Nobel Prize Awardees
- 2015 - William C. Campbell (M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1957)
Physiology, Medicine: Discovery of drug that lowers incidence of tropical diseases - 2007 - Oliver Smithies (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: for introducing specific gene modifications in mice using embryonic stem cells - 2000 - Jack St. Clair Kilby (M.S. 1950)
Physics: Invention of integrated circuit - 2000 - Alan MacDiarmid (M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1953)
Chemistry: Discovery of polymers that conduct electricity - 1999 - Guenter Blobel (Ph.D. 1967)
Medicine: Discovery of how proteins move into the correct places within a cell - 1997 - Paul D. Boyer (M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943)
Chemistry: Discovery of the process that makes adenosine triphosphate - 1991 - Erwin Neher (M.S. 1967)
Medicine: Discovery of a method to study ion channels in cell membranes - 1979 - Theodore Schultz (M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930)
Economics: Economics of developing countries - 1977 - John Van Vleck (A.B. 1920)
Physics: Contributions to the development of electronic solid state circuitry and to theories of magnetism and conductivity - 1976 - Saul Bellow (M.A. x’37)
Literature - 1975 - Howard Temin (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Retroviruses and cancer research - 1972 - John Bardeen (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929)
Physics: Research on superconductivity - 1972 - Stanford Moore (Ph.D. 1938)
Chemistry: Research on the structure of ribonuclease, a complex protein - 1968 - Har Gobind Khorana (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis - 1963 - E.P. Wigner (faculty)
Physics: Contributions to theories of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles - 1958 - Edward Tatum (M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1934)
Physiology, Medicine: The metabolism of bacteria, yeasts and molds - 1958 - Joshua Lederberg (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Genetics of bacteria - 1956 - John Bardeen (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929)
Physics: Discovery of the transistor effect - 1944 - Joseph Erlanger (faculty) & Herbert Gasser (B.S. 1910)
Physiology, Medicine: Study of the differentiated functions of individual nerve threads