Award Laureates
The brilliant minds who have shaped science, mathematics, and human knowledge
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View all laureatesShowing 42 of 42 laureates from California Institute of Technology
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Linus Pauling
United StatesChemistry
30
Prestige
Priestley Medal (1984)National Medal of Science (1975)Welch Award in Chemistry (1973)Nobel Peace Prize (1962)Chemistry (1954)Davy Medal (1947)
h-index: 104
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Kip S. Thorne(1940)
United StatesPhysics
28
Prestige
Max Planck Medal (2018)Lilienfeld Prize (2018)Physics (2017)Wolf Prize in Physics (2017)RAS Gold Medal (2017)Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2016)Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2016)Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016)
ORCIDh-index: 66
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Robert Wilson
United StatesEconomics
23
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 55
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Frances H. Arnold(1956)
United StatesChemistry
17
Prestige
Draper Prize (2021)Chemistry (2018)Millennium Technology Prize (2016)National Medal of Technology (2011)
ORCIDh-index: 138
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Richard Feynman
United StatesPhysics
17
Prestige
h-index: 82
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Phillip A. Sharp(1944)
United StatesMedicine
16
Prestige
ORCID
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Robert H. Grubbs(1942–2021)
United StatesChemistry
15
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 151
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Murray Gell-Mann
United StatesPhysics
15
Prestige
Max Planck Medal (1972)Physics (1969)National Medal of Science (1969)Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1959)
h-index: 65
Edward B. Lewis(1918–2004)
United StatesMedicine
13
Prestige
Rudolph A. Marcus(1923)
CanadaChemistry
13
Prestige
ORCID
for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
Thomas Hunt Morgan(1866–1945)
United StatesMedicine
13
Prestige
Harry Gray(1935)
United StatesChemistry
12
Prestige
Welch Award in Chemistry (2009)Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2004)Priestley Medal (1991)National Medal of Science (1986)
ORCIDh-index: 123
H. David Politzer(1949)
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige
Hugh David Politzer(1949)
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige
William Alfred Fowler
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige
Roger W. Sperry
United StatesMedicine
10
Prestige
for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres
Max Delbrück
GermanyMedicine
10
Prestige
for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
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George Wells Beadle
United StatesMedicine
10
Prestige
Carl D. Anderson(1905–1991)
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige
h-index: 18
for his discovery of the positron
Robert A. Millikan
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige
for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect
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John Henry Schwarz(1941)
United StatesPhysics
6
Prestige
ORCID
Alexander Varshavsky(1946)
United StatesLife Sciences
6
Prestige
ORCID
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John Dabiri(1980)
United StatesArts
6
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 51
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Joseph Parker
UnknownArts
3
Prestige
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Andrew E. Lange(1957–2010)
United States
3
Prestige
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Bert Kibbler
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
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James Westphal
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
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Noel Swerdlow
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
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Peter John Wyllie
United Kingdom
1
Prestige
Wallace L. W. Sargent
United States
1
Prestige