Past Nobel winners from UW-Madison

Counting Günter Blobel’s award, 15 UW–Madison faculty or alumni have received Nobel Prizes.

1944: Erlanger, Joseph (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Study of the differentiated functions of individual nerve threads

1944: Gasser, Herbert (B.S. 1910)
Physiology, Medicine: Study of the differentiated functions of individual nerve threads

1956: Bardeen, John (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929)
Physics: Discovery of the transistor effect

1958: Lederberg, Joshua (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Genetics of bacteria

1958: Tatum, Edward (M.S. 1932, Ph.D. 1934)
Physiology, Medicine: The metabolism of bacteria, yeasts and molds

1963: Wigner, E. P. (faculty)
Physics: Contributions to theories of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles

1968: Khorana, Har Gobind (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Gene synthesis

1972: Moore, Stanford (Ph.D. 1938)
Chemistry: Research on the structure of ribonuclease, a complex protein

1972: Bardeen, John (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929)
Physics: Research on superconductivity

1975: Temin, Howard (faculty)
Physiology, Medicine: Retroviruses and cancer research

1977: Van Vleck, John (A.B. 1920)
Physics: Contributions to the development of electronic solid state circuitry and to theories of magnetism and conductivity

1979: Schultz, Theodore (M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1930)
Economics: Economics of developing countries

1991: Neher, Erwin (M.S. 1967)
Medicine: Discovery of a method to study ion channels in cell membranes

1997: Boyer, Paul D. (M.S. 1941, Ph.D. 1943)
Chemistry: Discovery of the process that makes adenosine triphosphate

1999: Blobel, Günter (Ph.D. 1967)
Medicine: Discovery of how proteins move into the corret places within a cell