Table 1.
Number of Nobel laureates affiliated with the listed institutions when they obtained their Ph.D./M.D., did the prize-winning work, and were awarded the Nobel Prize
| Career stage | Institution | Number of scientists | Ranking results (Claassen 2015) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D./M.D. obtained | Harvard University, USA | 14 | 1 |
| Gini = 0.24** | University of California, Berkeley, USA | 8 | 5 |
| MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA | 6 | 2 | |
| University of Cambridge, U.K | 5 | 4 | |
| Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan | 5 | 152 | |
| University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K | 5 | 6 | |
| Yale University, New Haven, USA | 5 | 11 | |
| Columbia University, New York, USA | 4 | 8 | |
| Cornell University, Ithaka, USA | 4 | 13 | |
| Stanford University, Stanford, USA | 4 | 3 | |
| New York University, New York, USA | 3 | 28 | |
| John Hopkins, Baltimore, USA | 3 | 15 | |
| Did the prize-winning work | Cambridge University, U.K | 8 | 4 |
| Gini = 0.17** | University of California, Berkeley, USA | 6 | 5 |
| AT&T, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA | 6 | Not included | |
| MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA | 3 | 2 | |
| Rockefeller University, New York, USA | 4 | 42 | |
| Harvard University, USA | 4 | 1 | |
| Univ. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA | 3 | 14 | |
| Technion—Israel, Haifa, Israel | 3 | 148 | |
| Cornell University, Ithaka, USA | 3 | 13 | |
| Rice University Houston | 3 | 91 | |
| Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan | 3 | 30 | |
| University of Colorado, Boulder, USA | 3 | 44 | |
| Yale University, USA | 3 | 11 | |
| University of Columbia, New York, USA | 3 | 8 | |
| Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan | 3 | 152 | |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA | 3 | Not included | |
| Nobel Prize awarded | Stanford University, Stanford, USA | 10 | 3 |
| Gini = 0.19** | MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA | 6 | 2 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara, USA | 5 | 37 | |
| University of California, Berkeley, USA | 4 | 5 | |
| Max-Planck-Society, Germany | 4 | Not included | |
| Columbia University, New York, USA | 4 | 8 | |
| Rockefeller University, New York, USA | 4 | 42 | |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA | 4 | Not included | |
| University of Colorado, Boulder, USA | 3 | 44 | |
| Technion—Israel, Haifa, Israel | 3 | 148 | |
| John Hopkins, Baltimore, USA | 3 | 15 | |
| National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg/Boulder USA | 3 | Not included |
The table lists only institutions with which at least three persons were affiliated. Complete lists of Nobel laureates are shown in the Appendix Tables 5, 6 and 7
** A Gini coefficient of zero expresses equality among the values in a frequency distribution; a Gini coefficient of one maximum inequality