Yr

Field

Name

Local Connection

1

2005

Chemistry

shared

Richard R. Schrock

MIT Professor of Chemistry

2

2004

Chemistry

shared

Aaron Ciechanover

MIT Post Doctoral researcher 1981-84

3

2003

Chemistry

shared

Robert McKinnon

Undergraduate Student at UMass-Boston for a year and studied at Tufts School of Medicine and at Beth Israel Hospital

4

2002

Chemistry

shared

William S. Knowles

Undergraduate Degree from Harvard University with a major in Chemistry

5

2001

Chemistry

shared

K. Barry Sharpless

MIT Professor of Chemistry 1970-77, 1980-90

6

1996

Chemistry

shared

Robert F. Curl

Held a post-doctoral position at Harvard for several years

7

1995

Chemistry

shared

Mario J. Molina

MIT Institute Professor, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences / Chemistry 1989-04

8

1990

Chemistry

Elias J. Corey Jr.

Harvard Professor of Organic Chemistry and MIT B.Sc. 1948, PhD 1951, Professor of Physics (deceased)

9

1990

Chemistry

shared

Thomas R. Cech

MIT post doctoral researcher 1975-76

10

1989

Chemistry

shared

Sidney Altman

MIT B.Sc. 1960

11

1987

Chemistry

shared

Charles J. Pedersen

MIT M.Sc. 1927 (deceased)

12

1986

Chemistry

shared

Dudley R. Herschbach

Harvard Professor of Chemistry

13

1981

Chemistry

shared

Ronald Hoffman

Received PhD from Harvard in 1962

14

1980

Chemistry

shared

Walter Gilbert

Harvard Professor

15

1976

Chemistry

William Lipscomb

Harvard Professor of Chemistry

16

1973

Chemistry

shared

Geoffrey Wilkinson

MIT research associate, 1950 (deceased)

17

1972

Chemistry

shared

Christian Anfinsen

Received PhD from Harvard in 1943, also was an instructor and Assistant. Professor at Harvard Medical School

18

1972

Chemistry

shared

William H. Stein

Received an undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1933, with a major in Chemistry

19

1966

Chemistry

Robert S. Mulliken

MIT B.Sc. 1917 (deceased)

20

1965

Chemistry

Robert Burns Woodward

Harvard Professor and MIT B.Sc. 1936 (deceased)

21

1951

Chemistry

shared

Edwin M. McMillan

Staff MIT Radiation Laboratory 1940-41 (deceased)

22

1914

Chemistry

T.W. Richards

Graduate Student at Harvard University and also Harvard University Professor

23

1946

Chemistry

shared

James B. Sumner

Attended High School at Roxbury Latin, and majored in Chemistry at Harvard

1

2005

Economics

shared

Thomas C. Schelling

Harvard Professor Emeritus of Economics

2

2003

Economics

shared

Robert Engle

MIT Professor of Economics 1969-77

3

2001

Economics

shared

George A. Akerlof

MIT PhD 1966

4

2001

Economics

shared

A. Michael Spence

Harvard PhD 1972, Professor and Dean of Faculty for College of Arts and Sciences from 1984-1990

5

2001

Economics

shared

Joseph E. Stiglitz

MIT Phd 1966

6

2000

Economics

shared

Daniel L. McFadden

MIT Professor of Economics 1978-91

7

1999

Economics

Robert A. Mundell

MIT PhD 1956

8

1998

Economics

shared

Amartya Sen

Harvard and Boston University Professor of Economics

9

1997

Economics

shared

Robert C. Merton

Harvard Professor of Business Administration and MIT Professor of Management 1970-88, MIT PhD 1970

10

1997

Economics

shared

Myron S. Scholes

MIT Professor of Management 1968-1973

11

1994

Economics

shared

John Forbes Nash Jr.

MIT Professor of Mathematics 1951-59

12

1993

Economics

shared

Douglass C. North

Was born in and spent elementary years in Cambridge

13

1990

Economics

shared

Merton H. Miller

Born in Boston and attended Harvard University for Undergraduate and Law degrees

14

1990

Economics

shared

William F. Sharpe

Born in Boston

15

1987

Economics

Robert M. Solow

MIT Institute Professor, Economics

16

1985

Economics

Franco Modigliani

MIT Institute Professor Emeritus, Management, Economics (deceased)

17

1981

Economics

James Tobin

Undergraduate Degree from Harvard also did some graduate studies there as well

18

1980

Economics

Lawrence R. Klein

MIT PhD 1944

19

1973

Economics

Wesley Leontief

Harvard Professor of Economics

20

1972

Economics

shared

Kenneth J. Arrow

Harvard Professor

21

1971

Economics

Simon Kuznets

Harvard Professor (deceased)

