For around a century Nobel Prize has been a symbol of excellence in various fields all across the globe. Nobel Prize is awarded for exceptional work done in the subject and outstanding contribution to humanity in Chemistry, economics, Literature, Peace and Medicine, every year.
The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature; and the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded not by a Swedish organization but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
It takes a great deal of academic freedom, a drive for creativity, world-class research infrastructure and serious investment for a university to attract and retain the kind of scholars that will go on to win Nobel prizes. The list is produced by according to the number of winners affiliated with the institution at the time their award was granted after the year 2000. However Peace and literature is excluded from the list.
The list of Best institutions producing Nobel Laureate is –
Stanford University
Stanford University is the Best institution producing Noble Laureate in the twenty first century. A total of seven Nobel laureates awarded in the 21st century were associated with the institution and a Stanford academic has won the chemistry prize for the past three years in a row.
Columbia University
Columbia University is one of the best universities in the world and accounts for eight Noble laureates which are included in the staffs.
The University last won a Nobel Prize in 2008, when Martin Chalfie picked up the chemistry award for the discovery and development of the green fluorescence protein, GFP.
University of California, Berkeley
The staff and students affiliated with University of California, Berkeley has won Nobel prizes across economic sciences, physics and physiology/medicine.
In 2013 Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof, picked up the physiology award for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.
Princeton University
One of the major research areas in Princeton University has been the field of economic sciences, with the institution picking up the award in this category in 2002, 2008 and 2011. The 2011 winner, Christopher Sims, won the prize for his “empirical research on cause and effect in the macro economy”.
University Of Chicago
Three of the four Noble Prize that University of Chicago has won have been in the field of Economic Sciences. Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen were the joint winners in this field in 2013 for their “empirical analysis of asset prices”.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
A total of nine Nobel Prize winners were affiliated to the institute when they won the prestigious award. The most recent of these being Eric Betzig, group leader at the institute’s Janelia Research Campus, who won the chemistry award last year for the “development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
University of California Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara is a “very high activity” research university with twelve national research centers, including the renowned Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Current UCSB faculty includes six Nobel Prize laureates.
Shuji Nakamura, professor of materials and electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
One of the most prestigious universities of the world, the MIT has won several Nobel Prizes in the field of Physics and Economic Sciences. MIT economist Peter Diamond won the Nobel Prize in 2010 for his “analysis of markets with search frictions”, but the institution has won most of its Nobel awards in physics, with Wolfgang Ketterle and Franck Wilczek picking up the prize in this field in 2001 and 2004 respectively.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
The Technion Israel Institute of Technology is the first non US University to make this elite list. It is a public research university in Haifa, Israel. The University has won three Nobel Prizes in this century, which are all in Chemistry. The most recent of these was Dan Shechtman’s award in 2011 for his discovery of quasi crystals, where atoms are ordered over long distances but not in the periodically repeating arrangement of traditional crystals.
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society, Germany, supports fundamental research in the natural, life and social sciences, the arts and humanities in its 83 Max Planck Institutes. The Max Planck Institutes focus on excellence in research. The Max Planck Society has a world-leading reputation as a science and technology research organization. It received its most recent Nobel Prize last year, when Stefan Hall won the chemistry award “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.
Source: Times Higher Education.
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