Princeton Twelve Previous Nobel Laureates
Physics ('45,'57,'63,'80,'93,'98,'04), Chemistry ('46), Medicine/Physiology('95), Economic Sciences ('79,'94,'02)
Physics 1945
PAULI,
WOLFGANG,
Austria,
Princeton
University,
NJ,
U.S.A.,
b. 1900,
d. 1958:
"for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle"
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Physics 1957
The
prize
was
awarded
jointly
to:
YANG,
CHEN
NING,
China,
Institute
for
Advanced
Study,
Princeton,
NJ,
U.S.A.,
b. 1922;
and
LEE,
TSUNG-DAO,
China,
Columbia
University,
New
York,
NY,
U.S.A.,
b. 1926:
"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
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Physics 1963
The
prize
was
divided,
one
half
being
awarded
to:
WIGNER,
EUGENE
P.,
U.S.A.,
Princeton
University,
Princeton,
NJ,
b. 1902
(in
Budapest,
Hungary),
d. 1995:
"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles";
and
the
other
half
jointly
to:
GOEPPERT-MAYER,
MARIA,
U.S.A.,
University
of
California,
La
Jolla,
CA,
b. 1906
(in
Kattowitz,
then
Germany),
d. 1972;
and
JENSEN,
J.
HANS
D.,
Germany,
University
of
Heidelberg,
b. 1907,
d. 1973:
"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
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Physics 1980
The
prize
was
divided
equally
between:
CRONIN,
JAMES,
W.,
U.S.A.,
University
of
Chicago,
Chicago,
IL,
b. 1931;
and
FITCH,
VAL
L.,
U.S.A.,
Princeton
University,
Princeton,
NJ,
b. 1923:
"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
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Physics 1993
The
prize
was
awarded
jointly
to:
HULSE,
RUSSELL
A.,
U.S.A.,
Princeton
University,
Princeton,
NJ,
b. 1950,
and
TAYLOR
Jr.,
JOSEPH
H.,
U.S.A.,
Princeton
University,
Princeton,
NJ,
b. 1941:
"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
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Physics 1998
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded
The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to
Professor Robert
B. Laughlin, Stanford University, California,
USA,
Professor Horst L.
Störmer, Columbia University, New York
and Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, and
Professor Daniel
C. Tsui, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey, USA.
The three researchers are being awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering
that electrons acting together in strong magnetic fields can form new
types of "particles", with charges that are fractions of electron
charges.
Citation:
"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally
charged excitations."
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Physics 2004
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to
Professor Edward Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA, USA ,
Professor H. David Politzer , California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA , and
Professor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Cambridge, MA, USA .
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004
Citation:
"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
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Chemistry 1946
The
prize
was
divided,
one
half
being
awarded
to:
SUMNER,
JAMES
BATCHELLER,
U.S.A.,
Cornell
University,
Ithaca,
NY,
b. 1887,
d. 1955:
"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
the
other
half
jointly
to:
NORTHROP,
JOHN
HOWARD,
U.S.A.,
Rockefeller
Institute
for
Medical
Research,
Princeton,
NJ,
b. 1891,
d. 1987;
and
STANLEY,
WENDELL
MEREDITH,
U.S.A.,
Rockefeller
Institute
for
Medical
Research,
Princeton,
NJ,
b. 1904,
d. 1971:
"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
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Physiology or Medicine 1995
The
prize
was
awarded
jointly
to:
LEWIS, EDWARD B.,
U.S.A.,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.,
b. 1918;
NsSSLEIN-VOLHARD, CHRISTIANE,
Germany,
Max-Planck-Institut f_r Entwicklungsbiologie, T_bingen, Germany,
b. 1942;
and
WIESCHAUS, ERIC F.,
U.S.A.,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.,
b. 1947:
"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
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Economic Sciences 1979
The
prize
was
divided
equally
between:
SCHULTZ,
THEODORE
W.,
U.S.A.,
University
of
Chicago,
Chicago,
IL,
b. 1902
d. 1998:
and
LEWIS,
Sir
ARTHUR,
United
Kingdom,,
Princeton
University,
Princeton,
NJ,
U.S.A.,
b. 1915
(in
the
West
Indies),
d. 1991:
"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries"
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Economic Sciences 1994
The
prize
was
awarded
jointly
to:
HARSANYI,
JOHN
C.,
U.S.A.,
University
of
California,
Berkeley,
CA,
b. 1920
(in
Budapest,
Hungary);
NASH,
JOHN
F.,
U.S.A.,
Princeton
University,
NJ,
b. 1928;
and
SELTEN,
REINHARD,
Germany,
Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit,t,
Bonn,
Germany,
b. 1930:
"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
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Economic Sciences 2003
The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided that the Bank
of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,
2003, will be shared between
Daniel Kahneman
Princeton University, USA
“for having integrated insights from psychological research
into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and
decision-making under uncertainty”
and
Vernon L. Smith
George Mason University, USA
“for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in
empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative
market mechanisms”.
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