Physics

1927:*Arthur H. Compton (1892-1962), Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1920-1923 and 1945-1962, Chancellor 1945-1953

Chemistry

1970: Luis F. Leloir, Faculty of Medicine 1944

1980: Paul Berg, Faculty of Medicine 1954-1959

2004: Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc., Research Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and Visiting Professor of Pediatrics 1987-

Economic Science

1993: *Douglass C. North, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1983-

Physiology or Medicine

1943: Edward A. Doisy (1893-1986), Faculty of Medicine, 1919-1923

1944: *Joseph Erlanger (1874-1965), Chairman, Department of Physiology 1910-1946

1944: *Herbert Gasser (1888-1963), Faculty of Medicine, 1916-1931

1947: *Carl F. Cori (1896-1984), Faculty of Medicine 1931-1984

1947: *Gerty T. Cori (1896-1957), Faculty of Medicine 1931-1957

1959: *Arthur Kornberg, Chairman, Department of Microbiology, 1952-1959

1959: Severo Ochoa, Faculty of Medicine 1940-1942

1969: Alfred Hershey (1908-1997), Faculty of Medicine 1934-1950

1971: Earl Sutherland (1915-1974), M.D. 42, Resident in Internal Medicine 1943-1945, Faculty of Medicine, 1945-1953

1974: Christian de Duve, Faculty of Medicine 1946-1947

1978: Daniel Nathans (1928-1999), M.D. 54

1978: Hamilton O. Smith, Washington University Medical Service 1956-1957

1980: George D. Snell, Faculty of Arts & Sciences 1933-1934

1986: *Stanley Cohen, Faculty of Arts & Sciences 1953-1959

1986: *Rita Levi-Montalcini, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1948-

1992: Edwin G. Krebs, M.D. 43, Resident in Internal Medicine and then a Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry 1945-1948

1998: Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D., Faculty of Medicine, 1949-1956

Another Nobel Prize winner connected with Washington University is T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), winner of the prize for Literature in 1948. A native of St. Louis and grandson of the co-founder of Washington University, Eliot received a diploma in 1905 from Smith Academy, the boys college preparatory division of Washington University. Eliot earned a bachelors degree from Harvard University in 1909 and a masters degree from Harvard in 1910.

*Did significant portion of award-winning work at Washington University

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