David Bellos, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, and professor of French and Italian and comparative literature, died on Oct. 26, 2025. He was 80.

Julian Wolpert, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Geography, Public Affairs, and Urban Planning, Emeritus, died on Aug. 22, 2025. He was 92.

Erik Vanmarcke, an emeritus professor of civil and environmental engineering and a pioneer in structural safety, died on July 7, 2025, at 83.

Frank Paul Calaprice, professor of physics, emeritus, died on June 30. He was 85.

P. Adams Sitney, avant-garde film historian and professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Emeritus, died on June 8. He was 80 years old.

Edward “Ted” Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of cardiac arrest at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington NJ, on Dec. 23, 2024. He was 76.

Edmund White, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, emeritus, died at his home in Manhattan on June 3, 2025. He was 85.

Gananath “Obey” Obeyesekere, professor of anthropology, emeritus, died on March 25, 2025. He was 95.

Jeremiah “Jerry” P. Ostriker, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Emeritus, and professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, died at his home in New York City on April 6, 2025. He was 87.

William “Bill” Browder, an emeritus professor of mathematics, died in early February at the age of 91.

Anson “Andy” Rabinbach, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, died in Rome on Feb. 2, 2025. He was 79.

Paul Benacerraf, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died on Jan. 13, 2025. He was 93.

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of cardiac arrest at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington NJ, on Dec. 23, 2024. He was 76.

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature, scholar of French literature, and World War II “Ritchie Boy,” died on Nov. 26, 2024. He was 101.

Giacinto Scoles, Princeton’s Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, died in Sassenheim, the Netherlands, on Sept. 25. He was 89 years old.

John Wilmerding, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, died June 6 in New York City. He was 86.

Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, professor of psychology and public affairs, emeritus, and a Nobel laureate in economics whose groundbreaking behavioral science research changed our understanding of how people think and decide, died on March 27. He was 90.

Howard Francis Taylor, an emeritus professor of sociology and a pioneering scholar on race and intelligence testing, died on March 21, 2023. He was 83.

Arno Mayer, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, and an esteemed historian of modern Europe and diplomacy, died in a senior residence in Princeton, N.J. on Dec. 18, 2023. He was 97.

Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, and a social and cultural historian, died of cancer at her home in Toronto on Oct. 21, 2023. She was 94.

John Wilson, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Emeritus, died of complications from COVID-19 on Oct. 5, 2023, at home in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He was 90.

Victor Laurie, professor of chemistry, emeritus, made numerous contributions to the field of microwave spectroscopy. He died on Sept. 13 at age 88.

William B. Russel, a leading chemical engineer who had a lasting impact on graduate education as dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, died on Sept. 24, 2023, in Princeton. He was 77.

Janet Martin, associate professor of classics, emeritus, and an expert in medieval Latin, died of cardiovascular disease at home in Princeton, New Jersey, on Aug. 30, 2203. She was 84.

Joseph Kohn, professor of mathematics, emeritus, a leader in the field of several complex variables, died on Sept. 13. He was 91.

Michael Goldman, professor of English, emeritus, scholar of Shakespeare and Ibsen, accomplished poet and one of the most distinguished voices in American dramatic criticism, died at home in Manhattan on Aug. 17, 2023. He was 87.

William Jason Morgan, Princeton University’s Knox Taylor Professor of Geology, Emeritus and a professor of geophysics, emeritus, was a pioneer of the theory of plate tectonics. He died at home July 31.

Harry Frankfurt, professor of philosophy, emeritus, renowned for his scholarship on free will and moral responsibility, died from a number of causes, including congestive heart failure, at a care facility in Santa Monica, California, on July 16, 2023. He was 94.

William “Will” Howarth, professor of English, emeritus, and eminent Thoreau scholar and environmental humanist, died of interstitial lung disease at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on June 6, 2023. He was 82.

Robert Geddes, the founding dean of Princeton’s School of Architecture, the William R. Kenen Jr. Professor of Architecture, renowned urbanist and innovative educator, died on Feb. 13, 2023. He was 99.