22

1970

Economics

Paul A. Samuelson

MIT Institute Professor Emeritus, Economics

1

1976

Literature

Saul Bellow

Professor Emeritus of English at Boston University (deceased)

1

1995

Literature

Seamus Heaney

Harvard Ralph Waldo Emerson poet in Residence

2

1992

Literature

Derek Wolcott

Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Boston University

3

1948

Literature

T.S. Eliot

Attended Harvard University for BA and MA Degrees

4

1936

Literature

Eugene O'Neill

Attended classes at Harvard University

1

2001

Peace

shared

Kofi Annan

MIT M.Sc. 1972

2

1986

Peace

Elie Wiesel

Has been a professor of humanities at Boston University since 1976

3

1985

Peace

shared

Eric S. Chivian

one of 7 founders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, retired MIT Psychiatrist, Medical Department

4

1985

Peace

shared

Bernard Lown

one of 7 founders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Harvard Professor

5

1973

Peace

Henry Kissinger

Attended Harvard University for Undergraduate Degree

6

1964

Peace

Martin Luther King

Completed his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955 at Boston University

7

1953

Peace *

George C. Marshall

At Harvard Commencement in 1947, General Marshall urged generous aid for post-war Europe, a policy history calls "The Marshall Plan"

8

1950

Peace

Ralph J. Bunche

Masters Degree from Harvard and Harvard Professor (deceased)

9

1947

Peace

Henry J. Cadbury

Chairman of American Friends Service Committee and Harvard Professor

10

1946

Peace

Emily Grenne Balch

Was born in and spent childhood and teenage years in Boston

11

1906

Peace

Theodore Roosevelt

Attended Harvard University for Undergraduate Degree

1

2005

Physics

shared

Roy J. Glauber

Harvard Professor of Physics

2

2004

Physics

shared

H. David Politzer

Harvard PhD 1974

3

2004

Physics

shared

Frank Wiczek

MIT Professor of Physics

4

2002

Physics

shared

Robert Giacconi

Harvard Professor of Astronomy 1973-1982

5

2001

Physics

shared

Carl E. Wieman

MIT B.Sc. 1973

6

2001

Physics

shared

Wolfgang Ketterle

MIT Professor of Physics

7

2001

Physics

shared

Eric A. Cornell

MIT PhD 1990

8

Physics

David Hubel

9

1998

Physics

shared

Robert B. Laughlin

MIT PhD 1976 and researcher at MIT Magnate Lab

10

1998

Physics

shared

Horst L Stormer

Researcher at MIT magnet Lab

11

1998

Physics

shared

Daniel C. Tsui

Researcher at MIT magnet Lab

12

1997

Physics

shared

William D. Phillips

MIT PhD 1976

13

1996

Physics

shared

David M. Lee

Harvard Undergraduate degree in Physics

14

1994

Physics

shared

Clifford G. Shull

MIT Professor Emeritus (deceased)

15

1990

Physics

shared

Jerome I. Friedman

MIT Institute Professor Physics

16

1990

Physics

shared

Harry W. Kendall

MIT B.Sc. 1948, PhD 1951, Professor of Physics (deceased)

17

1989

Physics

Norman F. Ramsey

Harvard Professor of Physics and leader, fundamental development group, MIT Radiation laboratory 1940-42

18

1988

Physics

shared

Jack Steinberger

MIT Radiation Laboratory 1943-45

19

1984

Physics

shared

Carlo Rubbia

Harvard Professor

20

1982

Physics

Kennth G. Wilson

Spent Middle School years at private school in Cambridge and Harvard Undergraduate degree in Mathematics

21

1981

Physics

shared

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Harvard Professor and grad student

22

1979

Physics

shared

Sheldon Glashow

Harvard and Boston University Professor of Physics

23

1979

Physics

shared

Steven Weinberg

Professor at MIT 1967-73 and Professor at Harvard

24

1977

Physics

shared

John H. Van Vleck

Harvard Professor (deceased)

25

1976

Physics

shared

Samuel C.C. Ting

MIT Professor of Physics

26

1976

Physics

shared

Burton Richter

MIT B.Sc. 1952, PhD 1956

27

1975

Physics

shared

Ben R. Mottleson

Harvard University Graduate studies and PhD

28

1972

Physics

shared

John Bardeen

Was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University while doing Graduate work at Princeton University

29

1972

Physics

shared

John Robert Schrieffer

MIT B.Sc. 1953

30

1969

Physics

Murray Gell-Mann

MIT PhD 1951

31

1968

Physics

Luis W. Alvarez

head of special systems, MIT Radiation Laboratory WW II (deceased)

32

1967

Physics

Hans A Bethe

MIT Radiation Laboratory WW II

33

1965

Physics

shared

Richard P. Feynman

MIT, B.Sc., (deceased)

