List of Nobel laureates affiliated with California Institute of Technology
This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with California Institute of Technology comprehensively shows the alumni, faculty members as well as researchers of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) who were awarded the Nobel Prize or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes, established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, are awarded to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.[1] An associated prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics), was instituted by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.[2]
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As of October 2020, 76 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Caltech, and 40 of them are officially listed as "Caltech's Nobel Laureates" by the institute.[3] Among the 76 laureates, 70 are Nobel laureates in natural sciences;[lower-alpha 1] 24 are Caltech alumni (graduates and attendees) and 21 have been long-term academic members of the Caltech faculty or Caltech-affiliated research organizations; and subject-wise, 31 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject.[lower-alpha 2] This list considers Nobel laureates as equal individuals and does not consider their various prize shares or if they received the prize more than once.[4] In particular, Linus Pauling is the only Caltech-affiliated Nobel laureate to win two Nobel prizes: he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962;[5] since this is a list of laureates, not prizes, he is counted only once.
Inclusion criteria
General rules
The university affiliations in this list are all official academic affiliations such as degree programs and official academic employment. Non-academic affiliations such as advisory committee and administrative staff are generally excluded. The official academic affiliations fall into three categories: 1) Alumni (graduates and attendees), 2) Long-term Academic Staff, and 3) Short-term Academic Staff. Graduates are defined as those who hold Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate, or equivalent degrees from Caltech, while attendees are those who formally enrolled in a degree program at Caltech but did not complete the program; thus, honorary degrees, posthumous degrees, summer attendees, exchange students, and auditing students are excluded. The category of "Long-term Academic Staff" consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of "Short-term Academic Staff" consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers (postdocs), visiting professors/scholars (visitors), and equivalent academic positions. At Caltech, the specific academic title solely determines the type of affiliation, regardless of the actual time the position was held by a laureate.
Further explanations on "visitors" under "Short-term Academic Staff" are presented as follows. 1) All informal or personal visits are excluded from the list; 2) all employment-based visiting positions, which carry teaching/research duties, are included as affiliations in the list; 3) as for award/honor-based visiting positions, to minimize controversy this list takes a conservative view and includes the positions as affiliations only if the laureates were required to assume employment-level duty (teaching/research) or the laureates specifically classified the visiting positions as "affiliation" or similar in reliable sources such as their curriculum vita. To be specific, some award/honor-based visiting positions such as the "Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar" and "Gordon Moore Distinguished Scholar" at Caltech are awards/honors without employment-level duty.[6][7]
In particular, attending meetings and giving public lectures, talks or non-curricular seminars at Caltech is not a form of employment-level duty. Finally, summer visitors are generally excluded from the list unless summer work yielded significant end products such as research publications and components of Nobel-winning work, since summer terms are not part of formal academic years. There were a number of Nobel laureates who visited Caltech upon the invitation of Robert Millikan during 1920-30s.[8] Most of these laureates were simply giving public lectures or non-curricular seminars at Caltech and thus are excluded from the list. There are a few exceptions including Albert Einstein.
Name | Nobel Prize | Year | Role in California Institute of Technology |
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Sydney Brenner | Physiology or Medicine | 2002 | Summer researcher in 1960.[9][10] |
Barry Sharpless | Chemistry | 2001 | 1987 Fairchild Visiting Scholar. |
Dudley Herschbach | Chemistry | 1986 | 1976 Fairchild Visiting Scholar. |
Yuan T. Lee | Chemistry | 1986 | 1983 Fairchild Visiting Scholar. |
John Polanyi | Chemistry | 1986 | 1982 Fairchild Visiting Scholar. |
François Jacob | Physiology or Medicine | 1965 | Summer researcher in 1960.[11] |
Affiliated organizations
This list does not include Nobel-winning organizations or any individuals affiliated with those organizations. It also doesn't include affiliates of institutions that later merged and became part of Caltech.
