Honors & Awards

Faculty, student and staff?recipients listed here performed their award-winning work at Princeton, were employed by or studying at?Princeton when they received their award, or?are currently working at the University. Alumni recipients are denoted in italics. An asterisk is used to denote graduate alumni. Alumni Pulitzer Prize winners are not listed.

• 2018 ?Frances H. Arnold, Class of 1979
• 2015 ?Tomas Lindahl, researcher
• 2008 ?Osamu Shimomura, research associate in biology
• 1996 ?Richard Smalley, Ph.D. *74
• 1951 ?Edwin M. McMillan, Ph.D. *33 (physics)

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• 2016 ?Oliver Hart, Ph.D. *74
• 2015 ?Sir Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs Emeritus
• 2012 ?Lloyd Shapley, Ph.D. *53
• 2011 ?Christopher Sims, the Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking
• 2011 ?Thomas Sargent, visiting professor of economics
• 2008 ?Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs emeritus
• 2007 ?Eric S. Maskin, visiting lecturer with the rank of professor of economics
• 2002 ?Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus and professor of psychology and public affairs emeritus
• 2001 ?A. Michael Spence, Class of 1966
• 2000 ?James J. Heckman, M.A. *68, Ph.D. *71
• 1994 ?John F. Nash, Ph.D. *50, senior research mathematician
• 1992 ?Gary S. Becker, Class of 1951
• 1979 ?Sir W. Arthur Lewis, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy

• 2010 ?Mario Vargas Llosa, Distinguished Visitor in the Program in Latin American Studies and visiting lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts
• 1993 ?Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus
• 1936 ?Eugene O'Neill, Class of 1910

• 1919 ?Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, member of the faculty and president emeritus of the University

• 2019 ?James Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus, and professor of physics, emeritus; Ph.D. *62
• 2017 ?Kip S. Thorne, Ph.D. *65
• 2016 ?F. Duncan Haldane, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
• 2015 ?Arthur McDonald, professor of physics
• 2004 ?David Gross, the Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics Emeritus
• 2004 ?Frank Wilczek, Ph.D. *75
• 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
• 1979 ?Steven Weinberg, Ph.D. *57
• 1978 ?Arno A. Penzias, visiting lecturer with rank of professor
• 1977 ?Philip W. Anderson, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics?
• 1972 ?John Bardeen, Ph.D. *36
• 1965 ?Richard P. Feynman, Ph.D. *42?
• 1963 ?Eugene P. Wigner, the Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics
• 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

• 2013 ?James Rothman, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology?
• 1995 ?Eric Wieschaus, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology

• 2015 ?Simon Levin, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
• 2012 ?Anne Treisman, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology Emeritus
• 2009 ?James Gunn, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy
• 2002 ?W. Jason Morgan, the Knox Taylor Professor of Geography
• 2001 ?Elias Stein, the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
• 2000 ?Jeremiah P. Ostriker, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy
• 1998 ?John Bahcall, visiting lecturer, astrophysical sciences
• 1997 ?Martin Schwarzschild ?, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy Emeritus
• 1993 ?Val Fitch, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics; Martin Kruskal, physics and mathematics
• 1991 ?George Miller, professor of psychology
• 1989 ?Donald Spencer, professor of mathematics
• 1982 ?Philip Anderson, the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics Emeritus
• 1979 ?Lyman Spitzer Jr. Ph.D. *38, the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy?Emeritus
• 1976 ?Hassler Whitney, professor of mathematics
• 1973 ?John Tukey, the Donner Professor of Science, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
• 1970 ?Robert Dicke, professor of physics; John A. Wheeler, professor of physics
• 1969 ?William Feller ?, professor of mathematics
• 1966 ?John Milnor, professor of mathematics
• 1964 ?Solomon Lefschetz, professor of mathematics

? posthumous

• 2015 ?Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion
• 2014 ?Jhumpa Lahiri, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
• 2012 ?William Bowen Ph.D. *58, president of the University emeritus; Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus
• 2011 ?Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values Emeritus; Robert Darnton, the Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History Emeritus
• 2010 ?Stanley Katz, lecturer with the rank of professor in public and international affairs; Joyce Carol Oates, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities
• 2006 ?Robert Fagles, Arthur Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus; Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus
• 2000 ?Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emeritus

• 2014 ?Manjul Bhargava, the Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics
• 2010 ?Elon Lindenstrauss, professor of mathematics
• 2006 ?Andrei Okounkov, professor of mathematics
• 1986 ?Gerd Faltings, professor of mathematics
• 1982 ?William Thurston, professor of mathematics
• 1978 ?Charles?Fefferman Ph.D. *69, the Herbert Jones University Professor
• 1962 ?John Milnor *54, professor of mathematics

• 2013 ?For music: Caroline Shaw, graduate student, Department of Music
• 2012 ?For poetry: Tracy K. Smith, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities and professor of creative writing?in the Lewis Center for the Arts
• 2003 ?For poetry: Paul Muldoon, the Howard Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts; for fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
• 2002 ?For national reporting: Barton Gellman '82, Ferris Professor of Journalism (as part of a team of Washington Post reporters)
• 2000 ?For fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts; for poetry: C.K. Williams, lecturer with the rank of professor in the Council of the Humanities and the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing
• 1999 ?For general nonfiction: John McPhee '53, Ferris Professor of Journalism
• 1989 ?For history: James McPherson, the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of United States History Emeritus