Jersey Proud: Princeton graduate wins Nobel Prize

Mary Brunkow got the phone call on Monday morning from her home in Seattle.

News 12 Staff

Oct 7, 2025, 2:23 AM

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A Princeton graduate is making headlines for winning a Nobel Prize.
Mary Brunkow got the phone call on Monday morning from her home in Seattle informing her that she won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for her work on learning how the immune system works.
Brunkow got her doctorate at Princeton in 1991.
She is the 19th Princeton graduate to win a Nobel Prize.