page_title: List of Duke University people
section_title: Nobel laureates
hierarchical_section_title: List of Duke University people / International academic prizes / Nobel laureates
caption_attribution_description: Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry 2012
context_page_description: This list of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University, which includes three undergraduate and ten graduate schools. The undergraduate schools include Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering, and Sanford School of Public Policy. The university's graduate and professional schools include the Graduate School, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Law, the Divinity School, and the Sanford School of Public Policy.
  Famous alumni include U.S. President Richard Nixon; Chilean President Ricardo Lagos; former cabinet member and former Senator Elizabeth Dole; philanthropist Melinda French Gates; the chief executive officers of Apple, Procter and Gamble, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, McDonald's and General Motors Corporation; and the first United States Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients.
context_section_description: As of 2019, 15 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Duke University. The following list includes only those who have graduated from Duke or spent at least one year as a postdoctoral researcher/medical resident/visiting professor or two years as a faculty member at Duke.
  Charles Townes (A.M. in physics, 1937), 1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics and winner of the 2005 Templeton Prize, National Medal of Science (1982)
  Gertrude B. Elion (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1971 to 1983 and Research Professor from 1983 to 1999), 1988 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
  George H. Hitchings (adjunct professor of pharmacology and of experimental medicine from 1970 to 1985), 1988 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
  Hans Dehmelt (Post-Doc. 1952–55), 1989 Nobel Laureate in physics, recipient of the National Medal of Science (1995)
  Martin Rodbell (adjunct professor of cell biology from 1991 to 1998), 1994 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine
  Robert Coleman Richardson (Ph.D. in physics, 1966), 1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics
  Peter Agre (vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medicine Center from 2005 to December 2007), 2003 Nobel Laureate in chemistry
  Robert Lefkowitz (James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, joined Duke in 1973), 2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. National Medal of Science (2007)
  Brian Kobilka (Post-Doc. 1984–1989), 2012 Nobel Laureate in chemistry
  Paul L. Modrich (James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University, joined Duke in 1976), 2015 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
  William Kaelin Jr. (B.S. 1979, M.D. 1982), 2019 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
  Gregg L. Semenza (Pediatrics Residency), 2019 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
  George Smith (Visiting Professor 1983-1984), 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
caption: Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke and the 2012 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
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