List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Name Degree Degree year Award year Award Citation
George Akerlof PhD 1966 2001 Economics for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information
Sid Altman SB 1960 1989 Chemistry for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Kofi Annan SM 1972 2001 Peace for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world
Robert Aumann SM 1952 2005 Economics for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis
Elias James Corey SB , PhD 1948 , 1951 1990 Chemistry for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis
Eric Cornell PhD 1990 2001 Physics for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms , and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
Peter Diamond PhD 1963 2010 Economics for [ the ] analysis of markets with search frictions
Richard Feynman SB 1939 1965 Physics for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics , with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
Andrew Z . Fire PhD 1983 2006 Medicine/Physiology for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
Murray Gell-Mann PhD 1951 1969 Physics for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions
Leland H. Hartwell PhD 1964 2001 Medicine/Physiology for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
H. Robert Horvitz SB 1968 2002 Medicine/Physiology for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death '
Henry W. Kendall SB , PhD 1948 , 1951 1990 Physics for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons , which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics
Lawrence Klein PhD 1944 1980 Economics for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies
Paul Krugman PhD 1977 2009 Economics for developing new trade theory and
Robert B. Laughlin PhD 1979 1998 Physics for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations
Robert C. Merton PhD 1970 1997 Economics for a new method to determine the value of derivatives
Robert S. Mulliken SB 1917 1966 Chemistry for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method
Robert Mundell PhD 1956 1999 Economics for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas
Charles Pedersen SM 1927 1987 Chemistry for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity
Nobel laureate alumni
As of April 2011 [ update ] , the MIT Office of the Provost says that 76 Nobel awardees had or currently have a formal connection to MIT . [ 43 ] Of this group , 29 have earned MIT degrees ( MIT has never awarded honorary degrees in any form ) . [ 1 ]
As a celebration of the new MIT building dedicated to nanotechnology laboratories in 2018, a special silicon wafer was designed and fabricated with an image of the Great Dome. This One.MIT image is composed of more than 270,000 individual names, comprising all the students, faculty, and staff at MIT during the years 1861-2018. A special website was set up to document the creation of a large wall display in the building, and to facilitate the location of individual names in the image.