List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley
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Nobel laureates on Berkeley's faculty can take advantage of special exclusive parking spaces on the Berkeley campus.
This is an alphabetical table of Nobel laureates associated with the University of California, Berkeley, including current and former faculty members and researchers as well as graduates. As of 2011[update], 70 Nobel laureates have been associated with Berkeley.
Berkeley currently has nine Nobel laureates on its faculty, out of the twenty-five full-time faculty members who have won the Prize.
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| Name | Year | Prize | Affiliation with UC Berkeley |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Akerlof (1940– ) | 2001 | Economics | Professor of Economics (1966–1978, 1980– ) |
| Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) | 1968 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1936–88) |
| Werner Arber (1929– ) | 1978 | Medicine | Researcher (1963), Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology (1970–1971) |
| Elizabeth Blackburn (1948– ) | 2009 | Medicine | Professor of Molecular Biology (1978–1990) |
| Felix Bloch (1905–1983) | 1952 | Physics | Cyclotron researcher (1939) |
| Sydney Brenner (1927– ) | 2002 | Medicine | Researcher (1953), Founder of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley (1996) |
| Melvin Calvin (1911–1997) | 1961 | Chemistry | Professor of Chemistry (1947–1997) |
| Thomas Cech (1947– ) | 1989 | Chemistry | PhD 1975 |
| Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006) | 1959 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1958–2006) |
| Steven Chu (1948– ) | 1997 | Physics | PhD 1976, Berkeley Lab Director (2004– ) |
| James Cronin (1931– ) | 1980 | Physics | Researcher at Berkeley Bevatron (1958) |
| Robert Curl (1933– ) | 1996 | Chemistry | PhD 1950 |
| Gérard Debreu (1921–2004) | 1983 | Economics | Professor of Economics (1962–2004) |
| Peter Diamond (1940–) | 2010 | Economics | Professor of Economics (1964–1966) |
| Joseph Erlanger (1895–1965) | 1944 | Medicine | BS 1895 |
| Andrew Fire (1959– ) | 2006 | Medicine | BA 1978 |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932– ) | 1991 | Physics | Postdoctoral 1959 |
| William Giauque (1895–1982) | 1949 | Chemistry | BS 1920, PhD 1922, Professor of Chemistry (1922–1982) |
| Donald A. Glaser (1926– ) | 1960 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1957– ) |
| Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932– ) | 1979 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1960–1966) |
| Carol Greider (1961– ) | 2009 | Medicine | PhD 1987, Molecular Biology |
| David Gross (1941– ) | 2004 | Physics | PhD 1966 |
| John Harsanyi (1920–2000) | 1994 | Economics | Professor of Economics (1964–2000) |
| Alan J. Heeger (1936– ) | 2000 | Chemistry | PhD 1961 |
| Dudley R. Herschbach (1932– ) | 1986 | Chemistry | Professor of Chemistry (1959–63) |
| Daniel Kahneman (1934– ) | 2002 | Economics | PhD 1961, Professor of Psychology (1986–1994) |
| Lawrence Klein (1920– ) | 1980 | Economics | BA 1942 |
| Arthur Kornberg (1918– ) | 1959 | Medicine | Research investigator (1951) |
| Willis Lamb (1913– ) | 1955 | Physics | BS 1934, PhD 1938 |
| Robert B. Laughlin (1950– ) | 1998 | Physics | BS 1972 |
| Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958) | 1939 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1930–1958), Radiation Lab director (1936–1958) |
| Tsung-Dao Lee (1926– ) | 1957 | Physics | Research Associate and Instructor (1950–51) |
| Yuan T. Lee (1936– ) | 1986 | Chemistry | PhD 1965, Professor of Chemistry (1974– ) |
| Willard Libby (1908–1980) | 1960 | Chemistry | BS 1931, PhD 1933, Lecturer (1933–41) |
| John C. Mather (1945– ) | 2006 | Physics | PhD 1974 |
| Daniel McFadden (1937– ) | 2000 | Economics | Professor of Economics (1963–1979, 1990– ) |
| Edwin McMillan (1907–1991) | 1951 | Physics | Professor of Chemistry (1946–1991) |
| Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) | 1980 | Literature | Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (1961–2004) |
| Mario J. Molina (1943– ) | 1995 | Chemistry | PhD 1972 |
| Kary Mullis (1944– ) | 1993 | Chemistry | PhD 1972 |
| Douglass North (1920– ) | 1993 | Economics | BA 1942, PhD 1952 |
| John Howard Northrop (1891–1987) | 1946 | Chemistry | Professor of Chemistry (1949–1987) |
| Saul Perlmutter (1959– ) | 2011 | Physics | PhD 1986, Professor of Physics & LBNL Astrophysicist |
| Stanley B. Prusiner (1942– ) | 1997 | Medicine | Professor of Virology in Residence (1984– ) |
| Adam Riess (1969– ) | 2011 | Physics | Miller Fellow (1996–98) |
| Thomas J. Sargent (1943– ) | 2011 | Economics | BA 1964 |
| Thomas Schelling (1921– ) | 2005 | Economics | BA 1944 |
| Julian Schwinger (1918–1994) | 1965 | Physics | Research fellow (1939–1941) |
| Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999) | 1951 | Chemistry | PhD 1937, Professor of Chemistry (1937–1999), Chancellor (1958–1961) |
| Emilio G. Segrè (1905–1989) | 1959 | Physics | Radiation Lab 1938–46, Professor of Physics (1946–1989) |
| Amartya Sen (1933– ) | 1998 | Economics | Researcher (1964–1965) |
| Herbert Simon (1916–2001) | 1978 | Economics | Research Director (1939–1942) |
| Christopher A. Sims (1942–) | 2011 | Economics | Post-doctoral student (1963–1964) [1] |
| Hamilton O. Smith (1931– ) | 1978 | Medicine | BS 1952 |
| George Smoot (1945– ) | 2006 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1994– ) |
| Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971) | 1946 | Chemistry | Professor of Chemistry (1948–1971) |
| Jack Steinberger (1921– ) | 1988 | Physics | Researcher (1949–1950) |
| Otto Stern (1888–1969) | 1939 | Physics | Professor, LLD 1930 |
| Henry Taube (1915– ) | 1983 | Chemistry | PhD 1940, Instructor (1940–41) |
| Richard E. Taylor (1930– ) | 1990 | Physics | Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1961–62) |
| Charles Hard Townes (1915– ) | 1964 | Physics | Professor of Physics (1967– ) |
| Roger Y. Tsien (1952– ) | 2008 | Chemistry | Professor of Chemistry (1982–89) |
| Harold Urey (1893–1981) | 1934 | Chemistry | PhD 1923 |
| Selman Waksman (1918–1973) | 1952 | Medicine | PhD 1918 |
| Steven Weinberg (1933– ) | 1979 | Physics | Researcher (1959–66) |
| Maurice Wilkins (1916– ) | 1962 | Medicine | Manhattan Project (1941–1945) |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996) | 1973 | Chemistry | Radiation Lab (1946–1949) |
| Oliver E. Williamson (1932– ) | 2009 | Economics | Professor of Business, Economics & Law (1963–65 and 1988– ) |
| Kurt Wüthrich (1938– ) | 2002 | Chemistry | Research investigator (1965) |
| Ahmed Zewail (1946– ) | 1999 | Chemistry | Researcher (1974–1976) |
[edit] References
- ^ Kathleen Maclay (2011-10-10). "Nobel wiiners in economics share a UC Berkeley past". UC Berkeley News Center. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/10/nobel-winners-in-economics-share-a-uc-berkeley-past/.
