List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley
No Name Year Affiliation with UC Berkeley
17 James Allison 2018 Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology ( 1985-2004 )
16 Randy W. Schekman 2013 Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology ( since 1976 )
15 Carol W. Greider 2009 PhD ( 1987 ) , Molecular Biology
14 Elizabeth Blackburn 2009 Professor of Molecular Biology ( 1978-1990 )
13 Andrew Fire 2006 BA in Mathematics ( 1978 )
12 Sydney Brenner 2002 Postdoctoral researcher ( 1953 )
11 Stanley B. Prusiner 1997 Assistant Professor of Virology in Residence ( 1979-1983 ) , Associate Professor of Virology in Residence ( 1983-1984 ) , and Professor of Virology in Residence ( since 1984 )
10 Richard J. Roberts 1980 Visiting Miller Professor ( Fall 1991 )
9 Hamilton O. Smith 1978 BS ( 1952 )
8 Werner Arber 1978 Researcher ( 1963 ) ; Visiting Miller Research Professor , Department of Molecular Biology ( 1970-1971 )
7 Allan M. Cormack 1970 Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
6 Maurice Wilkins 1962 Worked on the Manhattan Project at UC Berkeley ( 1944-1945 )
5 Arthur Kornberg 1959 Research investigator at Horace Barker 's lab ( 1951 )
4 Selman Waksman 1952 PhD ( 1918 )
3 Joseph Erlanger 1944 BS ( 1895 )
2 George H. Whipple 1934 Professor ( 1914-1921 ) and Dean of Medical School at Berkeley ( 1920-1921 )
1 Thomas H. Morgan 1933 Visiting researcher ( June 1921 - September 1921 , covering the summer and part of Fall semester ) ; Hitchcock Lecturer ( 1916 )
Nobel laureates by category -- Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley comprehensively shows the alumni, faculty members as well as researchers of the University of California, Berkeley who were awarded the Nobel Prize or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes, established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, are awarded to individuals who make outstanding contributions in the fields of Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine. An associated prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics), was instituted by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.
, 107 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with UC Berkeley, and 48 of them are officially listed as Berkeley's Nobel Laureates by UC Berkeley for being graduates (obtained degrees), current faculty members, or deceased faculty who retired at Berkeley. Among the 107 laureates, 34 are Berkeley alumni (graduates and attendees), and 40 have been long-term academic members of the Berkeley faculty or Berkeley-affiliated research organizations. Subject-wise, 33 laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, more than any other subject. In addition, Linus Pauling is the only UC Berkeley-affiliated Nobel laureate (Visiting Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry, 1929-1934) to win two Nobel prizes: he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962; since this is a list of laureates, not prizes, he is counted only once.