New York University: Nobel Laureates
by Sylviastel | created - 09 Sep 2014 | updated - 09 Sep 2014 | PublicJulius Axelrod M.Sc. 1941; 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Arthur Kornberg MD 1947; 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George E. Palade; postgraduate work at Robert Chambers Biology Lab; 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Frederick Reines Ph.D. 1944; 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Irwin Rose; postgraduate work under Severo Ochoa; 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Clifford Shull Ph.D. 1941; 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Rosalyn Yalow; 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Robert Aumann; 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
Baruk Benacceraf 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Economics.
Robert Engel 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
Avram Hershko; 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Tjalling Koopmans; 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Rudolph Marcus: 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Robert Mulliken: 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Gunnar Myrdal: 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Thomas Sargent: 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Rudolf Eucken: 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wassily Leontief: 1973 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences.
Otto Loewi: 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Edward Prescott: 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Martin Perl: BS 1948; 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1. Mohamed el Baradei
Self | The Robert MacNeil Report
Mohamed el Baradei was born on June 17, 1942 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt [now Egypt].
1967 LL.M.; 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Gertrude Elion
Self | Me & Isaac Newton
Gertrude Elion was born on January 23, 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. She died on February 21, 1999 in Chapel, North Carolina, USA.
Ph.D.; 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
3. Friedrich von Hayek
Self | The Levin Interviews
Friedrich von Hayek was born on May 8, 1899 in Vienna, Austria. He died on March 23, 1992 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
1924; 1974 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics.
4. Eric Kandel
The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed
Eric Kandel was born on November 7, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He is a writer, known for The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed (2017), In Search of Memory (2009) and Nova (1974).
MD 1955; 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Associate Professor 1965-1974.
5. Elihu Root
Self | The German Curse in Russia
Elihu Root was born on February 15, 1845 in Clinton, New York, USA. He was married to Clara Frances Wales. He died on February 7, 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.
LLB 1867; 1912 Nobel Peace Prize.
6. George Wald
George Wald was born on November 18, 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Gateways to the Mind (1958), The Force Beyond (1977) and The Late Great Planet Earth (1978). He died on April 12, 1997 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
1927 BS; 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
7. James J. Heckman
Self | Stossel
James J. Heckman was born on April 19, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2000 Nobel Prize in Economics.
8. Severo Ochoa
Self | De tú a tú
Severo Ochoa was born on September 24, 1905 in Luarca, Asturias, Spain. He was married to Carmen Garcia Cobian. He died on November 1, 1993 in Madrid, Spain.
1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
9. Saul Bellow
Actor | Zelig
Saul Bellow was born on July 10, 1915 in Lachine, Québec, Canada [now Lachine, Montréal, Québec, Canada]. He was a writer and actor, known for Zelig (1983), Henderson the Rain King and Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965). He was married to Janis Bellow, Alexandra Ionesco Tuleca, Susan Glassman, Alexandra ...
1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.
10. Joseph Brodsky
Writer | Khrustalyov, mashinu!
Joseph Brodsky was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian-Jewish poet, writer, director and translator, who was arrested and prosecuted by the Soviet regime before his emigration.
He was born Joseph Aleksandrovich Brodsky on May 24, 1940 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia). He survived the Nazi siege of ...
1987 Nobel Prize in Literature.
11. Francis Crick
Self | Nova
Crick attended Northhampton Grammar School and, after moving to London, Mill Hill School. Even at school, his interest was primarily in the natural sciences - physics, chemistry and mathematics. So he decided to study physics at University College London. He graduated in 1937 and immediately began ...
1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
12. Wole Soyinka
Director | Governor's Plea
Wole Soyinka was born on July 13, 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He is a writer and director, known for Governor's Plea (2024), Dark Moment and Kongi's Harvest (1970). He has been married to Folake Doherty since 1989. They have three children. He was previously married to Libranrian Oladie Idowu and ...
1986 Nobel Prize in Literature
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