<p>Future'MD, cmh500 was right abt Nobel prize winner. However, Cambridge recently loses its pace to US universities, and the Nobel prizes are now flowing to US. In the future Cambridge will no longer have the title for having the most Nobel laureates</p>
<p>here's proof future'md. from <a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/nobelprize.html:%5B/url%5D">http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/nobelprize.html:</a></p>
<p>The Nobel Prize
The University of Cambridge has more Nobel Prize winners than any other institution.</p>
<ul>
<li> 80 affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won the Nobel Prize since 1904.</li>
<li> Affiliates have won in every category, with 29 Nobel prizes in Physics, 22 in Medicine, 18 in Chemistry, seven in Economics, two in Literature and two in Peace. </li>
</ul>
<p>Cambridge's Nobel Prize winners</p>
<pre><code>1904 Lord Rayleigh, Trinity College
</code></pre>
<p>Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering Argon
1906 J. J. Thomson, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for investigating the electrical conductivity of gases
1908 Ernest Rutherford, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for atomic structure and radioactivity
1915 William Bragg, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics for analysing crystal structure using X-rays
1915 Lawrence Bragg, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for analysing crystal structure using X-rays
1917 Charles Barkla, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering the characteristics of X-radiation
1922 Niels Bohr, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for investigating atomic structure and radiation
1922 Francis Aston, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for work on mass spectroscopy
1922 Archibald Hill, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for work on heat production in the muscles
1925 Austen Chamberlain, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Peace, for work on the Locarno Pact, 1925
1927 Charles Wilson, Sidney Sussex College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for inventing the cloud chamber
1927 Arthur Holly Compton
Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering wavelength change in diffused X-rays
1928 Owen Richardson, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for creating Richardson's Law
1929 Frederick Hopkins, Trinity / Emmanuel Colleges
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering growth stimulating vitamins
1932 Lord Adrian, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for work on the function of neurons
1932 Charles Sherrington, Caius College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for work on the function of neurons
1933 Paul Dirac, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for quantum mechanics
1935 James Chadwick, Caius College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering the neutron
1936 Henry Dale, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
1937 George Thomson, Trinity College,
Nobel Prize in Physics, for interference in crystals irradiated by electrons
1937 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Fitzwilliam College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for combustion in biology
1945 Ernst Chain, Fitzwilliam College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the discovery of penicillin
1945 Howard Florey, Caius College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the discovery of penicillin
1947 Edward Appleton, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for discovering the Appleton Layer
1948 Patrick Blackett, Magdalene / Kings Colleges
Nobel Prize in Physics, for nuclear physics and cosmic radiation
1950 Bertrand Russell, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Literature, for A History of Western Philosophy, 1946
1950 Cecil Powell, Sidney Sussex College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for photography of nuclear processes
1951 John ****croft, St John's / Churchill Colleges
Nobel Prize in Physics, for using accelerated particles to study atomic nuclei
1951 Ernest Walton, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for using accelerated particles to study atomic nuclei
1952 Richard Synge, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for developing partition chromatography
1952 Archer Martin, Peterhouse
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for developing partition chromatography
1953 Hans Krebs
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering the citric acid cycle
1954 Max Born
Nobel Prize in Physics, for fundamental research into quantum mechanics
1957 Alexander Todd, Christ's College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for work on nucleotides
1958 Frederick Sanger, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the structure of the insulin molecule
1959 Philip Noel-Baker, King's College
Nobel Prize in Peace, for work towards global disarmament
1962 John Kendrew, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for determining the structure of haemoproteins
1962 Max Perutz, Peterhouse
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for determing the structure of haemoproteins
1962 Francis Crick, Caius / Churchill Colleges
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for determining the structure of DNA
1962 James Watson, Clare College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for determining the structure of DNA
1962 Maurice Wilkins, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for determining the structure of DNA
1963 Alan Hodgkin, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the transmission of impulses along a nerve fibre
1963 Andrew Huxley, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the transmission of impulses along a nerve fibre
1964 Dorothy Hodgkin, Newnham / Girton Colleges
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the structure of compounds used to fight anaemia
1967 Ronald Norrish, Emmanuel College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the study of fast Chemical reactions
1967 George Porter, Emmanuel College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the study of fast chemical reactions
1972 Rodney Porter, Pembroke College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for the chemical structure of antibodies
1972 John Hicks, Caius College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for the equilibrium theory
1973 Brian Josephson, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the tunneling in superconductors and semiconductors
1974 Patrick White, King's College
Nobel Prize in Literature, for an epic and psychological narrative art
1974 Martin Ryle, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention of aperture synthesis
1974 Antony Hewish, Caius / Churchill Colleges
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of pulsars
1977 Nevill Mott, Caius / St John's Colleges
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids
1977 Philip Anderson, Churchill College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the behaviour of electrons in magnetic solids
1977 James Meade, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for contributions to the theory of international trade
1978 Pyotr Kapitsa, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for inventing the helium liquefier
