Nobel majors

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Nobel Laureates from Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions

The lists give the year each recipient received the prize, and then the person's undergraduate college, year of graduation, and major.

Contents 1 Medicine and Physiology Laureates 2 Chemistry Laureates 3 Physics Laureates 4 Economics Laureates 5 Sources

Medicine and Physiology Laureates

• David Baltimore, 1975 - Swarthmore College, 1960, majored in chemistry
• Michael Bishop, 1989 - Gettysburg College, 1957, majored in chemistry
• Barry Blumberg, 1979 - Union College, 1945, majored in chemistry
• Mario Capecchi, 2007, Antioch College, majored in chemistry and physics
• Stanley Cohen, 1986 - Oberlin College, 1945, majored in chemistry and biology
• Gerald Edelman, 1972 - Ursinus College, 1950, majored in chemistry [1]
• Gertrude B. Elion, 1988, - Hunter College, 1937, majored in chemistry
• Joseph Goldstein, 1985 - Washington and Lee University, 1962, majored in chemistry
• Paul Greengard, 2000 - Hamilton College, 1948, majored in physics and mathematics
• Ferid Murad, 1998 - DePauw University, 1958, majored in chemistry and pre-med
• Joseph Murray, 1990 - College of the Holy Cross, 1940, "concentrated on Latin, Greek, Philosophy and English"
• Phillip Sharp, 1993 - Union College, KY, 1966, majored in chemistry and mathematics
• Roger Sperry, 1981 - Oberlin College, 1935, majored in English
• Howard Temin, 1975 - Swarthmore College, 1955, majored in biology
• Harold Varmus, 1989 - Amherst College, 1961, majored in English
• Rosalyn Yalow, 1977 - Hunter College, 1941, majored in chemistry and physics [2]

Chemistry Laureates

• Peter Agre, 2003 - Augsburg College, 1970, majored in chemistry
• Melvin Calvin, 1961 - Michigan College of Mining and Technology, now Michigan Tech. U., 1931, majored in chemistry
• Tom Cech, 1989 - Grinnell College, 1970, majored in chemistry
• Donald Cram, 1987 - Rollins College, 1941, majored in chemistry
• John Fenn, 2002 - Berea College, 1937, majored in chemistry
• Paul Flory, 1974 - Manchester College, 1931, majored in chemistry [3]
• F. Sherwood Rowland, 1995 - Ohio Wesleyan University, 1948, majored in chemistry, physics, and mathematics
• Wendell M. Stanley, 1946 - Earlham College, 1926, majored in chemistry and mathematics [4]

Physics Laureates

• Walter Brattain, 1956 - Whitman College, 1924, majored in physics and mathematics [5]
• Arthur Holly Compton, 1927 - The College of Wooster, 1913, majored in physics [6]
• John C. Mather, 2006 - Swarthmore College, 1968, majored in physics [7]
• Robert Millikan, 1923 - Oberlin College, 1891, majored in classics [8]
• Marty Perl, 1995 - physics courses in 1950 at Union College, after graduation from Polytechnic Institute, majored in chemical engineering
• William Phillips, 1997 - Juniata College, 1970, majored in physics [9]
• Joseph Taylor, 1993 - Haverford College, 1963, majored in physics [10]
• Charles Townes, 1964 - Furman University, 1935, majored in physics and modern languages
• Dan Tsui, 1998 - Augustana College, 1961, majored in physics and mathematics [11]

Economics Laureates

• Robert Engle, 2003 - Williams College, 1964, majored in physics
• James Heckman, 2000 - Colorado College, 1965, majored in mathematics

Sources

• The original list was taken from the following source: Neal B. Abraham (nabraham@depauw.edu), Executive Vice President, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, Phone: 765-658-4359, Fax: 765-658-4553, DePauw University, 305 Harrison Hall, 7 East Larabee Street, Greencastle, IN 46135

• Undergraduate majors above, unless indicated otherwise, were taken from the biographical material at The Nobel Foundation. Majors not at that site were found mostly from college web pages.