What Nobel category have Americans received the most prizes in ?
Four Nobel Prizes were shared by Princeton laureates : James Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics , Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor , Jr. won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics , David Gross and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics , and Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics .