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Nobel Laureates Associated with the Department of Energy
and Predecessor Agencies

Chronological Listing
Also available – Alphabetical Listing

Office of Science DOE Nobel Laureates
Information about affiliations for DOE-associated Nobel winners from 1979 forward
Name Year Nobel Prize in
H. David Politzer 2004 Physics
Frank Wilczek 2004 Physics
Roderick MacKinnon 2003 Chemistry
Sir Peter Mansfield 2003 Physiology or Medicine
Alexei A. Abrikosov 2003 Physics
Raymond Davis, Jr. 2002 Physics
Martinus Veltman 1999 Physics
Ahmed H. Zewail 1999 Chemistry
Robert B. Laughlin 1998 Physics
Paul D. Boyer 1997 Chemistry
Robert F. Curl, Jr. 1996 Chemistry
David Lee 1996 Physics
Douglas D. Osheroff 1996 Physics
Richard E. Smalley 1996 Chemistry
Mario Molina 1995 Chemistry
Martin L. Perl 1995 Physics
Frederick Reines 1995 Physics
F. Sherwood Rowland 1995 Chemistry
Clifford G. Shull 1994 Physics
Russell A. Hulse 1993 Physics
Rudolph Marcus 1992 Chemistry
Jerome Friedman 1990 Physics
Henry Kendall 1990 Physics
Richard Taylor 1990 Physics
Norman F. Ramsey 1989 Physics
Leon Lederman 1988 Physics
Melvin Schwartz 1988 Physics
Jack Steinberger 1988 Physics
Donald J. Cram 1987 Chemistry
Dudley R. Herschbach 1986 Chemistry
Yuan T. Lee 1986 Chemistry
William A. Fowler 1983 Physics
Barbara McClintock 1983 Physiology or Medicine
Henry Taube 1983 Chemistry
Kenneth G. Wilson 1982 Physics
James Cronin 1980 Physics
Val L. Fitch 1980 Physics
Allan M. Cormack 1979 Physiology or Medicine
Sheldon L. Glashow 1979 Physics
Steven Weinberg 1979 Physics
Ilya Prigogine 1977 Chemistry
Burton Richter 1976 Physics
Samuel C. C. Ting 1976 Physics
Ben Mottelson 1975 Physics
James Rainwater 1975 Physics
Paul J. Flory 1974 Chemistry
Ivar Giaever 1973 Physics
John Bardeen 1972 Physics
Leon Cooper 1972 Physics
J. Robert Schrieffer 1972 Physics
Murray Gell-Mann 1969 Physics
Luis W. Alvarez 1968 Physics
Hans A. Bethe 1967 Physics
Richard P. Feynman 1965 Physics
Julian S. Schwinger 1965 Physics
Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1963 Physics
Eugene P. Wigner 1963 Physics
James D. Watson 1962 Physiology or Medicine
Melvin Calvin 1961 Chemistry
Robert Hofstadter 1961 Physics
Donald A. Glaser 1960 Physics
Willard F. Libby 1960 Chemistry
Owen Chamberlain 1959 Physics
Emilio Gino Segrč 1959 Physics
George Wells Beadle 1958 Physiology or Medicine
Tsung-Dao Lee 1957 Physics
Chen Ning Yang 1957 Physics
John Bardeen 1956 Physics
Polykarp Kusch 1955 Physics
Willis E. Lamb 1955 Physics
Felix Bloch 1952 Physics
Edward M. Purcell 1952 Physics
Edwin McMillan 1951 Chemistry
Glenn T. Seaborg 1951 Chemistry
Hermann J. Muller 1946 Physiology or Medicine
Isidor Isaac Rabi 1944 Physics
Ernest O. Lawrence 1939 Physics
Enrico Fermi 1938 Physics
Carl D. Anderson 1936 Physics
Harold Clayton Urey 1934 Chemistry
George Hoyt Whipple 1934 Physiology or Medicine

The source for this list of Nobel Laureates associated with DOE and predecessor agencies is the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

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