
David Card
Economics, 2021 | Faculty
Card shared his prize for work that challenged orthodoxy and dramatically shifted understanding of inequality and the social and economic forces that impact low-wage workers.

Jennifer Doudna
Chemistry, 2020 | Faculty

Reinhard Genzel
Physics, 2020 | Faculty

Eric Betzig
Chemistry, 2014 | Faculty

Randy Schekman
Physiology or Medicine, 2013 | Faculty

Saul Perlmutter Ph.D. ’86
Physics, 2011 | Faculty

Oliver Williamson
Economics, 2009 | Faculty

George Smoot
Physics, 2006 | Faculty

George Akerlof
Economics, 2001 | Faculty

Daniel McFadden
Economics, 2000 | Faculty

John Harsanyi
Economics, 1994 | Faculty

Yuan T. Lee Ph.D. ’65
Chemistry, 1986 | Faculty
Lee designed experiments that sent streams of intensely packed molecules into each other at supersonic speeds, contributing to today’s powerful lasers.

Gerard Debreu
Economics, 1983 | Faculty

Czeslow Milosz
Literature, 1980 | Faculty

Luis Alvarez
Physics, 1968 | Faculty

Charles Townes
Physics, 1964 | Faculty

Melvin Calvin
Chemistry, 1961 | Faculty

Donald Glaser
Physics, 1960 | Faculty

Owen Chamberlain
Physics, 1959 | Faculty
Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè discovered the anti-proton, signaling a major leap in the study of matter and antimatter.

Emilio Segrè
Physics, 1959 | Faculty

Edwin McMillan
Chemistry, 1951 | Faculty

Glenn Seaborg Ph.D. ’37
Chemistry, 1951 | Faculty

William Giauque B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922
Chemistry, 1949 | Faculty

John Howard Northrop
Chemistry, 1946 | Faculty

Wendell Stanley
Chemistry, 1946 | Faculty

Ernest Lawrence
Physics, 1939 | Faculty