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Graduate Alumni: Nobel Prize Recipients

A timeline of Nobel Prize Recipients with Berkeley graduate degrees:

		John C. Mather Ph.D. 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006 (shared with Berkeley physics professor George F. Smoot, for their research confirming the predictions of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe)
		David J. Gross Ph.D. 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004
		Daniel Kahneman Ph.D. 1961 Nobel Prize in Economics, 2000
		Alan J. Heeger Ph.D. 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2000
		Steven Chu Ph.D. 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997
		Robert F. Curl, Jr. Ph.D. 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996
		Mario Molina Ph.D. 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995
		Kary Mullis Ph.D. 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993
		Douglass North Ph.D. 1952 Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
		Thomas Cech Ph.D. 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1989
		Yuan Tseh Lee Ph.D. 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986
		Henry Taube Ph.D. 1940 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1983
		Willard Libby Ph.D. 1933 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1960
		Glenn T. Seaborg Ph.D. 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1951
		William F. Giauque Ph.D. 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1949
		Harold C. Urey Ph.D. 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934