普林斯顿最牛的专业应该是数学,过去十几年每届菲尔兹奖,每年阿贝尔奖几乎都有关联。其次是物理,经济,平均每隔一年一次。本世纪后,化学进步不小,三,四年一次。生理医学由于缺少医学院,可能十年一次就不错了,这个是缺板,不过今年突破奖里有一个。
The 2022 Abel Prize was awarded to Dennis Sullivan, a 1966 Ph.D. . The 2021 prize was awarded to Avi Wigderson, a 1983 Ph.D. graduate. The 2020 prize went to Hillel Furstenberg, a 1958 Ph.D. alumnus. The 2019 prize went to Karen Uhlenbeck, a recipient of a 2012 honorary degree who was then a visiting senior research scholar in mathematics at Princeton. Robert Langlands received the 2018 prize for a theory he developed while an associate professor at Princeton.
The 2016 prize went to Andrew Wiles, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus. Late University mathematician John Nash shared the 2015 prize with Louis Nirenberg of New York University. The 2014 prize went to mathematics Professor Yakov Sinai. The 2011 prize went to John Milnor of the Class of 1951, who received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1954 and taught in the department until 1970. John Tate, a 1950 Ph.D. alumnus, won the 2010 prize.