List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley

Nobel laureates on Berkeley's faculty can take advantage of special exclusive parking spaces on the Berkeley campus.

This is an alphabetical table of Nobel laureates associated with the University of California, Berkeley, located in the American city of Berkeley, California. The list includes current and former faculty members and researchers as well as graduates. As of 2013, 72 Nobel laureates had been associated with Berkeley.

Berkeley has nine Nobel laureates on its faculty, out of the twenty-five full-time faculty members who have won the prize.

Sortable table

Name	Year	Prize	Affiliation with UC Berkeley
George Akerlof (born 1940)	2001	Economics	Professor of Economics (1966–1978; since 1980)
Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988)	1968	Physics	Professor of Physics (1936–1988)
Werner Arber (born 1929)	1978	Medicine	Researcher (1963), Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology (1970–1971)
Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948)	2009	Medicine	Professor of Molecular Biology (1978–1990)
Felix Bloch (1905–1983)	1952	Physics	Cyclotron researcher (1939)
Sydney Brenner (born 1927)	2002	Medicine	Researcher (1953), Founder of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley (1996)
Melvin Calvin (1911–1997)	1961	Chemistry	Professor of Chemistry (1947–1997)
Thomas Cech (born 1947)	1989	Chemistry	PhD (1975)
Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)	1959	Physics	Professor of Physics (1958–2006)
Steven Chu (born 1948)	1997	Physics	PhD 1976, Berkeley Lab Director (since 2004)
James Cronin (born 1931)	1980	Physics	Researcher at Berkeley Bevatron (1958)
Robert Curl (born 1933)	1996	Chemistry	PhD (1950)
Gérard Debreu (1921–2004)	1983	Economics	Professor of Economics (1962–2004)
Peter Diamond (born 1940)	2010	Economics	Professor of Economics (1964–1966)
Joseph Erlanger (1895–1965)	1944	Medicine	BS (1895)
Andrew Fire (born 1959)	2006	Medicine	BA (1978)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born 1932)	1991	Physics	Postdoctoral (1959)
William Giauque (1895–1982)	1949	Chemistry	BS 1920, PhD 1922, Professor of Chemistry (1922–1982)
Donald A. Glaser (born 1926)	1960	Physics	Professor of Physics (since 1957)
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932)	1979	Physics	Professor of Physics (1960–1966)
Carol Greider (born 1961)	2009	Medicine	PhD (1987), Molecular Biology
David Gross (born 1941)	2004	Physics	PhD (1966)
John Harsanyi (1920–2000)	1994	Economics	Professor of Economics (1964–2000)
Alan J. Heeger (born 1936)	2000	Chemistry	PhD (1961)
Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932)	1986	Chemistry	Professor of Chemistry (1959–1963)
Daniel Kahneman (born 1934)	2002	Economics	PhD (1961); Professor of Psychology (1986–1994)
Lawrence Klein (1920–2013)	1980	Economics	BA (1942)
Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007)	1959	Medicine	Research investigator (1951)
Willis Lamb (1913–2008)	1955	Physics	BS (1934); PhD (1938)
Robert B. Laughlin (born 1950)	1998	Physics	BS (1972)
Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958)	1939	Physics	Professor of Physics (1930–1958); Radiation Lab director (1936–1958)
Tsung-Dao Lee (born 1926)	1957	Physics	Research Associate and Instructor (1950–1951)
Yuan T. Lee (born 1936)	1986	Chemistry	PhD (1965), Professor of Chemistry (since 1974)
Willard Libby (1908–1980)	1960	Chemistry	BS (1931); PhD (1933); Lecturer (1933–1941)
John C. Mather (born 1945)	2006	Physics	PhD (1974)
Daniel McFadden (born 1937)	2000	Economics	Professor of Economics (1963–1979; since 1990)
Edwin McMillan (1907–1991)	1951	Physics	Professor of Chemistry (1946–1991)
Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004)	1980	Literature	Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (1961–2004)
Mario J. Molina (born 1943)	1995	Chemistry	PhD (1972)
Kary Mullis (born 1944)	1993	Chemistry	PhD (1972)
Douglass North (born 1920)	1993	Economics	BA (1942), PhD (1952)
John Howard Northrop (1891–1987)	1946	Chemistry	Professor of Chemistry (1949–1987)
Saul Perlmutter (born 1959)	2011	Physics	PhD (1986), Professor of Physics & LBNL Astrophysicist
Stanley B. Prusiner (born 1942)	1997	Medicine	Professor of Virology in Residence (since 1984)
Adam Riess (born 1969)	2011	Physics	Miller Fellow (1996–1998)
Thomas J. Sargent (born 1943)	2011	Economics	BA (1964)
Randy W. Schekman (born 1948)	2013	Medicine	Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology (since 1976)
Thomas Schelling (born 1921)	2005	Economics	BA (1944)
Julian Schwinger (1918–1994)	1965	Physics	Research fellow (1939–1941)
Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999)	1951	Chemistry	PhD (1937); Professor of Chemistry (1937–1999); Chancellor (1958–1961)
Emilio G. Segrè (1905–1989)	1959	Physics	Radiation Lab (1938–1946); Professor of Physics (1946–1989)
Amartya Sen (born 1933)	1998	Economics	Researcher (1964–1965)
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001)	1978	Economics	Research Director (1939–1942)
Christopher A. Sims (born 1942)	2011	Economics	Post-doctoral student (1963–1964)
Hamilton O. Smith (born 1931)	1978	Medicine	BS (1952)
George Smoot (born 1945)	2006	Physics	Professor of Physics (since 1994)
Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971)	1946	Chemistry	Professor of Chemistry (1948–1971)
Jack Steinberger (born 1921)	1988	Physics	Researcher (1949–1950)
Otto Stern (1888–1969)	1939	Physics	Professor, LLD (1930)
Henry Taube (1915–2005)	1983	Chemistry	PhD (1940); Instructor (1940–1941)
Richard E. Taylor (born 1930)	1990	Physics	Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1961–1962)
Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015)	1964	Physics	Professor of Physics (1967–2015)
Roger Y. Tsien (born 1952)	2008	Chemistry	Professor of Chemistry (1982–1989)
Harold Urey (1893–1981)	1934	Chemistry	PhD (1923)
Selman Waksman (1918–1973)	1952	Medicine	PhD (1918)
Steven Weinberg (born 1933)	1979	Physics	Researcher (1959–1966)
Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004)	1962	Medicine	Manhattan Project (1941–1945)
Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996)	1973	Chemistry	Radiation Lab (1946–1949)
Oliver E. Williamson (born 1932)	2009	Economics	Professor of Business, Economics & Law (1963–1965; since 1988)
David Wineland (born 1944)	2012	Physics	BS (1965)
Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938)	2002	Chemistry	Research investigator (1965)
Ahmed Zewail (born 1946)	1999	Chemistry	Researcher (1974–1976)

See also

• Nobel laureates by university affiliation