List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London

Fifteen Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Imperial College London. The building pictured is the Royal School of Mines.

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 2009, there have been 15 Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London. Imperial College considers laureates who attended the university as undergraduate students, graduate students or were members of the faculty as affiliated laureates. Frederick Gowland Hopkins, who attended the Royal School of Mines from 1881 to 1883, was the first Imperial College-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929. One Nobel Prize was shared by two Imperial College laureates; Ernst Boris Chain and Alexander Fleming won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Thirteen of the fifteen Imperial College laureates were members of the faculty. Nine laureates were fellows of the college. No Imperial College laureate has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel Peace Prize, or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Relation	Category	Rationale
1929		Frederick Gowland Hopkins (shared with Christiaan Eijkman)	Student, Royal School of Mines, 1881–1883	Physiology or Medicine	"for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins"
1937		George Paget Thomson (shared with Clinton Davisson)	Professor of Physics 1930–1952; Fellow of Imperial College, 1955	Physics	"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
1945	75px	Ernst Boris Chain (shared with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey, Baron Florey)	Professor of Bacteriology, 1928–1948, St Mary's Hospital Medical School	Physiology or Medicine	"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
1945		Alexander Fleming (shared with Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Florey, Baron Florey)	Professor of Bacteriology, 1928–1948, St Mary's Hospital Medical School	Physiology or Medicine	"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
1948		Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett	Professor of Physics, 1953–65; Fellow of Imperial College, 1967	Physics	"for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"
1956		Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (shared with Nikolay Semenov)	Senior Research Fellow Imperial College, 1964–1967	Chemistry	"for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
1963		Andrew Huxley (shared with John Carew Eccles and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin)	Fellow of Imperial College, 1980	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane"
1967		George Porter (shared with Manfred Eigen and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish)	Visiting Professor, Department of Biology 1978–2002; Fellow of Imperial College, 1987	Chemistry	"for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy"
1969		Derek Barton (shared with Odd Hassel)	Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1957–1978; Fellow of Imperial College, 1980; Emeritus Professor, 1978	Chemistry	"for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"
1971		Dennis Gabor	Professor of Electron Physics, 1958–67; Fellow of Imperial College, 1970	Physics	"for his invention and development of the holographic method"
1972		Rodney Robert Porter (shared with Gerald Edelman)	Pfizer Professor of Immunology, ; St Mary's Hospital Medical School 1960–1967	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"
1973		Geoffrey Wilkinson (shared with Ernst Otto Fischer)	Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, 1956–1996; Emeritus Professor 1988; Fellow of Imperial College, 1993	Chemistry	"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
1979		Abdus Salam (shared with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg)	Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1957–1996; Emeritus Professor, 1993; Fellow of Imperial College, 1994	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"

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External links

• Official website of Imperial College London
• Official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Official website of the Nobel Foundation