California Institute of Technology

Awards

1. 2025

   James P. Eisenstein

   Wolf Prize — Physics

2. 2025

   Pamela J. Bjorkman

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

3. 2024

   Elliot M. Meyerowitz

   Wolf Prize — Agriculture

4. 2024

   Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy

5. 2022

   Carver Mead

   Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

6. 2021

   David Baltimore

   Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science

7. 2019

   Edward C. Stone

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy

8. 2018

   Frances H. Arnold

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

9. 2016

   Ronald Drever

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy

10. 2016

    Kip S. Thorne

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy

11. 2016 (special)

    Kip S. Thorne

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

12. 2016 (special)

    Ronald Drever

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

13. 2014

    John Henry Schwarz

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

14. 2014

    Alexander Varshavsky

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

15. 2012

    Michael Aschbacher

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

16. 2012

    Alexei Kitaev

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

17. 2007

    Hiroo Kanamori

    Kyoto Prize — Basic Sciences

18. 2005

    Robert H. Grubbs

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

19. 2004

    Harry B. Gray

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

20. 2004

    H. David Politzer

    Nobel Prize — Physics

21. 2004

    Seymour Benzer

    Canada Gairdner International Award

22. 2001

    Alexander Varshavsky

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

23. 2000

    Alexander Varshavsky

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

24. 1999

    Ahmed H. Zewail

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

25. 1999

    Alexander Varshavsky

    Canada Gairdner International Award

26. 1998

    Giuseppe Attardi

    Canada Gairdner International Award

27. 1998

    Don L. Anderson

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

28. 1995

    Edward B. Lewis

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

29. 1994

    William Hayward Pickering

    Japan Prize — Aerospace Technologies

30. 1994

    Pamela J. Bjorkman

    Canada Gairdner International Award

31. 1993

    Ahmed H. Zewail

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

32. 1993

    Seymour Benzer

    Crafoord Prize — Biosciences

33. 1992

    Rudolph A. Marcus

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

34. 1991

    Seymour Benzer

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

35. 1991

    Edward B. Lewis

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

36. 1989

    Edward B. Lewis

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

37. 1987

    Leroy Hood

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

38. 1987

    Edward B. Lewis

    Canada Gairdner International Award

39. 1986

    Gerald J. Wasserburg

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

40. 1984/1985

    Rudolph A. Marcus

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology

41. 1983

    William Alfred Fowler

    Nobel Prize — Physics

42. 1981

    Roger Wolcott Sperry

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

43. 1979

    Roger Wolcott Sperry

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

44. 1979

    Roger Wolcott Sperry

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

45. 1971

    Seymour Benzer

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

46. 1969

    Murray Gell-Mann

    Nobel Prize — Physics

47. 1969

    Max Delbrück

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

48. 1965

    Richard P. Feynman

    Nobel Prize — Physics

49. 1964

    Seymour Benzer

    Canada Gairdner International Award

50. 1958

    George Wells Beadle

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

51. 1954

    Linus Carl Pauling

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

52. 1950

    George Wells Beadle

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

53. 1936

    Carl David Anderson

    Nobel Prize — Physics

54. 1933

    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

55. 1923

    Robert Andrews Millikan

    Nobel Prize — Physics