List of Nobel laureates affiliated with University College London
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University College London
(UCL) is one of the two founding colleges of the University of London
. There have been at least 26 Nobel Prize
laureates amongst UCL’s alumni and current and former staff. UCL has the most Nobel affiliations among colleges and schools of the University of London, which has produced as many as 72 Nobelists till 2010.
Physics
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics: Charles K. Kao
1928 Nobel Prize in Physics: Owen Willans Richardson
1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: William Henry Bragg
Chemistry
1967 Nobel laureate in Chemistry: George Porter
1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Jaroslav Heyrovský
1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Vincent du Vigneaud
1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Robert Robinson
1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Otto Hahn
1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Frederick Soddy
1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William Ramsay
Medicine/Physiology
2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Martin Evans
1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Bert Sakmann
1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: James W. Black
1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Ulf von Euler
1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Bernard Katz
1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Andrew Huxley
1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Francis Crick
1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Peter Medawar
1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Herbert Spencer Gasser
1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Corneille Heymans
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Henry Hallett Dale
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Otto Loewi
1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Frederick Gowland Hopkins
1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Archibald Hill
Literature
1913 Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore
Economics
2000 Nobel Prize in Economics: James Heckman
is often rumored as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medalists, including
1998 Fields Medal: Timothy Gowers
1970 Fields Medal: Alan Baker
1958 Fields Medal: Klaus Roth
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
(UCL) is one of the two founding colleges of the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
. There have been at least 26 Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
laureates amongst UCL’s alumni and current and former staff. UCL has the most Nobel affiliations among colleges and schools of the University of London, which has produced as many as 72 Nobelists till 2010.
PhysicsNobel Prize in PhysicsThe Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics: Charles K. KaoCharles K. Kao
The Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications...
- PhD (1965) at UCL while as an engineer working at STLStandard Telecommunication LaboratoriesStandard Telecommunication Laboratories was the UK Research Laboratories for the Standard Telephones and Cables Company .Initially based in Enfield, North London, and moved to Harlow Essex in 1959. At this time STC was part of ITT....
; Honorary doctorate (DSc.h.c. 2010) - Academic Adviser: Harold BarlowHarold BarlowHarold Everard Monteagle Barlow FRS was a British engineer.He was born in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow, an electrical engineer. He entered University College, London where, apart from the WWII years , he spent most of his working life...
1928 Nobel Prize in Physics: Owen Willans Richardson
Owen Willans Richardson
Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's Law.-Biography:...
- Studied at UCL, DSc (1904)
1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: William Henry Bragg
William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics...
- Quain ProfessorQuain ProfessorQuain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College, London, England. The title is derived from Richard Quain who became professor of anatomy in 1832 at what was to become UCL...
of physics (1915–1923)
ChemistryNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
George Porter
George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry...
- Visiting ProfessorDistinguished Visiting ProfessorDistinguished Visiting Professor is an academic title bestowed by American universities on prominent scholars who have been invited to teach a course in their area of expertise for one semester or more to enrolled undergraduate and graduate students....
of UCL since 1967.
1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959...
- Study and research at UCL (1910–1914), BSc (1913), DSc (1921), Fellow (1927)
- Academic Adviser: William RamsayWilliam RamsaySir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2...
, W.C.Mc.C. Lewis, and Frederick G. DonnanFrederick G. DonnanFrederick George Donnan FRS was an Irish physical chemist who is known for his work on membrane equilibria, and commemorated in the Donnan equilibrium describing ionic transport in cells...
1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for the isolation, structural identification, and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide, oxytocin.-Biography:...
- Researcher at UCL medical school/University College HospitalUniversity College HospitalUniversity College Hospital is a teaching hospital located in London, United Kingdom. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is closely associated with University College London ....
- Worked under Charles Robert Harington
1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Robert Robinson
- Chair in Organic Chemistry (1928–1930)
1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...
- Researcher (1914–1915)
- Worked under William RamsayWilliam RamsaySir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2...
1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements...
