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60 Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Who Support Early Stem Cell Research


The list below combines two lists of Nobel Prize winners who have publicly endorsed medical research involving early, or embryonic, stem cells (ES Cells). To see the two original lists, click on the links below:

CAMR (Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research)

Cures for California: Yes on Prop 71


Sidney Altman
Sterling Professor of Biology
Yale University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989)

Kenneth J. Arrow
Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus
Stanford University
Nobel Prize in Economics (1972)

Julius Axelrod
Scientist Emeritus
National Institutes of Health
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1970)

David Baltimore
President & Professor of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)

Baruj Benacerraf
Past President, Sidney Farber Cancer Institute
Former Chair of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1980)

Paul Berg
Professor of Cancer Research Emeritus, Director Emeritus Beckman Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)

J. Michael Bishop
University Professor and Director, G.W. Hooper Foundation
Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1989)

Paul D. Boyer
Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1997)

Sydney Brenner
Distinguished Professor
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)

Thomas R. Cech
Distinguished Professor
University of Colorado, Boulder
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1989)

Stanley Cohen
Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus
Vanderbilt University
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986)

Elias James Corey
Sheldon Emery Research Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1990)

Johann Deisenhofer
Virginia and Edward Linthicum
Distinguished Chair in Biomolecular Science
Regental Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center at Dallas
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1988)

Renato Dulbecco
Distinguished Research Professor and President Emeritus
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)

Edmond H. Fischer
Professor, Emeritus of Biochemistry
University of Washington
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1992)

Jerome I. Friedman
Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physics (1990)

Walter Gilbert
Carl M. Loeb University Professor
The Biological Laboratories
Harvard University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)

Alfred G. Gilman
Regental Professor and Chairman
Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair
in Molecular Neuropharamacology
Director, Alliance for Cellular Signaling
Chairman, Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1994)

Donald A. Glaser
Professor of Physics and Neurobiology
University of California, Berkeley
Nobel Prize in Physics (1960)

Joseph L. Goldstein
Regental Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1985)

Roger Guillemin
Distinguished Professor
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1977)

Paul Greengard
Vincent Astor Professor
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
The Rockefeller University
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)

Leland H. Hartwell
President & Director
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor, Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001)

Herbert A. Hauptman
President, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute,
State University of New York at Buffalo
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985)

Alan J. Heeger
Professor of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000)

Dudley Herschback
Baird Professor of Science
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986)

H. Robert Horvitz
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)

David Hubel
Research Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard University
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981)

Tim Hunt
Principal Scientist
Cancer Research UK
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001)

Eric R. Kandel
Director
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)

Jerome Karle
Chief Scientist
Laboratory for the Structure of Matter
Naval Research Laboratory
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985)

Walter Kohn
Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Research Professor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998)

Arthur Kornberg
Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor
Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959)

Edwin G. Krebs
Professor Emeritus, Senior Investigator Emeritus
Department of Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington School of Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1992)

Herbert Kroemer
Professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Nobel Prize in Physics (2000)

Leon M. Lederman
Pritzker Professor of Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physics (1988)

Edward B. Lewis
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology, Emeritus
California Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1995)

William N. Lipscomb
Abbot and James Lawrence Professor, Emeritus
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1976)

Rudy A. Marcus
Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry
California Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1992)

Ferid Murad
Professor and Chairman
Department of Integrative Biology,
Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Texas at Houston
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998)

Marshall Nirenberg
Chief, Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1968)

Sir Paul Nurse
Director-General (Science)
Cancer Research UK
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2001)

George A. Olah
Donald P. & Katharine B. Loker
Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry
University of Southern California
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1994)

George Palade
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
UCSD School of Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1974)

Martin L. Perl
Professor and Chair of the High-Energy Physics Faculty,
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University
Nobel Prize in Physics (1995)

Stanley Prusiner
Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1997)

Burton Richter
Paul Piggot Professor in the Physical Sciences
Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Emeritus
Stanford University
Nobel Prize in Physics (1976)

Richard J. Roberts
Research Director
New England Biolabs
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993)

Phillip A. Sharp
Institute Professor
Director, McGovern Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993)

K. Barry Sharpless
Professor of Chemistry
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001)

Hamilton O. Smith
Senior Director of DNA Resources
Celera Genomics
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1978)

Robert M. Solow
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Economics (1987)

E. Donnall Thomas
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
University of Washington
Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1990)

Susumu Tonegawa
Director, Picower Center for Learning & Memory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1987)

Daniel C. Tsui
Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University
Nobel Prize in Physics (1998)

Harold E. Varmus
President & CEO
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Former Director, National Institutes of Health (1993-1999)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1989)

James D. Watson
President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Director, National Center for Human Genome Research, NIH, 1989-1992
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962)

Frank Wilczek
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel Prize in Physics (2004)

Torsten Nils Wiesel
The Rockefeller University, President Emeritus
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981)

Robert W. Wilson
Senior Scientist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)

Source: CAMR (Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research) and Cures for California: Yes on Prop 71