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Home > About Trinity > College History > Trinity Alumni > Nobel Laureates

Nobel Laureates

Notable Alumni | Nobel Laureates | Trinity MPs | Trinity Olympians

This page lists those Nobel Prizewinners who are or have been Members of Trinity College, with links to their Nobel Foundation biographies.

1904 Lord Rayleigh (Physics)
1906 Sir J. J. Thomson (Physics)
1908 Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) (Chemistry)
1915 Sir William Henry Bragg (Physics)
1915 Sir Lawrence Bragg (Physics)
1917 Charles Glover Barkla (Physics)
1922 Niels Bohr (Physics)
1922 Francis William Aston (Chemistry)
1922 Archibald V. Hill (Physiology or Medicine)
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain (Peace)
1928 Owen Willans Richardson (Physics)
1929 Sir Frederick Hopkins (Physiology or Medicine)
1932 Edgar Adrian (Lord Adrian) (Physiology or Medicine)
1936 Sir Henry Dale (Physiology or Medicine)
1937 George Paget Thomson (Physics)
1950 Bertrand Russell (Literature)
1951 Ernest T. S. Walton (Physiology or Medicine)
1952 Richard L. M. Synge (Chemistry)
1962 Sir John Kendrew (Chemistry)
1963 Sir Alan Hodgkin (Physiology or Medicine)
1963 Sir Andrew F. Huxley (Physiology or Medicine)
1973 Brian D. Josephson (Physics)
1974 Sir Martin Ryle (Physics)
1977 James E. Meade (Economic Sciences)
1978 Pyotr Kapitsa (Physics)
1980 Walter Gilbert (Chemistry)
1982 Sir Aaron Klug (Chemistry)
1983 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (Physics)
1996 Sir James Mirrlees (Economic Sciences)
1998 John Pople (Chemistry)
1998 Amartya Sen (Economic Sciences)
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Chemistry)

Physics (12)
Chemistry (8)
Physiology or Medicine (7)
Literature (1)
Peace (1)
Economic Sciences (3)
Total (32)

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The information on this page was originally compiled by Dr Sean Blanchflower, and is reproduced here by his kind permission.