List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University

Thirty-six Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Princeton University. The building pictured is Nassau Hall.

The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. Another prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributors to the field of economics. Each prize is awarded by a separate committee; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, the winners of the first Nobel Prizes were given 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. In 2008, the winners were awarded a prize amount of 10,000,000 SEK. The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

In October 2008, 11 then-current faculty and research staff at Princeton University were Nobel laureates. By 2013, the cumulative total of Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton was 36. Princeton claims laureates who attended as students or who were employed when they received the Prize or did the research leading to it. Woodrow Wilson, the former president of Princeton, was the first Princeton-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Four Nobel Prizes were shared by Princeton laureates: James Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics, Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, David Gross and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Seventeen Princeton laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other category. Twenty-two laureates were members of the Princeton faculty, 12 laureates received their Ph.D. at Princeton, and four laureates, Woodrow Wilson, Eugene O'Neill, Gary Becker, and Michael Spence, were Princeton undergraduates.

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Relation	Category	Rationale
1919		Woodrow Wilson	Class of 1879; member of the faculty and president emeritus of the University	Peace	28th President of the United States; founder of the League of Nations.
1927		Arthur Compton (shared with Charles Thomson Rees Wilson)	Ph.D., 1916	Physics	"for his discovery of the effect named after him"
1936		Eugene O'Neill	Class of 1910	Literature	"for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy"
1937		Clinton Davisson (shared with George Paget Thomson)	Ph.D., 1911	Physics	"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
1951		Edwin McMillan (shared with Glenn T. Seaborg)	Ph.D., 1933	Chemistry	"for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements"
1956		John Bardeen (shared with William Shockley and Walter Houser Brattain)	Ph.D., 1936	Physics	"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
1961	75px	Robert Hofstadter (shared with Rudolf Mössbauer)	Ph.D., 1938	Physics	"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
1963		Eugene Wigner	Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics	Physics	"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"
1965		Richard Feynman (shared with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger)	Ph.D., 1942	Physics	"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
1977		Philip Warren Anderson (shared with Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck)	Joseph Henry Professor of Physics	Physics	"for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"
1978		Arno Allan Penzias (shared with Pyotr Kapitsa and Robert Woodrow Wilson)	Visiting lecturer with rank of professor	Physics	"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
1979		Arthur Lewis (shared with Theodore Schultz)	James Madison Professor of Political Economy	Economics	"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."
1979		Steven Weinberg (shared with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Abdus Salam)	Ph.D., 1957	Physics	"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"
1980	75px	James Cronin (shared with Val Logsdon Fitch)	Professor of physics	Physics	"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
1980		Val Logsdon Fitch (shared with James Cronin)	Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics	Physics	"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
1992		Gary Becker	Class of 1951	Economics	"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour."
1993		Toni Morrison	Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities	Literature	"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
1993	75px	Russell Alan Hulse (shared with Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.)	Principal research physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Physics	"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
1993		Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (shared with Russell Alan Hulse)	James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics	Physics	"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
1994		John Forbes Nash (shared with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten)	Ph.D., 1950, senior research mathematician	Economics	"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."
1995		Eric F. Wieschaus (shared with Edward B. Lewis and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard)	Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
1996		Richard Smalley (shared with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto)	Ph.D., 1974	Chemistry	"for their discovery of fullerenes"
1998		Daniel Chee Tsui (shared with Robert B. Laughlin and Horst Ludwig Störmer)	Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering	Physics	"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
2000		James Heckman (shared with Daniel McFadden)	M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971	Economics	"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples."
2001		Michael Spence (shared with George Akerlof and Joseph Stiglitz)	Class of 1966	Economics	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
2002		Daniel Kahneman (shared with Vernon L. Smith)	Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs	Economics	"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty."
2004		David Gross (shared with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek)	Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics Emeritus	Physics	"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
2004	75px	Frank Wilczek (shared with David Gross and H. David Politzer)	Ph.D., 1975	Physics	"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
2007		Eric Maskin (shared with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson)	Visiting lecturer with the rank of professor of economics	Economics	"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory."
2008		Osamu Shimomura (shared with Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien)	Research associate in biology	Chemistry	"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
2008		Paul Krugman	Professor of economics and international affairs	Economics	"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."
2010	75px	Mario Vargas Llosa	Visiting professor of Latin American Studies	Literature	"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
2011		Thomas Sargent (shared with Christopher Sims)	Visiting professor of economics	Economics	"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"
2011		Christopher Sims (shared with Thomas Sargent)	Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics	Economics	"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"
2012	75px	Lloyd Shapley (shared with Alvin E. Roth)	Ph.D., 1953	Economics	"for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"
2013		James Rothman (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof)	Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells"
2015		Arthur B. McDonald (shared with Takaaki Kajita)	Professor of Physics	Physics	"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
2015		Tomas Lindahl (shared with Paul L. Modrich and Aziz Sancar)	Postdoctoral researcher	Chemistry	"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
2015		Angus Deaton	Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs	Economics	"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"

See also

• List of Princeton University people

External links

• Official website of Princeton University
• Official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Official website of the Nobel Foundation