Laureates
| Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | Compton, ArthurArthur Compton | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1920–1923 and 1945–1962, Chancellor, 1945–1953 | Physics | "for his discovery of the effect named after him" | |
| 1943 | Doisy, Edward AdelbertEdward Adelbert Doisy | Faculty of Medicine, 1919–1923 | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K" | |
| 1944 | Erlanger, JosephJoseph Erlanger | Chairman, Department of Physiology, 1910–1946 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres" | |
| 1944 | Gasser, Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Gasser | Faculty of Medicine, 1916–1931 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres" | |
| 1947 | Cori, Carl FerdinandCarl Ferdinand Cori | Faculty of Medicine, 1931–1984 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" | |
| 1947 | Cori, GertyGerty Cori | Faculty of Medicine, 1931–1957 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" | |
| 1959 | Kornberg, ArthurArthur Kornberg | Chairman, Department of Microbiology, 1952–1959 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" | |
| 1959 | Ochoa, SeveroSevero Ochoa | Faculty of Medicine, 1940–1942 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" | |
| 1969 | Hershey, AlfredAlfred Hershey | Faculty of Medicine, 1934–1950 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" | |
| 1970 | Leloir, Luis FedericoLuis Federico Leloir | Faculty of Medicine, 1944 | Chemistry | "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates" | |
| 1971 | Sutherland Jr., Earl WilburEarl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. | M.D., 1942, Resident in Internal Medicine, 1943–1945, Faculty of Medicine, 1945–1953 | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones" | |
| 1974 | de Duve, ChristianChristian de Duve | Faculty of Medicine, 1946–1947 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell" | |
| 1978 | Nathans, DanielDaniel Nathans | M.D., 1954 | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" | |
| 1978 | Smith, Hamilton O.Hamilton O. Smith | Washington University Medical Service, 1956–1957 | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" | |
| 1980 | Berg, PaulPaul Berg | Faculty of Medicine, 1954–1959 | Chemistry | "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA" | |
| 1980 | Snell, George DavisGeorge Davis Snell | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1933–1934 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" | |
| 1986 | Cohen, StanleyStanley Cohen | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1953–1959 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of growth factors" | |
| 1986 | Levi-Montalcini, RitaRita Levi-Montalcini | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1948– | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of growth factors" | |
| 1992 | Krebs, Edwin G.Edwin G. Krebs | M.D., 1943, Resident in Internal Medicine, Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry, 1945–1948 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism" | |
| 1993 | North, DouglassDouglass North | Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1983– | Economics | "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change." | |
| 1998 | Furchgott, Robert F.Robert F. Furchgott | Faculty of Medicine, 1949–1956 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system" | |
| 2004 | Ciechanover, AaronAaron Ciechanover | Visiting Professor of Pediatrics, 1987– | Chemistry | "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" |
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