List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Chicago
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This is a comprehensive list of people affiliated with the University of Chicago as alumni, current and former faculty members, students, researchers, and other affiliations. It intends to provide more detailed information about each laureate than Nobel laureates by university affiliation, which merely lists name and affiliation.
Standard list
There are 89 laureates total (the official count includes affiliates for less than one year).
- Luis W. Alvarez
- Gary Becker
- James M. Buchanan
- Owen Chamberlain
- James Cronin
- Clinton Davisson
- Eugene Fama
- Jerome Friedman
- Milton Friedman
- Lars Peter Hansen
- Ernest Lawrence
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- Robert Lucas Jr
- Harry Markowitz
- Robert Millikan
- Robert Mulliken
- Irwin Rose
- F. Sherwood Rowland
- Paul Samuelson
- Myron Scholes
- Herbert A. Simon
- Roger Sperry
- Jack Steinberger
- George Stigler
- Edward Lawrie Tatum
- Daniel Tsui
- James Dewey Watson
- Frank Wilczek
- Chen Ning Yang
- Alexei A. Abrikosov
- Saul Bellow
- Masatoshi Koshiba
- Hans Albrecht Bethe
- Kenneth J. Arrow
- Julian Schwinger
- Eugene P. Wigner
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Werner Heisenberg
- George Wald
- Alexis Carrel
- Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
- Robert Schrieffer
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Enrico Fermi
- James Franck
- Albert Abraham Michelson
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Edward C. Prescott
- James J. Heckman
- Daniel L. McFadden
- Robert A. Mundell
- Robert Fogel
- Ronald H. Coase
- Merton H. Miller
- Trygve Haavelmo
- Gérard Debreu
- Lawrence R. Klein
- Theodore W. Schultz
- Tjalling C. Koopmans
- Friedrich August von Hayek
- Richard E. Smalley
- Paul Crutzen
- Yuan T. Lee
- Henry Taube
- Herbert C. Brown
- Ilya Prigogine
- William H. Stein
- Gerhard Herzberg
- Karl Ziegler
- Willard Frank Libby
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- Charles Brenton Huggins
- Konrad Bloch
- Sir John Carew Eccles
- George Wells Beadle
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Edward Adelbert Doisy
- JM Coetzee
- Bertrand Russell
- Roger Myerson
- Leonid Hurwicz
- Yoichiro Nambu
- Leon M. Lederman
- Harold Clayton Urey
- Barack Obama
- Ada Yonath
- George E. Smith
- Bruce Beutler
- Thomas Sargent
Detailed list
Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale |
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1968 | 75px | Luis Alvarez | Alumnus (B.Sc., 1932; M.Sc., 1934; Ph.D., 1936) | Physics | [1] |
1992 | ![]() |
Gary Becker | Alumnus (A.M., 1953; Ph.D., 1955), faculty | Economics | [2][3] |
1976 | ![]() |
Saul Bellow | Attended (listed by UChicago as "X. '39"), faculty (1962–1993)[4] | Literature | "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"[5] |
1979 | Herbert C. Brown | Alumnus (B.S., 1936; Ph.D., 1938), faculty | Chemistry | [6] | |
1986 | James M. Buchanan | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1948) | Economics | [7] | |
1959 | ![]() |
Owen Chamberlain | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1949) | Physics | [8] |
1980 | ![]() |
James Cronin | Alumnus (M.S., 1953; Ph.D., 1955) | Physics | [9] |
1937 | Clinton Davisson | Alumnus (B.S., 1908) | Physics | [10] | |
1990 | Jerome Friedman | Alumnus (B.S., 1950; M.S., 1953; Ph.D., 1956) | Physics | [11] | |
1976 | Milton Friedman | Alumnus (M.A., 1933), faculty | Economics | [12] | |
1925 | ![]() |
Ernest Lawrence | Student (one year) | Physics | [13] |
1957 | Tsung-Dao Lee | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1950) | Physics | ||
1995 | Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr. | Economics | |||
1990 | Harry Markowitz | Economics | |||
1923 | ![]() |
Robert Millikan | Physics | ||
1966 | Robert Mulliken | Chemistry | |||
2004 | ![]() |
Irwin Rose | Chemistry | ||
1995 | 75px | Frank Sherwood Rowland | Chemistry | ||
1970 | ![]() |
Paul Samuelson | Economics | ||
1997 | ![]() |
Myron Scholes (shared with Robert C. Merton) | Alumnus (M.B.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1969),[14] Faculty (Booth School of Business, 1973–1983)[14][15] | Economics | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"[15] |
1978 | Herbert A. Simon | Alumnus (Class of 1936; Ph.D., 1943)[16] | Economics | "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations"[17] | |
1981 | Roger Wolcott Sperry (shared with David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel) | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1941), faculty (1946–1953)[18] | Medicine | "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres" (alone)[19] | |
1988 | Jack Steinberger (shared with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz) | Alumnus (Class of 1942,[20] Ph.D. 1948[21]) | Physics | "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"[22] | |
1925 | ![]() |
James Franck (shared with Gustav Hertz) | Faculty/researcher (1938–1956)[23] | Physics | "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"[24] |
1982 | George Stigler | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1938),[25] Faculty (1958–1991)[26] | Economics | "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation"[27] | |
1958 | Edward Lawrie Tatum (shared with George Beadle) | Alumnus (Class of 1931; M.S. 1932; Ph.D. 1934)[28] | Medicine | "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"[29] | |
1988 | Daniel C. Tsui (shared with Robert Laughlin and Horst Störmer) | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1967)[30] | Physics | "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"[31] | |
1962 | James D. Watson (shared with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins) | Alumnus (Class of 1947)[32] | Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"[33] | |
2004 | 75px | Frank Wilczek (shared with David Gross and H. David Politzer) | Alumnus (Class of 1970)[34] | Physics | "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"[35] |
1957 | ![]() |
Chen Ning Yang (shared with Tsung-Dao Lee) | Alumnus (Ph.D., 1948)[4] | Physics | "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"[36] |
2003 | ![]() |
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (shared with Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett) | Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory (operated by the University of Chicago)[37] | Physics | "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"[38] |
2002 | Masatoshi Koshiba (shared with Raymond Davis, Jr. and Riccardo Giacconi) | Research Associate (Department of Physics, 1955–1958); Senior Research Associate with the honorary rank of Associate Professor and Acting Director (Laboratory of High Energy Physics and Cosmic Radiation, Department of Physics, 1959–1962)[39] | Physics | "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"[40] |
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External links
- Official website of the University of Chicago
- Official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Official website of the Nobel Foundation
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