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Among 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. (For more information about the Nobel Prize, visit nobelprize.org External link .)

Going back to the earliest days of the Manhattan Project, the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies blended cutting-edge research and innovative problem-solving to keep the United States in the forefront of scientific discovery. The 115 Nobel Laureates associated with DOE serve as a proud testimony to both the high quality and the impact of the research underwritten by or associated with the Department.

The complete roster of Nobel Prize winners associated with DOE and its predecessor agencies, including biographies and photos is available on OSTI's R&D Accomplishments web page.

A list of the 115 DOE-affiliated Nobel Prize winners is provided below.
Year	Prize	Name	Home Institution(s)	DOE-SC Affiliation	Other DOE Affiliation
2013	Chemistry	Martin Karplus Nobel Lecture	Universite dé Strasbourg; Harvard University	National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
2013	Chemistry	Michael Levitt Nobel Lecture	Stanford University School of Medicine	Biological and Environmental Research
2012	Chemistry	Brian K. Kobilka Nobel Lecture	Stanford University School of Medicine	Argonne National Laboratory
2011	Physics	Saul Perlmutter Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory High Energy Physics
2009	Chemistry	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Nobel Lecture	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Brookhaven National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
2009	Chemistry	Thomas A. Steitz Nobel Lecture	Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Yale University	Brookhaven National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
2009	Chemistry	Ada E. Yonath Nobel Lecture	Weizman Institute of Science, Israel	Argonne National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
2008	Chemistry	Roger Y. Tsien Nobel Lecture	University of California, San Diego	Brookhaven National Laboratory Biological and Environmental Research
2008	Physics	Yoichiro Nambu Nobel Lecture	Enrico Fermi Institute; University of Chicago		Atomic Energy Commission
2007	Physics	Peter Grünberg Nobel Lecture	Forschungszentrum Jülich	Argonne National Laboratory
2006	Chemistry	Roger D. Kornberg Nobel Lecture	Stanford University	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2006	Physics	John C. Mather Nobel Lecture	Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory High Energy Physics
2006	Physics	George F. Smoot Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory High Energy Physics	1994 E.O. Lawrence Award
2005	Chemistry	Robert H. Grubbs Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology	Basic Energy Sciences
2005	Chemistry	Richard R. Schrock Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Basic Energy Sciences
2004	Physics	David J. Gross Nobel Lecture	Princeton University; University of California, Santa Barbara	Fermi National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory High Energy Physics
2004	Physics	H. David Politzer Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology	High Energy Physics
2004	Physics	Frank Wilczek Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	High Energy Physics
2003	Chemistry	Peter Agre Nobel Lecture	Johns Hopkins University	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Biological and Environmental Research
2003	Chemistry	Roderick MacKinnon Nobel Lecture	Rockefeller University	Brookhaven National Laboratory
2003	Physics	Alexei A. Abrikosov Nobel Lecture	Institute for Physical Problems	Argonne National Laboratory
2003	Physiology or Medicine	Sir Peter Mansfield Nobel Lecture	University of Nottingham	Basic Energy Sciences
2002	Physics	Raymond Davis, Jr. Nobel Lecture	University of Pennsylvania	Brookhaven National Laboratory
2002	Physics	Masatoshi Koshiba Nobel Lecture	University of Tokyo	Brookhaven National Laboratory High Energy Physics	Los Alamos National Laboratory
2000	Chemistry	Alan J. Heeger Nobel Lecture	University of California, Santa Barbara	Brookhaven National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences	Los Alamos National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2000	Chemistry	Alan G. MacDiarmid Nobel Lecture	University of Pennsylvania	Brookhaven National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
1999	Chemistry	Ahmed H. Zewail Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology
1999	Physics	Martinus J.G. Veltman Nobel Lecture	University of Utrecht, Netherlands; University of Michigan	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	1998 E.O. Lawrence Award
1998	Chemistry	John A. Pople Nobel Lecture	Northwestern University	Argonne National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
