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Nobel Laureates

Nobel Medals
Nobel Laureates Affiliated with MBL

All Laureates were awarded the Nobel Prize in the category of Medicine or Physiology with some exceptions: Isidor Rabi and Donald Glaser won prizes in Physics, and John Northrop, Wendall Stanley, Paul Berg, Sidney Altman, Roderick MacKinnon, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose, and Jens Skou won prizes in Chemistry.
  Nobel Prize

Year   Laureate   MBL Connection   Contribution
2006 Roger D. Kornberg Faculty: Physiology 1982 For studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription

2004 Avram Hershko Corporation Member, Summer Investigator Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

2004 Irwin Rose Alumnus: Embryology Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

2003   Roderick MacKinnon   Faculty: Neurobiology 1986-1987   For structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
2002   Sydney Brenner   Instructor: Physiology 1967-1970   Discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
2002   H. Robert Horvitz   Instructor: Physiology 1986; Neurobiology 1982, 1992   Discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
2001   Tim Hunt   Corporation Member
Instructor: Physiology & Embryology
  Discovery of cyclins, a group of proteins that regulated the cell division cycle
2001   Leland Hartwell   Instructor: Physiology   Discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle
2000   Eric Kandel   Corporation Member
Investigator
  Discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
2000   Paul Greengard   Instructor: Neurobiology   Discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
1997 Jens C. Skou Researcher Discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase
1995   Eric Wieschaus   Instructor: Embryology
Student
  Discoveries concerning "the genetic control of early embryonic development"
1995   Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard   Instructor: Embryology 1983   Discoveries concerning "the genetic control of early embryonic development"
1991   Bert Sakmann   Instructor: Neurobiology   Discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells
1989   Sidney Altman   Instructor: Physiology 1980, 1981, 1983   Discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
1986 Stanley Cohen Instructor: Embryology 1977 Discovery of growth factors
1983   Barbara McClintock   Student (Botany, 1927)   Discoveries in genetics
1981   David Hubel   Lecturer   Processing of visual information by the brain
1981   Torsten Wiesel   Trustee   Discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system
1980   George D. Snell   Investigator
Student
  Discoveries concerning "genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions."
1980   Paul Berg   Library Reader   Development of methods to map structure and function of DNA
1980   Baruj Benacerraf   Instructor   Identification of histocompatibility antigens and elucidation of their action
1976   D. Carlton Gajdusek   Student   Discoveries concerning the origin and new mechanisms for the dissemination of infectious disease
1975   David Baltimore   Corporation Member
Library Reader
  Interactions between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
1975   Howard Temin   Student   Interactions between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
1974 Albert Claude Researcher Developed methods of separating and analyzing components of the cell
1970   Bernard Katz   Researcher   Transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage
1969   Max Delbrück   Individual Investigator   Replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
1969   Salvador Luria   Corporation Member   Replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
1967   George Wald   Corporation Member   Discoveries about chemical and physical visual processes in the eye
1967   Keffer Hartline   Corporation Member   Discoveries about chemical and physical visual processes in the eye
1964   Konrad Bloch   Individual Investigator   Mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
1963   Andrew Huxley   Researcher   Ionic Involvement in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve
1963   Alan Hodgkin   Individual Investigator   Ionic Involvement in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve
1963   John Eccles   Individual Investigator   Ionic Involvement in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve
1962   James Watson   Instructor: Physiology   Discovery concerning the molecular structure of DNA
1960   Donald Glaser   Student   Development of the bubble chamber
1959   Severo Ochoa   Corporation Member   Mechanisms in the biological synthesis of RNA and DNA
1958   Joshua Lederberg   Individual Investigator
Corporation Member
  Genetic recombination and organization of the genetic material of bacteria
1958   George Beadle   Corporation Member   Genetic recombination and organization of the genetic material of bacteria
1955   Axel Theorell   Researcher   Nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes
1954   Thomas H. Weller   Faculty: Biology of Parasitism (1980)   discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue
1953   Fritz Lipmann   Lecturers   Coenzyme A and its role in intermediary metabolism
1952   Selman Waksman   Researcher   Streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
1946   Wendell Stanley   Individual Investigator   Preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in pure form
1946   John Northrop   Trustee   Preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in pure form
1946   Hermann Muller   Corporation Member   Production of mutations by x-irradiation
1944   Isidor Rabi   Researcher   Resonance method for registration of magnetic properties of atomic nuclei
1944   Herbert Gasser   Corporation Member   Research on differentiated function of single nerve fibers
1937   Albert Szent-Gyorgyi   Corporation Member   Biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and fumaric acid catalysis.
1936   Otto Loewi   Corporation Member   Discovery relating to the chemical transmission of nerve impulses
1933   Thomas Morgan   Corporation Member   Role of the chromosome in heredity
1931   Otto Warburg   Visiting Lecturer   Nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme
1922   Otto Meyerhof   Library Reader   Relationship between consumption of oxygen and metabolism of lactic acid in muscle
1920   August Krogh   Researcher   Discovery of capillary motor-regulating mechanism