List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh

Max Born, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, was Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy from 1936 to 1953 at Edinburgh University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.^[1]

This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh includes academic staffs and researchers as well as graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who were bestowed with the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

As of 2016, 21 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university. They have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, administrators and professors, and they have won Nobel Prizes in all categories.

It does not include those whose only affiliation with the university is (i) giving the Gifford Lectures (e.g. Niels Bohr, who gave the lecture entitled Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics in 1949)^[2] or (ii) the conferral of an honorary degree (e.g. August Krogh).^[3]

Edinburgh Nobel laureates

Nobel Prize in Physics

Name	Prize & year	Affiliation	Reference
Charles Glover Barkla	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917	Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1913–1944	[4]
Edward Victor Appleton	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947	Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, 1949–1965	[5][6]
Max Born	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954	Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1936–1953	[1]
Igor Tamm	Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958	Undergraduate student, 1913–1914	[7]
Peter Higgs	Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013	Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Senior Student 1954–1955, Senior Research Fellow 1955–1956, Lecturer in Mathematical Physics 1960–1970, Reader 1970–1980, Professor 1980–1996, and Emeritus Professor 1996 – present	[8]

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Name	Prize & year	Affiliation	Reference
Vincent du Vigneaud	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955	Post-doctoral fellow, 1929	[9]
Alexander R. Todd	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957	Academic staff, 1934–1936	[10]
Peter D. Mitchell	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1978	Academic staff 1955–1960, Senior Lecturer 1961–1962, and Reader 1962–1963 at the Department of Zoology	[11]
Kurt Wuthrich	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002	Visiting Professor, 1997–2000	[12]
Fraser Stoddart	Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016	BSc 1964, PhD 1966	[13]

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Name	Prize & year	Affiliation	Reference
Alexander Fleming	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945	Rector, 1951–1954	[14]
Hermann Muller	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946	Academic staff at the Institute of Animal Genetics (now amalgamated into the School of Biological Sciences), 1937–1940	[15]
Peter C. Doherty	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996	PhD in 1970	[16]
Paul Nurse	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001	Post-doctoral researcher, 1973–1979	[17][18]
Robert G. Edwards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010	Diploma in Animal Genetics in 1952, PhD in 1955, and post-doctoral researcher from 1955 to 1957	[19][20]
Randy Schekman	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013	Undergraduate student, 1968–1969	[21][22][23]
May-Britt Moser	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014	Post-doctoral researcher 1995–1997	[24]
Edvard Moser	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014	Post-doctoral researcher 1995–1997, Honorary Professor	[24]

Nobel Peace Prize

Name	Prize & year	Affiliation	Reference
Joseph Rotblat	Nobel Peace Prize in 1995	Montague Visiting Professor of International Relations, 1975–1976	[25][26]

Nobel Prize in Literature

Name	Prize & year	Affiliation	Reference
Winston Churchill	Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954	Rector, 1929–1932	[27]

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Name	Prize & year	Affiliation	Reference
James Mirrlees	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996	MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1954–1957	[28]

See also

• List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation
• List of University of Edinburgh people
• List of University of Edinburgh medical people

References

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