There are lots of Nobel Prizes floating around this area.

[NNadir]

The fun of living in the Princeton area is you get to see these people walking around.

I used to see John Nash riding on the train, or once, waiting on line at a Japanese fast food restaurant in a mall.

I once waited on a line with Toni Morisson at a falafel joint.

Now more opportunities for the same.

Two more Nobels in two days.

When I was growing up I thought of New Jersey as a kind of ugly pit you had to drive through to get somewhere to which it was worth going.

Man I was a stupid kid! I should have gotten out of the car.

Living in New Jersey is a kind of nirvana.

This said I felt that Katalin Kariko deserved either medicine or chemistry, especially because of all the grief she experienced in the path to saving millions of lives.

Wait 'til next year!

[NNadir]

1. Maria Ressa, 2021 Peace Prize Laureate, graduated from Princton U in 1986.

It's been a pretty good Nobel season, three Nobels for University associated people, Chemistry, Physics, and Peace.

They are all related subjects by the way if one really reflects on it.

[Ocelot II]

2. Thomas Mann, who won the literature prize in 1929, lived there.

He was living in Germany at the time he got the award but moved to Princeton after it got really scary in Germany. Princeton seems to have attracted a lot of talented people, like Einstein, another Nobel winner, who left Germany at about the same time as Mann.