Natural Sciences

Hirosi Ooguri, former Visiting Professor (2015) and Member (1988–89) in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded a Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, conferred by Japan's Emperor Naruhito on November 3, 2019.

The Medal of Honor was...

On October 18, Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires.

During the ceremony, Maldacena will give a lecture titled "Black Holes and Quantum...

Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor, will give the public lecture "Einstein's Dream—From the Big Bang to Black Holes" during the opening celebration of the Princeton Gravity Initiative on Thursday, November 7.

Dijkgraaf will speak...

“The revolutionary theories of well-known scientists such as Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Gödel have changed the world. But how do the world's greatest thinkers achieve a breakthrough?”

In the new film The World of Thinking, documentarians Thomas Blom...

At the center of our galaxy, millions of stars whirl in orbits around a supermassive black hole. This circuit can take anywhere from a few hours for stars close to the event horizon of the black hole to thousands of years for their distant neighbors...

Writing for Clarín VIVA, Paula Lugones profiles Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences. The two discuss how Zaldarriaga became interested in astronomy and physics, current investigations into the Big Bang, and the future of...

Arnold J. Levine, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, was among the first researchers to independently isolate the p53 protein in 1979. A recognized leader in cancer research and mentor to countless young scholars, Levine’s...

Alex Eskin, a frequent Member in the School of Mathematics who is returning for the 2019–20 academic year, has been awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.

Eskin is recognized for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of...

Rashid Sunyaev, Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has received the 2019 Dirac Medal along with Viatcheslav Mukhanov, a former Member (2002) in the School now Cosmology Chair at the Ludwig...

Where does Clay Cordova, Long-term Member in the School of Natural Sciences since 2015, go to think?

"The Institute for Advanced Study has an afternoon tea time, where he grabs a coffee and a cookie and heads out to a nearby pond to think about a...