How much Noble Prize winners were students of the University Cambridge?

The University of Cambridge has a long and distinguished history of producing Nobel Prize laureates. As of 2022, 125 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to individuals who were students or faculty members at Cambridge. This makes Cambridge the second most successful university in the world in terms of Nobel Prizes awarded, after Harvard University.

Physics

* J.J. Thomson (1906)

* Ernest Rutherford (1908)

* Charles Barkla (1917)

* Cecil Powell (1950)

* John Cockcroft (1951)

* Ernest Walton (1951)

* Max Born (1954)

* Peter Kapitza (1978)

* Nevill Mott (1977)

* Philip Warren Anderson (1977)

* James Cronin (1980)

* David Thouless (2016)

Chemistry

* Lord Rayleigh (1904)

* Ernest Rutherford (1908)

* Frederick Soddy (1921)

* Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927)

* Francis Aston (1922)

* John Bernal (1935)

* Frederick Hopkins (1929)

* Ronald Norrish (1967)

* George Porter (1967)

* Derek Barton (1969)

* Odd Hassel (1969)

* Max Perutz (1962)

* John Kendrew (1962)

* Francis Crick (1953)

* James Watson (1953)

* Sanger (1958)

* Aaron Klug (1982)

* Michael Levitt (2013)

* Martin Karplus (2013)

* Richard Henderson (2017)

Medicine

* Charles Scott Sherrington (1932)

* Joseph Barcroft (1922)

* Edgar Douglas Adrian (1932)

* Henry Hallet Dale (1936)

* Alexander Fleming (1945)

* Howard Walter Florey (1945)

* Ernst Boris Chain (1945)

* Alan Hodgkin (1963)

* Andrew Fielding Huxley (1963)

* John Cornforth (1975)

* Rodney Robert Porter (1972)

* Peter Mitchell (1978)

* César Milstein (1984)

* James W. Black (1988)

* Richard J. Roberts (1993)

* Philip Sharp (1993)

* Paul Nurse (2001)

* Sydney Brenner (2002)

* John E. Sulston (2002)

* Robert G. Edwards (2010)

* John B. Gurdon (2012)

Literature

* Bertrand Russell (1950)

* T.S. Eliot (1948)

* William Golding (1983)

* Harold Pinter (2005)

Peace

* Ralph Bunche (1950)

* Desmond Tutu (1984)

* Betty Williams (1976)

* Mairead Corrigan (1976)

* Rigoberta Menchú (1992)

* Mohamed ElBaradei (2005)

Economics

* Amartya Sen (1998)

* James Mirrlees (1996)

* Oliver Williamson (2009)