Four 2024 Nobel Prize winners are connected to UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science

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Nine of the ten UC Berkeley faculty members holding Nobel Prizes reside in UC Berkeley's College of Letters & Science. L&S has a deep legacy of groundbreaking research and transformative discoveries, and as a result, has generated several faculty members and alumni honored with Nobel Prize awards for their academic contributions. For the 2024 Nobel Prizes, four of the Nobel Prize laureates have ties to L&S -- two are alums of the College and two are former faculty members.

Read about their wins and connections to UC Berkeley:

Gary Ruvkun '73 B.A. biophysics - Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

David Baker '89 Ph.D. biochemistry - Nobel Prize in chemistry

John Hopfield - former faculty member, physics - Nobel Prize in physics (same article with David Baker)

James A. Robinson - former faculty member, economics and political science - Nobel Prize in economics