Facts About CALS: Awards and Honors
• Six Nobel Prize winners are connected to CALS:
- Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1958 (faculty, genetics)
- Edward Tatum, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1958 (alumnus, biochemistry)
- Har Gohind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968 (faculty, biochemistry)
- Theodore Schultz, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1979 (alumnus, agricultural economics)
- Paul Boyer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997 (alumnus, biochemistry)
- Oliver Smithies, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2007 (former faculty, genetics)
• 18 CALS professors are members of the National Academy of Sciences.
• 35 current or emeritus faculty are American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows.
• 4 CALS faculty have received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture, more than any other institution in the history of the award.
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