- Official academic affiliates of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are included in the following list.[12]
Summary
All types of affiliations, namely alumni, long-term and short-term academic staff, count equally in the following table and throughout the whole page.[lower-alpha 3]
In the following list, the number following a person's name is the year they received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while they were working at Caltech (including emeritus staff). A name underlined implies that this person has already been listed in a previous category (i.e., multiple affiliations).
Nobel laureates by category
Nobel laureates in Physics
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with California Institute of Technology |
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31 | Andrea M. Ghez | 2020 | Ph.D (1992)[13] |
30 | Didier Queloz | 2019 | Distinguished Visiting Scientist (1997-1999)[14] |
29 | Kip Thorne | 2017 | B.S (1962); Professor (1967- ); Research Fellow (1966-1967)[15] |
28 | Barry Barish | 2017 | Professor (1966- ); Research Fellow (1963-1966)[16] |
27 | Arthur B. McDonald | 2015 | PhD (1969)[17] |
26 | Theodor Hänsch | 2005 | Gordon Moore Distinguished Scholar (2001)[18] |
25 | Roy Glauber | 2005 | Lecturer in Theoretical Physics (1951-1952)[19] |
24 | David Politzer | 2004 | Professor (1976-); Visiting Associate (1975-1976)[20] |
23 | Masatoshi Koshiba | 2002 | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (April 1995 to March 1997)[21] |
22 | Gerard 't Hooft | 1999 | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (17 January-13 June 1981)[22][23] |
21 | Douglas Osheroff | 1996 | B.S (1967)[24] |
20 | William A. Fowler | 1983 | PhD (1936); Professor (1939-1995); Research Fellow in Nuclear Physics (1936-1939)[25] |
19 | Kenneth G. Wilson | 1982 | PhD (1961)[26] |
18 | Nicolaas Bloembergen | 1981 | Visiting Professor, including Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar[27][28] |
17 | Sheldon Glashow | 1979 | Research Fellow (1960-1961)[29] |
16 | Robert W. Wilson | 1978 | PhD (1962); Research Associate (1962-1963)[30] |
15 | James Rainwater | 1975 | B.S (1939)[31] |
14 | Murray Gell-Mann | 1969 | Professor (1955-2019)[32] |
13 | Hans Bethe | 1967 | Visiting Professor (1964, 1982, 1985, 1987)[33] |
12 | Richard Feynman | 1965 | Professor (1951-1988)[34] |
11 | Charles Townes | 1964 | PhD (1939)[35] |
10 | Hans D. Jensen | 1963 | Visiting Professor (1953)[36][37] |
9 | Rudolf Mössbauer | 1961 | Professor (1961-); Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow (1960-1961)[38] |
8 | Donald Glaser | 1960 | PhD (1950)[39] |
7 | William Shockley | 1956 | B.S (1932); Visiting Professor (1954)[40] |
6 | Carl D. Anderson | 1936 | B.S (1927), PhD (1930); Professor (1933-); Research Fellow (1930-1933)[41] |
5 | C. V. Raman | 1930 | Visiting Professor (1924, four months)[42] |
4 | Robert Millikan | 1923 | Professor (1921-1953)[43] |
3 | Albert Einstein | 1921 | Visiting Professor (1931, 1932, 1933)[44][45] |
2 | Albert Michelson | 1907 | Visiting Professor[46] |
1 | Hendrik Lorentz | 1902 | Visiting Lecturer (1921, 1922, 1924, 1926)[44][47][48] |
Nobel laureates in Chemistry
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with California Institute of Technology |
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17 | Frances Arnold | 2018 | Professor; Postdoctoral Researcher (1986)[49] |
16 | Joachim Frank | 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher (1970)[50] |
15 | Eric Betzig | 2014 | B.S (1983)[51] |
14 | Martin Karplus | 2014 | PhD (1953)[52] |
13 | Thomas Steitz | 2009 | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1984-1985)[53][54] |
