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=== Faculty ===
{{Main list|List of University of Michigan faculty and staff}}

The university employs 8,189 faculty members,<ref name="facstaffsumm_umaa2023">{{cite web |title=UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR FACULTY AND STAFF HEADCOUNT SUMMARY |url=https://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/factsfigures/facstaffsumm_umaa.pdf |website=obp.umich.edu |date=November 15, 2023 |access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title = Chapter 6 Faculty & Staff |url = https://obp.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/pubdata/almanac/Almanac_Ch6.pdf |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = obp.umich.edu }}</ref> of whom 3,195 are tenured or on a tenure track.<ref name="facstaffsumm_umaa2023"/> Among them, there are 37 members of the [[National Academy of Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = National Academy of Sciences Member directory |url = http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = nasonline.org }}</ref> 62 members of the [[National Academy of Medicine]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = National Academy of Medicine General Directory |url = https://nam.edu/directory/?lastName=&firstName=&parentInstitution=&yearStart=1970&yearEnd=2023&presence=0 |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = nam.edu }}</ref> 30 members of the [[National Academy of Engineering]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = National Academy of Engineering Member Directory |url = http://www.nae.edu/default.aspx?id=20412 |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = nae.edu }}</ref> 89 [[Sloan Research Fellowship|Sloan Research Fellows]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Sloan Research Fellows Database |url=https://sloan.org/fellows-database |access-date=February 19, 2025 |website=sloan.org }}</ref> 17 [[Guggenheim Fellows]],<ref>{{cite web |title=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - All Fellows |url=https://www.gf.org/all-fellows/ |website=gf.org |access-date=February 19, 2025 }}</ref> 99 members of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title = American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member Directory |url = https://www.amacad.org/directory |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = amacad.org }}</ref> and 17 members of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title = American Philosophical Society Member Directory |url = https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search |access-date = December 22, 2023 |website = amphilsoc.org }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Lombardi |first1 = John V. |author-link = John V. Lombardi |last2 = Capaldi |first2 = Elizabeth D. |author-link2 = Elizabeth D. Phillips |last3 = Reeves |first3 = Kristy R. |last4 = Gater |first4 = Denise S. |date = December 2004 |title = The Top American Research Universities |url = https://mup.umass.edu/sites/default/files/mup-pdf/MUP-2004-Top-American-Research-Universities-Annual-Report.pdf |url-status = live |journal = The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance |location = Amherst and Gainesville |publisher = The Center for Measuring University Performance, UMass Amherst and University of Florida |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190411214604/https://mup.umass.edu/sites/default/files/mup-pdf/MUP-2004-Top-American-Research-Universities-Annual-Report.pdf |archive-date = April 11, 2019 |access-date = March 12, 2020 }}</ref> The university's current and former faculty includes thirteen [[List of University of Michigan faculty and staff#Nobel Laureates|Nobel laureates]], eight [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, and one [[John Bates Clark Medal]] recipient.

Current faculty include physicists [[Mark Newman]], [[Duncan G. Steel]], [[Steven Cundiff]], [[Stephen Forrest]], and [[Gordon Kane]]; mathematicians [[Hyman Bass]], [[Sergey Fomin]], [[William Fulton (mathematician)|William Fulton]], [[Robert Griess]], and [[Melvin Hochster]]; chemist [[Melanie Sanford]]; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian [[Heather Ann Thompson]]; [[National Medal of Science]] recipients [[Huda Akil]] and [[Robert Axelrod (political scientist)|Robert Axelrod]]; biostatistician [[Gonçalo Abecasis]]; philosophers [[Elizabeth S. Anderson]], [[Allan Gibbard]], and [[Peter Railton]]; and social psychologist [[Richard E. Nisbett]]. The faculty also includes feminist legal theorist [[Catharine MacKinnon]], ''[[Strict Scrutiny]]'' co-host [[Leah Litman]], engineer [[James P. Bagian]], and [[A. Galip Ulsoy]], co-inventor of the [[Reconfigurable Manufacturing System]].

Philosophers who were members of the faculty include [[pragmatists]] [[John Dewey]], [[Charles Horton Cooley]], and [[George H. Mead]], along with [[analytic philosophers]] [[William Frankena]] and [[Cooper Harold Langford]]. The faculty included notable writers such as Nobel Prize-winning essayist [[Joseph Brodsky]], Pulitzer Prize-winning poet [[W. H. Auden]], and [[Robert Frost]], the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

Notable faculty in physics have included [[Donald A. Glaser]], the inventor of the [[bubble chamber]]; [[Samuel Goudsmit]] and [[George Uhlenbeck]], discoverers of [[electron spin]]; [[Juris Upatnieks]] and [[Emmett Leith]], inventors of [[3D holography]]; [[Gérard Mourou]], inventor of [[chirped pulse amplification]]; and [[H. Richard Crane]], who was called "one of the most distinguished experimental physicists of the 20th century". [[Wolfgang Pauli]], a pioneer of [[quantum physics]], served as a visiting professor at the university in 1931 and again in 1941. Physicists [[Martin Lewis Perl]] and [[Lawrence W. Jones]] served as co-advisors to Nobel laureate [[Samuel C. C. Ting]] at the university. Perl himself was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the [[tau lepton]]. Other distinguished physicists who have served on the faculty include [[Martinus Veltman]], [[Carl Wieman]], and [[Charles H. Townes]]. Notable mathematicians [[Raoul Bott]], [[Richard Brauer]], [[Samuel Eilenberg]] (co-founder of [[category theory]]), [[Frederick Gehring]], [[Herman Goldstine]], and [[Anatol Rapoport]] have all served on the faculty.

In medicine, notable individuals who have served on the faculty include the former director of the [[National Institutes of Health]] [[Francis Collins]], the developer of the [[polio vaccine]] [[Jonas Salk]], Nobel Prize–winning physiologist [[Charles B. Huggins]], co-discoverer of [[Oncovirus|tumour-inducing viruses]] [[Peyton Rous]], geneticist [[James V. Neel]], neuroanatomist [[Elizabeth C. Crosby]], and co-discoverer of [[restriction enzymes]] [[Hamilton O. Smith]].

Past faculty have also included "the founding father of 21st-century sociology" [[Charles Tilly]], social psychologist [[Robert Zajonc]], chemical engineer [[Donald L. Katz]], Supreme Court justice [[Henry Billings Brown]], Pulitzer Prize-winning composer [[Leslie Bassett]], Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer [[David C. Turnley]], Nobel Prize-winning economist [[Lawrence R. Klein]], and [[John Bates Clark Medal]] recipient [[Kenneth E. Boulding]].

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File:Joseph_Brodsky_1988.jpg|[[Joseph Brodsky]]
File:John_Dewey_cph.3a51565.jpg|[[John Dewey]]
File:Charles Townes.jpg|[[Charles H. Townes]]
File:Elizabeth_Caroline_Crosby_(1888-1983)_Ausschnitt.jpg|[[Elizabeth C. Crosby]]
File:Francis_Collins_official_photo.jpg|[[Francis Collins]]
File:Frederick Gehring.jpg|[[Frederick Gehring]]
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