Office of Science - DOE Nobel Prizes

DOE Nobel Laureates

The most prestigious scientific awards in the world are the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.

All three of these Nobel Prizes have been presented since 1901, with the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. (The Nobel Prize web site is accessible at http://nobelprize.org.)

Going back to the earliest days of the Manhattan Project, the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies have blended cutting-edge research and innovative problem-solving to keep the United States in the forefront of scientific discovery for decades.

As testimony to the high quality and impact of the research DOE underwrites, the Department of Energy has sponsored 42 Nobel Laureates since DOE's inception in 1977 - and a total of 82 Nobel Laureates since 1934 (associated with DOE and its predecessor agencies). (These Nobel Prize-winning scientists were recognized for work conducted while they were employed by DOE or predecessor agencies; for work conducted using DOE laboratory facilities; or because a national laboratory or a DOE program office provided long-standing and significant support for their other research efforts.)

The complete roster of 82 DOE Nobel Prize winners, their biographies and photos is available at http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/nobel.html.

Chemistry/Physics Prize

Medicine or Physiology Prize

A list of the 42 DOE-supported and/or -affiliated Nobel Prize winners since 1977 is provided below.

Year	Field	Name	University	Industry	DOE-SC	DOE Other
2005	Chemistry	Grubbs, Robert H.	California Institute of Technology		Basic Energy Sciences program
2005	Chemistry	Schrock, Richard R.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		Basic Energy Sciences program
2004	Physics	Politzer, H. David	California Institute of Technology		High Energy Physics program
2004	Physics	Wilczek, Frank	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		High Energy Physics program
2003	Chemistry	MacKinnon, Roderick	Rockefeller University		Brookhaven Nat. Lab
2003	Physiology or Medicine	Sir Mansfield, Peter	U. of Nottingham		Basic Energy Sciences program
2003	Physics	Abrikosov, Alexei A.	Institute for Physical Problems		Argonne Nat. Lab
2002	Physics	Davis, Raymond Jr	U. of Pennsylvania		Brookhaven Nat. Lab
1999	Physics	Veltman, Mar tinus	U. of Utrecht, Netherlands/U. of Michigan		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1999	Chemistry	Zewail, Ahmed H.	California Institute of Technology			1998 E.O. Lawrence Award
1998	Physics	Laughlin, Robert	Stanford University	Bell Laboratories	Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab
1997	Chemistry	Boyer, Paul	U. of California—Los Angeles		Basic Energy Science and Biological and Environmental Research programs
1996	Physics	Osheroff, Douglas D.	Cornell University Stanford University		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1996	Physics	Lee, David	Cornell University		Brookhaven National Laboratory
1996	Chemistry	Smalley, Richard E.	Rice University		Basic Energy Sciences program
1996	Chemistry	Curl, Robert F.	Rice University		Basic Energy Sciences program
1995	Chemistry	Rowland, F. Sherwood	U. of California, Irvine		Basic Energy Sciences program
1995	Chemistry	Molina, Mario	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		Basic Energy Sciences program
1995	Physics	Perl, Martin L.	Stanford University		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1995	Physics	Reines, Frederick	U. of California, Irvine			Hanford Site Los Alamos National Laboratory
1994	Physics	Shull, Clifford G.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		Basic Energy Sciences program	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1993	Physics	Hulse, Russell A.	Princeton University U. of Massachusetts		Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
1992	Chemistry	Marcus, Rudolph	California Institute of Technology
1990	Physics	Friedman, Jerome	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1990	Physics	Kendall, Henry	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1990	Physics	Taylor, Richard	Stanford University		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1989	Physics	Ramsey, Norman	Harvard University		Brookhaven National Laboratory	Atomic Energy Commission
1988	Physics	Lederman, Leon	Columbia University		Brookhaven National Laboratory
1988	Physics	Schwartz, Melvin	Columbia University		Brookhaven National Laboratory
1988	Physics	Steinberger, Jack	Columbia University		Brookhaven National Laboratory
1987	Chemistry	Cram, Donald	U. of California, Los Angeles		Basic Energy Sciences program
1986	Chemistry	Lee, Yuan T.	U. of California, Berkeley		Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1986	Chemistry	Herschbach, Dudley	Harvard University		Basic Energy Sciences program
1983	Chemistry	Taube, Henry	U. of California, Berkeley Stanford University		Basic Energy Sciences program
1983	Medicine	McClintock, Barbara		Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Brookhaven National Laboratory
1983	Physics	Fowler, William A	California Institute of Technology
1982	Physics	Wilson, Kenneth G.	Cornell University		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1980	Physics	Fitch, Val L.	Princeton University		Brookhaven National Laboratory
1980	Physics	Cronin, James	U. of Chicago		Brookhaven National Laboratory
1979	Physics	Weinberg, Steven	Massachusetts Institute of Technology		High Energy and Nuclear Physics program
1979	Physics	Glashow, Sheldon L.	Harvard University	Lyman Laboratory	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
1979	Medicine	Cormack, Allan	Tufts University