At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the title of Institute Professor is given to a small number of members of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. Usually no more than twelve professors hold this title at any one time. At some universities the titles of Distinguished Professor or University Professor or Regents Professor are counterparts of this title.

List of current Institute Professors as of 2005

• Emilio Bizzi — brain and cognitive sciences
• John M. Deutch — chemistry
• Peter Diamond — economics
• Mildred S. Dresselhaus — physics and electrical engineering
• Jerome I. Friedman — physics
• John Harbison — music
• Robert S. Langer — chemical engineering
• John D. C. Little — management science
• Thomas Magnanti — management science and electrical engineering
• Joel Moses — computer science and engineering systems
• Phillip Sharp — biology
• Isadore Manual Singer — mathematics
• Daniel I. C. Wang — chemical engineering
• Sheila Widnall — aeronautics

List of Institute Professors Emeriti

• Manson Benedict — nuclear engineering
• Noam Chomsky — linguistics
• Morris Cohen — materials science and engineering
• Morris Halle — linguistics and philosophy
• Arthur von Hippel — electrical engineering and computer science
• Chia-Chiao Lin — mathematics
• Francis Low — physics
• Philip Morrison — physics
• Paul Samuelson — economics
• Ascher Shapiro — mechanical engineering
• Robert Solow — economics
• John Waugh — chemistry

See also

• List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology people

External links

• MIT online directory of Institute Professors and Institute Professors Emeriti
• MIT Facts: Faculty and Staff