Nobel Prize Winners
NAME YEAR SUBJECT ERDÖS NUMBER
Antoine Henri Becquerel 1903 Physics 5
Pierre Curie 1903 Physics 8
Marie Curie 1903 Physics 7
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1913 Physics 4
Max von Laue 1914 Physics 4
William Henry Bragg 1915 Physics 7
William Lawrence Bragg 1915 Physics 6
Albert Einstein 1921 Physics 2
Niels Bohr 1922 Physics 4
Arthur Holly Compton 1927 Physics 4
Louis de Broglie 1929 Physics 5
Werner Heisenberg 1932 Physics 4
Paul A. Dirac 1933 Physics 4
Erwin Schrödinger 1933 Physics 4
James Chadwick 1935 Physics 5
Enrico Fermi 1938 Physics 3
Ernest O. Lawrence 1939 Physics 6
Otto Stern 1943 Physics 3
Isidor I. Rabi 1944 Physics 4
Wolfgang Pauli 1945 Physics 3
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft 1951 Physics 6
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton 1951 Physics 7
Felix Bloch 1952 Physics 5
Edward Mills Purcell 1952 Physics 4
Frits Zernike 1953 Physics 4
Max Born 1954 Physics 3
Walltlher Bothe 1954 Physics 8
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. 1955 Physics 3
Polykarp Kusch 1955 Physics 5
John Bardeen 1956 Physics 5
Walter Houser Brattain 1956 Physics 6
William B. Shockley 1956 Physics 5
Chen Ning Yang 1957 Physics 4
Tsung-dao Lee 1957 Physics 5
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov 1958 Physics 8
Il'Ja Mikhailovich Frank 1958 Physics 7
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm 1958 Physics 8
Owen Chamberlain 1959 Physics 5
Emilio Gino Segre 1959 Physics 4
Donald A. Glaser 1960 Physics 5
Robert Hofstadter 1961 Physics 5
Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer 1961 Physics 5
Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 Physics 5
Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1963 Physics 4
J. Hans D. Jensen 1963 Physics 5
Eugene P. Wigner 1963 Physics 3
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov 1964 Physics 7
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokharov 1964 Physics 6
Charles H. Townes 1964 Physics 6
Richard P. Feynman 1965 Physics 3
Julian S. Schwinger 1965 Physics 4
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga 1965 Physics 5
Alfred Kastler 1966 Physics 7
Hans Albrecht Bethe 1967 Physics 3
Luis W. Alvarez 1968 Physics 5
Murray Gell-Mann 1969 Physics 3
Hannes Alfven 1970 Physics 5
Louis Neel 1970 Physics 5
Dennis Gabor 1971 Physics 5
John Bardeen 1972 Physics 5
Leon N. Cooper 1972 Physics 5
John R. Schrieffer 1972 Physics 4
Leo Esaki 1973 Physics 9
Ivar Giaever 1973 Physics 7
Brian D. Josephson 1973 Physics 7
Antony Hewish 1974 Physics 8
Sir Martin Ryle 1974 Physics 9
Aage Bohr 1975 Physics 5
Ben Mottelson 1975 Physics 5
James Rainwater 1975 Physics 4
Burton Richter 1976 Physics 6
Samuel C. C. Ting 1976 Physics 5
Philip W. Anderson 1977 Physics 5
Sir Nevill F. Mott 1977 Physics 6
John H. Van Vleck 1977 Physics 5
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa 1978 Physics 5
Arno A. Penzias 1978 Physics 7
Robert W. Wilson 1978 Physics 7
Sheldon Lee Glashow 1979 Physics 2
Abdus Salam 1979 Physics 3
Steven Weinberg 1979 Physics 3
James W. Cronin 1980 Physics 6
Val L. Fitch 1980 Physics 5
Nicolaas Bloembergen 1981 Physics 9
Arthur L. Schawlow 1981 Physics 5
Kai M. Siegbahn 1981 Physics 8
Kenneth G. Wilson 1982 Physics 6
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar 1983 Physics 4
William A. Fowler 1983 Physics 5
Carlo Rubbia 1984 Physics 5
Simon Van Der Meer 1984 Physics 6
Klaus von Klitzing 1985 Physics 5
Gerd Binnig 1986 Physics 6
Heinrich Rohrer 1986 Physics 7
Ernst Ruska 1986 Physics 8
J. Georg Bednorz 1987 Physics 10
K. Alexander Muller 1987 Physics 9
Leon M. Lederman 1988 Physics 6
Melvin Schwartz 1988 Physics 7
Jack Steinberger 1988 Physics 5
Hans G. Dehmelt 1989 Physics 7
Wolfgang Paul 1989 Physics 8
Norman F. Ramsey 1989 Physics 3
Jerome I. Friedman 1990 Physics 5
Henry W. Kendall 1990 Physics 5
Richard E. Taylor 1990 Physics 5
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes 1991 Physics 6
Georges Charpak 1992 Physics 3
Russell A. Hulse 1993 Physics 5
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. 1993 Physics 4
Bertram N. Brockhouse 1994 Physics 8
Clifford G. Shull 1994 Physics 6
Martin L, Perl 1995 Physics 5
Frederick Reines 1995 Physics 5
David M. Lee 1996 Physics 6
Douglas D. Osheroff 1996 Physics 5
Robert C. Richardson 1996 Physics 6
Steven Chu 1997 Physics 6
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1997 Physics 4
William D. Phillips 1997 Physics 5
Robert B. Laughlin 1998 Physics 5
Horst L. Stormer 1998 Physics 7
Daniel C. Tsui 1998 Physics 7
Gerardus ’t Hooft 1999 Physics 6
Martinus J.G. Veltman 1999 Physics 7
Zhores I. Alferov 2000 Physics 9
Jack St. Clair Kilby 2000 Physics 12
Herbert Kroemer 2000 Physics 9
Eric A. Cornell 2001 Physics 7
Wolfgang Ketterle 2001 Physics 8
Carl E. Wieman 2001 Physics 5
Raymond Davis, Jr. 2002 Physics 5
Riccardo Giacconi 2002 Physics 8
Masatoshi Koshiba 2002 Physics 9
Alexei A. Abrikosov 2003 Physics 6
Vitaly L. Ginzburg 2003 Physics 6
Anthony J. Leggett 2003 Physics 4
David J. Gross 2004 Physics 4
H. David Politzer 2004 Physics 3
Frank Wilczek 2004 Physics 3
Roy J. Glauber 2005 Physics 3
John L. Hall 2005 Physics 7
Theodor W. Hansch 2005 Physics 5
John C. Mather 2006 Physics 6
George C. Smoot 2006 Physics 5
Albert Fert 2007 Physics 8
Peter Grunberg 2007 Physics 7
Makoto Kobayashi 2008 Physics ?
Toshihide Maskawa 2008 Physics ?
Yoichiro Nambu 2008 Physics 5
Willard S. Boyle 2009 Physics 5
Charles K. Kao 2009 Physics ?
