List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study

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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 1933–55
1922 Niels H. D. Bohr Denmark 1939, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1958
1933 Paul A. M. Dirac United Kingdom 1934–35, 1946, 1947– 48, 1958–59, 1962–63
1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi United States 1938
1945 Wolfgang Pauli Austria 1935–36, 1940–46, 1949–50, 1954, 1956
1949 Hideki Yukawa Japan 1948–49
1957 Tsung-Dao Lee China 1951–53, 1957–58, 1960–62
1957 Chen Ning Yang China 1949–54,1955–66
1963 Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen Germany 1952
1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Japan 1949–50
1969 Murray Gell-Mann United States 1951, 1951, 1955, 1967–68
1972 Leon Cooper United States 1954–55
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 1948–49, 1959–60
1999 Gerardus 't Hooft The Netherlands 1973, 1976, 1980, 1982, 2005
2004 David J. Gross United States 1973–74, 1977–78
2004 Frank Wilczek United States 1977–78, 1989–2000
2005 Roy J. Glauber United States 1949–51
2008 Yoichiro Nambu Japan/United States 1952–54
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, 1992–99
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 1956–57, 1961–62, 1963–64
2001 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 1978–79
2007 Eric S. Maskin United States 2000–11

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