Nobel Prize Winners

Name Affiliation Year Category
Henrik Antoon Lorentz Schiff Foundation Visiting Lecturer 1926 1902 Physics
William Lawrence Bragg Baker Non-Resident Lecturer 1934 1915 Physics
Archibald Vivian Hill Used Cornell athletes for medical experiments 1927 1922 Medicine
Robert Andrews Millikan Messenger Lecturer 1926 1923 Physics
James Franck Visiting Lecturer in Physics for Summer Session 1935 1925 Physics
Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye Baker Lecturer 1939, Professor of Chemistry 1940-1950 1936 Chemistry
George Paget Thomson Baker Lecturer, Non-Resident Lecturer 1929-1930 1937 Physics
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck M.A. 1925 English Literature 1938 Literature
George de Hevesy Baker Lecturer 1930 1943 Chemistry
Isador Isaac Rabi B.Chem. 1919, Graduate Study 1921-1923 1944 Physics
Herbert Spencer Gasser Medical School Faculty 1931-1934 1944 Medicine
Otto Hahn Visiting Faculty 1944 Chemistry
John Raleigh Mott B.S. 1888 Philosophy 1946 Peace
Herman Joseph Muller Graduate Study 1911-1912 1946 Medicine
James Batchellor Sumner Faculty 1929-1955 1946 Chemistry
Fritz Albert Lipmann Medical College Research Associate 1939-1941 1953 Medicine
Linus C. Pauling Baker Lecturer 1937 1954 Chemistry
Vincent du Vigneaud Medical College Professor of Biochemistry 1938-1967, Professor of Chemistry 1967-1975 1955 Chemistry
George Wells Beadle Ph.D. 1930 Genetics, Faculty 1958 Medicine
Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven Distinguished Professor in Engineering 1960 Physics
Peter Brian Medawar A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1965-1971 1960 Medicine
Linus C. Pauling Baker Lecturer 1937 1962 Peace
Richard Phillips Feynman Faculty 1945-1950 1965 Physics
Robert S. Mulliken Baker Lecturer 1960 1966 Chemistry
Hans Albrecht Bethe Professor of Physics 1935-2005 1967 Physics
Manfred Eigen A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1965-1976 1967 Chemistry
Haldan Keffer Hartline Medical College Associate Professor 1940-1941 1967 Medicine
Robert W. Holley Ph.D. 1947 Organic Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry 1948-1968 1968 Medicine
Har Gobind Khorana A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1974-1980 1968 Medicine
Norman Ernest Borlaug A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1982-1988 1970 Peace
Gerhard Herzberg Baker Lecturer 1968 1971 Chemistry
John Robert Schrieffer A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1969-1975 1972 Physics
Gerald M. Edelman Visiting Professor 1971, Visiting Lecturer 1986 1972 Medicine
Brian D. Josephson NSF Senior Foreign Science Fellow 1971 1973 Physics
Paul John Flory Baker Lecturer 1948, Chemistry Faculty 1948-1957 1974 Chemistry
Herbert C. Brown Baker Lecturer 1979 Chemistry
Sheldon Glashow B.A. 1954 Physics 1979 Physics
Steven Weinberg B.A. 1954 Physics, Bethe Lecturer 1978 1979 Physics
Roald Hoffman Professor of Chemistry 1981 Chemistry
Kenneth Geddes Wilson Professor of Physics and Nuclear Studies 1963-1988 1982 Physics
Barbara McClintock B.S. 1923 Botany, M.A. 1925 Botany, Ph.D. 1927 Cytology, Instructor in Botany 1927-1931, Research Associate 1934-1936, A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1965-1974 1983 Medicine
Henry Taube Chemistry Faculty 1941-1946 1983 Chemistry
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka Society for the Humanities Senior Fellow 1985 1986 Literature
Octavio Paz A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1972-1974 1990 Literature
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1977-1983, Bethe Lecturer in Physics 1989-1990, Physics 1991 1991 Physics
Richard Robert Ernst A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1996-2002 1991 Chemistry
Rudolph A. Marcus Baker Lecturer 1992 Chemistry
Robert William Fogel B.A. 1948 Economics 1993 Economics
Toni Morrison M.A. 1955 English, A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1997-2003 1993 Literature
David Morris Lee Professor of Physics 1996 Physics
Douglas Dean Osheroff M.S. 1971 Physics, Ph.D. 1973 Physics 1996 Physics
Robert Coleman Richardson Professor of Physics 1996 Physics
Robert F. Furchgott Medical College Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Research Associate 1941-1949 1998 Medicine
Amartya Kumar Sen A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1978-1984 1998 Economics
Paul Greengard A.D. White Professor-at-Large 1981-1987 2000 Medicine
Ryoji Noyori Baker Lecturer 2001 Chemistry
Kurt Wuthrich Baker Lecturer 2002 Chemistry
Robert F. Engle III M.S. 1966 Physics, Ph.D. 1969 Economics 2003 Economics
Roderick MacKinnon Researcher at Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory 2003 Chemistry