List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Cornell University

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Forty-one Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Cornell University. The building pictured is Goldwin Smith Hall.

The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. Another prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributors to the field of economics. Each prize is awarded by a separate committee; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, the winners of the first Nobel Prizes were given 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. In 2008, the winners were awarded a prize amount of 10,000,000 SEK. The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.

As of 2014, there have been 52 Nobel laureates affiliated with Cornell University, including 18 Cornell alumni (laureates who attended the university as undergraduate, graduate student or researcher) and 34 members of the faculty or visiting faculty The Nobel Prize categories of Physics and Physiology or Medicine each account for twelve awards to Cornell-affiliated laureates. People affiliated with Cornell also have received eight Nobel Prize awards for Chemistry, four for Literature, three for Economics, and two Nobel Peace Prizes.

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Relation	Category	Rationale
1936		Peter Debye	Professor of Chemistry, 1940-1952	Chemistry	"for his contributions to the study of molecular structure," primarily referring to his work on dipole moments and X-ray diffraction
1937		George Paget Thomson	Non–Resident Lecturer, 1929-1930	Physics	"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
1938		Pearl S. Buck	M.A., 1925	Literature	"for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
1944		Herbert Spencer Gasser	Cornell Medical College faculty 1931–1934	Physiology or Medicine
1944		Otto Hahn	Visiting Professor 1933	Chemistry	"for his discovery of the fission of heavy atomic nuclei."
1944		Isidor Isaac Rabi	B.Chem. 1919 Graduate study 1921-23 (transferred)	Physics	"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
1946		John Mott Co-recipient with Emily Greene Balch	B.S. 1888 - Philosophy	Peace	"Chairman, International Missionary Council; President, World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations"
1946	75px	Hermann Joseph Muller	Cornell graduate student 1911–1912	Physiology or Medicine
1946		James B. Sumner	Professor of Biochemistry/Nutrition 1929–1955; took emeritus status in 1955	Chemistry
1953		Fritz Albert Lipmann	Research Associate, Cornell Medical College 1939–1941	Physiology or Medicine
1954		Linus Pauling	George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937–1938 Messenger Lecturer 1959	Chemistry	"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
1955	75px	Vincent du Vigneaud	Professor, Cornell Medical College 1938–1967 Professor Emeritus, Ithaca campus 1967–1974	Chemistry
1958		George Wells Beadle Co-recipient with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg	Ph.D., 1931	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
1960		Peter Medawar	Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large	Physiology or Medicine
1962		Linus Pauling	George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1937–1938 Messenger Lecturer 1959	Peace
1965	75px	Richard Feynman	Professor of Physics, 1945-1950	Physics	"their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
1967		Hans Bethe	Professor of Physics, 1935-2005	Physics
1967		Manfred Eigen	A.D. White Professor-at-Large	Chemistry
1967	75px	Haldan Keffer Hartline	Associate Professor of Physiology, Cornell Medical College 1940–1941	Physiology or Medicine
1968	75px	Robert W. Holley Co-recipient with H. Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg	Ph.D., 1946 Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1948-1966	Physiology or Medicine	"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"
1968		Har Gobind Khorana	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1974–1980	Physiology or Medicine
1970		Hannes Alfvén	Distinguished Professor in Engineering	Physics
1970		Norman Borlaug	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1982–1988	Peace
1971		Gerhard Herzberg	George Fischer Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in Chemistry 1968	Chemistry	"for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"
1972		John Robert Schrieffer	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1969–1975	Physics
1973		Brian David Josephson Co-recipient with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever	NSF Fellow, 1971–1972	Physics	"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" and the other half to Brian David Josephson "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"
1974		Paul Flory	Chemistry faculty, 1948–1957	Chemistry
1979		Sheldon Glashow Co-recipient with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg	B.A., 1954	Physics	"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"
1979		Steven Weinberg Co-recipient with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow	B.A. 1954	Physics	"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current"
1981		Roald Hoffmann Co-recipient with Kenichi Fukui	Professor of Chemistry, 1965–Present	Chemistry	"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1982		Kenneth G. Wilson	Professor of Physics, 1963-1988	Physics
1983		Barbara McClintock	B.S., 1923 M.A., 1925 Ph.D., 1927 Instructor in botany, 1927-1931 Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, 1965-1974	Physiology or Medicine	"for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"
1983		Henry Taube	Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1944–1946	Chemistry	for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes."
1986		Wole Soyinka	Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, 1985	Literature
1989		Harold Varmus	Professor of Medicine, 2015-Present	Medicine & Physiology
1990		Octavio Paz	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1972-1974	Literature
1991	75px	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	Served on the Cornell faculty as A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1977–1983 and Bethe Lecturer in Physics 1989–1990	Physics
1991	75px	Richard R. Ernst	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1998	Chemistry
1993		Toni Morrison	M.A. 1955 - English A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1997-2003	Literature	"who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
1993	75px	Russell Alan Hulse Co-recipient with Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.	Scholar at Arecibo Observatory of Cornell University in Puerto Rico 1974	Physics	"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
1993		Robert Fogel	B.A., 1948	Economics	"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
1996		David Morris Lee Co-recipient with Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson	Professor of Physics, 1959–2009	Physics	"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
1996		Douglas D. Osheroff Co-recipient with David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson	M.S. 1971 - Physics Ph.D. 1973 - Physics	Physics	"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
1996		Robert Coleman Richardson Co-recipient with Douglas D. Osheroff and David M. Lee	Research Associate, 1966–1967 Professor of Physics, 1968–2013	Physics	"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
1998		Robert F. Furchgott	Research Associate (Medicine)/Instructor (Physiology and Biophysics/Assistant Professor Medicine), 1941–1949	Physiology or Medicine
1998		Amartya Sen	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1978–1984	Economics
2000		Paul Greengard	A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 1981–1987	Physiology or Medicine
2002		Anthony James Leggett	Visiting Professor, 04/1973, 07/1974 Bethe Lecturer, 04/1980 Visiting Scientist, 01/1983–08/1983	Physics	"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
2003		Robert F. Engle	M.S., 1966Ph.D., 1969	Economics	"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"
2009		Jack W. Szostak Co-recipient with Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider	Ph.D. 1977 - Biochemistry	Physiology or Medicine	"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
2013		François Englert Co-recipient with Peter Higgs	Research associate and assistant professor 1959-1961	Physics	"for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle"
2014		Eric Betzig	M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988 - Applied and Engineering Physics	Chemistry	"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
2014		William E. Moerner	M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1982 - Physics	Chemistry	"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"

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External links

• Official website of Cornell University
• Official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Official website of the Nobel Foundation