Major Awards

The faculty of the College of Letters and Science includes:

• 13 of the 20 Nobel Prizes on the campus, including four current faculty members
• 2 out of 3 Pulitzer Prizes
• 12 out of 16 MacArthur Genius Awards
• 119 out of 139 Guggenheim Fellowships
• 74% of the campus’s members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 70% of Berkeley’s members of the National Academy of Sciences
• 93% of Cal’s members of the American Philosophical Society

Recent awards

List of recent awards won by current members of the L&S faculty

Nobel Prize Laureates

Current L&S faculty

• 2006 – George F. Smoot in Physics
• 2001 – George A. Akerlof in Economics
• 2000 – Daniel L. McFadden in Economics
• 1997 – Steven Chu in Physics
• 1964 – Charles H. Townes in Physics
• 1960 – Donald A. Glaser in Physics

Deceased L&S Faculty  

• 1994 – John C. Harsanyi in Economics
• 1983 – Gerard Debreau in Economics
• 1980 – Czeslaw Milosz in Literature
• 1968 – Luis Alvarez in Physics
• 1959 – Owen Chamberlain in Physics
• 1959 – Emilio G. Segre in Physics
• 1939 – Ernest O. Lawrence in Physics

Alumni Nobel Laureates

Nobel Prizes have also been awarded to 24 UC Berkeley alumni