Major Awards
The faculty of the College of Letters & Science includes:
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16 of the 23 Nobel Prizes on the campus, including 7 current faculty members
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3 of 4 Pulitzer Prizes
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16 MacArthur Fellowships
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3 Shaw Prize winners
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77 percent of campus Guggenheim fellowships, 2013 to 2015
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62 percent of campus members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014 to 2015
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68 members of the National Academy of Sciences
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31 of 40 living UC Berkeley members of the American Philosophical Society
Recent awards
List of awards won by members of the L&S faculty
Nobel Prize Laureates
Current L&S faculty
- 2014 – Eric Betzig in Chemistry
- 2013 – Randy Schekman in Physiology
- 2011 – Saul Perlmutter in Physics
- 2009 – Oliver E. Williamson in Economics
- 2006 – George F. Smoot in Physics
- 2001 – George A. Akerlof in Economics
- 2000 – Daniel L. McFadden in Economics
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
- 1964 – Charles H. Townes in Physics
- 1960 – Donald A. Glaser 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 29 UC Berkeley alumni.