List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester
Laureates

List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester

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Year	Image	Laureate	Category	Relation	Rationale

2018	-	Paul Romer	Economics	Faculty, 1980s	"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"

2018	-	Gérard Mourou	Physics	Faculty, 1980s	"for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses" (chirped pulse amplification)

2018	-	Donna Strickland	Physics	Ph.D., 1989	"for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses" (chirped pulse amplification)

2017	-	Richard Thaler	Economics	Ph.D., 1974	"for his contributions to behavioural economics"

2002	-	Masatoshi Koshiba	Physics	Ph.D., 1955	“for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”

1997	-	Steven Chu	Physics	B.A., B.S., 1970	"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."

1993	-	Robert Fogel	Economics	Faculty, 1960s and ’70s	"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantiative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"

1976	-	D.Carleton Gajdusek	Physiology or Medicine	B.S., 1943	"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"

1959	-	Arthur Kornberg	Physiology or Medicine	M.D., 1941	"for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)"

1955	-	Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemistry	Ph.D., 1927	"for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"

1943	-	Henrik Dam	Physiology or Medicine	Senior research associate, 1942-1945	"for his discovery of vitamin K"

1934	-	George H. Whipple	Physiology or Medicine	Faculty, founding dean of School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1921-1954	"for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia"

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