Nobel Prizes

Illustrated portraits of Moungi Bawendi and Claudia Goldin
University News
Fall/23
Top honors
By Laura Demanski, AM’94

Two alumni were recognized with 2023 Nobel Prizes.

Douglas Diamond Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Press Conference
Economics & Business
Winter/23
A cut above
By Louise Lerner, ABʼ09

Douglas W. Diamond’s banking research gave UChicago its 97th Nobel.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Science & Medicine
Winter/23
It was written in the stars
By Maureen Searcy

Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–95) illuminated stellar evolution.

University News
Winter/23
Everything but the statuette
By Laura Demanski, AM’94

These award recipients bleed maroon.

University News
Fall/19
Stockholm stats
By Laura Demanski, AM’94

UChicago՚s Nobels and Nobelists, by the numbers.

University News
Fall/18
Triple crowns
By Laura Demanski, AM’94

Meet three UChicago alumni who earned front-page honors in 2018. 

Richard Thaler
Economics & Business
Winter/18
Good behavior
By Susie Allen, AB’09

How economist Richard Thaler nudged his way to a Nobel.

Science & Medicine

Fall/15

A fleeting force of physics
By Maureen Searcy
Colleagues and friends say goodbye to Yoichiro Nambu.
Economics & Business

Spring–Summer/14

Doing something without doing everything
By Claire Zulkey
Lars Peter Hansen shapes the legacy of Chicago economics.
Science & Medicine
Summer/75
Billiards is a good game
By Norman F. Maclean, PhD’40

From our print archive: Gamesmanship and America’s first Nobel Prize scientist, Albert Abraham Michelson.

Economics & Business
Nov–Dec/13
Market impact
By Jason Kelly

Fama, Hansen earn the Nobel Prize for revolutionizing how economists and investors take stock.

Eugene Fama, MBA’63, PhD’64, and Lars Peter Hansen
Economics & Business
11.05.2013
The work that won
By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93

A distinguished panel discusses why Eugene Fama, MBA’63, PhD’64, and Lars Peter Hansen won the Nobel Prize.

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