Columbia University

Awards

1. 2026

   Charles S. Zuker

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

2. 2025

   Iva Greenwald

   Canada Gairdner International Award

3. 2025

   Gary Struhl

   Canada Gairdner International Award

4. 2024

   Simon Brendle

   Breakthrough Prize — Mathematics

5. 2024

   Larry Abbott

   The Brain Prize

6. 2023

   Louis E. Brus

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

7. 2020

   Alfred Aho

   Turing Award

8. 2017

   Joachim Frank

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

9. 2013

   Robert J. Winchester

   Crafoord Prize — Polyarthritis

10. 2012

    Tom Maniatis

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

11. 2012

    Michael Sheetz

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

12. 2012

    Thomas M. Jessell

    Canada Gairdner International Award

13. 2011

    Richard S. Hamilton

    Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences

14. 2008

    Martin Chalfie

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

15. 2006

    Wallace Smith Broecker

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

16. 2004

    Richard Axel

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

17. 2003

    Wayne A. Hendrickson

    Canada Gairdner International Award

18. 2003

    Richard Axel

    Canada Gairdner International Award

19. 2000

    Eric R. Kandel

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

20. 1999

    Eric R. Kandel

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

21. 1998

    Horst L. Störmer

    Nobel Prize — Physics

22. 1995/1996

    Gilbert Stork

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

23. 1990

    Vaughan F.R. Jones

    Fields Medal

24. 1987

    Eric R. Kandel

    Canada Gairdner International Award

25. 1986

    Samuel Eilenberg

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

26. 1983

    Eric R. Kandel

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

27. 1980

    Vincent Freda

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

28. 1980

    John G. Gorman

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

29. 1978

    Chien-Shiung Wu

    Wolf Prize — Physics

30. 1978

    Michael Heidelberger

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

31. 1975

    Leo James Rainwater

    Nobel Prize — Physics

32. 1974

    Sol Spiegelman

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

33. 1960

    Karl Meyer

    Canada Gairdner International Award

34. 1959

    Harry M. Rose

    Canada Gairdner International Award

35. 1959

    Charles Ragan

    Canada Gairdner International Award

36. 1957

    Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

    Nobel Prize — Physics

37. 1956

    Dickinson W. Richards

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

38. 1956

    André Frédéric Cournand

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory, Bellevue Hospital

39. 1955

    Polykarp Kusch

    Nobel Prize — Physics

40. 1953

    Michael Heidelberger

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

41. 1949

    André Frédéric Cournand

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

42. 1944

    Isidor Isaac Rabi

    Nobel Prize — Physics

43. 1934

    Harold Clayton Urey

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry