<p>ok. got this from wikepedia and searching the net. correct if wrong.
seems it's just a few schools. alot less than i expected
the questionmarks indicate i think it's 0 but maybe i didn't search hard enough.</p>
<p>amherst 4
bowdoin 0?
bryn mawr 0?
carleton 0?
haverford 4
middlebury 0?
oberlin 3
pomona 0?
reed 0?
swarthmore 5
wellseley 1
wesleyan 0?
williams 1</p>
<p>Well, considering the LAC's are all very small colleges with few graduate programs, and have relatively few students studying technical subjects (which is where most of the Nobel categories are), I think it's not surprising in the least. </p>
<p>Let me put it to you this way. Berkeley has had only 10 of its former undergrads win Nobels, despite Berkeley's sheer size and large technical focus. Michigan has had only 4. UCLA has had only 4. These schools all have over 20,000 undergrads each.</p>
<p>Even at far larger (relative to the LACs) elites, like Stanford, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Northwestern, Penn and Dartmouth, fewer than 4 undergrads have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.</p>
<p>Rollins College has 1. Dr. Donald Cram, undergrad in chem, Nobel in Chem. I suspect there are more than the ones listed/found during your web search.</p>
<p>so somebody asked. this is for undergrads and not professors. the one's with real numbers are correct as i got them from the home pages of the school: "Williams first nobel prize was in 2003 for...". some of the zeros are correct as well and i'll remove the ?. wesleyan said something like, "while no grads have ever won a nobel, several former faculty, honorary recipients and friends of the college have."</p>
<p>i didn't look at all LACs as i'm not that curious but add to the list if truthful.</p>
<p>amherst 4
bowdoin 0?
bryn mawr 0
carleton 0
haverford 4
middlebury 0?
oberlin 3
pomona 0?
reed 0?
rollins 1
swarthmore 5
wellseley 1
wesleyan 0
williams 1</p>
<p>amherst 4
bowdoin 0?
bryn mawr 0
carleton 0
haverford 4
middlebury 0?
oberlin 3
pomona 0?
reed 0?
rollins 1
swarthmore 5
wellseley 1
wesleyan 0
whitman 1
williams 1</p>
<p>I know the Swarthmore, Amherst, and Williams numbers are correct.</p>
<p>It's just amazing to me that Swathmore grads and Amherst grads both won Nobel prizes this year -- one in Physics and one in Economics. And, that grads from both boths schools have each won 2 Nobel prizes since 2001.</p>
<p>Four of Swarthmore's five Nobels have come in science or medicine fields.</p>
<p>Holy Cross grad won in medicine several years back.</p>
<p>confirmed. i posted this question on a few of the lac forums 2 days ago and no takers, so i'll remove those questionmarks.</p>
<p>amherst 4
bowdoin 0
bryn mawr 0
carleton 0
haverford 4
holy cross 1
middlebury 0
oberlin 3
pomona 0
reed 0
rollins 1
swarthmore 5
wellseley 1
wesleyan 0
whitman 1
williams 1</p>