LATEST NOBEL AFFIRMS MIT LEADERSHIP IN BIOLOGY
Author: By Anthony Flint, Globe Staff
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1993
Page: 12
Section: METRO
With the addition of Phillip A. Sharp to its roster of Nobel laureates, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has confirmed its superpower status in
academia -- unquestionably now in biology, and not only in physics, chemistry
and economics, where 19 of the past 24 awards have gone.
MIT's grand total of two dozen Nobelists -- including current or former
faculty and staff and alumni -- is one of the highest concentrations of any
academic institution in the United States.
There are seven Nobel laureates now on the faculty who won the prize while
at MIT: Jerome I. Friedman (physics, 1990); Henry W. Kendall (physics, 1990);
Robert M. Solow (economics, 1987); Susumu Tonegawa, (medicine/physiology,
1987); Franco Modigliani (economics, 1985); Samuel C.C. Ting (physics, 1976);
and Paul A. Samuelson (economics, 1970).
Har Gobind Khorana won the Nobel prize in medicine and physiology in 1968
and then came to MIT. David Baltimore won the prize in medicine and physiology
in 1975 while at MIT, left the institute for a few years but is now returning.
In addition, Eric S. Chivian, a member of the MIT staff, won the Nobel
peace prize for his work with the International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War in 1985. Salvador E. Luria, who has died, won the prize in
medicine and physiology in 1969. Former faculty Nobelists include Charles H.
Townes (physics, 1964) and Steven Weinberg (physics, 1979).
Nobelists who are MIT alumni include: William Shockley (physics, 1956);
Richard P. Feynman (physics, 1965); Robert Burns Woodward (chemistry, 1965);
Robert S. Mulliken (chemistry, 1966); Murray Gell-Mann (physics, 1969); John
Robert Schrieffer (physics, 1972); Burton Richter (physics, 1976); Lawrence R.
Klein (economics, 1980); Charles J. Pedersen (chemistry, 1987); Sidney Altman
(chemistry, 1989) and Elias J. Corey Jr. (chemistry 1990).
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