Nobel Prize Recipients
Notable Fulbright Alumni who have been awarded the Nobel Prize.
Name | Home Country | Prize | Fulbright Award | Photo | |
2000 – Current | |||||
Peter A. Diamond | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 2010 |
Fulbright Scholar Italy 1999-00 |
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Ei-ichi Negishi | Japan | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 2010 |
Fulbright Student University of Pennsylvania 1960-63 |
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Oliver Williamson | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 2009 |
Fulbright Scholar Italy 1999-00 |
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Jean-Marie Le Clézio | France | Nobel Laureate, Literature 2008 |
Fulbright Scholar University of California-Santa Cruz 1979 |
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Osamu Shimomura | Japan | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 2008 |
Fulbright Scholar Princeton University 1960 |
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Leonid Hurwicz | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 2007 |
Fulbright Scholar India 1965-66 |
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Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh | Nobel Peace Prize, 2006 |
Fulbright Student University of Colorado 1965-66 |
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Roy J. Glauber | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 2005 |
Fulbright Scholar France 1954-55 |
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Aaron Ciechanover | Israel | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 2004 |
Fulbright Scholar Massacusetts Institute of Technology 1981-82 |
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Riccardo Giacconi | Italy | Nobel Laureate, Physics 2002 |
Fulbright Scholar Indiana University 1956-58 |
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Masatoshi Koshiba | Japan | Nobel Laureate, Physics 2002 |
Fulbright Student University of Rochester 1953-55 |
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George A. Akerlof | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 2001 |
Fulbright Scholar India 1967-68 |
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Joseph Stiglitz | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 2001 |
Fulbright Student United Kingdom 1969-70 |
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Alan G. MacDiarmid | New Zealand | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 2000 |
Fulbright Student University of Wisconsin 1950 |
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Alan G. MacDiarmid | New Zealand | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 2000 |
Fulbright Student University of Wisconsin 1950 |
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1990 – 1999 | |||||
Douglass C. North | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1993 |
Fulbright Scholar Uguguay 1990 |
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Erwin Neher | Germany | Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1991 |
Fulbright Student University of Wisconsin 1966 |
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Trygave Haavelmo | Norway | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1993 |
Fulbright Scholar University of Chicago 1957-58 |
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1980 – 1989 | |||||
Susumu Tonegaw | Japan | Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1987 |
Fulbright Student University of California San Diego 1963 |
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James M. Buchanan | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1986 |
Fulbright Scholar Italy, United Kingdom 1955-56, 1961-62 |
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Franco Modigliani | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1985 |
Fulbright Scholar Italy 1961-62 |
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Carlo Rubbia | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1984 |
Fulbright Scholar Columbia University 1958-59 |
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William Alfred Fowler | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1983 |
Fulbright Student United Kingdom 1954-55 |
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Bengt Samuelson | Sweden | Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1982 |
Fulbright Scholar Harvard University 1961 |
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1970 – 1979 | |||||
Philip W. Anderson | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1977 |
Fulbright Scholar Japan 1953-54 |
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Rosalyn S. Yalow | USA | Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1977 |
Fulbright Scholar Portugal |
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Milton Friedman | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1976 |
Fulbright Scholar United Kingdom 1953-54 |
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Henry Kissinger | USA | Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 |
Fulbright Specialist India 1962-63 |
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Wassily Leontief | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1973 |
Fulbright Scholar France 1961-62 |
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Kenneth Arrow | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1972 |
Fulbright Scholar Italy 1995 |
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Paul Samuelson | USA | Nobel Laureate, Economics 1970 |
Fulbright Scholar Asia 1972 |
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Hannes Alfven | Sweden | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1970 |
Fulbright Scholar University of Maryland 1954-55 |
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1960 – 1969 | |||||
Lars Onsager | USA | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1968 |
Fulbright Scholar United Kingdom 1951-52 |
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Hans Bethe | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1967 |
Fulbright Scholar United Kingdom 1955 |
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Robert S. Mulliken | USA | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1966 |
Fulbright Scholar United Kingdom 1955 |
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Charles Hard Townes | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1964 |
Fulbright Scholar France, Japan, Europe 1955-56, 1972 |
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Giogos Seferis | Greece | Nobel Laureate, Literature 1968-69 |
Fulbright Scholar Princeton University 1968-69 |
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Linus Pauling | USA | Nobel Peace Prize 1962 |
Fulbright Scholar Yugoslavia 1988 |
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John Steinbeck | USA | Nobel Laureate, Literature 1962 |
Fulbright Specialist Europe 1963 |
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James D. Watson | USA | Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1962 |
Fulbright Scholar Argentina 1986 |
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1950 – 1959 | |||||
Emilio Segre | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1959 |
Fulbright Scholar Italy 1950 |
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Joshua Lederberg | USA | Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1958 |
Fulbright Scholar Australia 1957 |
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Chen Ning Yang | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1957 |
Fulbright Scholar Brazil, Venezuela, Poland, Egypt, Malaysia 1974 |
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Linus Pauling | USA | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry 1954 |
Fulbright Scholar Yugoslavia 1988 |
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Felix Bloch | USA | Nobel Laureate, Physics 1952 |
Fulbright Scholar Israel 1959 |
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