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Theses of MIT Alumni Nobel Prize Winners

Fifty-seven current or former members of the MIT community have won the Nobel Prize. They include 25 professors, 23 alumni, 13 researchers and one staff physician.

Below are direct links to the online theses of MIT alumni who have won Nobel Prizes. A complete list of MIT-related Nobel Prize Winners has been compiled by the MIT News Office.

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2001	Kofi Annan, shared Peace Prize MIT SM 1972, International joint venture with a government partner case study: copper mining in Zambia.
2001	George A. Akerlof, shared Economics Prize MIT PhD 1966, Wages and capital.
2001	Joseph E. Stiglitz, shared Economics Prize MIT PhD 1966, Studies in the theory of economic growth and income distribution.
2001	Eric A. Cornell, shared Physics Prize MIT PhD 1990, Mass spectroscopy using single ion cyclotron resonance.
2001	Carl E. Wieman, shared Physics Prize MIT SB 1973, The study of sodium complexes in the excited state.
2001	Leland H. Hartwell, shared Medicine/Physiology Prize MIT PhD 1964, Studies on the induction of histidase in Bacillus subtilis.

1999	Robert A. Mundell, Economics Prize MIT PhD 1956, Essays in the theory of international capital movements.
1998	Robert B. Laughlin, shared Physics Prize MIT PhD 1979, The structure and excitations of amorphous solids and surfaces.
1997	William D. Phillips, shared Physics Prize MIT PhD 1976, I.The magnetic moment of the proton in H2O; II.Inelastic collisions in excited Na.
1997	Robert C. Merton, Economics Prize MIT PhD 1970, Analytical optimal control theory as applied to stochastic and non-stochastic economics.

1990	Henry W. Kendall, shared Physics Prize MIT PhD 1955, The first excited state of positronium.
1990	Elias J. Corey Jr., Chemistry Prize MIT PhD 1951, The synthesis of N,N-diacylamino acids and analogs of penicillin. MIT SB 1948, The condensation of citraconic and maleic anhydrides with chloroprene and ethoxyprene.
1989	Sidney Altman, shared Chemistry Prize MIT SB 1960, Detection of electron polarization in beta decay by double electron scattering : (proof of the non-conservation of parity in beta decay).
1987	Charles J. Pedersen, shared Chemistry Prize MIT SM 1927, Some properties of the unsaturated products of the vapor-phase cracking of petroleum.
1980	Lawrence R. Klein, Economics Prize MIT PhD 1944, The Keynesian revolution.

1976	Burton Richter, shared Physics Prize MIT PhD 1956, Photoproduction of positive pions from hydrogen by 265 Mev gamma rays. MIT SB 1952, The quadratic Zeeman effect in hydrogen.
1972	John Robert Schrieffer, shared Physics Prize MIT SB 1953, Multiplet separations in 3p and 3d electron atoms.
1969	Murray Gell-Mann, Physics Prize MIT PhD 1951, Coupling strength and nuclear reactions.
1966	Robert S. Mulliken, Chemistry Prize MIT SB 1917, The effect of structure on the activity of the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
1965	Richard P. Feynman, shared Physics Prize MIT SB 1939, Forces and stresses in molecules.
1965	Robert Burns Woodward, Chemistry Prize MIT PhD 1937, A synthetic attack on the oestrone problem. MIT SB 1936, Preliminary studies in the synthesis of the polynuclear hydroaromatic ring systems.
1956	William Schockley, shared Physics Prize MIT PhD 1936, Electronic bands in sodium chloride.