Russell Banks, the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of the Humanities Council and creative writing, emeritus, died on Jan. 7, 2023. He was 82.

Robert “Bob” Tignor, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus, died on December 9, 2022, of complications related to pneumonia at his home in Princeton. He was 89.

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute, Emeritus, died on Sept. 28, 2022

Hildred Storey Geertz, professor of anthropology, emeritus, died peacefully at home in Princeton on September 30, 2022. She was 95.

T. Leslie Shear, Jr., professor of classical archaeology, emeritus, died on September 28, 2022, at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center after a brief illness. He was 88.

Daniel Osherson, Princeton’s Henry R. Luce Professor in Information Technology, Consciousness, and Culture, Emeritus and an emeritus professor of psychology, died at home in Princeton on September 4, 2022 from complications due to Parkinson’s. He was 73 years old.

Sam Glucksberg, professor of psychology, emeritus, died Aug. 29, 2022, at Mt Sinai Beth Israel hospital in New York City. He was 89.

John Cooper, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died on Aug. 8, 2022. He was 82.

Howard L. Rosenthal, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of politics, emeritus, died on July 28, 2022. He was 83.

Hale Trotter, an emeritus professor of mathematics, died Jan. 17, 2022. He was 91.

Edmund “Mike” Keeley, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus, and professor of English and creative writing, emeritus, died Feb. 23, 2022. He was 94.

James Seawright, professor of visual arts, emeritus, died Feb. 12, 2022. He was 85.

Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Emeritus, died Dec. 31, 2021.

Jacques Robert Fresco, the Damon B. Pfeiffer Professor in the Life Sciences, Emeritus, died Dec. 5, 2021. He was 93.

Eric Wood, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, died Nov. 3. He was 74.

Gilbert Harman, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died on Nov. 13, 2021

Tullis Onstott, professor of geosciences, died Oct. 19, 2021

Alban Forcione, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr., Professor of Language, Literature and Civilization of Spain, Emeritus, died on Sept. 14, 2021

Robert Hollander, Jr., professor of European literature and French and Italian, emeritus, died on April 20, 2021

Lionel Gossman, the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, died on Jan. 11, 2021

Yoshiaki (Yoshi) Shimizu, Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, died on Jan. 20, 2021

Theodore Ziolkowski, former dean of the Graduate School, the Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages, Emeritus, and professor of Germanic languages and literatures and comparative literature, emeritus, died on Dec. 5, 2020

Stephen Cohen, professor of politics, emeritus, died Sept. 18, 2020

Bruce Blair, research policy analyst at the Program on Science and Global Security, died on July 19, 2020

Leon Gordenker, professor of politics, emeritus, died on May 17, 2020

Thomas Roche, Jr., the Murray Professor of English, Emeritus, died on May 3, 2020

John Murrin, professor of history, emeritus, died May 2, 2020

John Horton Conway, the John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Emeritus, and professor of mathematics, emeritus, died on April 11

L. Carl Brown, the Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs, Emeritus; Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, died April 8, 2020

Claudio Spies, professor of music, emeritus, died on April 2, 2020

Philip Warren Anderson, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, died March 29, 2020

Pierre Piroué, the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Emeritus, died Feb. 12, 2020

Robert Maxwell, professor of architecture, emeritus, died Jan. 2, 2020

Stanley Stein, the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Emeritus, and professor of history, emeritus, died Dec. 19, 2019

Irvin Glassman, the Robert H. Goddard Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, died Dec. 14, 2019

Paul A. Volcker, the Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Professor of International Economic Policy, Emeritus, died Dec. 8, 2019

Jameson Doig, professor of politics and public affairs, emeritus, died Oct. 19, 2019

Samuel Hynes, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Emeritus and professor of English, emeritus, died Oct. 10, 2019

Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, died Aug. 5, 2019

Steven Scott Gubser, professor of physics, died Aug. 3, 2019

Peter Westergaard, the William Conant Professor of Music, Emeritus, died June 26, 2019

David Hazen, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, emeritus, died April 27, 2019

Goro Shimura, professor emeritus of mathematics, died May 3, 2019

Charles Gordon Gross, professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, emeritus, died April 13, 2019.

