Denotes Nobel Prize Winners • Updated September 2011
Yakir Aharonov(Physics) Professor, Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA; also, Emeritus Professor, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, and University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA (joint appointment)
Shizuo Akira(Medicine)
Professor, Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Armen A. Alchian(Economics)
Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
Alberto Alesina(Economics)
Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA
Victor R. Ambros(Medicine)
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA USA
Alain Aspect(Physics)
CNRS Distinguished Scientist and Head of the Atom Optics Group, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau France
Allen J. Bard(Chemistry)
Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry and Director of the Center for Electrochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX USA
Robert J. Barro(Economics)
Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Jacqueline K. Barton(Chemistry)
Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Adriaan Bax(Chemistry)
Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Section Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Gary S. Becker(1992, Economics)
Professor, University of Chicago, USA
Charles L. Bennett(Physics)
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
Sir Michael J. Berridge, FRS(Medicine)
Deputy Scientific Director and Head, Molecular Signaling, The Babraham Institute
Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Honorary Professor of Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
J. Michael Bishop(1989, Medicine)
Professor, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Elizabeth H. Blackburn(2009, Medicine)
Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sydney Brenner(2002, Medicine)
The Molecular Sciences Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
Patrick O. Brown(Chemistry)
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pierre Chambon(Medicine)
Former Director,
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Universität Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France; and Professor, College de France, Paris, France.
John F. Clauser(Physics)
Research Physicist, J.F. Clauser & Associates, Walnut Creek, CA USA
Ronald H. Coase(1991, Economics)
Editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago
Robert L. Coffman(Medicine)
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, CA USA
Douglas L. Coleman(Medicine)
Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME USA
Francis S. Collins(Medicine)
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Senior Investigator, Genome Technology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Rory Collins(Medicine)
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Elias J. Corey(1990, Chemistry)
Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Samuel J. Danishefsky(Chemistry) Laboratory Head, Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, and Eugene W. Kettering Chair, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Harold Demsetz(Economics)
Arthur Andersen UCLA Alumni Emeritus Professor of Business Economics, Department of Economics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
Emmanuel Desurvire(Physics)
Director, Thales Physics Research Group, Palaiseau, France, since early 2007
Douglas W. Diamond(Economics)
Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
Brian J. Druker(Medicine)
JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and Director, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR USA
Thomas W. Ebbesen(Physics)
Professor, University of Strasbourg, and Director, ISIS (Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering), Strasbourg, France
Robert F. Engle(2003, Economics)
Michael Armellino Professor in the Management of Financial Services, New York University Stern School of Business, New York, N.Y.
Eugene F. Fama(Economics)
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Jean M. J. Fréchet(Chemistry)
Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical Engineering and Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA USA, and Vice President of Research, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Kenneth R. French(Economics)
Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
Jeffrey M. Friedman(Medicine)
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jordi Gali(Economics) Professor,
Department of Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in International Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Andre K. Geim(2010, Physics)
FRS, Langworthy Research Professor, Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, and Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Bernd Giese(Chemistry) Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Alfred G. Gilman(1994, Medicine)
Dean of University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas
Clive W. J. Granger(2003, Economics)
Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
Michael Grätzel(Chemistry) Professor and Director, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Michael B. Green, FRS(Physics)
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics, Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Robert H. Grubbs(2005, Chemistry)
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
Sajeev John(Physics)
University Professor of Physics and Canada Research Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Dale W. Jorgenson(Economics)
Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) Listed among the top 50 cited economists in E. Garfield's essay "Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Here's a Forecast Based on Citation Indicators," Current Contents, March 12, 1990, based on 1966-1986 data — a list that has been extraordinarily predictive of future Nobel Prize winners.
Daniel Kahneman(2002, Economics)
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Eric R. Kandel(2000, Medicine)
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Martin Karplus(Chemistry)
Theodore William Richards Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA and Director, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, ISIS, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
Susumu Kitagawa(Chemistry)
Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), and Professor, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki(Economics)
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ USA
Alfred G. Knudson Jr.(Medicine)
Senior Advisor to the President and Fox Distinguished Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
Edwin G. Krebs(1992, Medicine)
University of Washington professor emeritus
Anne O. Krueger(Economics)
Professor of International Economics, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC USA
Paul Krugman(2008, Economics)
Professor, Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) Highly cited, and known for developing and expanding on Bhagwati's seminal work. isihighlycited.com in Economics and Business.
