List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Chicago

List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University of Chicago is a comprehensive list of people affiliated with the University of Chicago as alumni, current and former faculty members, students, researchers, and other affiliations. It intends to provide more detailed information about each laureate than Nobel laureates by university affiliation, which merely lists name and affiliation.

Contents

Standard List

87 laureates total (The official count includes affiliates for less than one year)

  1. Luis W. Alvarez
  2. Gary Becker
  3. James M. Buchanan
  4. Owen Chamberlain
  5. James Cronin
  6. Clinton Davisson
  7. Jerome Friedman
  8. Milton Friedman
  9. Ernest Lawrence
  10. Tsung-Dao Lee
  11. Robert Lucas Jr
  12. Harry Markowitz
  13. Robert Millikan
  14. Robert Mulliken
  15. Irwin Rose
  16. F. Sherwood Rowland
  17. Paul Samuelson
  18. Myron Scholes
  19. Herbert Simon
  20. Roger Sperry
  21. Jack Steinberger
  22. George Stigler
  23. Edward Lawrie Tatum
  24. Daniel Tsui
  25. James Dewey Watson
  26. Frank Wilczek
  27. Chen Ning Yang
  28. Alexei A. Abrikosov
  29. Saul Bellow
  30. Masatoshi Koshiba
  31. Hans Albrecht Bethe
  32. Kenneth J. Arrow
  33. Julian Schwinger
  34. Eugene P. Wigner
  35. Maria Goeppert-Mayer
  36. Werner Heisenberg
  37. George Wald
  38. Alexis Carrel
  39. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
  40. Robert Schrieffer
  41. Murray Gell-Mann
  42. Enrico Fermi
  43. James Franck
  44. Albert Abraham Michelson
  45. Arthur Holly Compton
  46. Edward C. Prescott
  47. James J. Heckman
  48. Daniel L. McFadden
  49. Robert A. Mundell
  50. Robert Fogel
  51. Ronald H. Coase
  52. Merton H. Miller
  53. Trygve Haavelmo
  54. Gerard Debreu
  55. Lawrence R. Klein
  56. Theodore W. Schultz
  57. Tjalling C. Koopmans
  58. Friedrich August von Hayek
  59. Richard E. Smalley
  60. Paul Crutzen
  61. Yuan T. Lee
  62. Henry Taube
  63. Herbert C. Brown
  64. Ilya Prigogine
  65. William H. Stein
  66. Gerhard Herzberg
  67. Karl Ziegler
  68. Willard Frank Libby
  69. Glenn Theodore Seaborg
  70. Charles Brenton Huggins
  71. Konrad Bloch
  72. Sir John Carew Eccles
  73. George Wells Beadle
  74. Hermann Joseph Muller
  75. Edward Adelbert Doisy
  76. JM Coetzee
  77. Bertrand Russell
  78. Roger Myerson
  79. Leonid Hurwicz
  80. Yoichiro Nambu
  81. Leon M. Lederman
  82. Harold Clayton Urey
  83. Barack Obama
  84. Ada Yonath
  85. George E. Smith
  86. Bruce Beutler
  87. Thomas Sargent

Detailed List

Year Image Laureate Relation Category Rationale
1968 Alvarez, LuisLuis Alvarez Alumnus (B.Sc, 1932; M.Sc., 1934; Ph.D., 1936) Physics [1]
1992 Becker, GaryGary Becker Alumnus (A.M., 1953; Ph.D., 1955), Faculty Economics [2][3]
1976 Bellow, SaulSaul Bellow Attended (listed by UChicago as "X. '39"), Faculty (1962–1993)[4] Literature "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"[5]
1979 Brown, Herbert C.Herbert C. Brown Alumnus (B.S., 1936; Ph.D., 1938), Faculty Chemistry [6]
1986 Buchanan, James M.James M. Buchanan Alumnus (Ph.D., 1948) Economics [7]
1959 Chamberlain, OwenOwen Chamberlain Alumnus (Ph.D., 1949) Physics [8]
1980 Cronin, JamesJames Cronin Alumnus (M.S., 1953; Ph.D., 1955) Physics [9]
1937 Davisson, ClintonClinton Davisson Alumnus (B.S., 1908) Physics [10]
1990 Friedman, JeromeJerome Friedman Alumnus (B.S., 1950; M.S., 1953; Ph.D., 1956) Physics [11]
1976 Friedman, MiltonMilton Friedman Alumnus (M.A., 1933), Faculty Economics [12]
1925 Lawrence, ErnestErnest Lawrence Student (one year) Physics [13]
1957 Lee, Tsung-DaoTsung-Dao Lee Physics
1995 Lucas, Jr., Robert EmersonRobert Emerson Lucas, Jr. Economics
1990 Markowitz, HarryHarry Markowitz Economics
1923 Millikan, RobertRobert Millikan Physics
1966 Mulliken, RobertRobert Mulliken Chemistry
2004 Rose, IrwinIrwin Rose Chemistry
1995 Rowland, Frank SherwoodFrank Sherwood Rowland Chemistry
1970 Samuelson, PaulPaul Samuelson Economics
1997 Scholes, MyronMyron Scholes (shared with Robert C. Merton) Alumnus (M.B.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1969)[14], Faculty (Booth School of Business, 1973–1983)[14][15] Economics "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"[15]
1978 Simon, HerbertHerbert Simon Alumnus (Class of 1936; Ph.D., 1943)[16] Economics "for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations"[17]
1981 Sperry, Roger WolcottRoger Wolcott Sperry (shared with David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel) Alumnus (Ph.D., 1941), Faculty (1946–1953)[18] Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres" (alone)[19]
1988 Steinberger, JackJack Steinberger (shared with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz) Alumnus (Class of 1942[20], Ph.D. 1948[21]) Physics "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"[22]
1925 Franck, JamesJames Franck (shared with Gustav Hertz) Faculty/researcher (1938–1956)[23] Physics "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"[24]
1982 Stigler, GeorgeGeorge Stigler Alumnus (Ph.D., 1938)[25], Faculty (1958–1991)[26] Economics "for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation"[27]
1958 Tatum, Edward LawrieEdward Lawrie Tatum (shared with George Beadle) Alumnus (Class of 1931; M.S. 1932; Ph.D. 1934)[28] Medicine "for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"[29]
1988 Tsui, Daniel C.Daniel C. Tsui (shared with Robert Laughlin and Horst Störmer) Alumnus (Ph.D., 1967)[30] Physics "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"[31]
1962 Watson, James D.James D. Watson (shared with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins) Alumnus (Class of 1947)[32] Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"[33]
2004 Wilczek, FrankFrank Wilczek (shared with David Gross and H. David Politzer) Alumnus (Class of 1970)[34] Physics "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"[35]
1957 Yang, Chen NingChen Ning Yang (shared with Tsung-Dao Lee) Alumnus (Ph.D., 1948)[4] Physics "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"[36]
2003 Abrikosov, Alexei AlexeyevichAlexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (shared with Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett) Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory (operated by the University of Chicago)[37] Physics "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"[38]
2002 Koshiba, MasatoshiMasatoshi Koshiba (shared with Raymond Davis, Jr. and Riccardo Giacconi) Research Associate (Department of Physics, 1955–1958); Senior Research Associate with the honorary rank of Associate Professor and Acting Director (Laboratory of High Energy Physics and Cosmic Radiation, Department of Physics, 1959–1962)[39] Physics "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"[40]

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