Nobel Laureates of Boston

Boston University Medical School, Massachusetts, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Osamu Shimomura

“for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017

Michael Rosbash

“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990

Joseph E. Murray

“for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease”

Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA (1)

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2012

Alvin E. Roth

“for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (6)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953

Fritz Lipmann

“for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954

John F. Enders

“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980

Baruj Benacerraf

“for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981

David H. Hubel

“for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981

Torsten N. Wiesel

“for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Jack W. Szostak

“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (27)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946

Percy W. Bridgman

“for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952

  1. M. Purcell

“for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965

Julian Schwinger

“for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977

John H. van Vleck

“for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Steven Weinberg

“for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981

Nicolaas Bloembergen

“for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989

Norman F. Ramsey

“for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005

Roy J. Glauber

“for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914

Theodore W. Richards

“in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965

Robert B. Woodward

“for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976

William Lipscomb

“for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

Dudley R. Herschbach

“for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990

Elias James Corey

“for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

Martin Karplus

“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934

George R. Minot

“for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934

William P. Murphy

“for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961

Georg von Békésy

“for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962

James Watson

“for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964

Konrad Bloch

“for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967

George Wald

“for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye”

The Nobel Peace Prize 1950

Ralph Bunche

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1971

Simon Kuznets

“for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1972

Kenneth J. Arrow

“for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1973

Wassily Leontief

“for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1997

Robert C. Merton

“for a new method to determine the value of derivatives”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2012

Alvin E. Roth

“for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2016

Oliver Hart

“for their contributions to contract theory”

Harvard University, Biological Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980

Walter Gilbert

“for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids”

Harvard University, Lyman Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979

Sheldon Glashow

“for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (2)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953

Fritz Lipmann

“for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Jack W. Szostak

“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA (19)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964

Charles H. Townes

“for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976

Samuel C.C. Ting

“for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990

Jerome I. Friedman

“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”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990

Henry W. Kendall

“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”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994

Clifford G. Shull

“for the development of the neutron diffraction technique”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Wolfgang Ketterle

“for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004

Frank Wilczek

“for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

Rainer Weiss

“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995

Mario J. Molina

“for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

Richard R. Schrock

“for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969

Salvador E. Luria

“for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975

David Baltimore

“for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987

Susumu Tonegawa

“for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

  1. Robert Horvitz

“for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death’”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1970

Paul A. Samuelson

“for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1985

Franco Modigliani

“for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1987

Robert M. Solow

“for his contributions to the theory of economic growth”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2010

Peter A. Diamond

“for their analysis of markets with search frictions”

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2016

Bengt Holmström

“for their contributions to contract theory”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for Cancer Research, Cambridge, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993

Phillip A. Sharp

“for their discoveries of split genes”

New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993

Richard J. Roberts

“for their discoveries of split genes”

Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (1)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1934

William P. Murphy

“for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia”

Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA (2)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954

Thomas H. Weller

“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954

John F. Enders

“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”