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*Research Fellow (1956-1957), Temporary Lectureship in Mathematics (1959-1960),<ref name="Higgs_Ucll">{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/peter-higgs|title=Peter Higgs: Curriculum Vitae|publisher=[[The University of Edinburgh]] School of Physics and Astronomy|accessdate=31 October 2013}}</ref> Honorary Fellow (2010)
*Research Fellow (1956-1957), Temporary Lectureship in Mathematics (1959-1960),<ref name="Higgs_Ucll">{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/peter-higgs|title=Peter Higgs: Curriculum Vitae|publisher=[[The University of Edinburgh]] School of Physics and Astronomy|accessdate=31 October 2013}}</ref> Honorary Fellow (2010)
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics: '''[[Charles K. Kao]]'''
2009 Nobel Prize in Physics: '''[[Charles K. Kao]]'''
*PhD (1965) at UCL while as an engineer working at [[Standard Telecommunication Laboratories|STL]];<ref name="Kao Nobel">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/kao-lecture.pdf|title=Nobel Lecture by Charles K. Kao|publisher=[[The Nobel Foundation]]|format=PDF|accessdate=25 April 2011}}</ref> Honorary doctorate (DSc.h.c. 2010)
*PhD (1965) at UCL while as an engineer working at [[Standard Telecommunication Laboratories|STL]];<ref name="Kao Nobel">{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/kao-lecture.pdf|title=Nobel Lecture by Charles K. Kao|publisher=[[The Nobel Foundation]]|format=PDF|accessdate=25 April 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805060413/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/kao-lecture.pdf|archivedate=5 August 2011|df=}}</ref> Honorary doctorate (DSc.h.c. 2010)
*Academic Adviser: [[Harold Barlow]]<ref name="Kao IEEE News">{{cite web|url=http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/public/2010/mar/pdf/cisoc.pdf |title=Society News|publisher=[[IEEE Communications Magazine]]|format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|time=March 2010|accessdate=25 April 2011}}</ref>
*Academic Adviser: [[Harold Barlow]]<ref name="Kao IEEE News">{{cite web|url=http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/public/2010/mar/pdf/cisoc.pdf |title=Society News|publisher=[[IEEE Communications Magazine]]|format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|time=March 2010|accessdate=25 April 2011}}</ref>
1928 Nobel Prize in Physics: '''[[Owen Willans Richardson]]'''
1928 Nobel Prize in Physics: '''[[Owen Willans Richardson]]'''
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1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: '''[[Henry Hallett Dale]]'''
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: '''[[Henry Hallett Dale]]'''
*Studied medicine at UCL<ref name="Dale Ri">{{cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000000050 |title=Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968)|publisher=[[Royal Institution|The Royal Institution of Great Britain]]|accessdate=25 April 2011}}</ref> (George Henry Lewes Studentship in Physiology)
*Studied medicine at UCL<ref name="Dale Ri">{{cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000000050|title=Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968)|publisher=[[Royal Institution|The Royal Institution of Great Britain]]|accessdate=25 April 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211221529/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000000050|archivedate=11 February 2012|df=}}</ref> (George Henry Lewes Studentship in Physiology)
*Researcher, worked under [[Ernest Starling]] (Sharpey Scholar)
*Researcher, worked under [[Ernest Starling]] (Sharpey Scholar)
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===Fields Medal===
===Fields Medal===
The '''[[Fields Medal]]''' is often described as the "''Nobel Prize in Mathematics''". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medalists,<ref name="UCL math">{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/math/department/history.html|title=History and Background|publisher=UCL Department of Mathematics|accessdate=25 April 2011}}</ref> including
The '''[[Fields Medal]]''' is often described as the "''Nobel Prize in Mathematics''". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medalists,<ref name="UCL math">{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/math/department/history.html|title=History and Background|publisher=UCL Department of Mathematics|accessdate=25 April 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111075854/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/math/department/history.html|archivedate=11 November 2011|df=}}</ref> including
1998 Fields Medal: '''[[Timothy Gowers]]'''
1998 Fields Medal: '''[[Timothy Gowers]]'''
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/history Nobel Prizewinners of UCL]
*[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/history Nobel Prizewinners of UCL]
*[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/history/nobel_prize Nobel Laureates at UCL] — UCL Department of Chemistry
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110620062021/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/history/nobel_prize Nobel Laureates at UCL] — UCL Department of Chemistry


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:01, 26 December 2017

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual father of modern India, and UCL law alumnus, had been nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Peace before his 1948 assassination. The Nobel Committee chose not to award the prize that year.
Charles Kuen Kao (right) is regarded as the "Godfather of Broadband" and "Father of Fiber Optics".
William Ramsay is respected as the "father of noble gases".
Otto Hahn, pioneer of nuclear chemistry.
James Rothman received his award for his work into vesicle trafficking.
Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi met as researchers at UCL. They shared the Physiology or Medicine Prize in 1936.
Francis Crick, with James D. Watson, created the first double helix model of DNA. Crick is regarded as a "father of modern genetics".
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian Nobel laureate.

