DOE
Nobel Laureates
The most prestigious
scientific awards in the world are the Nobel
Prizes for Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology
or Medicine.
All three of these Nobel Prizes
have been presented since 1901, with the Nobel
Prizes in Chemistry and Physics awarded annually
by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded
by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.
(The Nobel Prize web site is accessible at http://nobelprize.org.)
Going back to the earliest days
of the Manhattan Project, the Department of
Energy and its predecessor agencies have blended
cutting-edge research and innovative problem-solving
to keep the United States in the forefront of
scientific discovery for decades.
As testimony to the high quality
and impact of the research DOE underwrites,
the Department of Energy has sponsored 48 Nobel
Laureates since DOE's inception in 1977 - and
a total of 88 Nobel Laureates since 1934 (associated
with DOE and its predecessor agencies). (These
Nobel Prize-winning scientists were recognized
for work conducted while they were employed
by DOE or predecessor agencies; for work conducted
using DOE laboratory facilities; or because
a national laboratory or a DOE program office
provided long-standing and significant support
for their other research efforts.)
The complete roster of 88 DOE Nobel Prize winners,
their biographies and photos is available at
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/nobel.html.
Chemistry/Physics
Prize |
Medicine
or Physiology Prize |
A list of the 48 DOE-supported
and/or -affiliated Nobel Prize winners since
1977 is provided below.
Year
|
Field
|
Name |
University |
Industry |
DOE-SC |
DOE
Other |
2008 |
Chemistry |
Tsien, Roger Y. |
University of California, San Diego
|
|
Brookhaven Nat. Lab; Biological and Environmental Research program |
|
2008 |
Physics |
Nambu, Yoichiro |
Enrico Fermi Institute,
University of Chicago
|
|
|
Atomic Energy Commission |
2007 |
Physics |
Grünberg,
Peter |
Forschungsze-
ntrum Jülich |
|
Argonne National Laboratory |
|
2006 |
Chemistry |
Kornberg, Roger D. |
Stanford University |
|
Stanford
Linear
Accelerator
Center |
|
2006 |
Physics |
Smoot,
George F. |
U. of California, Berekeley |
|
Lawrence Berkeley
Nat. Lab;
High Energy
Physics program |
1994
E.O. Lawrence Award |
2005 |
Chemistry |
Grubbs, Robert H. |
California Institute of Technology |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program
|
|
2005 |
Chemistry |
Schrock, Richard R. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program
|
|
2004 |
Physics |
Politzer, H. David |
California
Institute of Technology |
|
High Energy
Physics program
|
|
2004 |
Physics |
Wilczek, Frank |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
High Energy
Physics program
|
|
2003 |
Chemistry |
MacKinnon, Roderick |
Rockefeller University |
|
Brookhaven Nat. Lab |
|
2003 |
Physiology or Medicine |
Sir Mansfield, Peter |
U. of Nottingham |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
2003 |
Physics |
Abrikosov, Alexei A. |
Institute for Physical Problems |
|
Argonne Nat. Lab |
|
2002 |
Physics |
Davis, Raymond Jr |
U. of Pennsylvania |
|
Brookhaven Nat. Lab |
|
1999 |
Physics |
Veltman, Mar tinus |
U. of Utrecht, Netherlands/U. of Michigan
|
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1999 |
Chemistry |
Zewail,
Ahmed H. |
California Institute of Technology
|
|
|
1998
E.O. Lawrence Award |
1998 |
Physics |
Laughlin, Robert |
Stanford University |
Bell Laboratories |
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab |
|
1997 |
Chemistry |
Boyer, Paul |
U. of California-Los Angeles |
|
Basic Energy Science and Biological and
Environmental Research programs |
|
1997 |
Physics |
Chu, Steven |
Stanford
University |
Bell
Laboratories |
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory |
|
1996 |
Physics |
Osheroff, Douglas D. |
Cornell University
Stanford University |
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1996 |
Physics |
Lee, David |
Cornell University |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1996 |
Chemistry |
Smalley, Richard E. |
Rice University |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1996 |
Chemistry |
Curl, Robert F. |
Rice University |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1995 |
Chemistry |
Rowland, F. Sherwood |
U. of California, Irvine |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1995 |
Chemistry |
Molina, Mario |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1995 |
Physics |
Perl, Martin L. |
Stanford University |
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1995 |
Physics |
Reines, Frederick |
U. of California, Irvine |
|
|
Hanford Site Los
Alamos National Laboratory |
1994 |
Physics |
Shull, Clifford G. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
1993 |
Physics |
Hulse, Russell A. |
Princeton University
U. of Massachusetts |
|
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
|
1992 |
Chemistry |
Marcus, Rudolph |
California Institute of Technology |
|
|
|
1990 |
Physics |
Friedman, Jerome |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1990 |
Physics |
Kendall, Henry |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1990 |
Physics |
Taylor, Richard |
Stanford University |
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1989 |
Physics |
Ramsey, Norman |
Harvard University |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Atomic Energy Commission |
1988 |
Physics |
Lederman, Leon |
Columbia University |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1988 |
Physics |
Schwartz, Melvin |
Columbia University |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1988 |
Physics |
Steinberger, Jack |
Columbia University |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1987 |
Chemistry |
Cram, Donald |
U. of California, Los Angeles |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1986 |
Chemistry |
Lee, Yuan T. |
U. of California, Berkeley |
|
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
|
1986 |
Chemistry |
Herschbach, Dudley |
Harvard University |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1983 |
Chemistry |
Taube, Henry |
U. of California, Berkeley
Stanford University |
|
Basic Energy Sciences program |
|
1983 |
Medicine |
McClintock, Barbara |
|
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1983 |
Physics |
Fowler, William A |
California Institute of Technology |
|
|
|
1982 |
Physics |
Wilson, Kenneth G. |
Cornell University |
|
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1980 |
Physics |
Fitch, Val L. |
Princeton University |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1980 |
Physics |
Cronin, James |
U. of Chicago |
|
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
|
1979 |
Physics |
Weinberg, Steven |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
|
High Energy and Nuclear Physics program
|
|
1979 |
Physics |
Glashow, Sheldon L. |
Harvard University |
Lyman Laboratory |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
|
1979 |
Medicine |
Cormack, Allan |
Tufts University |
|
|
|
|