Where did Nobel Prize winners complete their undergraduate education? Part four

College Search & Selection
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<p>Universities that have produced 10-20 Nobel Prize winners:</p>

<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (11):
Sidney Altman, Chemistry
Elias James Corey, Chemistry
Robert Sanderson Mulliken, Chemistry
Robert Burns Woodward, Chemistry
Oliver Eaton Williamson, Economics
Richard Phillips Feynman, Physics
Burton Richter, Physics
Adam Guy Riess, Phyiscs
John Robert Schrieffer, Physics
George Fitzgerald Smoot III, Physics
Carl Edwin Wieman, Physics</p>

<p>University of California-Berkeley (11):
William Francis Giauque, Chemistry
Willard Frank Libby, Chemistry
Lawrence Robert Klein, Economics
Thomas John Sargent, Economics
Thomas Crombie Schelling, Economics
Joseph Erlanger, Medicine
Andrew Zachary Fire, Medicine
Hamilton Othanel Smith, Medicine
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr., Physics
Robert Betts Laughlin, Physics
Michael Freedman, Mathematics (Fields Medal)</p>

<p>Yale University (11):
George Akerlof, Economics
Peter Arthur Diamond, Economics
Paul Krugman, Economics
William Spencer Vickrey, Economics
Harry Sinclair Lewis, Literature
John Franklin Enders, Medicine
Alfred Goodman Gilman, Medicine
Murray Gel-Mann, Medicine
Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. Medicine
George Hoyt Whipple, Medicine
John G. Thompson, Mathematics (Fields Medal)</p>

<p>University of Chicago (13):
Herbert Charles Brown, Chemistry
Irwin A. Rose, Chemistry
Robert Emerson Lucas, Jr., Economics
Harry Max Markowitz, Economics
Paul Anthony Samuelson, Economics
Herbert Anthony Simon, Economics
Edward Lawrie Tatum, Medicine
James Dewey Watson, Medicine
Luis Walter Alvarez, Physics
Clinton Joseph Davisson, Physics
Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physics
Jack Steinberger, Physics
Frank Anthony Wilczek, Physics</p>

<p>Columbia University (16):
Roald Hoffmann, Chemistry
Irving Langmuir, Chemistry
John Howard Northrop, Chemistry
Robert Carhart Merton, Economics
Simon Smith Kuznets, Economics
Richard Axel, Medicine
Baruj Benacerraf, Medicine
Louis J. Ignarro, Medicine
Edward Calvin Kandall, Medicine
Joshua Lederberg, Medicine
Hermann Joseph Muller, Medicine
Leon N. Cooper, Physics
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., Physics
Melvin Schwartz, Physics
Julian Seymour Schwinger, Physics
Jesse Douglas, Mathematics, Fields Medal</p>

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<p>the suspense!</p>

<p>the excitement!</p>

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<p>Excruciating, I know!</p>

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<p>I wonder which one has more influence on the Nobel Prize winners: colleges that produce bachelor degrees or colleges that produce doctoral degrees or colleges that employ the graduates?</p>

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<p>Coolweather, they all build on one another. The purpose of this thread is to explore where those Nobel laureates built their foundation and network that eventually got them their Nobel prize.</p>