Nobel Laureates and Leading Scientists Endorse Sam Wang for Congress
Nobel Laureates and Leading Scientists Endorse Sam Wang for Congress, Warning Attacks on Science Threaten America’s Future.
PRINCETON, NJ - Nobel laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, and leading researchers across New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District are endorsing Princeton neuroscientist Sam Wang for Congress, warning that federal attacks on science, public health, and research funding threaten America’s future.
The endorsers include scientists from Princeton University, Rutgers University, The College of New Jersey, and the Institute for Advanced Study, including former Princeton University president Shirley M. Tilghman and Nobel laureate John Hopfield, a founder of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
“The Nobel laureates include winners in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine,” said Dr. Sam Wang. “There are also two winners of the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor given by the United States, as well as multiple members of the National Academy of Sciences and leaders in education throughout central New Jersey.”
“These people have played a foundational role in machine learning, artificial intelligence, unlocking secrets of the universe, biology, and medicine,” Wang added.
In their endorsement, the scientists warned that the administration’s attacks on research funding and public health institutions are jeopardizing America’s global leadership in science.
“American science has produced countless benefits and jobs for our society,” the group wrote. “Yet the administration is systematically attacking science, life-saving medical research, and democracy itself. Congress needs representatives who will fight to preserve science. We enthusiastically endorse Sam Wang.”
Wang said the stakes of the election are about more than politics—they are about whether the United States continues to invest in the discoveries that improve everyday life.
“Science and technology have always benefited from fundamental advances made in New Jersey,” Wang said. “Those advances include the lightbulb, the transistor, the laser, advances in cancer treatment, and artificial intelligence.”
“These advances have made life better and easier for hundreds of millions of Americans.”
Wang, who founded the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and helped challenge rigged electoral maps across the country, said Congress must defend both democratic institutions and the scientific enterprise.
“If we undermine science and drive talent away, other countries will lead the next century of discovery,” Wang said. “We should be strengthening the innovation ecosystem that built America’s prosperity—not tearing it down.”