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Thirty-two 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years.[2] 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.[4] The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.[5]

As of 2008, there have been 32 Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University. Princeton considers laureates who attended the university as undergraduate students, graduate students or were members of the faculty as affiliated laureates.[6] Woodrow Wilson, the former president of Princeton, was the first Princeton-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.[7] Three Nobel Prizes were shared by Princeton laureates; James Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics,[8] Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics,[9] and David Gross and Frank Wilczek jointly won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.[10] Seventeen Princeton laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other category.[6] Eighteen laureates were members of the Princeton faculty, thirteen laureates received their Ph.D. at Princeton, and three laureates, Eugene O'Neill, Gary Becker, and Michael Spence, received their undergraduate degrees at Princeton.

Laureates

Year Image Laureate Relation Category Rationale
1919 Woodrow Wilson Member of the faculty and president emeritus of the University Peace President of United States of America; Founder of the League of Nations.[7]
1927 Arthur Compton Ph.D., 1916 Physics "for his discovery of the effect named after him"[11]
1936 File:Oneill.jpg 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"[12]
1937 Clinton Davisson Ph.D., 1911 Physics "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"[13]
1921 Albert Einstein Professor of Physics Physics "for the discovery of the photoelectric effect"
1951 Edwin McMillan Ph.D., 1933 Chemistry "for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements"[14]
1956 File:John Bardeen.jpg John Bardeen Ph.D., 1936 Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"[15]
1961 Robert Hofstadter 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"[16]
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"[17]
1965 File:HSrichaf.jpg Richard Feynman Ph.D., 1942 Physics "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"[18]
1977 Philip Warren Anderson Ph.D., 1949, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Physics "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"[19]
1978 Arno Allan Penzias Visiting lecturer with rank of professor Physics "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"[20]
1979 Arthur Lewis James Madison Professor of Political Economy Economics "for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries."[21]
1979 Steven Weinberg 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"[22]
1980 James Cronin Professor of physics Physics "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"[8]
1980 Val Logsdon Fitch Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Physics "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"[8]
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."[23]
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"[24]
1993 Russell Alan Hulse 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"[9]
1993 Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. 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"[9]
1994 John Forbes Nash Ph.D., 1950, senior research mathematician Economics "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."[25]
1995 Eric F. Wieschaus Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"[26]
1996 Richard Smalley Ph.D., 1974 Chemistry "for their discovery of fullerenes"[27]
1998 Daniel Chee Tsui Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering Physics "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"[28]
2000 File:Heckman.jpg James Heckman M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971 Economics "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples."[29]
2001 Michael Spence Class of 1966 Economics "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."[30]
2002 Daniel Kahneman 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."[31]
2004 David Gross Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics Emeritus Physics "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"[10]
2004 Frank Wilczek Ph.D., 1975 Physics "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"[10]
2007 Eric Maskin Visiting lecturer with the rank of professor of economics Economics "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory."[32]
2008 Osamu Shimomura Research associate in biology Chemistry "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"[33]
2008 Paul Krugman Professor of economics and international affairs Economics "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."[34]

References

General
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Specific
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  7. ^ a b "Nobel Peace Prize 1919". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  8. ^ a b c "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  9. ^ a b c "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  10. ^ a b c "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  11. ^ "Nobel Prize in Physics 1927". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  12. ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1936". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  13. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  14. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  15. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  16. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  17. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  18. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  19. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  20. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  21. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  22. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  23. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1992". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
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  26. ^ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  27. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  28. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  29. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2000". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
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  33. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  34. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
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