Berkeley is proud to have many alumni Nobel Prize winners across a variety of fields.
Physiology or Medicine
1944: Joseph Erlanger, B.S. 1895
1952: Selman Waksman, Ph.D. 1918
1978: Hamilton Smith, B.A. 1952
2006: Andrew Z. Fire, B.A. 1978
2009: Carol Greider, Ph.D. 1987
2021: David Julius, Ph.D. 1984
2022: Svante Pääbo, postdoctoral fellow 1987-90
2024: Gary Ruvkun, B.A. 1973
Chemistry
1934: Harold Urey, Ph.D. 1923
1949: William F. Giauque, B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922
1951: Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937
1960: Willard Libby, B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933
1983: Henry Taube, Ph.D. 1940
1986: Yuan T. Lee, Ph.D. 1965
1989: Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975
1993: Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1973
1995: Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972
1996: Robert Curl, Ph.D. 1957
2000: Alan Heeger, Ph.D. 1961
2018: Frances Arnold, Ph.D. 1985
2022: Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 1993
2024: David Baker, Ph.D. 1989
Physics
1955: Willis Lamb, B.S. 1934, Ph.D. 1938
1997: Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976
1998: Robert Laughlin, B.A. 1972
2004: David Gross, Ph.D. 1966
2006: John C. Mather, Ph.D. 1974
2011: Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D. 1986
2011: Adam Guy Riess, Miller Fellow 1996-99
2012: David J. Wineland, B.A. 1965
2017: Barry Barish, B.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1962
2022: John Clauser, postdoctoral fellow 1969-75
Economics
1980: Lawrence Klein, 1942
1993: Douglass North, B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1952
2002: Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961
2005: Thomas C. Schelling, B.A. 1944
2011: Thomas Sargent, B.A. 1964
Nobel medal