1998	Physics	Robert B. Laughlin Nobel Lecture	Stanford University; Bell Laboratories		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1997	Chemistry	Paul D. Boyer Nobel Lecture	University of California, Los Angeles	Basic Energy Sciences Biological and Environmental Research
1997	Physics	Steven Chu Nobel Lecture	Stanford University; Bell Laboratories	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1997	Physiology or Medicine	Stanley B. Prusiner Nobel Lecture	University of California, San Francisco	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences Biological and Environmental Research
1996	Chemistry	Robert F. Curl, Jr. Nobel Lecture	Rice University	Basic Energy Sciences
1996	Chemistry	Richard E. Smalley Nobel Lecture	Rice University	Basic Energy Sciences
1996	Physics	David M. Lee Nobel Lecture	Cornell University	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1996	Physics	Douglas D. Osheroff Nobel Lecture	Cornell University; Stanford University	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1995	Chemistry	Mario J. Molina Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Basic Energy Sciences
1995	Chemistry	F. Sherwood Rowland Nobel Lecture	University of California, Irvine	Basic Energy Sciences
1995	Physics	Martin L. Perl Nobel Lecture	Stanford University	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1995	Physics	Frederick Reines Nobel Lecture	University of California, Irvine		Hanford Site Los Alamos National Laboratory
1994	Chemistry	George A. Olah Nobel Lecture	University of Southern California	Basic Energy Sciences
1994	Physics	Bertram N. Brockhouse Nobel Lecture	Chalk River Laboratories, Canada	Brookhaven National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
1994	Physics	Clifford G. Shull Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Oak Ridge National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
1993	Physics	Russell A. Hulse Nobel Lecture	Princeton University; University of Massachusetts	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
1993	Physics	Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. Nobel Lecture	Princeton University	Brookhaven National Laboratory High Energy Physics
1992	Chemistry	Rudolph A. Marcus Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology
1992	Physics	Georges Charpak Nobel Lecture		Fermi National Laboratory High Energy Physics	CERN
1990	Physics	Jerome I. Friedman Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1990	Physics	Henry W. Kendall Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1990	Physics	Richard E. Taylor Nobel Lecture	Stanford University	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1989	Chemistry	Thomas R. Cech Nobel Lecture	University of Colorado	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences	Los Alamos National Laboratory
1989	Physics	Norman F. Ramsey Nobel Lecture	Harvard University	Brookhaven National Laboratory	US Atomic Energy Commission
1988	Chemistry	Johann Deisenhofer Nobel Lecture	Max Planck Institute	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory Biological and Environmental Research
1988	Physics	Leon M. Lederman Nobel Lecture	Columbia University	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1988	Physics	Melvin Schwartz Nobel Lecture	Columbia University	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1988	Physics	Jack Steinberger Nobel Lecture	Columbia University	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1987	Chemistry	Donald J. Cram Nobel Lecture	University of California, Los Angeles	Basic Energy Sciences
1986	Chemistry	Yuan T. Lee Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1986	Chemistry	Dudley R. Herschbach Nobel Lecture	Harvard University	Basic Energy Sciences
1983	Physics	William Alfred Fowler Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology
1983	Physiology or Medicine	Barbara McClintock Nobel Lecture	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1983	Chemistry	Henry Taube Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University	Basic Energy Sciences
1982	Physics	Kenneth G. Wilson Nobel Lecture	Cornell University	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1981	Chemistry	Roald Hoffmann Nobel Lecture	Cornell University	Brookhaven National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
1980	Physics	Val Logsdon Fitch Nobel Lecture	Princeton University	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1980	Physics	James Watson Cronin Nobel Lecture	University of Chicago	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1979	Physiology or Medicine	Allan M. Cormack Nobel Lecture	Tufts University
1979	Physics	Sheldon Lee Glashow Nobel Lecture	Harvard University; Lyman Laboratory	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1979	Physics	Abdus Salam Nobel Lecture	International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste; Imperial College, London	Fermi National Laboratory High Energy Physics