Eric S. Lander(Medicine)
Professor of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
Robert S. Langer(Medicine)
David H. Koch Institute Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
Robert E. Lucas(1995, Economics)
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Nicholas B. Lydon(Medicine)
Founder, Granite Biopharma, LLC, Jackson Hole, WY USA; Co-founder and Director, AnaptysBio, San Diego, CA USA; and Co-founder and Director, Blueprint Medicines, Cambridge, MA USA
Krzysztof (Kris) Matyjaszewski(Chemistry)
J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
†Ernest A. McCulloch(Medicine)
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jacques F. A. P. Miller(Medicine)
Emeritus Professor, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Luc Montagnier(2008, Medicine)
Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
John H. Moore(Economics)
George Watson’s and Daniel Stewart’s Professor of Political Economics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London, England
Timothy R. Mosmann(Medicine)
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Michael and Angela Pichichero Director in the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA
Kevin M. Murphy(Economics)
George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL USA, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford CA USA
Shuji Nakamura(Physics)
Professor, Materials Department, Director of the Center for Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
K.C. Nicolaou(Chemistry)
hairman, Department of Chemistry, Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs Professor in Chemical Biology and Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, Calif., Professor of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Calif.
†Yasutomi Nishizuka(Medicine)
President Emeritus of Kobe University, Former Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Kostya Novoselov(2010, Physics)
Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Ryoji Noyori(2001, Chemistry)
Professor at Nagoya University
Seiji Ogawa(Medicine) Director, formerly with Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research, Hamano Life Science Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (closed in March 2008)
Hideo Ohno(Physics)
Professor of the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, and Director of the Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan
George A. Olah(1994, Chemistry)
Distinguished professor at the University of Southern California and the director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
Lyman A. Page(Physics)
Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
Sir Roger Penrose(Physics)
O.M., F.R.S., Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Saul Perlmutter(2011, Physics)
Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA, and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA
Sir Richard Peto(Medicine)
FRS, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Edmund S. Phelps(2006, Economics)
McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University
John A. Pople(1998, Chemistry)
Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, Evanston, IL
Adam G. Riess(2011, Physics)
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA, and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA
Paul Michael Romer(Economics)
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif.
Vera C. Rubin(Physics)
Senior Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C. USA
Gary Ruvkun(Medicine)
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital, both Boston, MA USA
Thomas J. Sargent(2011, Economics)
William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA USA
Charles L. Sawyers(Medicine)
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY USA. Also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Brian P. Schmidt(2011, Physics)
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
John H. Schwarz(Physics)
Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
Dieter Seebach(Chemistry) Professor, Emeritus, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule), Zurich, Switzerland
Amartya Sen(1998, Economics)
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
K. Barry Sharpless(2001, Chemistry)
W. M. Keck Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
Dan Shechtman(2011, Chemistry)
Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA
Seiji Shinkai(Chemistry)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Christopher A. Sims(2011, Economics)
Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
David R. Smith(Physics)
William Bevan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engieering and Director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
David N. Spergel(Physics)
Charles Young Professor on the Class of 1897 Foundation and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
†Ralph M. Steinman(2011, Medicine)
Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
Joseph E. Stiglitz(2001, Economics)
University Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
J. Fraser Stoddart(Chemistry)
Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.
Richard H. Thaler(Economics)
Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
James E. Till(Medicine)
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jean Tirole(Economics)
Scientific Director, IDEI (Institute of Industrial Economics), University of Social Sciences, Toulouse, France; Affiliated research member of CERAS, Paris, France
Yoshinori Tokura(Physics)
Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Donald A. Tomalia(Chemistry)
Distinguished Professor and Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry and Director of the National Dendrimer and Nanotechnology Center, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI USA
Gordon Tullock(Economics)
Professor Emeritus of Law and Economics, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA USA
Joseph P. Vacanti(Medicine)
John Homans Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
Harold E. Varmus(1989, Medicine)
Professor, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
J. Craig Venter(Medicine)
President, The Center for Advancement of Genomics, Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, and Venter Science Foundation, Rockville, Md
Bert Vogelstein(Medicine)
Professor of Oncology and Pathology with a Joint Appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Fritz Vögtle(Chemistry)
Emeritus Professor, Kekulé Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), Bonn Germany
Robert A. Weinberg(Medicine)
Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research
MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Member, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
Halbert L. White, Jr.(Economics)
Chancellor's Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
George M. Whitesides(Chemistry)
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Frank A. Wilczek(2004, Physics)
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Edward Witten(Physics)
Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
Eli Yablonovitch(Physics)
Professor and James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
Omar M. Yaghi(Chemistry)
Jean Stone Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
Shinya Yamanaka(Medicine)
Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA USA; and Professor of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA
Anton Zeilinger(Physics)
Full Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, and Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Austria
Ahmed H. Zewail(1999, Chemistry)
Professor, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Peter Zoller(Physics) Professor of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria