Princeton University

[edit] Princeton University in Film

• A Beautiful Mind
  • Brilliant mathematician and Nobel laureate John Nash (Russel Crowe) makes his seminal breakthrough while receiving his PhD at Princeton, discovering the Nash equilibrium that is now a cornerstone of economic theory. He later returns to Princeton with his wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) in the midst of his ordeal with schizophrenia and is instated as a professor.

• Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
  • Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) stop by Princeton on their way to White Castle.

• Serpico
  • Jerry Berman (Lewis J. Stadlen), the mayor's right-hand man, went to Princeton.

• She's Out Of Control
  • Timothy (Matthew Perry) states that both his father and grandfather went to Princeton. Regardless, he will be going to Yale in the fall.

• Slap Shot
  • Right wing Ned Braden (Michael Ontkean) went to Princeton and was All-Eastern.

[edit] Princeton University on TV

• House M.D.
  • House takes place at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
  • Exterior shots of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital are actually Princeton's Frist Campus Center.

• The West Wing
  • Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) graduated magna cum laude from Princeton.
  • Season 2, Episode 5, "And It's Surely To Their Credit", Sam Seaborn points out that he was Recording Secretary of the Princeton Gilbert & Sullivan Society.