George E. Smith 2009 Physics 9
Andre K. Geim 2010 Physics 6
Konstantin Novoselov 2010 Physics 6
Saul Perlmutter 2011 Physics 5
Adam G. Riess 2011 Physics 5
Brian P. Schmidt 2011 Physics 6
Serge Haroche 2012 Physics 3
David Wineland 2012 Physics 3
Francois Englert 2013 Physics 7
Peter W. Higgs 2013 Physics 9
F. Duncan M. Haldane 2016 Physics 4
John Michael Kosterlitz 2016 Physics 4
David J. Thouless 2016 Physics 3
Roger Penrose 2020 Physics 3
Paul A. Samuelson 1970 Economics 5
Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics 3
Leonid Vitalevich Kantorovich 1975 Economics 2
Tjalling C. Koopmans 1975 Economics 4
Milton Friedman 1976 Economics 3
Herbert A. Simon 1978 Economics 3
James Tobin 1981 Economics 7
Gerard Debreu 1983 Economics 3
Franco Modigliani 1985 Economics 4
Robert M. Solow 1987 Economics 4
Harry M. Markowitz 1990 Economics 2
Merton H. Miller 1990 Economics 4
John C. Harsanyi 1994 Economics 8
John F. Nash 1994 Economics 4
Reinhard Selten 1994 Economics 5
James Mirrlees 1996 Economics 3
William S. Vickrey 1996 Economics 5
Robert C. Merton 1997 Economics 6
Amartya Sen 1998 Economics 4
James J. Heckman 2000 Economics 4
George A. Akerlof 2001 Economics 5
Joseph Stiglitz 2001 Economics 4
Daniel Kahneman 2002 Economics 3
Vernon L. Smith 2002 Economics 4
Robert F. Engle, III 2003 Economics 4
Clive William John Granger 2003 Economics 4
Fynn E. Kydland 2004 Economics 6
Robert J. Aumann 2005 Economics 3
Edmund S. Phelps 2006 Economics 4
Leonid Hurwicz 2007 Economics 3
Eric S. Maskin 2007 Economics 2
Roger B. Myerson 2007 Economics 3
Elinor Ostrom 2009 Economics 5
Dale T. Mortensen 2010 Economics 5
Thomas J. Sargent 2011 Economics 5
Christopher A. Sims 2011 Economics 5
Alvin E. Roth 2012 Economics 3
Lloyd S. Shapley 2012 Economics 3
Lars Peter Hansen 2013 Economics 4
Eugene F. Fama 2013 Economics 5
Robert J. Shiller 2013 Economics 7
Jean Tirole 2014 Economics 3
Angus Deaton 2015 Economics 5
Oliver D. Hart 2016 Economics 3
Bengt Holmstrom 2016 Economics 4
Paul M. Romer 2018 Economics 4
Abhijit Banerjee 2019 Economics 4
Esther Duflo 2019 Economics 5
Paul R. Milgrom 2020 Economics 4
Robert B. Wilson 2020 Economics 5
Ernest Rutherford 1908 Chemistry 5
Marie Curie 1911 Chemistry 7
Harold C. Urey 1934 Chemistry 5
Peter J. Debye 1936 Chemistry 5
George De Hevesy 1943 Chemistry 7
Otto Hahn 1944 Chemistry 7
Otto Diels 1950 Chemistry 7
Kurt Alder 1950 Chemistry 6
Edwin M. McMillan 1951 Chemistry 3
Glenn T. Seaborg 1951 Chemistry 4
Linus Pauling* 1954 Chemistry 4
*Also received the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize
Willard Frank Libby 1960 Chemistry 7
John C. Kendrew 1962 Chemistry 7
Max F. Perutz 1962 Chemistry 7
Robert B. Woodward 1965 Chemistry 7
Lars Onsager 1968 Chemistry 3
Ilya Prigogine 1977 Chemistry 6
Walter Gilbert 1980 Chemistry 4
Kenichi Fukui 1981 Chemistry 3
Roald Hoffmann 1981 Chemistry 6
Robert Bruce Merrifield 1984 Chemistry 6
Herbert A. Hauptman 1985 Chemistry 3
Jerome Karle 1985 Chemistry 4
Dudley R. Herschbach 1986 Chemistry 9
