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| 2 | List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Emeritus |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Name | Department | Elected | Notability | Reference |
| 4 | Emilio Bizzi | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | 2002 | Motor control; President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006–2009) | - |
| 5 | Joel Moses | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 1999 | Algebraic manipulation algorithms; MACSYMA; Provost of MIT (1995–1998); Dean of Engineering (1991–1995) | - |
| 6 | John D.C. Little | Management | - | Little's law; marketing; e-commerce; Branch and bound | - |
| 7 | Barbara Liskov | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 2008 | Turing Award (2008), John von Neumann Medal (2004), contributions to data abstraction and programming languages | - |
| 8 | Noam Chomsky | Linguistics | 1976 | Generative grammar; Kyoto Prize (1988); political activist; one of the most widely cited scholars alive | - |
| 9 | John M. Deutch | Chemistry | 1990 | Deputy Secretary of Defense (1994–1995); Director of Central Intelligence (1995–1996); Provost of MIT (1985–1990) | - |
| 10 | Peter A. Diamond | Economics | 1997 | Social Security reform; Nobel Prize in Economics (2010) | - |
| 11 | Jerome I. Friedman | Physics | 1991 | Quantum chromodynamics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1990) | - |
| 12 | Mario Molina | Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences | 1997 | Stratospheric ozone chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1995) | - |
| 13 | Isadore Singer | Mathematics | 1987 | Atiyah–Singer index theorem; Abel Prize (2004) | - |
| 14 | Robert M. Solow | Economics | 1973 | National Medal of Science (1999); John Bates Clark Medal (1961); Nobel Prize in Economics (1987) | - |

Question: Who is the Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and when were they elected?
Answer: In 1987, Isadore Singer was elected the Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.