Princeton Scholars

Past and Present

Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey (1932-2017)
Professor of Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Chairman, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission
Elda Anderson (1899-1961)
Manhattan Project
Health Physics
Bruce Blair (1947-2020)
Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security
Karl Taylor Compton (1887-1954)
Assistant Professor of Physics
Harold Feiveson (1935-present)
Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Co-founder & former co-director, Program on Science and Global Security
Member, International Panel on Fissile Materials
Nathaniel H. Furman (1892-1965)
Professor of Chemistry
Manhattan Project
Alexander Glaser
Co-Director of the Program on Science and Global Security
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Public and International Affairs
Robert J. Goldston (1950-present)
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (1997-2009)
Stanley Hall (1924-present)
Manhattan Project
Laboratory Technician and Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Zia Mian
Senior Research Scholar and Co-Director, Program in Science and Global Security (SGS)
Bio by Maria Morales-Salgado and Uzair Malik
John A Phillips (1955-present)
The class of 78
Entrepreneur
CEO Aristotle, INC
Frank Shoemaker (1922-2009)
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Associate Director, Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator (1962-1966)
Henry DeWolf Smyth (1898-1986)
Professor of Physics, Princeton University
Manhattan Project
Lyman Spitzer (1914-1997)
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Project Matterhorn
Hugh Stott Taylor (1890-1974)
Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
Manhattan Project
Frank von Hippel (1937-present)
Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus
Co-Founder, Program on Science and Global Security
John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008)
Professor of Physics, Princeton University
Manhattan Project
Project Matterhorn
Milton G. White (1910-1979)
Professor of Physics
Director, Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator Laboratory (1951-1971)
Eugene Wigner (1902-1995)
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Princeton University
Manhattan Project
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)
Professor of Physics, Princeton University
Manhattan Project