CUNY Nobel Laureates


Robert Aumann

Nobel Prize for Economics, 2005

City College
Class of 1950

Leon Lederman

Nobel Prize for Physics, 1988

City College
Class of 1943

Gertrude Elion

Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1988

Hunter College
Class of 1937

Stanley Cohen

Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1986

Brooklyn College
Class of 1943

Jerome Karle

Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1985

City College
Class of 1937

Herbert Hauptman

Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1985

City College
Class of 1937

Arno Penzias

Nobel Prize for Physics, 1978

City College
Class of 1954

Rosalyn Yalow

Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1977

Hunter College
Class of 1941

Kenneth Arrow

Nobel Prize for Economics, 1972

City College
Class of 1940

Julius Axelrod

Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1970

City College
Class of 1933

Robert Hofstadter

Nobel Prize for Physics, 1961

City College
Class of 1935

Arthur Kornberg

Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1959

City College
Class of 1937