Nobel Laureates

A total of eight Nobel Laureates are affiliated with Indiana University: six as researchers prior to, during, or after they received the Nobel Prize and one as a part-time student at a regional campus. Of the Nobel Laureates, five were in the life sciences, two in physics, reports I.U.

The most recent is:
Elinor Ostrom
Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, IU Bloomington (current)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009
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Riccardo Giacconi
Fulbright Fellow in the Department of Physics at IU in 1958 and 1959
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2002

Ferid Murad
Attended classes during the summer at Indiana University, between 1954 and 1957
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998


Renato Dulbecco
Faculty member at Indiana University from 1946-49
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975

Salvador E. Luria
Instructor, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor of Bacteriology at Indiana University from 1943-1950
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969

J. Hans D. Jensen
Visiting Professor at Indiana University in 1953
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1963

James D. Watson
Graduate student at IU 1947-1950; Ph.D. in Zoology at Indiana University in 1950
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology 1962

Hermann Joseph Muller
Faculty member at Indiana University (Zoology Department) from 1945-1964
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946