Award Laureates
The brilliant minds who have shaped science, mathematics, and human knowledge
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JA
Jennifer A. Doudna(1964)
United StatesChemistry
37
Prestige
Chemistry (2020)Wolf Prize in Medicine (2020)Kavli Prize in Nanoscience (2018)Japan Prize (2017)King Faisal Prize (2017)Lasker Basic Medical Research (2016)Gairdner International Award (2016)Harvey Prize (2016)Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science (2016)Heineken Prize (2016)BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge (Biomedicine) (2016)Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2015)Gruber Prize in Genetics (2015)Princess of Asturias Award (2015)
ORCIDh-index: 149
SB
Sydney Brenner
South AfricaMedicine
31
Prestige
Dan David Prize (2003)Physiology or Medicine (2002)Massry Prize (2000)Copley Medal (1991)Heineken Prize (1991)Gairdner International Award (1991)Japan Prize (1990)Leeuwenhoek Medal (1980)Lasker Basic Medical Research (1971)Fellow of the Royal Society ()
h-index: 97
SP
Saul Perlmutter(1959)
United StatesPhysics
19
Prestige
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015)Physics (2011)Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2007)Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006)
ORCIDh-index: 65
RW
Randy W. Schekman(1948)
United StatesMedicine
16
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 128
DM
Daniel McFadden(1937)
United StatesEconomics
16
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 72
LA
Luis Alvarez
United StatesPhysics
16
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 46
DC
David Card(1956)
CanadaEconomics
13
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 103
SS
Stephen Smale(1930)
United StatesMathematics
13
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 101

George F. Smoot(1945–2025)
United StatesPhysics
13
Prestige
ORCID

Melvin Calvin
United StatesChemistry
13
Prestige
h-index: 68

Ernest Lawrence(1901–1958)
United StatesPhysics
13
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 58

Richard Karp(1935)
United StatesComputer Science
11
Prestige
h-index: 94

Stephen Cook(1939)
United StatesComputer Science
11
Prestige



George Akerlof(1940)
United StatesEconomics
10
Prestige

Richard Borcherds(1959)
United KingdomMathematics
10
Prestige
John Harsanyi
HungaryEconomics
10
Prestige

Vaughan Jones(1952–2020)
New ZealandMathematics
10
Prestige

William Kahan(1933)
CanadaComputer Science
10
Prestige
Yuan T. Lee
TaiwanChemistry
10
Prestige
for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
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Gerard Debreu
FranceEconomics
10
Prestige
for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium

Luis Walter Alvarez(1911–1988)
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige

Donald A. Glaser(1926–2013)
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige
h-index: 27
for the invention of the bubble chamber

Donald Arthur Glaser(1926–2013)
United StatesPhysics
10
Prestige



Edwin Mattison McMillan
United StatesChemistry
10
Prestige

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
United StatesChemistry
10
Prestige
WF
William Francis Giauque
United StatesChemistry
10
Prestige

James Gunn(1966)
United StatesArts
9
Prestige
h-index: 140
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David Donoho(1957)
United StatesMathematics
7
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 112

Richard Schoen(1950)
United StatesMathematics
7
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 51
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Emmanuel Saez(1972)
FranceArts
6
Prestige
h-index: 88

Matthew Rabin(1963)
United StatesArts
6
Prestige
GP
George Pimentel
United StatesChemistry
6
Prestige
TP
Lauren Kiyomi Williams
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
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Saidiya Hartman(1950)
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
AS

Kam-Biu Luk(1953)
ChinaPhysics
3
Prestige
LH
Lin He
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
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Claire J. Tomlin(1969)
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
LC
MM
NK
MM
Maria Mavroudi(1967)
United StatesArts
3
Prestige
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Xiao Qiang(1961)
ChinaArts
3
Prestige
JS
James S. Ackerman(1919–2016)
United States
3
Prestige
LK
Leslie Kurke
United StatesArts
3
Prestige