Nobels at Harvard
A prized community
“I am standing here because I have students. My students are my muses.”
Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her work tracking the evolution of America’s gender wage gap.
“I am standing here because I have students. My students are my muses.”Gary Ruvkun
Professor of Genetics Gary Ruvkun received the 2024 Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNAs.
Maria Ressa
Journalist Maria Ressa was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School when she received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts “to safeguard freedom of expression.”
Amartya Sen
Economist and philosopher Amartya Sen, one of the founding fathers of modern social choice theory, was awarded a Nobel in 1998 for his work on poverty and famine.
Carolyn Bertozzi
In 2022, Harvard alum Carolyn Bertozzi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
Roy Glauber
Roy Glauber, a pioneering theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005, was one of the last living scientists to have been present for the dawn of the atomic age.
After the win, the work continues
For many Nobel Prize recipients, from Harvard and beyond, the award helps them further their research and continue to explore their passions.