Nobel Laureate Alumni
As of April 2011, the MIT Office of the Provost says that 76 Nobel awardees had or currently have a formal connection to MIT. Of this group, 29 have earned MIT degrees (MIT has never awarded honorary degrees in any form).
| Name | Degree | Degree Year | Award Year | Award | Citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Akerlof | Ph.D. | 1966 | 2001 | Economics | "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" | |
| Sid Altman | S.B. | 1960 | 1989 | Chemistry | "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA" | |
| Kofi Annan | S.M. | 1972 | 2001 | Peace | "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world" | |
| Robert Aumann | S.M. | 1952 | 2005 | Economics | "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" | |
| Elias James Corey | S.B., Ph.D. | 1948, 1951 | 1990 | Chemistry | "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis" | |
| Eric Cornell | Ph.D. | 1990 | 2001 | Physics | "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" | |
| Peter Diamond | Ph.D. | 1963 | 2010 | Economics | "for analysis of markets with search frictions" | |
| Richard Feynman | S.B. | 1939 | 1965 | Physics | "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" | |
| Andrew Z. Fire | Ph.D. | 1983 | 2006 | Medicine/Physiology | "for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA" | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Ph.D. | 1951 | 1969 | Physics | "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions" | |
| Leland H. Hartwell | Ph.D. | 1964 | 2001 | Medicine/Physiology | "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" | |
| H. Robert Horvitz | S.B. | 1968 | 2002 | Medicine/Physiology | "for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'" | |
| Henry W. Kendall | S.B., Ph.D. | 1948, 1951 | 1990 | Physics | "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics" | |
| Lawrence Klein | Ph.D. | 1944 | 1980 | Economics | "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies" | |
| Paul Krugman | Ph.D. | 1977 | 2009 | Economics | "for developing new trade theory and" | |
| Robert B. Laughlin | Ph.D. | 1979 | 1998 | Physics | "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" | |
| Robert C. Merton | Ph.D. | 1970 | 1997 | Economics | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" | |
| Robert S. Mulliken | S.B. | 1917 | 1966 | Chemistry | "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method" | |
| Robert Mundell | Ph.D. | 1956 | 1999 | Economics | "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" | |
| Charles Pedersen | S.M. | 1927 | 1987 | Chemistry | "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity" | |
| William D. Phillips | Ph.D. | 1976 | 1997 | Physics | "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light" | |
| Burton Richter | S.B., Ph.D. | 1952, 1956 | 1976 | Physics | "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind" | |
| Adam Riess | S.B. | 1992 | 2011 | Physics | "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" | |
| John Robert Schrieffer | S.B. | 1953 | 1972 | Physics | "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory" | |
| William Shockley | Ph.D. | 1936 | 1956 | Physics | "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" | |
| George F. Smoot | S.B., Ph.D. | 1966, 1970 | 2006 | Physics | "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" | |
| Joseph Stiglitz | Ph.D. | 1966 | 2001 | Economics | "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" | |
| Carl E. Wieman | S.B. | 1973 | 2001 | Physics | "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" | |
| Robert Burns Woodward | S.B. | 1936 | 1965 | Chemistry | "for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis" |
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