Nobel Prize / Fields Medal

College Search & Selection
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<p>I was looking on the web and I found that only eleven American colleges and universities have ever graduated both a Fields Medalist AND a Nobel Prize winner. Those places are (in alphabetical order):</p>

<p>Brandeis University
City College of New York
Columbia University
Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
Princeton University
Williams College
Yale University</p>

<p>Ok, so this information may not be that useful but I thought it was worth mentioning.</p>

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<p>Well, only thirteen Americans have <em>ever</em> won the Fields Medal, so the fact that only eleven universities are on this list should not be too shocking, but it’s an interesting list nevertheless.</p>

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<p>The University Of Colorado has tons of nobel prize winners if I can remember correctly</p>

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<p>If Wikipedia is accurate, they have 1.</p>

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<p>locked, thanks…here is some more info on the “Fields Medal”…didn’t know what it was until now</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/229770-princeton-prof-wins-fields-medal-nobel-math.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/229770-princeton-prof-wins-fields-medal-nobel-math.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>according to the University Of Colorado wikipedia page, they have six nobel laureates</p>

<p>[University</a> of Colorado Nobel Prize Recipients | University of Colorado at Boulder](<a href=“http://www.colorado.edu/news/nobel/]University”>http://www.colorado.edu/news/nobel/)</p>

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<p>^But 5 of them didn’t go to Colorado</p>

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= Wikipedia</p>

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<p>How many have had a grad win two Nobel prizes? I know one–Wisconsin–John Bardeen.</p>

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In the same field. There were others won twice in different fields.</p>

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<p>^ Linus Pauling, Oregon State for UG and Caltech for Grad + career is the only one of those from the US. The other who did it was Marie Curie.</p>

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<p>I found it bizarre that Caltech, MIT and Stanford were not on the list, so I ran a check on Field medalists and surely enough, none of them ever studied at either of those three.</p>

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<p>One of the Fields Medal winners is my uncle…interesting guy with lots of interests other than math. When you talk to him you definitely know you’re not talking to just another really smart guy.</p>

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<p>No MIT grad has won a Fields medal, except in “Good Will Hunting”.</p>