Princeton Portrait

Nicholas Biddle 1801 Opposed Abolition and Facilitated the Slave Trade

Nicholas Biddle 1801 (1786-1844)

Hidden Chapel Pulpit Honors a Civil War Friend of America

Failure Allowed Him to Find Success as a Screenwriter

A Stellar Student, He Transformed Our Understanding of the Stars

Henry Norris Russell 1897 *1900

He Fled Europe and Became ‘The Patron Saint of Photocopying’

How the First Historian of the A-Bomb Achieved a Misinformation Coup

Henry DeWolf Smyth *1921 penned Atomic Energy for Military Purposes for the War Department

Kenneth Clark 1905 Wrote ‘Going Back’

Kenneth Clark 1905

A Tragic Candidate in the Princeton ‘Conclave’ for University President

E. Harris ‘Jinks’ Harbison 1928

He Watched Biology from Up Close and Afar

Lewis Thomas ’33 (1913-1993)

He Inspired Hemingway Before Falling Out Over a Famous Fish

Henry Strater 1919

The Vatican Looked to Him to Build a Better Library

William Warner Bishop

A Traveler Among the First International Reporters

Herbert Adams Gibbons *1914

A Journal Finds Its Way Home

William Hamlin Neely 1917 (1896-1962)

Donated Death Mask Collection

Laurence Hutton

He Was Princeton’s Favorite Author During Prohibition

Norman Anthony (1889-1968)

She Brought America and Greece Together

Princeton Portrait: Mary Alison Frantz (1903-1995)

How CJ the DJ Gave the Beatles Their Big Break in America

Princeton Portrait: Carroll James ’58 (1937-1997)

He Wrote the Song That Poked Fun at Professors for Some 85 Years

Princeton Portrait | Andrew Clerk Imbrie 1895 (1875-1965)

Math Be Damned, He Fell Upward Through a Career in Medicine

Princeton Portrait: John Finney 1884 (1863-1942)

Princeton Portrait: He Wrote a Cookbook for Those Best at Making Reservations

Charles Browne 1896 *1899 (1875-1947)

His Name Made Him Worthy of America’s First Medical Degree

John Archer 1760 *1763 (1741-1810)

A Bond Forged While Advancing Mathematics

Emmy Noether (1882-1935) and Anna Pell Wheeler (1883-1966)

An Influential Author Who Got His Start at a Student Publication

José Donoso ’51 (1924-96)

This Librarian Lived Under a False Identity, and Did It With Class

Princeton Portrait: Belle da Costa Greene, 1879-1950