, 1886), which he followed with two years at the Columbia School of Mines, New York City.

John Winslow Bissell

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Bissell graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1958 and received his bachelor's degree in History from Princeton University in 1962.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Malcolm Diamond

Malcolm L. Diamond (November 6, 1924 – December 27, 1997) was William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Princeton University.

Marisa Carrasco

Born and raised in Mexico City, Carrasco received her Licentiate in psychology from the National University of Mexico and her Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University.

Martin Daniel Eakes

Eakes grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina and graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in physics and philosophy, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.P.P. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Master of the Playing Cards

Many of his engravings, especially the cards, contain compositional elements that also occur in the miniatures of the Giant Bible of Mainz of 1452-3 and other illuminations made in Mainz between then and 1482, including at least one illuminated copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the copy now in Princeton University library.

Milky Way

On January 9, 2006, Mario Jurić and others of Princeton University announced that the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of the northern sky found a huge and diffuse structure (spread out across an area around 5,000 times the size of a full moon) within the Milky Way that does not seem to fit within current models.

My Daddy Long Legs

:Sallie's elder brother, he is the highly popular ace of the Princeton University football team.

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

New Jersey in the American Revolution

Distinguished lawyer Richard Stockton, New Jersey-born and College of New Jersey graduate, sacrificed his royal judicial title and his considerable international economic interest in order to be an elected delegate for New Jersey at the General Congress.

The Americans set up cannons facing Nassau Hall of Princeton University, and two cannonballs made contact with the walls of the hall.

Pemetrexed

The molecular structure of pemetrexed was developed by Edward C. Taylor at Princeton University and clinically developed by Indianapolis based drug maker, Eli Lilly and Company in 2004.

Robert G. W. Anderson

Subsequently, he has held visiting academic posts at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University and at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge (2002–2003).

Robert Kraichnan

From 1962 on, he was supported by research grants and worked as a freelance consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Princeton University, the Office of Naval Research, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NASA.

Roger D. Nelson

Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.

Sylvain Cappell

Sylvain Edward Cappell (born 1946), a Belgian American mathematician and former student of William Browder at Princeton University, is a topologist who has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where he is now the Silver Professor of Mathematics.

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.

Wesley Englehorn

While he was a junior in high school, he was reportedly recruited by Princeton University to come east to play football for the school.