List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Johns Hopkins University
The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.[1] They were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which dictates that the awards should be administered by the Nobel Foundation. Another prize, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was established in 1968 by the Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden, for contributors to the field of economics.[2] Each prize is awarded by a separate committee: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, the Karolinska Institute awards the Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Prize in Peace.[3] Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a cash prize that has varied throughout the years.[2] In 1901, the winners of the first Nobel Prizes were given 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. In 2008, the winners were awarded a prize amount of 10,000,000 SEK.[4] The awards are presented in Stockholm in an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death.[5]
As of 2011, there have been 36 Nobel laureates affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins considers laureates who attended the university as undergraduate students, graduate students or were members of the faculty as affiliated laureates.[6] Woodrow Wilson, who received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was the first Johns Hopkins-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.[6][7] Four Nobel Prizes were shared by Johns Hopkins laureates: George Minot and George Whipple won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,[8] Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology in Medicine,[9] Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,[10] and David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[11] Eighteen Johns Hopkins laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, more than any other category.[6] Twenty-four laureates were members of the Johns Hopkins faculty, five laureates received their Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, eight laureates received their M.D. at Johns Hopkins, and two laureates, Francis Peyton Rous and Martin Rodbell, received their undergraduate degrees at Johns Hopkins.
Laureates
Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale |
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1919 | Wilson, WoodrowWoodrow Wilson | Ph.D., 1886 | Peace | "President of United States of America; Founder of the League of Nations"[7] | |
1925 | Franck, JamesJames Franck (shared with Gustav Ludwig Hertz) |
Professor of Physics, 1935–38 | Physics | "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"[12] | |
1931 | Butler, Nicholas MurrayNicholas Murray Butler (shared with Jane Addams) |
Lecturer, 1890–91 | Peace | "President, Columbia University; Promoter of Briand Kellogg Pact"[13] | |
1933 | Morgan, Thomas HuntThomas Hunt Morgan | Ph.D., 1890; LL.D., 1915 | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"[14] | |
1934 | Urey, HaroldHarold Urey | Associate in Chemistry, 1924–28 | Chemistry | "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"[15] | |
1934 | Minot, GeorgeGeorge Minot (shared with George Whipple and William P. Murphy) |
Assistant in Medicine, 1914–15 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"[8] | |
1934 | Whipple, GeorgeGeorge Whipple (shared with George Minot and William P. Murphy) |
M.D., 1905; Associate Professor in Pathology, 1910–14 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"[8] | |
1944 | Erlanger, JosephJoseph Erlanger (shared with Herbert Spencer Gasser) |
M.D., 1899; Assistant in Physiology, 1900–01; Instructor, 1901–03; Associate, 1903–04; Associate Professor, 1904–06; LL.D., 1947 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"[9] | |
1944 | Gasser, Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Gasser (shared with Joseph Erlanger) |
M.D., 1915 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"[9] | |
1955 | du Vigneaud, VincentVincent du Vigneaud (shared with Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Nikolay Semenov) |
National Research Fellow, Pharmacology 1927–28 | Chemistry | "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"[16] | |
1963 | Goeppert-Mayer, MariaMaria Goeppert-Mayer (shared with Eugene Wigner and J. Hans D. Jensen) |
Assistant in Physics, 1930–32; Associate, 1932–36 | Physics | "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"[17] | |
1966 | Rous, Francis PeytonFrancis Peyton Rous (shared with Charles Brenton Huggins) |
A.B., 1900; M.D., 1905 | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discovery of tumour-inducing viruses"[18] | |
1967 | Hartline, Haldan KefferHaldan Keffer Hartline (shared with Ragnar Granit and George Wald) |
M.D. 1927; Professor of Biophysics, 1949–54 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye"[19] | |
1968 | Onsager, LarsLars Onsager | Associate in Chemistry, 1927–28 | Chemistry | "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"[20] | |
1971 | Kuznets, SimonSimon Kuznets | Professor of Political Economy, 1954–60 | Economics | "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development"[21] | |
1972 | Anfinsen, Christian B.Christian B. Anfinsen (shared with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein) |
Professor of Biology, 1982–1995 | Chemistry | "for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation"[22] | |
1978 | Nathans, DanielDaniel Nathans (shared with Werner Arber and Hamilton O. Smith) |
Assistant Professor, 1962–65; Associate Professor, 1965–67; Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 1967–1999; Interim President, 1995–96 | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"[10] | |
1978 | Smith, Hamilton O.Hamilton O. Smith (shared with Werner Arber and Daniel Nathans) |
M.D., 1956; Assistant Professor of Microbiology, 1967–69; Associate Professor, 1969–1973; Professor, 1973–1998; Professor Emeritus 1998–present | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"[10] | |
1981 | Hubel, David H.David H. Hubel (shared with Torsten N. Wiesel) |
Assistant Resident, Neurology, 1954–55; Fellow, Neuroscience, 1958–59 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"[11] | |
1981 | Wiesel, Torsten N.Torsten N. Wiesel (shared with David H. Hubel) |
Fellow, Ophthalmology, 1955–58; Assistant Professor, 1958–59 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system"[11] | |
1984 | Stone, RichardRichard Stone | Visiting Professor, Political Economy 1953–54 | Economics | "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis"[23] | |
1990 | Miller, MertonMerton Miller (shared with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe) |
Ph.D., 1952; Honorary doctorate, 1993 | Economics | "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics"[24] | |
1993 | Fogel, RobertRobert Fogel (shared with Douglass North) |
Ph.D., 1963 | Economics | "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"[25] | |
1994 | Rodbell, MartinMartin Rodbell (shared with Alfred G. Gilman) |
B.A., 1949 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells"[26] | |
1997 | Williams, JodyJody Williams (shared with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines) |
M.A., 1984 | Peace | "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"[27] | |
1999 | Mundell, RobertRobert Mundell | Visiting faculty at SAIS Bologna Center, 2000–2001; AGIP Chair in International Economics at the center, 1997–98; also was on the center's faculty, 1959–61 | Economics | "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"[28] | |
2000 | Greengard, PaulPaul Greengard (shared with Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel) |
Ph.D., 1953 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system"[29] | |
2002 | Giacconi, RiccardoRiccardo Giacconi (shared with Raymond Davis, Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba) |
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 1982–1997; Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy 1998–present | Physics | "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"[30] | |
2003 | Agre, PeterPeter Agre (shared with Roderick MacKinnon) |
M.D., 1974; Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, 1974–75; Research Associate/Instructor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Medicine, 1981–83; Assistant Professor, 1984–88; Associate Professor, 1988–93; Professor of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, 1993–2005 | Chemistry | "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes [...] for the discovery of water channels"[31] | |
2003 | Coetzee, J. M.J. M. Coetzee | Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Writing Seminars, January 1, 1989 to June 30, 1989 | Literature | "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider"[32] | |
2004 | Axel, RichardRichard Axel (shared with Linda B. Buck) |
M.D., 1971 | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system"[33] | |
2006 | Fire, AndrewAndrew Fire (shared with Craig Mello) |
Adjunct professor of biology, 1989–present | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"[34] | |
2009 | Greider, CarolCarol Greider (shared with Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak) |
Daniel Nathans Professor and the Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"[35] | |
2011 | Riess, AdamAdam Riess (shared with Brian Schmidt and Saul Perlmutter) |
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences | Physics | "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."[36] |
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External links
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- Official website of the Nobel Foundation