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Award Winners

  • 1933 – Alumnus Allan Nevins won the Pulitzer Prize in biography
  • 1939 – Alumnus Carl Van Doren won the Pulitzer Prize in biography
  • 1940 – Alumnus Mark Van Doren won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry
  • 1943 – Alumnus Edward Doisy shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology
  • 1945 – Alumnus James B. Reston won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting
  • 1946 – Alumnus Wendell Stanley shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry
  • 1950 – Alumni Roy J. Harris and George Thiem shared the Pulitzer Prize in public service
  • 1955 – Alumnus and former faculty member Vincent Du Vigneaud won the Nobel Prize in chemistry
  • 1955 – Alumnus Polykarp Kusch shared the Nobel Prize in physics
  • 1959 – Alumnus Robert Lewis Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction
  • 1961 – Alumnus David Herbert Donald won the Pulitzer Prize in biography
  • 1967 – Alumnus Monroe Karmin shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting
  • 1968 – Alumnus Robert Holley won the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology
  • 1968 – Alumnus George Crumb won the Pulitzer Prize in music
  • 1971 – Alumnus Abe Zaidan shared the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting
  • 1972 – Alumni and former faculty member John Robert Schrieffer, faculty member John Bardeen, and postdoctoral fellow Leon Cooper shared the Nobel Prize in physics
  • 1974 – Alumni Arthur M. Petacque and Hugh Hough shared the Pulitzer Prize for local general spot news reporting
  • 1975 – Alumnus Roger Ebert won the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in criticism
  • 1977 – Alumnus Rosalyn Sussman Yalow shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology
  • 1978 – Alumnus Hamilton Smith shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology
  • 1978 – Alumnus Michael Colgrass won the Pulitzer Prize in music
  • 1981 – Alumnus Beth Henley won the Pulitzer Prize in drama
  • 1992 – Alumnus Edwin Krebs shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology
  • 1993 – Alumnus Phillip A. Sharp shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology
  • 1993 – Alumnus Paul Ingrassia shared the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting
  • 1995 – Current faculty member Leon Dash shared the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism
  • 2000 – Alumnus Jack S. Kilby shared the Nobel Prize in physics
  • 2003 – Current faculty member Paul C. Lauterbur shared the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine
  • 2003 – Current faculty member Anthony J. Leggett shared the Nobel Prize in physics