Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Prize has been awarded every year since 1901 for achievements
in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and
peace. It is an international award administered by the
Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
Oxford University Nobel Prize winners:
Chemistry
LAUREATE | COLLEGE* | YEAR | FURTHER INFORMATION |
Professor Robert H Grubbs
| Academic staff | 2005 | Christensen Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's, 1997 |
Ahmed Zewail
| Academic staff | 1999 | Christensen Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's & Hinshelwood Lecturer, 1991-92 |
Sir John Walker | St Catherine's | 1997 | |
Sir John Cornforth | St Catherine's | 1975 | |
Robert Mulliken | Academic staff | 1966 | Fullbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, St John's 1952-54 |
Dorothy Hodgkin | Somerville | 1964 | Fellow, Somerville, 1935-46; Lecturer, 1946-56; Reader in X-ray Crystallography, 1956-60; Wolfson Research Professor, 1960-77; Fellow, Wolfson, 1977-83 |
Sir Alexander Todd | Oriel | 1957 | |
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
| Balliol | 1956 | Tutor, Trinity, 1921-37; Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry 1937-64 |
Linus Pauling | Academic staff
| 1954 | George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow of Balliol, 1948
|
Sir Robert Robinson
| Academic staff | 1947 | Waynflete Professor of Chemistry; Fellow of Magdalen, 1930-55 |
Frederick Soddy | Merton
| 1921 | Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry, 1919-37
|
Economics
LAUREATE
| COLLEGE*
| YEAR |
FURTHER INFORMATION |
A Michael Spence | Magdalen |
2001
| |
Joseph E Stiglitz
| Academic staff |
2001
| Drummond Professor of Political Economy; Fellow of All Souls, 1976-79;
Visiting Fellow, St Catherine’s, 1973-74 |
Amartya Sen
| Academic staff |
1998 |
Fellow of Nuffield, 1977-80; Drummond Professor of Political Economy & Fellow of All Souls 1980-88 |
Sir James Mirrlees |
Academic staff |
1996 |
Edgeworth Professor of Economics; Fellow of Nuffield, 1968-95 |
Robert Solow
| Academic staff |
1987 |
George Eastman Visiting Professor; Fellow of Balliol, 1968-69 |
Lawrence Klein |
Lincoln |
1980 |
|
James E Meade
| Oriel |
1977 |
|
Gunnar Myrdal
| Academic staff |
1974 |
Fellow of Balliol, 1959 |
Sir John Hicks
| Balliol | 1972 |
Fellow, Nuffield, 1946-52; Drummond Professor of Political Economy 1952-65; Research Fellow, All Souls, 1965-71 |
Literature
LAUREATE | COLLEGE* | YEAR |
FURTHER INFORMATION |
Sir VS (Vidiadhar) Naipaul | University |
2001 | |
Seamus Heaney | Academic staff |
1995 | Professor of Poetry 1989-94 |
William Golding | Brasenose |
1983 |
|
T S Eliot |
Merton |
1948 |
|
John Galsworthy | New |
1932
| |
Medicine
LAUREATE
| COLLEGE* | YEAR | FURTHER INFORMATION |
Sir John Gurdon
| Christ Church
| 2012 | Assistant Lecturer in
Zoology, Department of Zoology, 1962-71 |
Oliver Smithies | Balliol
| 2007 | |
Sydney Brenner | Exeter
| 2002 | |
Sir Paul Nurse
| Academic staff | 2001 | Iveagh Professor of Microbiology; Fellow, Linacre, 1987-91 |
Sir John Vane
| St Catherine's
| 1982 | |
Baruch S Blumberg
| Balliol | 1976 | Master of Balliol, 1989-94 |
Nikolas Tinbergen
| Academic staff | 1973 | Fellow of Merton, 1950-66; Professor of Animal Behaviour 1966-76 |
Rodney Porter
| Academic staff | 1972 | Whitley Professor of Biochemistry; Fellow of Trinity, 1967-85 |
Ragnar Granit
| Academic staff | 1967 | Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's, 1967 |
Sir John Eccles
| Magdalen | 1963 | Staines Medical Fellowship, Exeter College, Tutorial Fellowship, Magdalen College, University Demonstrator, 1934-37 |
Sir Peter Medawar
| Magdalen | 1960 | Fellow, Magdalen, 1938-44; Senior Research Fellow, St John's & Demonstrator in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 1944-46 |
Severo Ochoa | Academic staff | 1959 | Demonstrator and Nuffield Research Assistant 1938-41 |
George Wells Beadle
| Academic staff | 1958 | George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow of Balliol, 1958 |
Sir Ernest Chain | Academic staff | 1945 | Lecturer in Chemical Pathology; Fellow of University College, 1936-48 |
Lord (Howard) Florey
| Magdalen | 1945 | Professor of Pathology 1935-62; Provost of The Queen's College, 1962-68 |
Sir Charles Sherrington
| Academic staff | 1932 | Waynflete Professor of Physiology; Fellow of Magdalen, 1913-36 |
Peace
LAUREATE
| COLLEGE* | YEAR |
FURTHER INFORMATION |
José Ramos-Horta |
Academic staff | 1996 |
Senior Associate Member, St Antony's, 1987 |
Aung Sang Suu Kyi |
St Hugh's | 1991 |
|
Linus Pauling | Academic staff |
1962 | George Eastman Visiting Professor 1948 |
Lester B Pearson | St John's | 1957 | |
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | University |
1937 |
|
Physics
LAUREATE
| COLLEGE*
| YEAR |
FURTHER INFORMATION |
Anthony J Leggett |
Balliol, Merton, Magdalen | 2003
| Fellow, Magdalen, 1963-67 |
Norman Ramsey
| Academic staff | 1989 |
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow 1953-54, George Eastman Visiting Professor 1973-74 |
John H Van Vleck
| Academic staff |
1977 | George Eastman Visiting Professor 1961-62 |
Sir Martin Ryle
| Christ Church | 1974 | |
Erwin Schrödinger
| Academic staff |
1933 |
Fellow of Magdalen, 1933-36 |
Excluded from this list are those Nobel Laureates whose only connection
with Oxford is that they were awarded an honorary degree by the
University, and those Laureates who came to Oxford after receiving
their Nobel prize.
Sir John Gurdon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991
V S Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001