Where did Nobel Prize winners complete their undergraduate education? Part deux!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Colleges and universities that have produced two (2) - five (4) Nobel Prize winners:</p>

<p>Brandeis University (2):
Roderick MacKinnon, Chemistry
Edward Witten, Mathematics (Field Medal)</p>

<p>Haverford College (2):
Theodor William Richards, Chemistry
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., Physics</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins University (2):
Francis Payton Rous, Medicine
Martin Rodbell, Medicine</p>

<p>Oberlin College (2):
Roger Wolcott Sperry, Medicine
Robert Andrews Millikan, Physics</p>

<p>Purdue University-West Lafayette (2):
Ben Roy Mottelson, Physics
Edward Mills Purcell, Physics</p>

<p>Rice University (2):
Robert Curl, Chemistry
Robert Woodrow Wilson, Physics</p>

<p>Rugters University-New Brunswick (2):
Milton Friedman, Economics
Selman Abraham Waksman, Medicine</p>

<p>Stanford University (2):
Eric Allin Cornell, Physics
Dudley Robert Herschbach, Chemistry</p>

<p>University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2):
Edward B. Lewis, Medicine
Daniel McFadden, Economics</p>

<p>Williams College (2):
Robert Fry Engle III, Economics
Curtis T. McMullen, Mathematics (Fields Medal)</p>

<p>Carnegie Mellon University (3):
John L. Hall, Physics
John Forbes Nash, Economics
Clifford Shull, Physics</p>

<p>Case Western University (3):
Donald A. Glasser, Physics
Polykarp Kusch, Physics
Paul Lauterbur, Medicine</p>

<p>Dartmouth College (3):
Owen Chamberlain, Physics
Karl Barry Sharpless, Chemistry
George Davis Snell, Medicine</p>

<p>Princeton University (3):
Gary Stanley Becker, Economics
John Milnor, Mathematics (Field Medal)
Andrew Michael Spence, Economics</p>

<p>University of Pennsylvania (3):
Michael Stuart Brown, Medicine
Stanley Ben Prusiner, Medicine
George Elwood Smith, Physics</p>

<p>University of Rochester (3):
Steven Chu, Physics
Arthur Kornberg, Medicine
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Medicine</p>

<p>University of Washington (3):
Linda Brown Buck, Medicine
George Herbert Hitchings, Medicine
George Stigler, Economics</p>

<p>University of Wisconsin-Madison (3):
John Bardeen, Physics
Herbert Spencer Gasser, Medicine
John Hasbrouck van Vleck, Physics</p>

<p>Amherst College (4):
Henry Way Kendall, Physics
Edmund Phelps, Economics
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, Economics
Harold Elliot Varmus, Medicine</p>

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<p>oops, an adjustment</p>

<p>Princeton University (4):
Gary Stanley Becker, Economics
John Milnor, Mathematics (Field Medal)
Andrew Michael Spence, Economics
Eugene O’Neill, Literature</p>

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<p>“O’Neill attended Princeton for the 1907-08 term, but was kicked out after his freshman year, allegedly for being drunk and disorderly at a reception held by the university president, future President of the United States Woodrow Wilson.”</p>

<p>Does it count?</p>

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<p>which “O’Neill” are you talking about?</p>

<p>this O’Neill?</p>

<p>[Princeton</a> - Nobel Prize Winners](<a href=“Facts & Figures | Princeton University”>Facts & Figures | Princeton University)</p>

<p>Literature<br>
1993 – Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities<br>
1936 – Eugene O’Neill, Class of '10</p>

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<p>O’Neill spent six years in a Catholic boarding school and three years in the Betts Academy at Stamford, Connecticut. He attended Princeton for a short time, but when he was suspended at the end of his freshman year,* he decided not to return**.*</p>

<p>[Eugene</a> O’Neill (1888-1953)](<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zYBqxAYU9nUJ:www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc34.html+Eugene+O’Neill+princeton&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]Eugene"&gt;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zYBqxAYU9nUJ:www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc34.html+Eugene+O’Neill+princeton&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)</p>

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<p>probably shouldn’t count</p>

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<p>Eugene O’Neill was at Princeton for one year and never graduated. He does not count.</p>

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<p>This O’Neill … [Eugene</a> O’Neill - Autobiography](<a href=“http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/oneill-autobio.html]Eugene”>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/oneill-autobio.html)</p>

<p>“After expulsion from Princeton I led a restless, wandering life for several years …”
This is his autobiography so I presume it is correct?</p>