List of faculty members at the Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton, New Jersey, designed to foster research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the agendas of sponsorship.

Some of the world's most renowned thinkers have been affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study. This list includes current and former Faculty members, as well as Directors, and dates of tenure at the Institute:

Current and former Faculty members and Directors

Name	Field	Year joined IAS	Year Left	Notes
Stephen L. Adler	theoretical physicist	1969	2010	Emeritus 2010-current
James W. Alexander	topologist	1933	1951
Andreas E. Z. Alföldi	historian and archaeologist	1956	1965	Emeritus 1965-1981
Danielle S. Allen	political theorist	2007	current
Michael F. Atiyah	mathematician	1969	1972
Nima Arkani-Hamed	particle physicist	2008	current
John N. Bahcall	astrophysicist	1971	2005
Arne K. A. Beurling	mathematician	1954	1973	Emeritus 1973-1986
Yve-Alain Bois	art historian	2005	current
Enrico Bombieri	mathematician	1977	2011	Emeritus 2011-
Armand Borel	mathematician	1957	1993	Emeritus 1993-2003
Jean Bourgain	mathematician	1994	current
Glen W. Bowersock	historian	1980	2006	Emeritus 2006-
Caroline Walker Bynum	historian	2003	2011	Emerita 2011-
Luis Caffarelli	mathematician	1986	1996
Angelos Chaniotis	historian	2010	current
Harold F. Cherniss	historian of philosophy	1948	1974	Emeritus 1974-1987
Marshall Clagett	historian	1964	1986	Emeritus 1986-2005
Giles Constable	historian	1985	2003	Emeritus 2003-
Patricia Crone	historian	1997	current
José Cutileiro	historian and diplomat	2001	2004
Roger Dashen	physicist	1969	1987
Pierre Deligne	mathematician	1984	2007	Emeritus 2008-
Nicola Di Cosmo	historian	2003	current
Robbert Dijkgraaf	mathematical physicist	2012	current	Director and Leon Levy Professor
Freeman J. Dyson	physicist and mathematician	1953	1994	Emeritus 1994-
Edward M. Earle	politics: military foreign affairs	1934	1954
Albert Einstein	theoretical physicist	1933	1946	Emeritus 1946-1955
John Huxtable Elliott	historian	1973	1990
Didier Fassin	anthropologist	2009	current
Patrick J. Geary	historian	2012	current
Clifford Geertz	anthropologist	1970	2000	Emeritus 2000-2006
Felix Gilbert	historian	1962	1975	Emeritus 1975-1991
James F. Gilliam	historian	1965	1985	Emeritus 1985-1990
Peter Goddard	mathematical physicist	2004	current	Director 2004-12; Professor 2012–
Kurt Gödel	mathematician	1946	1976	Emeritus 1976-1978
Hetty Goldman	archaeologist	1936	1947	Emeritus 1947-1972
Peter Goldreich	astrophysicist	2004	2009	Emeritus 2009-current
Oleg Grabar	historian	1990	1998	Emeritus 1998-2011
Phillip A. Griffiths	mathematician	1991	2009;	Director 1991-2003; Professor 2004–09; Emeritus 2009-
Christian Habicht	historian	1973	1998	Emeritus 1998-current
Harish-Chandra	mathematician	1968	1983
Ernst Herzfeld	archeologist and Iranologist	1936	1944
Albert O. Hirschman	political scientist	1974	1985	Emeritus 1985-2012
Helmut Hofer	mathematician	2009	current
Lars V. Hörmander	mathematician	1964	1968
Piet Hut	astrophysicist	1985	current
Jonathan Israel	historian	2001	current
Ernst H. Kantorowicz	historian	1951	1963
Carl Kaysen	economist	1966	1976	Director 1966-1976
George F. Kennan	historian	1953	1974	Emeritus 1974-2005
Robert P. Langlands	mathematician	1972	2007	Emeritus 2007-
Irving Lavin	art historian	1973	2001	Emeritus 2001-
T. D. Lee	physicist	1960	1962
Stanislas Leibler	physicist and biologist	2009	current
Arnold J. Levine	biologist	2004	2011	Emeritus 2011-
Elias A. Lowe	paleographer	1936	1945	Emeritus 1945-1969
Robert MacPherson	mathematician	1994	current
Juan Maldacena	theoretical physicist	2002	current
Avishai Margalit	philosopher	2006	2011	George F. Kennan Professor
Eric Maskin	economic theorist	2000	2011
Jack F. Matlock, Jr.	historian and former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union	1996	2001
Millard Meiss	art historian	1958	1974	Emeritus 1974-1975
Benjamin D. Meritt	historian	1935	1969	Emeritus 1969-1989
John Milnor	mathematician	1970	1990
David Mitrany	political scientist	1933	1953
Deane Montgomery	mathematician	1951	1980	Emeritus 1980-1992
Marston Morse	mathematician	1935	1962	Emeritus 1962-1977
J. Robert Oppenheimer	physicist	1947	1966	Director
Abraham Pais	physicist	1950	1963
Erwin Panofsky	art historian	1935	1962	Emeritus 1962-1968
Peter Paret	historian	1986	1997	Emeritus 1997-
Tullio E. Regge	physicist	1965	1981
Winfield W. Riefler	economist	1935	1949
Dani Rodrik	political economist	2013	current
Marshall Rosenbluth	physicist	1967	1982
Peter Sarnak	mathematician	2007	current
Joan Wallach Scott	gender historian	1985	current
Nathan Seiberg	theoretical physicist	1997	current
Atle Selberg	mathematician	1951	1987	Emeritus 1987-2007
Kenneth M. Setton	medieval historian	1968	1984	Emeritus 1984-1995
Carl L. Siegel	mathematician	1945	1951
Thomas Spencer	mathematician	1986	current
Walter W. Stewart	economist	1938	1950	Emeritus 1950-1958
Bengt G. D. Strömgren	astronomer and astrophysicist	1957	1967
Richard Taylor	mathematician	2012	current
Homer Thompson	archeologist	1947	1977	Emeritus 1977-2000
Scott Tremaine	astrophysicist	2007	current
Kirk Varnedoe	art historian	2002	2003
Oswald Veblen	mathematician	1932	1950	Emeritus 1950-1960
Vladimir Voevodsky	mathematician	2002	current
John von Neumann	mathematician	1933	1957
Heinrich von Staden	historian	1998	2010	Emeritus 2010 -
Michael Walzer	philosopher of society politics and ethics	1980	2007	Emeritus 2007-
Robert B. Warren	economist	1939	1950
André Weil	mathematician	1958	1976	Emeritus 1976-1998
Hermann Weyl	mathematician	1933	1951	Emeritus 1951-1955
Morton White	philosopher and historian of ideas	1970	1987	Emeritus 1987 -
Hassler Whitney	mathematician	1952	1977	Emeritus 1977-1989
Avi Wigderson	mathematician	1999	current
Frank Wilczek	physicist	1989	2000
Edward Witten	mathematical physicist	1987	current
Ernest Llewellyn Woodward	historian	1951	1960	Emeritus 1961-1971
C. N. Yang	physicist	1955	1966
Shing-Tung Yau	mathematician	1980	1984
Matias Zaldarriaga	astrophysicist	2009	current