Dr. Alexander Taffel (born in Odessa, Russia; died January 19, 1997, Riverdale, Bronx) was the second principal of the Bronx High School of Science, a long-time physics teacher and author of three textbooks in Physics. He is a recipient of the . He is most famous for his tenure as principal of the Bronx High School of Science, during which he nurtured the institution and its international reputation. He retired in 1978. He died at his home of a stroke.