Robert Mark, professor of civil engineering and architecture, emeritus, died March 29, 2019

Alan B. Krueger, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy, died March 16, 2019

Henry Horn, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, emeritus, died March 14, 2019

William Jacobs, professor of biology, emeritus, died March 3, 2019

John Bonner, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Emeritus, died Feb. 7, 2019

Norman Itzkowitz, professor of Near Eastern studies, emeritus, died Jan. 20, 2019

Herman Ermolaev, professor Slavic languages and literatures, emeritus, died Jan. 6, 2019

Theodore Rabb, professor of history, emeritus, died Jan. 7, 2019

Elias Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, died Dec. 23, 2018

Fred Greenstein, professor of politics, emeritus, died Dec. 3, 2018

Sau-Hai (Harvey) Lam, the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, died Oct. 29, 2018

John Bowman Thomas, professor of electrical engineering, emeritus, died Sept. 13, 2018

Wen Fong, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Art History, Emeritus, and professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, died Oct. 3, 2018

John Darley, the Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, and professor of psychology and public affairs, emeritus, died Aug. 31, 2018

Robert George Gilpin Jr., the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of politics and international affairs, emeritus, in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics, died June 20, 2018

Adel Mahmoud, lecturer with the rank of professor in molecular biology and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, died June 11, 2018

Alvin Kernan, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, professor of English, emeritus, and former dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, died May 17, 2018

Léon-François Hoffmann, professor of French and Italian, emeritus, died May 25, 2018

Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, died on May 19, 2018.

André Maman, professor of Romance languages and literatures, emeritus, died April 13, 2018

David Billington, the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, died March 25, 2018

Anne Treisman, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, died Feb. 9, 2018

George Pitcher, professor of philosophy, emeritus, died Jan. 12, 2018

Kenneth Deffeyes, professor of geosciences, emeritus, died Nov. 29, 2017

Slobodan Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, died Dec. 3, 2017

Robert Jahn, former dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, emeritus, died Nov. 15, 2017

Edward C. Taylor, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, Emeritus, died Nov. 22, 2017

Donald McClure, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at Princeton, died Nov. 17, 2017

Uwe Reinhardt, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of economics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, died Nov. 13, 2017

Kurt Mislow, the Hugh Stott Taylor Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, died Oct. 5, 2017

Michael Curschmann, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, emeritus, died Oct. 7, 2017

Delia Graff Fara, professor of philosophy, died July 18, 2017

George Luchak, professor emeritus of civil engineering, died June 6, 2017

William Baumol, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and senior economist, passed away May 4, 2017.

Gerard Washnitzer, professor emeritus of mathematics, passed away April 2, 2017.

William Graessley, professor of chemical engineering emeritus, died Feb. 18, 2017

Carles Vallhonrat, lecturer with the rank of professor in the School of Architecture, died Feb. 21, 2017

John Mather, professor of mathematics, passed away Jan. 28, 2017.

Ricardo Piglia, the Walter S. Carpenter Professor of Language, Literature and Civilizatiion of Spain, Emeritus, and professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures, emeritus, died Jan. 6, 2017.

William “Bill” Bonini, the George J. Magee Professor of Geophysics and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, and professor of geosciences and civil engineering, emeritus, passed away Dec. 13, 2016.

Yu-kung Kao, professor emeritus of East Asian studies, died Oct. 29, 2016.

Michael Danielson, the B.C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of politics and public affairs, emeritus, passed away Sept. 22, 2016.

Elaine Fantham, the Giger Professor of Latin, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, passed away July 11, 2016

Gillett Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, passed away June 9, 2016

Ronald C. Davidson, former Princeton University professor of astrophysical sciences who directed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, died May 19, 2016

Ralph Freedman, professor of comparative literature, emeritus, passed away May 5, 2016

John C. Moore, professor emeritus of mathematics, passed away Jan. 1, 2016.

