Nobel Prizes
There have been 41 Nobel laureates affiliated with Cornell, including:
- 13 Cornell alumni
- 28 former and current faculty members
- 24 are in Physics & Physiology or Medicine
- 8 in Chemistry
- 4 in Literature
- 3 in Economics
- 2 in Peace
As a university, Cornell ranks 13th on the list of number of affiliated Nobel Prize winners.
Here is how our Ivy Plus peers rank:
- Columbia = 1st
- MIT = 4th
- Stanford = 5th
- Harvard = 6th
- Yale = 11th
- Princeton = 18th
- Penn = 21st