1978 Peter Mitchell, Jesus College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the energy transfer processes in biological systems
1979 Abdus Salam, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for electromagnetic and weak particle interactions
1979 Steven Weinberg
Nobel Prize in Physics, for electromagnetic and weak particle interactions
1979 Allan Cormack, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for developing CAT scans
1980 Walter Gilbert, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the theory of nucleotide links in nucleic acids
1980 Frederick Sanger, St John's College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the theory of nucleotide links in nucleic acids
1982 Aaron Klug, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the structure of biologically active substances
1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the evolution and devolution of stars
1983 William Fowler, Pembroke College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for the evolution and devolution of stars
1983 Gerard Debreu, Churchill College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for reforming the theory of general equilibrium
1984 Richard Stone, Caius College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for developing a national income accounting system
1984 Cesar Milstein, Fitzwilliam College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for developing a technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies
1984 Georges Kohler
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for developing a technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies
1989 Norman Ramsey, Clare College
Nobel Prize in Physics, for developing the separated field method
1996 James Mirrlees, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for studying behaviour in the absence of complete information
1997 John Walker, Sidney Sussex College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for studying how a spinning enzyme creates the molecule that powers cells in muscles
1998 Amartya Sen, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for his contributions to welfare economics
1998 John Pople, Trinity College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
2000 Alan McDiarmid, Sidney Sussex College
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
2000 Paul Greengard
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
2001 Tim Hunt, Clare College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
2001 Joseph Stiglitz, Caius College
Nobel Prize in Economics, for analyses of markets with asymmetric information
2002 John Sulston, Pembroke College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
2002 Sydney Brenner, King's College
Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death</p>
<p>That's amazing. Okay, I'll give it to you then that Cambridge is an extremely impressive university; however, simply going by Nobel Prize winners doesn't necessarily make a university extraordinary (there are other factors, too).</p>
<p>I would say cambridge is extraordinary and i'm sure most people would agree. future'md is right though, nobel prizes are just one factor that can be taken into account when ranking universities, however, compared to other factors that could be taken into consideration, nobel prizes seem to be one of the most legitimate.</p>
<p>Future'MD:</p>
<p>The IIT's have the smartest students in the world, but the institutions themselves are not the best. A big part of science is research, and the IIT's don't have the money to compete with institutions in other countries. I think rank #31 is appropriate, although they should have been split into 7 rather than being grouped together.</p>
<p>Many of the Cambridge winners work at US schools.</p>
<p>This is why I say global rankings are stupid. People from different countries have no idea how good your schools are. They just guess.</p>
<p>Wheres Duke?</p>
<p>VTBoy writes:" This is why I say global rankings are stupid. People from different countries have no idea how good your schools are. They just guess."</p>
<p>That's really true. Most of my friends here in england only really know about Harvard and Stanford as far as unis in the states go. I was mentioning Princeton and one of my friends said "Oh that's supposed to be good, right?" And most have never heard of Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth or any of the other Ivy-League schools. You should know that although people in the states are obsessed with ivy-status not eveyone in the world is. It's all relative. The inverse is that it's nice to see that oxbridge worship is mainly confined to th uk and commonwealth...people my age over here are waaay too obsessed with the oxbridge name.</p>
<p>Duke is somewhere among the lower Ivies</p>
<p>"Wheres Duke?"
Duke is probably #101 8^). Where are the Duke alumni?</p>
<p>Michigan State made it!!! Go SPARTAN!!!</p>
<p>It's probably more appropriate to ask - Where is Wisconsin... as this is obviously a grad school/research ranking.</p>
<p>uh no
Duke does belong on the list</p>
<p>and we beat you in basketball</p>
<p>ay_caramba,
But we would certainly beat you in football and hockey...</p>
<p>Btw, my call handle is GoBlue, not GoGreen. Green is our little brother.</p>
<p>6^ this ranking seems totally foolish to me; but we dont the basis or key factors they have taken into account into making these rankings.</p>
<p>It could be something like: "Best food in a college for Science", whatever, so i feel we really can't rely on rankings too much.</p>
<p>I feel IIT deserves a better rank in any normal list.</p>
<p>That list seems heavily biased towards schools strong in Physics compared to the other sciences.</p>
<p>cmh500 do you really believe its fair to group schools in a ranking how Cambridge is and compare it to single schools.In that case HYPSM should group their Nobel laurautes and they would obviously have more. Am I the only who thinks some schools and them rating them and then adding individual schools makes for a ranking that is weaker than others. Its also rather dubious that cambridge and oxford are at the top and it gives the impression of accuracy by not having people tied for a spot.</p>
<p>By nobel prizes, U Chicago has 78 winners, which is more than Harvard (40) and MIT's (57) winners. But the number of laurettes isn't everything.</p>
<p>remember what the nobel prizes means though. it simply means you made a contribution to one of the subjects it honors. However, in many other important subjects like politics, biology, history and so on, it doesn't say jackshizzle about it.</p>
<p>but as far as this list goes, i think its crap. Harvard, MIT, Caltech,Berkeley and Stanford would crush Oxbridge right now. The united states has easily taken over as the top science/engineering research country in the world... not to mention Harvard,MIT and etc. are way wealthier and thus will have much better facilities and equipment than their counterparts at oxbridge.</p>
<p>I love the way posters here are so keen to accuse academics etc from other countries of provincialism but Americans talking about American unis are somehow exempt from the same charge.
Also: Cambridge is not a group of schools, its one university with seperate colleges which are basically residential.</p>