Nobel Prize Winners
The following winners of Nobel Prizes have had an association with The Johns Hopkins University, either as graduates of Johns Hopkins or as faculty of the university before, at the time of or subsequent to their receipt of the prize.
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1. Woodrow Wilson Ph.D. 1886 (History) 
Nobel Prize in Peace, 1919 |
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2. James Franck Professor of Physics, 1935-38
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925 |
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3. Nicholas Murray Butler Lecturer, 1890-91
Nobel Prize in Peace, 1931 |
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4. Thomas Hunt Morgan Ph.D. 1890 (Zoology); LL.D. 1915
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933 |
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5. George Richards Minot Assistant in Medicine, 1914-15
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934 |
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6. George Hoyt Whipple M.D. 1905; Associate Professor in Pathology, 1910-14
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934 |
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7. Harold Clayton Urey Associate in Chemistry, 1924-28
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934 |
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8. Joseph Erlanger M.D. 1899; Assistant in Physiology, 1900-01; Instructor, 1901-03; Associate, 1903-04; Associate Professor, 1904-06; LL.D. 1947
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944 |
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9. Herbert Spencer Gasser M.D. 1915
Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944 |
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10. Vincent du Vigneaud National Research Fellow, Pharmacology 1927-28
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955 |
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11. Maria Goeppert-Mayer Assistant in Physics, 1930-32; Associate, 1932-36
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963 |
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12. Francis Peyton Rous A.B. 1900; M.D. 1905
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966 |
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13. Haldan Keffer Hartline M.D. 1927; Professor of Biophysics, 1949-54
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967 |
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14. Lars Onsager Associate in Chemistry, 1927-28
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968 |
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15. Simon Kuznets Professor of Political Economy, 1954-60
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971 |
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16. Christian B. Anfinsen Professor of Biology, 1982-1995
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972 |
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17. Hamilton O. Smith M.D. 1956; Assistant Professor of Microbiology, 1967-69; Associate Professor, 1969-1973; Professor, 1973-1998; Professor Emeritus 1998-present
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978 |
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18. Daniel Nathans Assistant Professor, 1962-65; Associate Professor, 1965-67; Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 1967-1999; Interim President, 1995-96
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978 |
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19. David H. Hubel Assistant Resident, Neurology, 1954-55; Fellow, Neuroscience, 1958-59
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 |
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20. Torsten Wiesel Fellow, Ophthalmology, 1955-58; Assistant Professor, 1958-59
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 |
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21. Sir Richard Stone Visiting Professor, Political Economy 1953-54
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984 |
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22. Merton H. Miller Ph.D. 1952 (and honorary doctorate 1993)
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990 |
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23. Robert W. Fogel Ph.D. 1963
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993 |
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24. Martin Rodbell B.A. Biology 1949
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994 |
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25. Jody Williams M.A. Latin American Studies (SAIS) 1984
Nobel Prize in Peace, 1997 |
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26. Robert H. Mundell Visiting faculty at SAIS Bologna Center, 2000-2001; AGIP Chair in International Economics at the center, 1997-98; also was on the center's faculty, 1959-61
Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 |
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27. Paul Greengard Ph.D. Biophysics 1953
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000 |
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28. Riccardo Giacconi Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 1982-1997; Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy 1998-present
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002 |
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29. J.M. Coetzee Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Writing Seminars, Jan. 1, 1989 to June 30, 1989
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003 |
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30. Peter Agre M.D. 1974; Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, 1974-75; Research Associate/Instructor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Medicine, 1981-83; Assistant Professor, 1984-88; Associate Professor, 1988-93; Professor of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, 1993-2005, Malaria Institute, 2008-.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003 |
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31. Richard Axel M.D. 1971
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004 |
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32. Andrew Fire Adjunct professor of biology, 1989-
Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006 |
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33. Carol Greider Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1997-
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009 |
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34. Robert Edwards Visiting researcher, School of Medicine 1965
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2010 |
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35. Adam Riess Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011 |
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36. Daniel Shectman Visiting researcher, Whiting School of Engineering 1981-83
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2011 |
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NOTE:
International Physicians for The Prevention of Nuclear
War Inc. of Boston, Mass., was the winner of the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1985. Two Johns Hopkins graduates --
Bernard Lown, M.D. 1945, and James E. Muller M.D. 1969 --
were among the six physicians (three Americans, three
Soviets) who founded that organization in 1980. Dr.
Lown delivered one of the two Nobel acceptance
speeches on behalf of the organization. Revised October 4, 2011 |
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