Notable Alumni
Five of the University's graduates have become Nobel Laureates:
- Ralph Bunche, American political scientist and diplomat awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his role in the 1949 Armistice Agreements.
- Max Theiler, virologist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.
- Professor Allan McLeod Cormack (Medicine, 1979)
- Sir Aaron Klug (Chemistry, 1982)
- Professor Emeritus J. M. Coetzee (Literature, 2003)
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