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This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize since 1901 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1969. The affiliations are those at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement. [1]
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky – professor (1946–1951) of physics at UC Berkeley; [154] 1978 Enrico Fermi Award "for his very important contributions to elementary particle physics, his leading role in advancing accelerator technology his positive influence on younger scientists, and the scientific advice he has given generously to the U.S ...
Riess shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery.) [12] Filippenko was elected to the California Academy of Sciences in 1999, [13] the National Academy of Sciences [14] in 2009, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. [15] In 2021 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics was Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the prize in 2018. [ 7 ] Only five women have won the prize: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018), Andrea Ghez (2020), and Anne L'Huillier (2023). [ 8 ]
Born in Berkeley, California, Alvarez is the son of Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel Prize-winner in physics, and Geraldine Smithwick.His grandfather was physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather, Spanish-born Luis F. Alvarez, worked as a doctor in Hawaii and developed a method for the better diagnosis of macular leprosy.
Though the BCTP itself was founded at the turn of the 21st century, Berkeley has a rich history in the field of theoretical particle physics, with prominent former physicists including Manhattan project director Robert Oppenheimer; Nobel Laureates Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and David Gross; Breakthrough Prize winners John Schwarz, Joseph ...
Physics is the second Nobel to be awarded this week, after U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation ...
[4] Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to a charitable foundation. [5] Smoot has been at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. He is Chair of the Endowment Fund "Physics of the Universe" of Paris Center for Cosmological Physics.