- Ada Yonath
(
Post-doctoral fellow
, 1969;
Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology
, 2018), 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
(
Professor
), discoverer of
atom transfer radical polymerization
- Clarence Zener
(Professor, 1968?1993), theoretical physicist, discoverer of
Zener effect
- John Pople
(Professor, 1964?1993) 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Walter Kohn
(Professor, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1950?1960) 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Shafi Goldwasser
(
BS
, 1979; Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology, 2018) 2012
Turing Award
- Clifford Shull
(BS, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1937) 1994
Nobel Prize in Physics
- Paul Flory
(Executive Director of Research, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 1957?1961) 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Otto Stern
(Professor, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1933?1945) 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Clinton Davisson
(
assistant professor
, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1911?1917) 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics
- John Nash
(BS,
MS
, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1948) 1994
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
, inspiration for
A Beautiful Mind
- John L. Hall
(BS, MS,
PhD
, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1956, 1958, 1961) 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Paul Lauterbur
(
research associate
, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 1951?1953, 1955?1963) 2003
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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