33

1965

Physics

shared

Jullian Schwinger

Harvard Professor, MIT Radiation Lab WW II, (deceased)

34

1964

Physics

shared

Robert H. Townes

MIT Provost 1961-66

35

1959

Physics

shared

Owen Chamberlain

Served as Loeb Lecturer at Harvard for year of 1959

36

1956

Physics

shared

John Bardeen

Served as Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1935-1938

37

1956

Physics

shared

William Shockley

MIT PhD 1936 (deceased)

38

1955

Physics

shared

Willis E. Lamb

Served as Loeb Lecturer at Harvard for 1953-54

39

1952

Physics

shared

Edward M. Purcell

Harvard Professor and MIT Radiation Laboratory WW II (deceased)

40

1946

Physics

Percy W. Bridgeman

Received three degrees from Harvard and was Harvard Professor

41

1944

Physics

Isidor Isaac Rabi

MIT Radiation Laboratory 1940-45 (deceased)

1

2004

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Linda B. Buck

Professor at Harvard Medical School from 1991-2002

2

2002

Physiology/Medicine

shared

H. Robert Horowitz

MIT Professor of Biology, MIT B.Sc. 1968

3

2001

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Leland H. Hartwell

MIT PhD 1964

4

2000

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Eric R. Kandel

Resident in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School 1960-64, staff psychiatrist 1964-65

5

1993

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Richard J. Roberts

Taught at various times at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School

6

1993

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Phillip A. Sharp

MIT Institute Professor, Biology

7

1990

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Joseph E. Murray

Attended Harvard Medical School, Works or worked at Brigham's and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Professor

8

1990

Physiology/Medicine

shared

E. Donnall Thomas

MIT postdoctoral researcher 1950

9

1989

Physiology/Medicine

shared

J. Michael Bishop

Attended Harvard Medical School, Worked at Mass General Hospital

10

1989

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Harold E. Varmus

Attended Harvard University for graduate studies on the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program

11

1988

Physiology/Medicine

shared

George H. Hitchings

Attended Harvard University for graduate studies, professor at Both Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School

12

1987

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Susumu Tonegawa

MIT Professor of Biology

13

1985

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Michael S. Brown

Spent several years as both an intern and resident at Mass. General Hospital

14

1985

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Joseph L. Goldstein

Intern and Resident in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1966-68).

15

1981

Physiology/Medicine

shared

David Hubel

Harvard Professor of Biology and Microbiology, won with

16

1981

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Torsten Wiesel

Harvard Professor of Neurobiology

17

1981

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Roger W. Sperry

Performed Post Doctoral Research and was a Biology Research Fellow At Harvard University

18

1980

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Baruj Benacerraf

Harvard Professor of Comparative Pathology

19

1979

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Allan M. Cormack

Professor at Tufts University late 1950's-late 1970's, chairman of Physics dept. from 68-76

20

1976

Physiology/Medicine

shared

D. Carleton Gajdusek

Attended Harvard Medical School and worked at Boston Children's Hospital

21

1975

Physiology/Medicine

shared

David Baltimore

MIT post doctoral research, MIT Professor of Biology 1968-90, 1994-97

22

1972

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Gerald M. Edelman

Was a Medical House Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital

23

1969

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Salvador E. Luria

MIT Professor of Biology (deceased)

24

1968

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Har Gobind Khorana

MIT Professor of Biology and Chemistry

25

1967

Physiology/Medicine

shared

George Wald

Harvard Professor (deceased)

26

1966

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Charles B. Huggins

Earned MD from Harvard University in 1924

27

1964

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Konrad E. Bloch

Harvard Professor (deceased)

28

1962

Physiology/Medicine

shared

James D. Watson

Harvard Professor

29

1961

Physiology/Medicine

Georg Von Bekesy

Harvard Professor (deceased)

30

1958

Physiology/Medicine

shared

George Beadle

Was an assistant professor of genetics at Harvard University in late 1930's

31

1954

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Thomas H. Weller

Harvard Professor of Tropical Public Health

32

1954

Physiology/Medicine

shared

John F. Enders

Harvard Professor (deceased)

33

1954

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Frederick C. Robbins

Attended Harvard Med School and was Harvard Professor

34

1953

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Fritz A. Lipmann

Harvard Professor (deceased)

35

1951

Physiology/Medicine

Max Theller

Employed as and assistant and then as an instructor at Harvard Medical school (1922-1930)

36

1944

Physiology/Medicine

shared

Edward A, Doisy

Received PhD Degree from Harvard University in 1920

37

1934

Physiology/Medicine

shared

William P. Murphy

Harvard Professor

38

1934

Physiology/Medicine

shared

George Minot

Harvard Professor