Fifty-three persons who have been at the University of Chicago either as faculty, researchers or students have been recipients of the Nobel Prize. They are:
Albert Abraham Michelson, 1907, physics
Dr. Alexis Carrel, 1912, physiology or medicine
Robert Andrews Millikan, 1923, physics
James Franck, 1925, physics
Arthur Holly Compton, 1927, physics
Werner Heisenberg, 1932, physics
Harold Clayton Urey, 1934, chemistry
Clinton Joseph Davisson, 1937, physics
Enrico Fermi, 1938, physics
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 1939, physics
Edward Adelbert Doisy, 1943, physiology or medicine
Hermann Joseph Muller, 1946, physiology or medicine
Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1948, literature
Earl Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1950, literature
Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 1951, chemistry
Tsung-Dao Lee, 1957, physics
Chen Ning Yang, 1957, physics
George W. Beadle, 1958, physiology or medicine
Edward Lawrie Tatum, 1958, physiology or medicine
Owen Chamberlain, 1959, physics
Willard Frank Libby, 1960, chemistry
James Dewey Watson, 1962, physiology or medicine
Sir John Carew Eccles, 1963, physiology or medicine
Karl Ziegler, 1963, chemistry
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, 1963, physics
Eugene Wigner, 1963, physics
Konrad Bloch, 1964, physiology or medicine
Julian Schwinger, 1965, physics
+Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 1966, physiology or medicine
+Robert S. Mulliken, 1966, chemistry
Hans Albrecht Bethe, 1967, physics
George Wald, 1967, physiology or medicine
Luis W. Alvarez, 1968, physics
Murray Gell-Mann, 1969, physics
Paul Samuelson, 1970, economic sciences
Gerhard Herzberg, 1971, chemistry
Kenneth J. Arrow, 1972, economic sciences
J. Robert Schrieffer, 1972, physics
William H. Stein, 1972, chemistry
Friedrich August von Hayek, 1974, economic sciences
Tjalling Koopmans, 1975, economic sciences
+Saul Bellow, 1976, literature
Milton Friedman, 1976, economic sciences
Ilya Prigogine, 1977, chemistry
Herbert Simon, 1978, economic sciences
Herbert C. Brown, 1979, chemistry
+Theodore W. Schultz, 1979, economic sciences
+James W. Cronin, 1980, physics
Lawrence R. Klein, 1980, economic sciences
Dr. Roger W. Sperry, 1981, physiology or medicine
+George J. Stigler, 1982, economic sciences
Henry Taube, 1983, chemistry
+Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983, physics
(+ denotes Nobelists presently affiliated with the university)
