Nobel Laureates by Year

More than 200 Sigma Xi members have received the Nobel Prize.

Below are members who have won the Nobel Prize in order by date. To learn more about these laureates, visit www.nobelprize.org.

 A list by category is also available.

1907  Albert A. Michelson
1912  Alexis Carrel
1920  August Krogh
1921  Albert Einstein
1922  Archibald V. Hill
1922  Otto Meyerhof
1923  Robert A. Millikan
1925  James Franck
1926  Theodor Svedberg
1927  Arthur H. Compton
1932  Irving Langmuir
1933  Thomas H. Morgan
1934  George R. Minot
         William P. Murphy
         Harold C. Urey
         George H. Whipple
1936  Carl D. Anderson
         Peter Debye
         Otto Loewi
1937  Clinton Davisson
1938  Enrico Fermi
1939  Ernest Lawrence
1943  Henrik Dam
         Edward A. Doisy
         Otto Stern
1944  Joseph Erlanger
         Herbert S. Gasser
         Isidor Isaac Rabi
1945  Wolfgang Pauli
1946  Percy W. Bridgman
         Hermann J. Muller
         John H. Northrop
         James B. Sumner
1947  Carl Cori
         Gerty Cori
1948  Arne Tiselius
1949  William F. Giauque
1950  Philip S. Hench
         Edward C. Kendall
1951  Edwin M. McMillan
         Glenn T. Seaborg
         Max Theiler
1952  Felix Bloch
         E. M. Purcell
         Selman A. Waksman
1953  Fritz Lipmann
1954  John F. Enders
         Linus Pauling
         Frederick C. Robbins
         Thomas H. Weller
1955  Vincent du Vigneaud
         Polykarp Kusch
         Willis E. Lamb
1956  John Bardeen
         Walter H. Brattain
         Dickinson W. Richards
         William B. Shockley
1957  Chen Ning Yang
1958  George Beadle
         Joshua Lederberg
         Edward Tatum
1959  Owen Chamberlain
         Jaroslav Heyrovsky
         Arthur Kornberg
         Emilio Segrè
1960  Donald A. Glaser
         Willard F. Libby
1961  Melvin Calvin
         Robert Hofstadter
         Georg von Békésy
1962  Francis Crick
         Linus Pauling
         James Watson
1963  Maria Goeppert-Mayer
         Eugene Wigner
1964  Konrad Bloch
         Charles H. Townes
1965  Richard P. Feynman
         Julian Schwinger
         Robert B. Woodward
1966  Charles B. Huggins
         Robert S. Mulliken
         Peyton Rous
1967  Hans Bethe
         Haldan K. Hartline
         George Wald
1968  Luis Alvarez
         Robert W. Holley
         Marshall W. Nirenberg
         Lars Onsager
1969  Max Delbrück
         Ragnar Frisch
         Murray Gell-Mann
         Alfred D. Hershey
         Salvador E. Luria
1970  Julius Axelrod
         Norman Borlaug
         Luis Leloir
1971  Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
1972  Christian Anfinsen
         Kenneth J. Arrow
         John Bardeen
         Leon N. Cooper
         Gerald M. Edelman
         Stanford Moore
         Robert Schrieffer
         William H. Stein
1973  Ivar Giaever
         Geoffrey Wilkinson
1974  Christian Rene de Duve
         Paul J. Flory
         George E. Palade
1975  David Baltimore
         Ben R. Mottelson
         James Rainwater
         Howard M. Temin
1976  D. Carleton Gajdusek
         William Lipscomb
         Burton Richter
1977  Philip W. Anderson
         Andrew V. Schally
         John H. van Vleck
         Rosalyn Yalow
1978  Arno Penzias
         Herbert A. Simon
         Robert Woodrow Wilson
1979  Herbert C. Brown
         Allan M. Cormack
         Sheldon Glashow
1980  Paul Berg
         James Cronin
         Val Fitch
         Walter Gilbert
         George D. Snell
1981  Nicolaas Bloembergen
         Roald Hoffmann
         David H. Hubel
         Arthur L. Schawlow
         Roger W. Sperry
1982  Kenneth G. Wilson
1983  Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
         William A. Fowler
         Barbara McClintock
         Henry Taube
1984  Bruce Merrifield
1985  Herbert A. Hauptman
         Jerome Karle
1986  Stanley Cohen
         Dudley R. Herschbach
         Rita Levi-Montalcini
1987  Donald J. Cram
1988  Johann Deisenhofer
         Gertrude B. Elion
         George H. Hitchings
         Leon M. Lederman
         Melvin Schwartz
         Jack Steinberger
1989  Sidney Altman
         Hans G. Dehmelt
         Norman F. Ramsey
1990  Elias James Corey
         Henry W. Kendall
         Richard E. Taylor
1992  Edmond H. Fischer
         Edwin G. Krebs
         Rudolph A. Marcus
1993  Kary B. Mullis
         Michael Smith
         Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
1994  Alfred G. Gilman
         John F. Nash, Jr.
         George A. Olah
         Clifford G. Shull
1995  Mario J. Molina
         Martin L. Perl
         Frederick Reines
         F. Sherwood Rowland
1996  Robert F. Curl, Jr.
         David M. Lee
1997  Paul D. Boyer
         Robert C. Merton
         Myron S. Scholes
         William D. Phillips
1998  Robert F. Furchgott
         Louis J. Ignarro
         Walter Kohn
         John Pople
1999  Günter Blobel
         Ahmed Zewail
2000  Paul Greengard
         Alan Heeger
         Herbert Kroemer
         Alan G. MacDiarmid
2001  George A. Akerlof
         William S. Knowles
2002  Raymond Davis, Jr.
         John B. Fenn
         H. Robert Horvitz
         Daniel Kahneman
         Masatoshi Koshiba
2003  Paul C. Lauterbur
2004  Irwin Rose
2005  Roy J. Glauber
         John L. Hall
         Theodor W. Hänsch
2006  John C. Mather
         George F. Smoot
2007  Al Gore
         Leonid Hurwicz
         Oliver Smithies
2008  Makoto Kobayashi
         Osamu Shimomura
2010   Richard F. Heck
         Ei-ichi Negishi
         Akira Suzuki
         Peter A. Diamond
2011   Adam G. Riess
2012   Lloyd S. Shapley
         David J. Wineland
2014   William E. Moerner
2015   William C. Campbell
         Tomas Lindahl
         Satoshi Omura
2017   Jeffrey C. Hall
         Barry C. Barish
         Kip S. Thorne
         Rainer Weiss
2018   Arthur Ashkin
         William D. Nordhaus
2019  John B. Goodenough
2020  Jennifer A. Doudna
          Andrea M. Chez