1979	Physics	Steven Weinberg Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	High Energy Physics Nuclear Physics
1977	Chemistry	Ilva Prigogine Nobel Lecture	University of Texas	Office of Energy Research
1976	Physics	Burton Richter Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	CERN
1976	Physics	Samuel Chao Chung Ting Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Brookhaven National Laboratory	CERN 1975 E.O. Lawrence Award
1975	Physics	Ben Roy Mottelson Nobel Lecture	Niels Bohr Institute		US Atomic Energy Commission CERN
1975	Physics	Leo James Rainwater Nobel Lecture	Columbia University		US Atomic Energy Commission 1963 E.O. Lawrence Award
1974	Chemistry	Paul J. Flory Nobel Lecture	Cornell University; Stanford University
1973	Physics	Ivar Giaever Nobel Lecture	General Electric Research and Development Center; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1972	Physics	Leon Neil Cooper Nobel Lecture	Brown University	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1972	Physics	John Bardeen Nobel Lecture	University of Illinois
1972	Physics	John Robert Schrieffer Nobel Lecture	University of Illinois
1969	Physics	Murray Gell-Mann	California Institute of Technology		US Atomic Energy Commission
1968	Physics	Luis Walter Alvarez Nobel Lecture		Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1967	Physics	Hans Albrecht Bethe Nobel Lecture	Cornell University		Los Alamos National Laboratory
1965	Physics	Richard P. Feynman Nobel Lecture	Princeton University; California Institute of Technology		Los Alamos National Laboratory
1965	Physics	Julian Schwinger Nobel Lecture	Harvard University		Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory
1964	Physics	Charles Hard Townes Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Columbia University	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Basic Energy Sciences
1963	Physics	Eugene Paul Wigner Nobel Lecture	University of Chicago	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1963	Physics	Maria Goeppert-Mayer Nobel Lecture		Argonne National Laboratory
1962	Physiology or Medicine	James Dewey Watson Nobel Lecture	Cavendish Laboratory; California Institute of Technology
1961	Physics	Robert Hofstadter Nobel Lecture	Princeton University; Stanford University
1961	Chemistry	Melvin Calvin Nobel Lecture		Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1960	Physics	Donald Arthur Glaser Nobel Lecture	University of Michigan; University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1960	Chemistry	Willard Frank Libby Nobel Lecture	Columbia University; University of California, Los Angeles		US Atomic Energy Commission
1959	Physics	Owen Chamberlain Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley; University of Chicago		Los Alamos National Laboratory
1959	Physics	Emilio Gino Segrè Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Los Alamos National Laboratory
1958	Physiology or Medicine	George Wells Beadle Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology; University of Chicago
1957	Physics	Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee Nobel Lecture	Columbia University
1957	Physics	Chen Ning Yang Nobel Lecture	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1956	Physics	John Bardeen Nobel Lecture	University of Illinois; Bell Laboratories
1955	Physics	Polykarp Kusch Nobel Lecture	Columbia University
1955	Physics	Willis Eugene Lamb Nobel Lecture	Columbia University; Stanford University
1952	Physics	Felix Bloch Nobel Lecture	Stanford University		Los Alamos National Laboratory CERN
1952	Physics	Edward Mills Purcell Nobel Lecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1951	Chemistry	Edwin Mattison McMillan Nobel Lecture		Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Los Alamos National Laboratory
1951	Chemistry	Glenn Theodore Seaborg Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	US Atomic Energy Commission
1946	Physiology or Medicine	Hermann Joseph Muller Nobel Lecture	Amherst College; Indiana University
1944	Physics	Isidor Isaac Rabi	Columbia University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1939	Physics	Ernest Orlando Lawrence Nobel Lecture	University of California, Berkeley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1938	Physics	Enrico Fermi Nobel Lecture	Columbia University; University of Chicago
1936	Physics	Carl David Anderson Nobel Lecture	California Institute of Technology; National Defense Research Committee	Office of Scientific Research and Development
1934	Chemistry	Harold Clayton Urey Nobel Lecture	Johns Hopkins University
1934	Physiology or Medicine	George Hoyt Whipple Nobel Lecture	University of Rochester
1927	Physics	Arthur Holly Compton Nobel Lecture	University of Chicago		US Atomic Energy Commission
1925	Physics	James Franck Nobel Lecture	University of Chicago		US Atomic Energy Commission

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