This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1901 (total 892 individual laureates). This list does not include organizations which were awarded the Nobel prize (as of 2017, 24 such organizations) or any individuals affiliated with those organizations. However, an individual laureate who received the Nobel prize while working at a research organization formally affiliated with or operated by a university is counted as an affiliate of that university. Universities are listed in descending order according to the number of affiliates, while only the top 50 universities are shown explicitly with their rankings.
The university affiliations in this list are all formal/official academic affiliations (i.e., official employment or degree program), which fall into three categories: 1) Graduate and Attendee, 2) Long-term Academic Staff, and 3) Temporary Academic Staff. Graduates are defined as those who hold Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, or equivalent degrees from a university, while attendees are those who formally enrolled in a degree-program at a university for at least one day but did not complete the program or obtain a degree (thus, honorary degrees, summer attendees, exchange students, and auditors are generally excluded). The category of "Long-term Academic Staff" mostly consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of "Temporary Academic Staff" mostly consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors/scholars, and equivalent academic positions.
Further explanations on "Temporary Academic Staff" are presented as follows. Some visiting professorships/lectureships such as the "Morris Loeb Lecturer", "Lee Historical Lecturer" and "Charles Eliot Norton Professor" in Harvard University are in fact awards/honors/recognition instead of an actual affiliation with the university (compared to the "Morris Loeb Long-term Lecturer"), and thus will not be counted in this list. In particular, giving lectures or doing researches at a university is not an indication of affiliation with that university â€" the lecturer/researcher has to be officially employed (even with a "visiting" title) by the university to be counted. Finally, summer employees and visitors are generally excluded from the list, and non-academic positions (e.g., advisory committee, administrative staff, etc) are also excluded.
In this list, the number following a person's name is the year he/she received the prize; in particular, a number with asterisk (*) means the person received the award while he/she was working at the institution containing that asterisk. A laureate with his/her name underlined implies that this person has already been counted for a same institution in some previous category. If a person had multiple positions under one category, only the position with highest rank is considered.
Each institution practices different methods for counting affiliates, from generous counting to conservative. Within this list, the University Counts are thus shown as comparison, which are published by the universities themselves. The federal University of London is counted by its individual constituent colleges in this table. The University of California is also counted here by its individual campuses. Finally, this list, together with List of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation and List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation, presents the university affiliation (with similar criteria) of people who have won highest honors in fundamental academic disciplines.
Legend: [Ph.] Physics, [Ch.] Chemistry, [PM] Physiology or Medicine, [Li.] Literature, [Pe.] Peace, [Ec.] Economics.
Harvard University (1st)
University of Cambridge (2nd)
Columbia University (3rd)
University of California, Berkeley (4th)
University of Chicago (5th)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6th)
Stanford University (7th)
University of Oxford (8th)
Yale University (9th)
Cornell University (10th)
California Institute of Technology (11th, Tie)
University of Paris (11th, Tie)
Princeton University (13th)
Georg August University of Göttingen (14th)
Humboldt University Berlin (15th)
University of Copenhagen (16th)
Johns Hopkins University (17th, Tie)
New York University (17th, Tie)
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (19th)
ETH Zurich (20th)
Other universities (21st-50th)
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See also
- List of Nobel laureates by country
- Nobel Prize laureates by secondary school affiliation
- List of Fields Medal winners by university affiliation
- List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation
- List of American universities with Olympic medals
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References
External links
- Nobel Laureates and Universities