Tim Vasen, lecturer in theater and the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the director of the Program in Theater, passed away Dec. 28, 2015

Walter Wallace, professor of sociology, emeritus, passed away Sept. 18, 2015

Sheldon Wolin, professor of politics, emeritus, passed away Oct. 21, 2015.

Charles Gillispie, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, passed away Oct. 6, 2015.

Hugo Meyer, professor of art and archaeology emeritus, passed away Sept. 12, 2015

C.K. Williams, a former lecturer with the rank of professor in the Council of the Humanities and the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing, passed away Sept. 20, 2015.

Carl Schorske, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, passed away Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015.

Clarence Brown, professor emeritus of comparative literature, passed away July 18, 2015

Charles Townsend, professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures, passed away June 7, 2015

Michael Graves, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus, passed away March 12, 2015

Val Fitch, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Emeritus, passed away Feb. 5, 2015

Robert Naumann, professor of chemistry and physics emeritus, passed away Dec. 10, 2014

Henry Drewry, former director of Princeton’s Program in Teacher Preparation, passed away Nov. 21, 2014.

William Surber Jr., professor of electrical engineering emeritus, passed away Aug. 27, 2014

Edward Nelson, professor emeritus of mathematics, passed away Sept. 10, 2014.

Samuel Hunter, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, passed away July 27, 2014

Harold Kuhn, professor emeritus of mathematical economics, passed away July 2, 2014

A. Walton Litz, the Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres, Emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus, passed away June 4, 2014.

James Randall, professor emeritus of music, passed away May 28, 2014

Paul Sigmund, professor emeritus of politics, passed away on April 27, 2014.

David E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, March 11, 2014

professor emeritus of computer science, Feb. 18, 2014

Scheide Professor of Music History Emeritus, Aug. 15, 2013

professor emeritus of physics, July 8, 2013

professor emeritus of philosophy, July 1, 2013

professor emeritus of psychology, June 28, 2013

lecturer with the rank of professor in the Program in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, June 26, 2013

Class of 1926 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, Feb. 27, 2013

professor emeritus of physics, Jan. 13, 2013

professor emeritus of molecular biology, Jan. 6, 2013

the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance Emeritus, Dec. 17, 2012

professor emeritus of architecture and the Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture Emeritus, Dec. 13, 2012

professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Sept. 20, 2012

professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literatures, July 26, 2012

the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Emeritus, July 22, 2012

professor emeritus of chemistry, July 15, 2012

professor of East Asian studies, April 4, 2012

Henry Fairfield Osborn Professor of Biology Emeritus and professor of molecular biology emeritus, Feb. 7, 2012

professor of electrical engineering, Jan. 22, 2012

professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Dec. 6, 2011

professor emeritus of art and archaeology, Nov. 10, 2011

professor emeritus of electrical engineering, Aug. 27, 2011

George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture Emeritus, May 7, 2011

longtime faculty member in visual arts, March 9, 2011

William Shubael Conant Professor of Music Emeritus, Jan. 29, 2011

professor emeritus of art and archaeology, Jan. 4, 2011

professor emeritus of sociology, Dec. 9, 2010

professor emeritus of geological and geophysical sciences, Aug. 27, 2010

the IBM Professor of International Studies Emeritus, July 29, 2010

the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, July 7, 2010

professor emeritus of sociology, June 30, 2010

professor of economics and international affairs emeritus and former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, May 19, 2010

the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, April 20, 2010

professor of electrical engineering and computer science emeritus, Feb. 25, 2010

the Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature Emeritus, Jan. 26, 2010

professor emeritus of politics, Jan. 17, 2010

professor emeritus of civil engineering and operations research, Dec. 7, 2009

professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Sept. 28, 2009

lecturer emeritus in biology, May 29, 2009

professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies, April 15, 2009

professor emeritus of civil engineering, April 8, 2009

professor emeritus of physics, Feb. 11, 2009

the David B. Jones Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Jan. 27, 2009

professor of history, July 23, 2008

professor emeritus of civil engineering and operations research, July 5, 2008