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Otto F. Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951
Medicine, 1922 (awarded in 1923)
- University of Heidelberg, 1909; Award shared with Archibald V. Hill, (England). Awarded for correlation between consumption of oxygen and production of lactic acid in muscles; Hill: for discovery relating to heat-production in muscles
- Research Professor in Physiological Chemistry, 1940-1951
Robert Hofstadter, 1915 -
Physics, 1961
- with Rudolpf Mössbauer (Germany). Awarded for: Hofstadter: for determination of shape and size of atomic nucleus.
Mössbauer: for method of producing and measuring recoil-free gamma rays.
- Research Fellow, 1939-1940; Physics Instructor, 1940-1941
Ragnar Granit, 1900 -
Medicine, 1967
- with George Wald and Haldan K. Hartline; Awarded for work on the human eye
- Research Fellow, 1929-1931; Honorary Degree: Sc.D. 1971
Haldan Keffer Hartline, 1903 -
Medicine, 1967
- with George Wald and Ragnar Granit; Awarded for work on human eye
- Research Fellow in Biophysics, 1931-1936; Asst Prof, 1936-1942; Assoc Prof, 1943-1948; Professor, 1948-1949; Honorary Degree: Sc.D. 1971
Simon Smith Kuznets, 1901 - 1985
Economics, 1971
- Awarded for developing the concept of using a country's gross national product to determine its economic growth
- Asst Prof of Economic Statistics, 1930-1934; Assoc Prof, 1934-1935; Professor, 1936-1954; Honorary Degrees: Sc.D. 1956
LL.D. 1976
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, 1916 -
Chemistry, 1972
- with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein;
Awarded for pioneering studies in enzymes
- Penn Graduate: M.S. 1939; Honorary: Sc.D. 1973
Gerald Maurice Edelman, 1929 -
Medicine, 1972
- with Rodney R. Porter (U.K.); Awarded for research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies
- Penn Graduate: M.D. 1954; Honorary: Sc.D. 1973
John Robert Schrieffer, 1931 -
Physics, 1972 (first faculty member to win)
- with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper; Awarded for theory of superconductivity, where electrical resistance in certain metals vanishes above absolute zero temperature
- Professor of Physics, 1962-1980; Honorary: Sc.D. 1973
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 1925 -
Medicine, 1976
- with D. Carleton Gajdusek; Awarded for discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
- Professor of Medicine, 1964 - ; Honorary Degree: Sc.D. 1990
- Awarded for developing models for forecasting economic trends and shaping policies to deal with them
- Professor of Economics, 1958 -
Michael Stuart Brown, 1940 -
Medicine, 1985
- and Joseph L. Goldstein; Awarded for their work on cholesterol metabolism
- Penn Graduate: A.B. 1962; M.D. 1966; Honorary: Sc.D. 1986
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