• Introduction
• MacArthur Prize Recipients
• Princeton Physics Nobel Laureates
  • 1927 | 1928 | 1937
    1951 | 1956 | 1961
    1963 | 1965 | 1972
    1977 | 1979 | 1980
    1993 | 1998 | 2004
• Memorable Members of the Princeton Physics Dept

• Einstein's Greatest Blunder

	Frank Wilczek 2004 (with David J. Gross & H. David Politzer) "For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"				David J. Gross 2004 (with Frank Wilczek & H. David Politzer) "For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
	Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. Princeton University 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"				Daniel C. Tsui Princeton University 1998 (with Robert B. Laughlin Horst L. Störmer) "For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
	James Watson Cronin Princeton University 1980 (with Val. L. Fitch) "For the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"				Val Logsdon Fitch Princeton University 1980 (with James Croniin) "For the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
	Philip Warren Anderson Joseph Henry Professor of Physics 1974- 1977 (with Sir Nevill Francis Mott & John Hasbrouck van Vleck) "For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"				Steven Weinberg Ph.D. Princeton 1957 1979 (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"
	Eugene Paul Wigner Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics 1938-1971 1963 (with Maria Goeppert-Mayer & J. Hans D. Jensen) "For his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles""				Richard Phillips Feynman Ph.D. Princeton 1942 1965 (with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga & Julian Schwinger) "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
	John Bardeen Ph.D. Princeton 1936 1956 (with William B. Shockley & Walter H. Brattain) "For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" 1972 (with Leon N. Cooper & John R. Schrieffer) "For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"				Robert Hofstadter Ph.D. Princeton 1938 Princeton Faculty 1946-1950 1961 (with Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer) "For for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the stucture of the nucleons"
	Clinton Joseph Davisson 1881-1958 Ph.D. Princeton 1911 1937 (with George Paget Thomson) "For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"				Edwin Mattison McMillan Ph.D. Princeton 1932 1951 (with Glenn Theodore Seaborg) "For their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" (Chemistry)
	Arthur Holly Compton 1892-1962 Ph.D. Princeton 1916 DSC Princeton 1934 1927 (with Charles T. R. Wilson) "For his discovery of the effect named after him"				Sir Owen Williams Richardson Professor of Physics 1906-1914 1928 "For his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"