Nobel Laureates
Chemistry
- † Edwin M. McMillan (BS '28, MS '29), 1951
- † Linus Pauling (PhD '25), 1954
- † William N. Lipscomb (PhD '46), 1976
- * Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992
- † Ahmed H. Zewail, 1999
- † Robert H. Grubbs, 2005
- Martin Karplus (PhD '54), 2013
- Eric Betzig (BS '83), 2014
- * Frances Arnold, 2018
Economics
- Robert C. Merton (MS '67), 1997
- Vernon L. Smith (BS '49), 2002
Physics
- † Robert A. Millikan, 1923
- † Carl D. Anderson (BS '27, PhD '30), 1936
- † William Shockley (BS '32), 1956
- † Donald A. Glaser (PhD '50), 1960
- † Rudolf Mössbauer, 1961
- † Charles H. Townes (PhD '39), 1964
- † Richard Feynman, 1965
- † Murray Gell-Mann, 1969
- † Leo James Rainwater (BS '39), 1975
- Robert W. Wilson (PhD '62), 1978
- † Kenneth G. Wilson (PhD '61), 1982
- † William A. Fowler (PhD '36), 1983
- Douglas D. Osheroff (BS '67), 1996
- * Hugh David Politzer, 2004
- Arthur B. McDonald (PhD '70), 2015
- * Barry C. Barish, 2017
- * Kip S. Thorne (BS '62), 2017
- Andrea Ghez (MS '89, PhD '93), 2020
- John F. Clauser (BS '64), 2022
- John Hopfield, 2024
Physiology/Medicine
- † Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1933
- † George W. Beadle, 1958
- † Max Delbrück, 1969
- * David Baltimore, 1975
- † Renato Dulbecco, 1975
- † Howard M. Temin (PhD '60), 1975
- † Roger W. Sperry, 1981
- Phillip A. Sharp (Postdoc '69-'71), 1993
- † Edward B. Lewis (PhD '42), 1995
- Leland H. Hartwell (BS '61), 2001
- † Robert G. Edwards (Postdoc '57-'58), 2010
- Sir John B. Gurdon (Postdoc '60), 2012
- Jeffrey C. Hall (Postdoc '72), 2017
- Michael Rosbash (BS '65), 2017
- Charles M. Rice (PhD '81), 2020
- Ardem Patapoutian (PhD '96), 2021
Peace
- † Linus Pauling (PhD '25), 1962
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