Nobel Prize

Bob Dylan

Undergraduate student, College of Science, Literature & Arts, 1959-1960

For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition

Lars Peter Hansen

Ph.D., Economics, 1978

For work on empirical analyses of asset prices

Robert J. Shiller

Faculty, Economics, 1972-1974

For work on empirical analyses of asset prices

Brian Kobilka

B.S., Biology and Chemistry, 1977

For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

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

Christopher A. Sims

Faculty, Economics, 1970-1990

For empirical reseach on cause and effect in the macroeconomy

Leonid Hurwicz

Faculty, Economics, 1951- 2008

For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory

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

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

Louis J. Ignarro 
Ph.D., Pharmacology, 1966

For his discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system

Paul D. Boyer 
Faculty, Biochemistry, 1945-1963

For elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Edward B. Lewis
B.A., Biostatistics, 1939

For discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development

George J. Stigler 
Faculty, Economics, 1938-46

For his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation

John H. van Vleck 
Faculty, Physics, 1923-28

For fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

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

Saul Bellow 
Faculty, English, 1946

For the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work

William Lipscomb 
Faculty, Chemistry, 1946-1959

For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding

John Bardeen 
Faculty, Physics, 1938-1941

For the jointly developed theory (with Cooper and Schrieffer) of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory

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

Melvin Calvin 
Ph.D., Chemistry, 1935

For his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants

Walter Brattain 
Ph.D., Physics, 1929

For researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect

John Bardeen 
Faculty, Physics, 1938-1941

For researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect

Edward C. Kendall 
Faculty, Biochemistry, Mayo Foundation, 1914-1951

For discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects

Philip S. Hench 
Faculty, Medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1923-1965

For discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects

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

Arthur H. Compton
Instructor, Physics, 1917

For his discovery of the effect named after him