Which schools are highly associated with Nobels?

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<p>aside from Cambridge and Oxford in the UK?</p>

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<p>Well three years ago I think Berkeley had more than any other US campus that were still on the staff.</p>

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<p>I wonder how the budget cut would affect Berkeley in gaining more alumni winning Nobels in the future though.</p>

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<p>85 Nobel Laureates are affiliated with the University of Chicago according to this list</p>

<p>[Nobel</a> Laureates | The University of Chicago](<a href=“http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/nobel/]Nobel”>http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/nobel/)</p>

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<p>Caltech</p>

<p>Considering how few people have ever been affiliated with Caltech, the sheer numbers of prizes they’ve received is staggering</p>

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<p>[Nobel</a> Laureates and Universities](<a href=“http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html]Nobel”>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/universities.html)</p>

<p>[List</a> of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation]List”>List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>My hubby did his MBA at Chicago and bought a t-shirt there that listed all the Nobel Laureates from the school. He wears it proudly!</p>

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<p>But no one from Chicago has received a Nobel lately.</p>

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<p>RML: Obama won a nobel all of a couple days ago.</p>

<p>Although he’s on the U of Chicago list, the Columbia list, and the Harvard list.</p>

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<p>George E. Smith (Chicago Ph.D., dissertation 3 pages long) won it in physics this year.
Chicago professor Roger Myerson won it in economics in 2007. Former Chicago professor J.M. Coetzee won it in literature in 2003…
(have I missed anyone? what do we mean by “lately”?)</p>

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<p>Irwin Rose ( B.S., Ph.D. Chicago) won it in Chemistry in 2004. The late Leonid Hurwicz (who both studied and taught at Chicago) shared it in economics in 2007. Chicago professor Yoichiro Nambu won it in Physics in 2008. Frank Wilczek (B.S., Chicago) shared it in Physics in 2004.</p>

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<p>I’m actually talking about schools where the Nobel awardees have gone to college, grad or postgrad… NOT where they have taught or currently teaching…</p>

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<p>^^^ Isn’t that what B.S. and Ph.D. mean? That they went to ‘college, grad or postgrad’?</p>

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<p>^ Yes; but Obama didn’t attend college, grad school, postgrad or law school in Chicago, right?</p>

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<p>Odd that you’d focus on where someone went to school rather than where they’re on the faculty. Undergrads and grad students don’t win Nobel Prizes. The vast majority are academics, in most cases well into their professional careers. Surely their undergraduate and grad school experiences contribute to their intellectual development. But by and large, it’s their accomplishments in their professional careers, typically as academics on faculties, usually at leading research universities, that win them Nobels. From an academic’s perspective, where they did their undergraduate work is only slightly more relevant than which high schools they attended or which social clubs they belong to.</p>

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Others lag behind Chicago and Columbia regardless. Factoring in Berkeley’s alumni, for example, it has produced a total of 46 Nobels, which is roughly half of the other two.</p>

<p>Even only considering alumni (which is odd, as bclintonk points out), Chicago comes out on top. 30 Chicago alums have won the Nobel, compared to 25 at Berkeley.</p>