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University of California, Berkeley: Walter Gilbert: Chemistry 1980 Harvard University: Alfred G. Gilman: Physiology or Medicine 1994 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: Vitaly Ginzburg: Physics 2003 Lebedev Physical Institute: Donald A. Glaser: Physics 1960 University of California, Berkeley: Sheldon Glashow: Physics 1979 Harvard ...
Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley; also listed in §Nobel laureates: Tung-Yen Lin: M.S. 1933: 1986 "for his work as an engineer, teacher and author whose scientific analyses, technological innovation, and visionary designs have spanned the gulf not only between science and art, but also between technology and society" [206]
George A. Akerlof – Professor of Economics (1980–2010); Nobel laureate (2001, economics) for the "analyses of markets with asymmetric information" [1]; James P. Allison – Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Director of the Cancer Research Laboratory (1985–2004); [2] Nobel laureate (2018, Physiology or Medicine) for the "discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune ...
The United States has the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, with over 420 Nobel laureates. [2] Around 71% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 29% of them are immigrants from other nations. [3] U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind, being awarded the Nobel ...
The announcement of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm. The winner of the prize was Paul Krugman.. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and ...
Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist. [4] [5] Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
John Bannister Goodenough (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ d ɪ n ʌ f / GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, [3] at the University of Texas at Austin.