![]() Stanford Report, October 11, 2001 |
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Stanford's Nobel prize-winning faculty, then and now "The Farm" is home to 17 living Nobel laureates -- 14 affiliated with the university and three affiliated with the Hoover Institution. Six additional Stanford laureates are deceased. The
business of "claiming" laureates can be controversial: Where and
when was a winner's work done? Stanford, for example, lists but
does not claim laureates who are not on the faculty, even if they
have a significant Stanford connection. And Stanford does not list
winners with a more fleeting or tenuous connection. John Steinbeck,
the 1962 literature winner, for instance, did not make the cut
although he attended Stanford -- receiving a "C" in freshman
English in 1919 and dropping out in 1921, only to reenter the
university as a journalism major in 1923 and drop out again in
1925. Stanford University Nobel Laureates
Hoover Institution Nobel Laureates
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