Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University
18 individual laureates in the pinned Nobel Prize API snapshot with this prize-time affiliation. IQ numbers are informal estimates, not tests.
Affiliation is the institution listed at prize time. It is not a ranking of universities by IQ.
| # | Name | Prize | Year | IQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolfgang Pauli | Physics | 1945 | 147Informal estimate |
| 2 | Eugene Wigner | Physics | 1963 | 154Informal estimate |
| 3 | Sir Arthur Lewis | Economic Sciences | 1979 | 147Informal estimate |
| 4 | Val Fitch | Physics | 1980 | 153Informal estimate |
| 5 | Russell A. Hulse | Physics | 1993 | 152Informal estimate |
| 6 | Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | Physics | 1993 | 151Informal estimate |
| 7 | John F. Nash Jr. | Economic Sciences | 1994 | 150Informal estimate |
| 8 | Eric F. Wieschaus | Physiology or Medicine | 1995 | 148Informal estimate |
| 9 | Daniel C. Tsui | Physics | 1998 | 150Informal estimate |
| 10 | Daniel Kahneman | Economic Sciences | 2002 | 151Informal estimate |
| 11 | Paul Krugman | Economic Sciences | 2008 | 148Informal estimate |
| 12 | Christopher A. Sims | Economic Sciences | 2011 | 146Informal estimate |
| 13 | Angus Deaton | Economic Sciences | 2015 | 151Informal estimate |
| 14 | F. Duncan M. Haldane | Physics | 2016 | 154Informal estimate |
| 15 | James Peebles | Physics | 2019 | 148Informal estimate |
| 16 | Syukuro Manabe | Physics | 2021 | 157Informal estimate |
| 17 | David W.C. MacMillan | Chemistry | 2021 | 145Informal estimate |
| 18 | John J. Hopfield | Physics | 2024 | 149Informal estimate |