Nobel Prize Winners
See the Nobel Foundation for information about the award and the foundation.
This list includes faculty and staff who were engaged by Princeton at the time they did the research that led to the award and/or those who are currently working at the University.
| Category | Faculty and Staff | Alumni |
| Chemistry | 2008 – Osamu Shimomura, research associate in biology |
1996 – Richard Smalley, Ph.D. *74
1951 – Edwin M. McMillan, Ph.D. *33 (physics) |
| Economics |
2008 - Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs 2007 – Eric S. Maskin, visiting lecturer with the rank of professor of economics 2002 – Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs 1994 – John F. Nash, Ph.D. *50, senior research mathematician 1979 – Sir W. Arthur Lewis, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy |
2001 – A. Michael Spence, Class of '66
2000 – James J. Heckman, M.A., *68, Ph.D., *71 1992 – Gary S. Becker, Class of '51 |
| Literature | 1993 – Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities | 1936 – Eugene O'Neill, Class of '10 |
| Peace | 1919 – Woodrow Wilson 1879, member of the faculty and president emeritus of the University | |
| Physics |
2004 – David Gross, the Thomas Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics Emeritus
1998 – Daniel C. Tsui, the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering 1993 – Joseph H. Taylor, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics 1993 – Russell Hulse, principal research physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 1980 – James W. Cronin, professor of physics 1980 – Val L. Fitch, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics 1978 – Arno A. Penzias, visiting lecturer with rank of professor 1977 – Philip W. Anderson, Ph.D. *49, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics 1963 – Eugene P Wigner, the Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics |
2004 – Frank Wilczek, Ph.D. *75
1979 – Steven Weinberg, Ph.D. *57 1972 – John Bardeen, Ph.D. *36 1965 – Richard P Feynman, Ph.D. *42 1961 – Robert Hofstadter, Ph.D. *38 1956 – John Bardeen, Ph.D. *36 1937 – Clinton J. Davisson, Ph.D. *11 1927 – Arthur H. Compton, Ph.D. *16 |
| Physiology & Medicine | 1995 – Eric Wieschaus, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology | |