The Stanford Faculty
Stanford faculty are leaders in their fields with their accomplishments recognized across the disciplines. Faculty work closely with students and conduct groundbreaking research. Today, Stanford has 2,240 members of the professoriate faculty. There are 629 members appointed to endowed professorships.
Stanford’s current community of scholars includes:
- 17 Nobel laureates
- 32 MacArthur Fellows
- 4 National Humanities Medal recipients
- 4 Pulitzer Prize winners
- 13 National Medal of Science recipients
- 1 National Medal of Technology recipients
- 281 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members
- 161 National Academy of Sciences members
- 109 National Academy of Engineering members
- 74 National Academy of Medicine members
- 25 National Academy of Education members
- 47 American Philosophical Society members
- 5 Wolf Foundation Prize winners
- 2 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
- 1 National Medal of Arts winner
By the numbers
Nobel Laureates
Thirty-one Stanford faculty have won the Nobel Prize since the university’s founding. Nineteen Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community. For more details, please visit ourĀ Stanford Nobel Prize website.
Pulitzer Prize Winners
- Adam Johnson
2013, Fiction - David M. Kennedy
2000, History - Jack Rakove
1997, History - James Risser
1976, 1979, National Reporting
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