Physics

1927: Arthur H. Compton , Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1920-23 and 1945-62, Chancellor 1945-53

Chemistry

1970: Luis F. Leloir, Faculty of Medicine 1944

1980: Paul Berg, Faculty of Medicine 1954-59

2004: Aaron Ciechanover, MD, DSc, Visiting Professor of Pediatrics 1987-

2012: Brian K. Kobilka, MD, Medical Resident 1981-84

2014: W.E. Moerner, PhD, Alexander S. Langsdorf Engineering Fellow and AB 1975

Economic Science

1993: *Douglass C. North, Faculty of Arts & Sciences 1983-2012

2022: Philip H. Dybvig, Faculty of Olin Business School 1990 –

Physiology or Medicine

1943: Edward A. Doisy, Faculty of Medicine 1919-23

1944: *Joseph Erlanger, Chairman, Department of Physiology 1910-46

1944: *Herbert Gasser, Faculty of Medicine 1916-31

1947: *Carl F. Cori, Faculty of Medicine 1931-84

1947: *Gerty T. Cori, Faculty of Medicine 1931-57

1959: *Arthur Kornberg, Chairman, Department of Microbiology 1952-59

1959: Severo Ochoa, Faculty of Medicine 1940-42

1969: Alfred Hershey, Faculty of Medicine 1934-50

1971: Earl Sutherland, MD 1942, Resident in Internal Medicine 1943-45, Faculty of Medicine, 1945-53

1974: Christian de Duve, Faculty of Medicine 1946-47

1978: Daniel Nathans, MD 1954

1978: Hamilton O. Smith, Washington University Medical Service 1956-57

1980: George D. Snell, Faculty of Arts & Sciences 1933-34

1986: *Stanley Cohen, Faculty of Arts & Sciences 1953-59

1986: *Rita Levi-Montalcini, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1948-2012

1992: Edwin G. Krebs, MD 1943, Resident in Internal Medicine and then a Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry 1945-48

1998: Robert F. Furchgott, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, 1949-56

2020: *Charles M. Rice, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, 1986-2001

Another Nobel Prize winner connected with WashU is T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, winner of the prize for Literature in 1948. A native of St. Louis and grandson of the co-founder of Washington University, Eliot earned a diploma in 1905 from Smith Academy, the boys college preparatory division of Washington University. Eliot earned a bachelors degree from Harvard University in 1909 and a masters degree from Harvard in 1910.

More information on the Nobel Prize and past winners can be found at the website of the Nobel Foundation.

*Did significant portion of award-winning work at WashU