List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study
This is a comprehensive list of Nobel Prize winners affiliated the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey as current and former faculty members, visiting scholars, and other affiliates.
Of the 201 individuals who have received the Nobel Prize in Physics as of 2015, thirty-three have been affiliated with the IAS at some point in their career.[1] Other Nobel laureates at the IAS comprise one winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, two winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, two winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and four winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (the latter not being affiliated with the Nobel Foundation).[2]
Some, such as Isidor Isaac Rabi and Paul Berg, won the prize before they came to the Institute; others, such as Jack Steinberger and Richard Stone, won it after; and some, such as Wolfgang Pauli and T. S. Elliot, won a prize during their tenure at the institute.[3] Some prizewinners, such as George Seferis and Albert Szent-Györgyi, were visiting scholars, only at the IAS for a few semesters or less;[4] others, such as Einstein and Chen Ning Yang, were permanent faculty members who remained for many years.[5]
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Prize winner | Country | Years affiliated with IAS |
| 1914 | Max von Laue | Germany | 1935, 1948 |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | Germany | 1933–1955 |
| 1922 | Niels H. D. Bohr | Denmark | 1939, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1958 |
| 1933 | Paul A. M. Dirac | United Kingdom | 1934–1935, 1946, 1947–1948, 1958–1959, 1962–1963 |
| 1944 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | United States | 1938 |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | Austria | 1935–1936, 1940–1946, 1949–1950, 1954, 1956 |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | Japan | 1948–1949 |
| 1957 | Tsung-Dao Lee | China | 1951–1953, 1957–1958, 1960–1962 |
| 1957 | Chen Ning Yang | China | 1949–1954, 1955–1966 |
| 1963 | Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen | Germany | 1952 |
| 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | Japan | 1949–1950 |
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | United States | 1951, 1951, 1955, 1967–1968 |
| 1972 | Leon Cooper | United States | 1954–1955 |
| 1975 | Aage N. Bohr | Denmark | 1948 |
| 1979 | Abdus Salam | Pakistan | 1951 |
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | United States | 1972 |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | United States | 1941, 1976 |
| 1988 | Jack Steinberger | United States | 1948–1949, 1959–1960 |
| 1999 | Gerardus 't Hooft | The Netherlands | 1973, 1976, 1980, 1982, 2005 |
| 2004 | David J. Gross | United States | 1973–1974, 1977–1978 |
| 2004 | Frank Wilczek | United States | 1977–1978, 1989–2000 |
| 2005 | Roy J. Glauber | United States | 1949–1951 |
| 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu | Japan/United States | 1952–1954 |
| 2011 | Saul Perlmutter | United States | 2011 |
| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |||
| Year | Prize winner | Country | Years affiliated with IAS |
| 1937 | Albert Szent-Györgyi | Hungary | 1950 |
| 1967 | George Wald | United States | 1954 |
| Nobel Prize in Chemistry | |||
| Year | Prize winner | Country | Years affiliated with IAS |
| 1980 | Paul Berg | United States | 1984, 1992–1999 |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | |||
| Year | Prize winner | Country | Years affiliated with IAS |
| 1948 | T. S. Eliot | United Kingdom | 1948 |
| 1963 | George Seferis | Greece | 1968 |
| Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (not affiliated with the Nobel Foundation) | |||
| Year | Prize winner | Country | Years affiliated with IAS |
| 1984 | Richard Stone | United Kingdom | 1945 |
| 1994 | John Forbes Nash Jr | United States | 1956–1957, 1961–1962, 1963–1964 |
| 2001 | Joseph E. Stiglitz | United States | 1978–1979 |
| 2007 | Eric S. Maskin | United States | 2000–2011 |