<p>Penn</a> alum wins Nobel Prize - News</p>
<p>Penn alumni and affiliates have won 9 Nobels in 10 years - that's one of the most of any university in that time. Medicine, Literature and Peace still haven't been announced, but if Roth wins, that will bring us to 10.</p>
<p>Medicine has already been announced. It’s Economics (in addition to Literature and Peace) that still hasn’t been announced.</p>
<p>Where did you get that 9-Nobels-in-10-years statistic?</p>
<p>not in the last 10 years but-
Stanley B. Prusiner, Medicine, 1997, solo award, double alum</p>
<p>from Wikipedia:
Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999 (alum, solo)
Alan MacDiarmid, Chemistry, 2000
Alan J. Heeger, Chemistry, 2000
Hideki Shirakawa, Chemistry, 2000
Raymond Davis, Physics, 2002
Irwin Rose, Chemistry, 2004
Edward C. Prescott, Economics, 2004
Edmund S. Phelps, Economics, 2006
George E. Smith, Physics, 2009</p>
<p>Ah Econ, my mistake.</p>
<p>Another Penn affiliate to add to the list today: Oliver Williamson, who just won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, was a professor at Penn from 1965-1983, and was Chairman of the Economics Department.</p>
<p>Hot damn. 2 Nobels for Penn this year then! That puts us at… 23?</p>
<p>More importantly, 10 for the last 10 years. Pretty crazy.</p>
<p>Oliver Williamson must be so old.</p>
<p>two in one year is spectacular obviously- but Yale had an even more spectacular year- 3 total, moving to 37 total Nobels. Princeton remains at 32, Cornell moves up 1 to 41 (medicine laureate Jack Szostak is a Cornell PhD). </p>
<p>However, if you look at recent Nobels (cited work from the 1970s-90s), Penn is likely to be third in the Ivy League to Columbia and Harvard, the perennial favorites.</p>