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Cal Nobel Prize Winners
The University of California, Berkeley, can boast of having 20 Nobel Laureates
in its distinguished history of research and discovery. Beginning with
Ernest O. Lawrence in 1939, these professors represent a wide range of
scholarly pursuits: from physics to economics, from molecular and cell
biology to slavic languages and literature. Cal has had more Nobel Laureates
than any other American university except Harvard and the University of
Chicago.
| Award Year | Recipients |
| 1939 | Ernest O. Lawrence (Physics) (d. 1958) |
| 1946 | Wendell M. Stanley (Chemistry) (d. 1971) |
| 1945 | John H. Northrop (Chemistry) (d. 1987) |
| 1949 | William F. Giauque (Chemistry) (d. 1982) |
| 1951 | Edwin M. McMillan, Chemistry (Chemistry)
Professor of Physics, Emeritus Director Emeritus, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (d. 1991) |
| 1951 | Glenn T. Seaborg (Chemistry)
University Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (d. 1999) |
| 1959 | Owen Chamberlain (Physics)
Professor of Physics |
| 1959 | Emilio G. Segre (Physics)
Professor of Physics, Emeritus (d. 1989) |
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser (Physics)
Professor of Molecular Biology and of Physics |
| 1961 | Melvin Calvin (Chemistry)
University Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus Director Emeritus, Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics |
| 1964 | Charles H. Townes (Physics)
University Professor of Physics, Emeritus |
| 1968 | Luis Alvarez (Physics)
Professor of Physics, Emeritus (d. 1988) |
| 1980 | Czeslaw Milosz (Literature)
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Emeritus |
| 1983 | Gerard Debreu (Economics)
Professor of Economics and of Mathematics |
| 1986 | Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry)
Professor of Chemistry Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
| 1994 | John C. Harsanyi
(Economics)
Professor of Economics (d. 2000) |
| 1997 | Steven Chu (Physics)
Professor of Physics |
| 2000 | Daniel
L. McFadden (Economics)
Professor of Economics |
| 2001 | George A. Akerlof (Economics)
Professor of Economics |
| 2006 | George F. Smoot (Physics)
Professor of Physics |
