Past Faculty

Name IAS Appointments
James Waddell Alexander
09/19/1888 - 1971
Seabright, NJ
Faculty: 1933-47
Research Area: Topology
Michael Francis Atiyah
04/22/1929 - 2019
London, United Kingdom
Faculty: 1969-72
Member: 1955-57, 1959-60, 1967-68
Research Area: Geometry
Arne Beurling
02/03/1905 - 1986
Gothenburg, Sweden
Faculty: 1954-73
Emeritus: 1973-86
Member: 1952-54
Research Area: Analysis
Armand Borel
05/21/1923 - 2003
Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Faculty: 1957-93
Emeritus: 1993-2003
Member: 1952-54
Research Area: Algebraic Groups
Jean Bourgain Jean Bourgain
02/28/54 - 12/22/18
Ostend, Belgium
Faculty: 1994 - 2018
Research Area: Analysis
Luis A. Caffarelli
12/08/48 -
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Faculty: 1986-96
Research Area: Partial Differential Equations
Albert Einstein
03/14/1879 - 1955
Ulm, Germany
Faculty: 1933-46
Emeritus: 1946-55
Research Area: Physics
Kurt Gödel
04/28/1906 - 1978
Brünn, Austria-Hungary
Faculty: 1953-76
Emeritus: 1976-78
Member: 1933-34, 1935-36, 1938-46
Permanent Member: 1946-53
Research Area: Mathematical Logic
Harish-Chandra
10/11/1923 - 1983
Kanpur, India
Faculty: 1963-83
Assistant Professor: 1947-48
Member: 1948-49, 1955-56, 1961-62
Research Area: Mathematics and Physics
Lars Hörmander
01/24/1931 - 2012
Mjällby, Blekinge, Sweden
Faculty: 1964-68
Member: 1960-61, 1970-71, 1977-78
Research Area: Analysis
Tsung-Dao Lee
11/24/1926 - 8/4/2024
Shanghai, China
Faculty: 1960-62
Research Area: Theoretical Physics
John Willard Milnor
02/20/1930 -
Orange, NJ
Faculty: 1970-90
Member: 1965-66
Research Area: Differential topology
Deane Montgomery
09/02/1909 - 1992
Weaver, MN
Faculty: 1951-80
Emeritus: 1980-92
Member: 1934-35, 1941-42, 1945-46
Permanent Member: 1948-51
Research Area: Topology
Marston Morse
03/24/1892 - 1977
Waterville, ME
Faculty: 1935-62
Emeritus: 1962-77
Research Area: Differential Topology
J. Robert Oppenheimer
04/22/1904 - 1967
New York, NY
Faculty: 1947-66
Research Area: Physics
Abraham Pais
05/19/1918 -
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Faculty: 1950-63
Research Area: Physics
Tullio Eugene Regge
07/11/1931 - 2014
Torino, Italy
Faculty: 1965-79
Research Area: Physics
Atle Selberg
06/14/1917 - 2007
Langesund, Norway
Faculty: 1951-87
Emeritus: 1987-2007
Permanent Member: 1947-1948, 1949-1951
Research Area: Analytic Number Theory
Carl Ludwig Siegel
12/31/1896 - 1981
Berlin, Germany
Faculty: 1945-51
Member: 1934-35, 1940-45,1960-61
Research Area: Analysis
Bengt Strömgren
01/21/1908 - 1987
Gothenburg, Sweden
Faculty: 1957-66
Research Area: Astrophysics
Richard Taylor Richard Taylor
05/19/62 -
Cambridge, UK
Faculty: 2012-18
Distinguish Visiting Professor: 08/10 - 12/11
Research Area: Number Theory
Oswald Veblen
06/24/1880 - 1960
Decorah, IA
Faculty: 1932-50
Emeritus: 1950-60
Research Area: Foundations of Geometry
Vladimir Voevodsky
06/04/1966 - 2017
Moscow, Soviet Union
Faculty: 2002-17
Research Area: Homotopy Theory of Schemes
John von Neumann
12/28/1903 - 1957
Budapest, Hungary
Faculty: 1933-57
Research Area: Foundations of Mathematics
André Weil
05/06/1906 - 1998
Paris, France
Faculty: 1958-76
Emeritus: 1976-98
Member: 1936-37
Research Area: Number Theory
Hermann Weyl
11/09/1885 - 1955
Elmshorn, Germany
Faculty: 1933-51
Emeritus: 1951-55
Research Area: Theoretical Physics
Hassler Whitney
03/27/1907 - 05/10/1989
New York, NY
Faculty: 1952-77
Emeritus: 1977-89
Research Area: Singularity Theory
Chen-Ning Yang
10/01/1922 -
Hefei Anhui Province, China
Faculty: 1955-66
Permanent Member: 1949-54
Research Area: Theoretical Physics
Shing-Tung Yau
04/04/1949 -
Shantou, Guangdong, China
Faculty: 1980-84
Member: 1971-72, 1979-80
Research Area: Differential Geometry