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===Faculty===
{{Main|List of Purdue University faculty}}
The original faculty of six in 1874 has grown to 2,563 tenured and tenure-track faculty in the Purdue Statewide System by Fall 2007 totals. The number of faculty and staff members system-wide is 18,872.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/facts/pages/faculty_staff.html |title=Purdue University Facts Online : Faculty and Staff |publisher=Purdue.edu |access-date=January 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928032539/http://www.purdue.edu/facts/pages/faculty_staff.html |archive-date=September 28, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The current faculty includes scholars such as [[Arden L. Bement Jr.]] (director of the [[National Science Foundation]]), [[R. Graham Cooks]], [[Douglas Comer]], [[Louis de Branges de Bourcia]] (who proved the [[Bieberbach conjecture]]), [[Victor Raskin]], [[David Sanders (biologist)|David Sanders]], [[Leah Jamieson]], [[James L. Mohler]] (who has written several manuals of computer graphics), and [[Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.]] (inventor of the [[Wagstaff prime]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.purdue.edu/provost/shtml/profs.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116013426/http://www.purdue.edu/provost/shtml/profs.shtml |url-status=dead |title=Provost |archive-date=January 16, 2009 |access-date=December 19, 2008 }}</ref>

Purdue's tenured faculty comprises sixty [[Dean (education)|Academic Deans]], Associate Deans, and Assistant Deans; 63 Academic Department Heads; 753 Professors; 547 Associate Professors; and 447 Assistant Professors. Purdue employs 892 non-tenure-track faculty, Lecturers, and Postdoctoral Researchers at its West Lafayette campus. Purdue employs another 691 tenured and 1,021 Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Lecturers, and Postdoctoral Researchers at its Regional Campuses and Statewide Technology unit.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

Two faculty members (chemists [[Herbert C. Brown]] and [[Ei-ichi Negishi]]) have been awarded Nobel Prizes while at Purdue. In all, 13 Nobel Prizes in five fields have been associated with Purdue including students, researchers, and current and previous faculty.<ref>[http://www.purdue.edu/provost/faculty/awards/nobel_winners.html "Purdue University Nobel Prizes"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301014220/http://www.purdue.edu/provost/faculty/awards/nobel_winners.html |date=March 1, 2013 }}. Purdue University. Retrieved March 2, 2013.</ref> Other notable faculty of the past have included Golden Gate Bridge designer [[Charles Alton Ellis]], efficiency expert [[Lillian Gilbreth]], food safety advocate [[Harvey Wiley]], aviator [[Amelia Earhart]], president of the [[National Association of Mathematicians]] [[Edray Goins]], radio pioneer [[Reginald Fessenden]], and [[Yeram S. Touloukian]], founder of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}