Laureate |
Discipline |
Year of Award |
Bob Dylan
Undergraduate student, College of Science, Literature & Arts, 1959-1960
For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
|
Literature |
2016 |
Lars Peter Hansen
Ph.D., Economics, 1978
For work on empirical analyses of asset prices
|
Economic Sciences |
2013 |
Robert J. Shiller
Faculty, Economics, 1972-1974
For work on empirical analyses of asset prices
|
Economic Sciences |
2013 |
Brian Kobilka
B.S., Biology and Chemistry, 1977
For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
|
Chemistry |
2012 |
Thomas J. Sargent
Faculty, Economics, 1971-1987
Advisory board Member, Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute 2010 - Present
For empirical reseach on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
|
Economic Sciences |
2011 |
Christopher A. Sims
Faculty, Economics, 1970-1990
For empirical reseach on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
|
Economic Sciences |
2011 |
Leonid Hurwicz
Faculty, Economics, 1951- 2008
For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory
|
Economic Sciences |
2007 |
Edward C. Prescott
Faculty, Economics, 1980-2003
For his contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles
|
Economic Sciences |
2004 |
Daniel McFadden
B.S. Physics, 1957; Instructor in Physics 1957-58; Ph.D., Economics, 1962
For his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice
|
Economic Sciences |
2000 |
Louis J. Ignarro
Ph.D., Pharmacology, 1966
For his discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system
|
Physiology or Medicine |
1998 |
Paul D. Boyer
Faculty, Biochemistry, 1945-1963
For elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
|
Chemistry |
1997 |
Edward B. Lewis
B.A., Biostatistics, 1939
For discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development
|
Physiology or Medicine |
1995 |
George J. Stigler
Faculty, Economics, 1938-46
For his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation
|
Economic Sciences |
1982 |
John H. van Vleck
Faculty, Physics, 1923-28
For fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems
|
Physics |
1977 |
Milton Friedman
Faculty, Economics, 1945-1946
For his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy
|
Economic Sciences |
1976 |
Saul Bellow
Faculty, English, 1946
For the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work
|
Literature |
1976 |
William Lipscomb
Faculty, Chemistry, 1946-1959
For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding
|
Chemistry |
1976 |
John Bardeen
Faculty, Physics, 1938-1941
For the jointly developed theory (with Cooper and Schrieffer) of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
|
Physics |
1972 |
Norman Borlaug
B.S, Forestry, 1937; M.S. (1939) and Ph.D. (1942), Plant Pathology
...more than any other single person of this age, he has helped to provide bread for a hungry world
|
Peace |
1970 |
Melvin Calvin
Ph.D., Chemistry, 1935
For his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
|
Chemistry |
1961 |
Walter Brattain
Ph.D., Physics, 1929
For researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
|
Physics |
1956 |
John Bardeen
Faculty, Physics, 1938-1941
For researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
|
Physics |
1956 |
Edward C. Kendall
Faculty, Biochemistry, Mayo Foundation, 1914-1951
For discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
|
Physiology or Medicine |
1950 |
Philip S. Hench
Faculty, Medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1923-1965
For discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
|
Physiology or Medicine |
1950 |
Ernest O. Lawrence
M.A., Physics, 1923
For the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements
|
Physics |
1939 |
Arthur H. Compton
Instructor, Physics, 1917
For his discovery of the effect named after him
|
Physics |
1927 |