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How PAW has covered Princeton since 1900
Elena Kagan ’81
Justice Kagan was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2010 by President Barack Obama. She was dean of Harvard Law School and the first woman to serve as
Sonia Sotomayor ’76
Justice Sotomayor was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2009. Born in the Bronx, she studied history and won the Pyne Prize
F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917
Famously, Fitzgerald set his Jazz Age novel This Side of Paradise at Princeton, and reportedly died while reading the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Alan Turing *38
Considered the father of computer science, Turing is known for helping to break the codes created by Germany’s Enigma machine during World War II.
Hobey Baker 1914
Baker was a legendary hockey and football player who died in 1918 when the military airplane he was flying crashed. His friends and admirers raised
Toni Morrison
Morrison taught creative writing at Princeton and in 1993 received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her lauded novels include The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song
Alan Blinder ’67
Blinder is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton who served on President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and then as
Lyman Spitzer *38
Known as the “father of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Spitzer returned to Princeton in 1947 to serve as chair of the Department of Astrophysical
Albert Einstein
Likely the world’s most famous theoretical physicist, Einstein developed the theory of relativity and was a resident scholar at the Institute for
Woodrow Wilson 1879
Wilson served as president of Princeton, governor of New Jersey, and president of the United States, but his controversial history of racism led the
Michelle Obama ’85
Obama is an author and attorney who served as first lady of the United States during her husband’s presidency from 2009-17.
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May 2026
The Attentionauts; Philip Stoltzfus ’79 and Lebanese American University in wartime.
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