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Princeton Physics Nobel Laureates

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Frank Wilczek

2004: Frank Wilczek (with David J. Gross & H. David Politzer)
"For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"


David J. Gross

2004:  David J. Gross  (with Frank Wilczek  & H. David Politzer)
"For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"


Daniel C. Tsui

1998: Daniel C. Tsui  (with Robert B. Laughlin Horst L. Störmer)
"For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"


Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.

1993: Joseph H. Taylor, Jr, 1993: (with Russell A. Hulse)
"For the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"


James Watson Cronin

1980: James Watson Cronin (with Val L. Fitch)
"For the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"


Val Logsdon Fitch

1980: Val Logsdon Fitch (with James Cronin)
"For the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"


Steven Weinberg

1979: Steven Weinberg  (with Sheldon Lee Glashow & Abdus Salam)
"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"


Philip W. Anderson

1977: Philip Warren Anderson (with Sir Nevill Francis Mott  and  John Hasbrouck van Vleck), "For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"


John Bardeen

1972: John Bardeen (with Leon N. Cooper & John R. Schrieffer)
"For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"


Richard Phillips Feynman

1965: Richard Phillips Feynman (with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga & Julian Schwinger) "For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" 


Eugene Paul Wigner

1963: Eugene Paul Wigner (with Maria Goeppert-Mayer & J. Hans D. Jensen) "For their contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"


Robert Hofstadter

1961: Robert Hofstadter (with Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer)
"For for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"


John Bardeen

1956: John Bardeen, (with William B. Shockley & Walter H. Brattain)
"For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"


Edwin Mattison McMillan

1951: Edwin Mattison McMillan (with Glenn Theodore Seaborg)
"For their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" (Chemistry)


Clinton Joseph Davisson

1937: Clinton Joseph Davisson (with George Paget Thomson)
"For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"


Sir Owen Williams Richardson

1928: Sir Owen Williams Richardson
"For his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him "


Arthur Holly Compton

1927: Arthur Holly Compton (with Charles T. R. Wilson)
"For his discovery of the effect named after him"