Yuan T. Lee 1986 Chemistry 5
John C. Polanyi 1986 Chemistry 7
Jean-Marie Lehn 1987 Chemistry 5
Hartmut Michel 1988 Chemistry 4
Johann Deisenhofer 1988 Chemistry 5
Thomas R. Cech 1989 Chemistry 4
Rudolph A. Marcus 1992 Chemistry 4
Kary B. Mullis 1993 Chemistry 5
George A. Olah 1994 Chemistry 7
Robert F. Curl, Jr. 1996 Chemistry 5
Harold W. Kroto 1996 Chemistry 4
Richard E. Smalley 1996 Chemistry 5
Walter Kohn 1998 Chemistry 3
John A. Pople 1998 Chemistry 5
Ahmed H. Zewail 1999 Chemistry 9
Alan J. Heeger 2000 Chemistry 5
Alan G. MacDiarmid 2000 Chemistry 6
Hideki Shirakawa 2000 Chemistry 6
Martin Chalfie 2008 Chemistry 4
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 2009 Chemistry 6
Thomas A. Steitz 2009 Chemistry 5
Ada Yonath 2009 Chemistry 6
Martin Karplus 2013 Chemistry 5
Yoachim Frank 2017 Chemistry 6
Richard Henderson 2017 Chemistry 6
Joshua Lederberg 1958 Medicine* 5
Edward Tatum 1958 Medicine* 11
Georg von Bekesy 1961 Medicine* 12
Francis H. C. Crick 1962 Medicine* 4
James D. Watson 1962 Medicine* 4
Sir John Carew Eccles 1963 Medicine* 3
Max Delbrück 1969 Medicine* 7
David Baltimore 1975 Medicine* 5
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 1976 Medicine* 4
Daniel Nathans 1978 Medicine* 4
Hamilton O. Smith 1978 Medicine* 3
Sususmu Tonegawa 1987 Medicine* 5
Harold E. Varmus 1989 Medicine* 4
Erwin Neher 1991 Medicine* 7
Bert Sakmann 1991 Medicine* 6
Edmond H. Fischer 1992 Medicine* 7
Edwin G. Krebs 1992 Medicine* 6
Richard J. Roberts 1993 Medicine* 4
Phillip A. Sharp 1993 Medicine* 5
Alfred G. Gilman 1994 Medicine* 4
Martin Rodbell 1994 Medicine* 7
Edward B. Lewis 1995 Medicine* 5
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 1995 Medicine* 4
Eric F. Wieschaus 1995 Medicine* 5
Peter C. Doherty 1996 Medicine* 6
Rolf M. Zinkernagel 1996 Medicine* 6
Stanley B. Prusiner 1997 Medicine* 5
Robert F. Furchgott 1998 Medicine* 9
Louis J. Ignarro 1998 Medicine* 10
Ferid Murad 1998 Medicine* 8
Günter Blobel 1999 Medicine* 5
Arvid Carlsson 2000 Medicine* 9
Paul Greegard 2000 Medicine* 5
Eric R. Kandel 2000 Medicine* 4
Leland H. Hartwell 2001 Medicine* 4
Tim Hunt 2001 Medicine* 4
Sir Paul M. Nurse 2001 Medicine* 4
Sydney Brenner 2002 Medicine* 4
H. Robert Horvitz 2002 Medicine* 4
John E. Sulston 2002 Medicine* 3
Paul C. Lauterbur 2003 Medicine* 8
Sir Peter Mansfield 2003 Medicine* 9
Richard Axel 2004 Medicine* 3
Linda B. Buck 2004 Medicine* 4
Barry J. Marshall 2005 Medicine* 6
J. Robert Warren 2005 Medicine* 7
Andrew Z. Fire 2006 Medicine* 4
Craig C. Mello 2006 Medicine* 5
Mario R. Capecchi 2007 Medicine* 4
Sir Martin J. Evans 2007 Medicine* 5
Oliver Smithies 2007 Medicine* 5
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi 2008 Medicine* 6
Luc Montagnier 2008 Medicine* 5
Harald zur Hausen 2008 Medicine* 5
Elizabeth H. Blackburn 2009 Medicine* 6
Carol W. Greider 2009 Medicine* 6
Jack W. Szostak 2009 Medicine* 5
Robert G. Edwards 2010 Medicine* 5
*or Physiology
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