Nobel laureates
The University attracts world-renowned researchers and teachers and boasts no fewer than 25 Nobel Prize winners amongst its current and former staff and students.
Current academic staff include Nobel laureates John Sulston FRS (Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation) and Joseph Stiglitz (Brooks World Poverty Institute), leading British novelist Martin Amis (Centre for New Writing) and political scientist Robert Putnam (Harvard/Manchester Institute for Social Change).
In 2010, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of graphene – the world's thinnest material.
Previous and existing Nobel laureates
| Nobel laureate | Area of research |
|---|---|
| JJ Thomson | Physics |
| Ernest Rutherford | Chemistry |
| William Lawrence Bragg | Physics |
| Niels Bohr | Physics |
| Archibald V Hill | Physiology |
| CTR Wilson | Physics |
| Arthur Harden | Chemistry |
| James Chadwick | Physics |
| Walter Norman Haworth | Chemistry |
| George de Hevesy | Chemistry |
| Robert Robinson | Chemistry |
| Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett | Physics |
| John Cockcroft | Physics |
| Linus Carl Pauling | Chemistry and Peace |
| Alexander Todd | Chemistry |
| Melvin Calvin | Chemistry |
| John Richard Hicks | Economic Sciences |
| Nevill Francis Mott | Physics |
| Arthur Lewis | Economic Sciences |
| John Charles Polanyi | Chemistry |
| Michael Smith | Chemistry |
| Joseph E Stiglitz | Economic Sciences (current Director, Brooks World Poverty Institute) |
| John Sulston |
Physiology or Medicine |
| Andre Geim | Physics |
| Konstantin Novoselov | Physics |