Four Princeton researchers receive inaugural Simons Investigators award

Princeton University researchers netted four of the 21 inaugural Simons Investigators awards recently presented to outstanding scientists nationwide in mathematics, physics and computer science. Princeton received the most awards of any institution. The awards provide $100,000 annually for an initial five years to "undertake long-term study of fundamental questions," according to the New York-based Simons Foundation, which supports the award program; the awards can be renewed for an additional five years. Recipients of the award did not know they were being considered. Princeton honorees are as follows with award citations provided by the Simons Foundation. Sanjeev Arora , the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science. "Sanjeev Arora has played a pivotal role in some of the deepest and most influential results in theoretical computer science.