<p>According to Wikipedia Swarthmore's alumni include five Nobel Prize winners which Wikipedia says is the second highest number of Nobel Prize winners per graduate in the U.S.</p>
<p>I know the five number is correct, but can anyone confirm the per graduate number. </p>
<p>Also if Swarthmore is number two, whos number one?</p>
<p>I can only assume it means "number of students who became Nobel laureates divided by the size of the current student body". if so, Swarthmore has a ratio of about 0.0034. my guess is 1st place goes to Cal Tech, which has 17 alumni laureates out of a student body of a little more than 2000 (its exact ratio is 0.0078, more than twice as high as Swat).</p>
<p>I bet that statement is correct, if you glance at this</a> page. of course, some schools had a lot of faculty Nobel laureates (UChicago for example) but no school seems to have a better ratio of alumni Nobel laureates than us and CalTech.</p>
<p>Thank you this is helpful....even this information doesn’t tell the whole LAC story….for instance Columbia lists Milton Freidman but his undergraduate school was Rutgers and UCB lists John C. Mather while his undergraduate school was Swarthmore ect…ect…</p>
<p>Thank you for your help…this information is very helpful….</p>
<p>I took a look at Cal Tech, of the 17 that are listed as “graduate” 7 of them got their undergraduate degree at Cal Tech; the other 10 got their undergraduate degree somewhere else. Included in the 10 was Howard Temin who received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1955, and his doctorate from Cal Tech in 1959.</p>
<p>both caltech and swarthmore are cool.. i know this is a pretty useless post.. does it mean that for those who aspire to win one should attend one of these 2? hehe</p>
<p>tommybill - I know, but even if you consider only "no. of undergraduate alumni vs. size of undergraduate class", they still beat us. after all I think it's only fair to consider "undergraduate students + graduate students" in both "Nobel laureates" and "size of class".</p>
<p>Don't take this too seriously. By this measure my high school beats handily beats Swarthmore - 7 Nobel Prizes in Physics. If it were a country it would be tied with Spain for total Nobel Prizes. If counting only Physics then only 4 countries - Amsterdam, England, France and Germany beats it.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, which high school is that? In germany?..</p>
<p>nuclearfusion - yeah, personally I just think it's interesting, in a useless sort of way :). it turns out that during most of my junior year, though, my top 2 choices were Cambridge (couldn't apply due to age) and UChicago (never took the new SAT)... never thought about the "most Nobel laureates in the world" thing though :)</p>
<p>of course, the fact that I don't care about this didn't stop me from using it as an argument to my parents... :D</p>
<p>Good ole USA : The Bronx High School of Science counts seven Nobel Prize-winning physicists among its graduates:</p>
<p>Leon N. Cooper 1947, awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics
Sheldon L. Glashow 1950, awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Steven Weinberg 1950, awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Melvin Schwartz 1949, awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics
Russell A. Hulse 1966, awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics
H. David Politzer 1966, awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Roy J. Glauber 1941, awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics</p>
<p>Nuclearfusion, you have a great chance then.. Hehe.. Good luck..</p>
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Good ole USA : The Bronx High School of Science counts seven Nobel Prize-winning physicists among its graduates:
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That's not really surprising, considering the average IQ of a graduate of Bronx Science is probably higher than the average IQ of a graduate of Swarthmore, and that Nobel Laureates tend to be very intelligent.</p>
<p>The #1 factor that Nobel winners have in common is working with other Nobel prize winners. Statistically, the typical laureate has worked with 9+ other laureates.<br>
I just came back from Stockholm where I toured the Nobel Museum and learned that fact.
Also, if you want to pick a college to enhance your chances of getting a Nobel, go to Cambridge.
Good luck!</p>