12 | Gerhard Ertl | 2007 | Visiting Professor under Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholarship (1976-1977)[55] |
11 | Richard Schrock | 2005 | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1986)[56][57] |
10 | Robert Grubbs | 2005 | Professor (1978-) [58][59] |
9 | Kurt Wüthrich | 2002 | Visiting Associate (1995); Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1994)[60] |
8 | Ahmed Zewail | 1999 | Professor (1976- )[61] |
7 | Mario Molina | 1995 | JPL Senior Research Scientist (1984-1989)[62] |
6 | Rudolph Marcus | 1992 | Professor (1978- )[63] |
5 | William Lipscomb | 1976 | PhD (1946)[64] |
4 | Jaroslav Heyrovský | 1959 | Carnegie Visiting Professor with teaching duty (1933)[65][66] |
3 | Lord Todd | 1957 | Visiting Professor (1938, six months)[67][68] |
2 | Linus Pauling | 1954 | PhD (1925); Professor[69] |
1 | Edwin McMillan | 1951 | B.S (1928), M.S (1929)[70] |
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with California Institute of Technology |
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22 | Charles M. Rice | 2020 | PhD (1981)[71] |
21 | Michael Rosbash | 2017 | B.S (1965)[72][73] |
20 | Jeffrey C. Hall | 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher[74] |
19 | John Gurdon | 2012 | Postdoctoral Researcher[75] |
18 | Robert G. Edwards | 2010 | Postdoctoral Researcher[76] |
17 | Leland Hartwell | 2001 | B.S (1961)[77][78] |
16 | Edward B. Lewis | 1995 | M.S (1943), PhD (1942); Professor (1948-2004)[79] |
15 | Phillip Sharp | 1993 | Postdoctoral Researcher[80] |
14 | Erwin Neher | 1991 | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1989)[81] |
13 | Niels Jerne | 1984 | Research Fellow (1954-1955)[82] |
12 | Barbara McClintock | 1983 | Visiting Professor (1954)[83] |
11 | Roger Sperry | 1981 | Professor (1954-1994)[84] |
10 | Carleton Gajdusek | 1976 | Postdoctoral Researcher[85] |
9 | Howard Temin | 1975 | PhD (1959)[86] |
8 | Renato Dulbecco | 1975 | Professor (1949-1962)[87] |
7 | David Baltimore | 1975 | Professor (1997- )[88] |
6 | Max Delbrück | 1969 | Professor (1947-); Rockefeller Fellow (1937)[89][90] |
5 | Robert W. Holley | 1968 | Guggenheim Fellow (1955-1956)[91][92] |
4 | Jacques Monod | 1965 | Rockefeller Fellow (1936)[93][94] |
3 | James Watson | 1962 | Senior Research Fellow (1953-1955)[95] |
2 | George Beadle | 1958 | Professor; National Research Council Fellow (1931)[96] |
1 | Thomas H. Morgan | 1933 | Professor (1928-1945)[97] |
Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with California Institute of Technology |
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6 | Lloyd Shapley | 2012 | Senior Research Fellow (1955-1956)[98] |
5 | Dale Mortensen | 2010 | Visiting Professor (1994)[99] |
4 | Leonid Hurwicz | 2007 | Visiting Professor (1999), Distinguished Scholar (1984)[100] |
3 | Vernon L. Smith | 2002 | B.S; Visiting Professor (1975)[101] |
2 | Daniel McFadden | 2000 | Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar (1990)[102] |
1 | Robert C. Merton | 1997 | M.S (1967)[103] |
Nobel laureates in Literature
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with California Institute of Technology |
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Nobel Peace Prize laureates
No. | Name | Year | Affiliation with California Institute of Technology |
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1 | Linus Pauling | 1954 | PhD (1925); Professor[69] |
Notes
- The total number of laureates in natural sciences: Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
- For verification, see "Summary".
- This is because, according to Wikipedia policies on no original research and objectivity/neutrality, it is not possible in Wikipedia to subjectively assign various weights to different types of affiliations.
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