Pontifical Academy of Sciences - Nobel Prize-winning Members

Nobel Prize-winning Members

During its various decades of activity, the Academy has had a number of Nobel Prize winners amongst its members, many of whom were appointed Academicians before they received this prestigious international award.

  • Ernest Rutherford (Chemistry, 1908)
  • Guglielmo Marconi (Physics, 1909)
  • Alexis Carrel (Physiology, 1912)
  • Max von Laue (Physics, 1914)
  • Max Planck (Physics, 1918)
  • Niels Bohr (Physics, 1922)
  • Werner Heisenberg (Physics, 1932)
  • Paul Dirac (Physics, 1933)
  • Erwin Schrödinger (Physics, 1933)
  • Peter J.W. Debye (Chemistry, 1936)
  • Otto Hahn (Chemistry, 1944)
  • Sir Alexander Fleming (Physiology, 1945)
  • Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee (Physics, 1957)
  • Joshua Lederberg (Physiology, 1958)
  • Rudolf Mössbauer (Physics, 1961)
  • Max F. Perutz (Chemistry, 1962)
  • John Carew Eccles (Physiology, 1963)
  • Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964)
  • Manfred Eigen and George Porter (Chemistry, 1967)
  • Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg (Physiology, 1968)
  • Christian de Duve (Physiology, 1974)
  • George Emil Palade (Physiology, 1974)
  • David Baltimore (Physiology, 1975)
  • Aage Bohr (Physics, 1975)
  • Abdus Salam (Physics, 1979)
  • Paul Berg (Chemistry, 1980)
  • Kai Siegbahn (Physics, 1981)
  • Sune Bergstrom (Physiology, 1982)
  • Carlo Rubbia (Physics, 1984)
  • Klaus von Klitzing (Physics, 1985)
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini (Physiology, 1986)
  • John C. Polanyi (Chemistry, 1986)
  • Yuan Tseh Lee (Chemistry, 1986)
  • Jean-Marie Lehn (Chemistry, 1987)
  • Joseph E. Murray (Physiology, 1990)
  • Gary S. Becker (Economics, 1992)
  • Paul J. Crutzen and Mario J. Molina (Chemistry, 1995)
  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Physics, 1997)
  • Ahmed H. Zewail (Chemistry, 1999)
  • Günter Blobel (Physiology, 1999)
  • Ryoji Noyori (Chemistry, 2001)
  • Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry, 2004)
  • Gerhard Ertl (Chemistry, 2007)

Other eminent Academicians include Padre Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959), founder of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and President of the Academy after its re-foundation until 1959, and Mons. Georges Lemaitre (1894–1966), one of the fathers of contemporary cosmology who held the office of President from 1960 to 1966, and Brazilian neuroscientist Carlos Chagas Filho.

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