- Researcher (1903–1904)
- Worked under William RamsayWilliam RamsaySir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2...
1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William Ramsay
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2...
- Chair of Inorganic Chemistry (1887–1913)
Medicine/PhysiologyNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Martin EvansMartin Evans
Sir Martin John Evans FRS is a British scientist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981...
- PhD (1969); Honorary doctorate (DSc.h.c. 2008)
- Studied and worked under Elizabeth Deuchar
- Lecturer at Department of Anatomy and Embryology (1969–1978)
1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann
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- Researcher/Scholar at Department of Biophysics (1970–1973)
- Worked under Bernard KatzBernard KatzSir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler...
1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: James W. Black
James W. Black
Sir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist. He spent his career both as researcher and as an academic at several universities. Black established the physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline...
- Professor, and head of the Department of Pharmacology (1973–1978)
1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Ulf von Euler
Ulf von Euler
Ulf Svante von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters.-Life:...
- Lecturer, Department of Biophysics (1934–1935)
1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Bernard Katz
Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler...
- Studied/worked at UCL under Archibald HillArchibald HillArchibald Vivian Hill CH OBE FRS was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research...
- Professor and head of Department of Biophysics (1952–)
1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Andrew Huxley
Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his experimental and mathematical work with Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity...
- Head of the Department of Physiology (1960–1969)
- Royal Society Research Professorship (1969–)
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson...
- BSc in Physics (1937), PhD student (interrupted by World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
), Honorary Fellow - Academic adviser: Edward AndradeEdward AndradeEdward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS was an English physicist, writer, and poet.-Background:Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and is a descendant Moses da Costa Andrade...
1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Peter Medawar
Peter Medawar
Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS was a British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants...
- Professor of Zoology (1951–1962)
1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Herbert Spencer Gasser
- Worked under Archibald HillArchibald HillArchibald Vivian Hill CH OBE FRS was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research...
, and Henry Hallett DaleHenry Hallett DaleSir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...
(1923–1925)
1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Corneille Heymans
Corneille Heymans
Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Flemish physiologist. He studied at the prestigious Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe after which he proceeded to Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920.After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France Corneille Jean François...
- Researcher at UCL under Ernest Starling
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Henry Hallett Dale
Henry Hallett Dale
Sir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...
- Studied medicine at UCL (George Henry Lewes Studentship in Physiology)
- Researcher, worked under Ernest Starling (Sharpey Scholar)
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi was a German born pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, whom he met in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's...
- Researcher, worked under Ernest Starling (1902)
- Worked with William BaylissWilliam BaylissSir William Maddock Bayliss was an English physiologist.He was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and gained a B.Sc from London University. He graduated MA and DSc in physiology from Wadham College, Oxford....
(Starling's brother-in-law) and Henry Hallett DaleHenry Hallett DaleSir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...
in Starling's laboratory - Shared Nobel prize with Henry Hallett DaleHenry Hallett DaleSir Henry Hallett Dale, OM, GBE, PRS was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi.-Biography:Henry Hallett Dale was born in Islington,...
in 1936
1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Studied at UCL (BSc through the external system)
- Associateship Examination of the Institute of Chemistry
1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Archibald Hill
Archibald Hill
Archibald Vivian Hill CH OBE FRS was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research...
- Professor of Physiology (1923–1951)
LiteratureNobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
- Student at UCL Faculty of Laws
EconomicsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesThe Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the...
2000 Nobel Prize in Economics: James HeckmanJames Heckman
James Joseph Heckman is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.Heckman...
- Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at UCL (2004–2008)
Fields Medal
The Fields MedalFields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
is often rumored as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medalists, including
1998 Fields Medal: Timothy Gowers
- Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics (1991–1995)
1970 Fields Medal: Alan Baker
- BSc (1961)
- Professor (1964–1965)
1958 Fields Medal: Klaus Roth
Klaus Roth
Klaus Friedrich Roth is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. He was born in Breslau, Prussia, but raised and educated in the UK. He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1945...
- MSc (1948), PhD (1950)
- Professor (1948–1966)
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