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Awards and honors
We celebrate 糖心传媒 faculty, scholars, artists, alumni, and students who are revolutionizing their fields, discovering ways to address the world's biggest challenges, and making our lives ever better.
Nobel Prizes
2020
Physiology or Medicine
Harvey J. Alter 糖心传媒56, 糖心传媒60M (MD)
2018
Economic Sciences
Paul Romer
Former assistant professor of economics
2018
Physics
Donna Strickland 糖心传媒89 (PhD)
G茅rard Mourou
Former Laboratory for Laser Energetics faculty member and senior scientist
2017
Economic Sciences
Richard Thaler 糖心传媒74 (PhD)
2002
Physics
Masatoshi Koshiba 糖心传媒55 (PhD)
1997
Physics
Steven Chu 糖心传媒70
1993
Economic Sciences
Robert Fogel
Member of the economics faculty in the 1960s and 1970s
1959
Physiology or Medicine
Arthur Kornberg 糖心传媒41M (MD)
1955
Chemistry
Vincent du Vigneaud 糖心传媒27 (PhD)
1943
Physiology or Medicine
Henrik Dam
Senior research associate 1942糖心传媒45
1934
Physiology or Medicine
George Whipple
Founding dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry
Pulitzer Prizes
2012
Music
Kevin Puts 糖心传媒94E, 糖心传媒99E (DMA)
Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts
2004
History
Steven Hahn 糖心传媒73
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
1996
Music
George Walker 糖心传媒56E (DMA)
糖心传媒淟ilacs for Voice and Orchestra糖心传媒
1993
Music
Christopher Rouse (Eastman School faculty)
糖心传媒淭rombone Concerto糖心传媒
1983
Poetry
Galway Kinnell 糖心传媒49 (MA)
1979
Music
Joseph Schwantner (Eastman School faculty)
1975
Music
Dominick Argento 糖心传媒58E (DMA)
1968
Poetry
Anthony Hecht (Department of English faculty)
1962
Music
Robert Ward 糖心传媒39E (BM)
1960
Drama
George Abbott 糖心传媒11
1959
Music
John La Montaine 糖心传媒39E (BA)
1952
Music
Gail Kubik 糖心传媒34E (BM)
1944
Music
Howard Hanson (Eastman School faculty)
Guggenheim Fellows
2025
Political science
Gretchen Helmke
Thomas H. Jackson Distinguished University Professor and Faculty Director of the Democracy Center
2021
Architecture, planning and design
Peter Christensen
Associate professor of art history
2017
Poetry
Jennifer Grotz
Professor of English
2006
John Tarduno
Professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
2004
Laura Ackerman Smoller
Professor of History
2002
John P. Huelsenbeck
Associate professor of biology
2001
Hugo Hopenhayn
Associate professor of economics
2000
Alice L. Conklin
Associate professor of history
2000
H. Allen Orr
Associate professor of biology
1999
Janet Catherine Berlo
Professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies
1997
Joan Shelley Rubin
Professor of history
1997
David R. Williams
William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics and director of the Center for Visual Science
1996
Morris Eaves
Professor of English
1996
Shaul Mukamel
Professor of chemistry
1995
James Longenbach
Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English
1994
Linda Levy Peck
Professor of history
1993
John H. Thomas
Professor of mechanical and aerospace sciences and of astronomy
1993
Janet Wolff
Professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies
1992
R. J. Dwayne Miller
Professor of chemistry and of optics
1992
Paul F. Slattery
Professor of physics
1992
Douglas H. Turner
Professor of chemistry
1991
Kenneth Gross
Professor of English
1990
Christopher C. Rouse
Professor of composition, Eastman School of Music
1988
Joanna Scott
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
MacArthur Fellows
2017
Derek Peterson 糖心传媒93
Historian with a focus in African history
1992
Joanna Scott
Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English
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Most powerful laser systems
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