Office of the Provost

Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel Prize Winners while at Purdue

• Ei-ichi Negishi - H. C. Brown Distinguished Professor of  Chemistry [1979-current], Nobel Laureate, Chemistry (2010)
• Kevin Gurney - Associate Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue Climate Change Research Center [2005-current], Nobel Laureate as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Peace (2007)
• Otto Doering - Professor, Agricultural Economics, Purdue Climate Change Research Center [1981-current], Nobel Laureate as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Peace (2007)
• Herbert C. Brown - Professor Emeritus, Inorganic Chemistry [1978-2004], Nobel Laureate, Chemistry (1979)

Nobel Prize Winners  with ties to Purdue

• Edward Mills Purcell - alumni class of 1933, Nobel Laureate, Physics (1952)
• Ben Roy Mottelson - alumni class of 1947, Nobel Laureate, Physics (1975)
• Vernon L. Smith - Professor, Krannert School of Management [1955-1967], Nobel Laureate, Economics (2002)
• Clinton Davisson - Assistant in Physics [1904], Nobel Laureate, Physics (1937)
• Julian Schwinger, Instructor Elementary Physics, [1940s], Nobel Laureate, Physics (1965)
• Akira Suzuki, doctoral research fellow, [1963-65], Nobel Laureate, Chemistry (2010)
• John B. Feen, Student [1937]- fulfilled those requirements at Purdue University that summer by taking Physical Chemistry with lectures by Roy Newton and laboratory under Hershel Hunt, Nobel Laureate Chemistry (2002)
• Avid Carlsson, Visiting Lecturer [1990], "Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship," Nobel Laureate, Physiology/Medicine (2000)
• Wolfgang Pauli, Visiting Professor [1942], Nobel Laureate, Physics (1945)