University College London (UCL) is one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. There have been at least 30 Nobel Prize laureates amongst UCL’s alumni and current and former staff. UCL has the most Nobel affiliations among colleges and schools of the University of London, which has produced as many as 72 Nobelists till 2010.

UCL Nobel laureates

Physics

2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Peter Higgs

  • Research Fellow (1956-1957), Temporary Lectureship in Mathematics (1959-1960),[1] Honorary Fellow (2010)

2009 Nobel Prize in Physics: Charles K. Kao

  • PhD (1965) at UCL while as an engineer working at STL;[2] Honorary doctorate (DSc.h.c. 2010)
  • Academic Adviser: Harold Barlow[3]

1928 Nobel Prize in Physics: Owen Willans Richardson

  • Studied at UCL

1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: William Henry Bragg

Chemistry

1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: George Porter

  • Visiting Professor at Department of Chemistry (1967-2002)

1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Jaroslav Heyrovský

1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Vincent du Vigneaud

1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Robert Robinson

  • Chair in Organic Chemistry (1928–1930)

1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Otto Hahn

  • Researcher (1904–1905), became later the discoverer of Nuclear Fission (1938)
  • Worked under William Ramsay

1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Frederick Soddy

1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: William Ramsay

  • Chair of Inorganic Chemistry (1887–1913)

Medicine/Physiology

2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: John O'Keefe

2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: James Rothman

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Martin Evans

  • PhD (1969); Honorary doctorate (DSc.h.c. 2008)
  • Studied and worked under Elizabeth Deuchar
  • Lecturer at Department of Anatomy and Embryology (1969–1978)

2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Paul Nurse

  • First Chief Executive and Director of Francis Crick Institute (2010-); Honorary Professor of School of Life and Medical Sciences

1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Bert Sakmann

  • Researcher/Scholar at Department of Biophysics (1970–1973)
  • Worked under Bernard Katz

1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: James W. Black

  • Professor, and head of the Department of Pharmacology (1973–1978)

1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Ulf von Euler

  • Lecturer, Department of Biophysics (1934–1935)

1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Bernard Katz

  • Studied/worked at UCL under A. V. Hill
  • Professor and head of Department of Biophysics (1952–)

1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Andrew Huxley

  • Head of the Department of Physiology (1960–1969)
  • Royal Society Research Professorship (1969–1983)

1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Francis Crick

1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Peter Medawar

  • Professor of Zoology (1951–1962)

1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Corneille Heymans

1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Otto Loewi

1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Henry Hallett Dale

  • Studied medicine at UCL[5] (George Henry Lewes Studentship in Physiology)
  • Researcher, worked under Ernest Starling (Sharpey Scholar)

1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  • Studied at UCL (BSc through the external system)
  • Associateship Examination of the Institute of Chemistry

1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Archibald Hill

  • Professor of Physiology (1923–1951)

Literature

1913 Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore

Economics

2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: James Heckman

  • Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics (2004-); Honorary Doctorate (2013)

1989 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: Trygve Haavelmo

  • Studied statistics at UCL

Fields Medal

The Fields Medal is often described as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics". The UCL mathematical community has produced three Fields Medalists,[6] including

1998 Fields Medal: Timothy Gowers

  • Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics (1991–1995)

1970 Fields Medal: Alan Baker

  • BSc (1961)
  • Professor (1964–1965)

1958 Fields Medal: Klaus Roth

  • MSc (1948), PhD (1950)
  • Professor (1948–1966)

References

  1. ^ "Peter Higgs: Curriculum Vitae". The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Nobel Lecture by Charles K. Kao" (PDF). The Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Society News" (PDF). IEEE Communications Magazine. Event occurs at March 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Francis Crick – Biography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968)". The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "History and Background". UCL Department of Mathematics. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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