Nobel Prizes
The University has hosted several Nobel laureates as students, researchers and/or professors; amongst them:
- Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Peace Prize 1933
- Karl Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1974
- Daniel Bovet (1907–1992), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1957
- Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1984
- Maurice Allais (1911–2010), Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1988
- Edmond H. Fischer (1920- ), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1992
- Martin Rodbell (1925–1998), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1994
- Alan Jay Heeger (1936- ), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000
- Werner Arber (1929- ), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1978
- Kofi Annan (1938- ), Nobel Peace Prize 2001
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Famous quotes containing the words nobel and/or prizes:
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“She prizes not such trifles as these are.
The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
Up in my heart, which I have given already,
But not delivered.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)