Awarded for achievement in chemistry, economics sciences, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine (see the Nobel Foundation web site for details and history about this award). Twenty-five individuals who have been faculty or students at the University have won a Nobel Prize.
Laureate | Discipline | Year of Award |
Undergraduate student, College of Science, Literature & Arts, 1959-1960 For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition |
Literature | 2016 |
Ph.D., Economics, 1978 For work on empirical analyses of asset prices |
Economic Sciences | 2013 |
Faculty, Economics, 1972-1974 For work on empirical analyses of asset prices |
Economic Sciences | 2013 |
B.S., Biology and Chemistry, 1977 For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors |
Chemistry | 2012 |
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 |
Faculty, Economics, 1970-1990 For empirical reseach on cause and effect in the macroeconomy |
Economic Sciences | 2011 |
Faculty, Economics, 1951- 2008 For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory |
Economic Sciences | 2007 |
Edward C. Prescott For his contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles |
Economic Sciences | 2004 |
Daniel McFadden For his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice |
Economic Sciences | 2000 |
Louis J. Ignarro For his discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system |
Physiology or Medicine | 1998 |
Paul D. Boyer For elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) |
Chemistry | 1997 |
Edward B. Lewis For discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development |
Physiology or Medicine | 1995 |
George J. Stigler For his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation |
Economic Sciences | 1982 |
John H. van Vleck For fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems |
Physics | 1977 |
Milton Friedman 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 For the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work |
Literature | 1976 |
William Lipscomb For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding |
Chemistry | 1976 |
John Bardeen For the jointly developed theory (with Cooper and Schrieffer) of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory |
Physics | 1972 |
Norman Borlaug ...more than any other single person of this age, he has helped to provide bread for a hungry world |
Peace | 1970 |
Melvin Calvin For his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants |
Chemistry | 1961 |
Walter Brattain For researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect |
Physics | 1956 |
John Bardeen For researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect |
Physics | 1956 |
Edward C. Kendall For discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects |
Physiology or Medicine | 1950 |
Philip S. Hench For discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects |
Physiology or Medicine | 1950 |
Ernest O. Lawrence 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 For his discovery of the effect named after him |
Physics | 1927 |