Stanford University

Awards

1. 2026

   Emmanuel Candès

   Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences

2. 2025

   Lucy Shapiro

   Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science · School of Medicine

3. 2025

   Michelle Monje

   The Brain Prize

4. 2023

   Karl Deisseroth

   Japan Prize — Life Sciences

5. 2023

   Emmanuel Mignot

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · School of Medicine

6. 2022

   Carolyn R. Bertozzi

   Wolf Prize — Chemistry

7. 2022

   Carolyn R. Bertozzi

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

8. 2022

   Christopher Field

   Japan Prize — Biological Production, Ecology/Environment · Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

9. 2021

   Karl Deisseroth

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

10. 2020

    Yakov Eliashberg

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

11. 2020

    Jeffrey Ullman

    Turing Award

12. 2020

    Roger Blandford

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy

13. 2020

    Roel Nusse

    Canada Gairdner International Award

14. 2020

    Maryam Mirzakhani

    Breakthrough Prize — Mathematics

15. 2019

    Pat Hanrahan

    Turing Award

16. 2019 (special)

    Daniel Z. Freedman

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

17. 2018

    Karl Deisseroth

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

18. 2018

    Karl Deisseroth

    Canada Gairdner International Award

19. 2017

    John L. Hennessy

    Turing Award

20. 2017

    Roel Nusse

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

21. 2016

    Yakov Eliashberg

    Crafoord Prize — Mathematics

22. 2016

    Roger Blandford

    Crafoord Prize — Astronomy

23. 2015

    James D. Bjorken

    Wolf Prize — Physics

24. 2015

    Martin Hellman

    Turing Award

25. 2015

    Whitfield Diffie

    Turing Award

26. 2014

    William E. Moerner

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

27. 2014

    Maryam Mirzakhani

    Fields Medal

28. 2013

    David L. Donoho

    Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences

29. 2013

    Thomas C. Südhof

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

30. 2013

    Michael Levitt

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · School of Medicine

31. 2013

    Thomas C. Südhof

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · School of Medicine

32. 2012

    Brian K. Kobilka

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · School of Medicine

33. 2012

    James Spudich

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · School of Medicine

34. 2012

    Andrei Linde

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

35. 2010

    Peter Vitousek

    Japan Prize — Biological Production and Environment · Department of Biology

36. 2009

    Lucy Shapiro

    Canada Gairdner International Award

37. 2008

    William E. Moerner

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

38. 2008

    Stanley Falkow

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

39. 2006

    Andrew Z. Fire

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · School of Medicine

40. 2006

    Roger D. Kornberg

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

41. 2006

    Leonard Arthur Herzenberg

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

42. 2005

    Richard N. Zare

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

43. 2005

    Andrew Z. Fire

    Canada Gairdner International Award

44. 2004

    Stanley N. Cohen

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine

45. 2004

    Eugene C. Butcher

    Crafoord Prize — Polyarthritis

46. 2000

    Roger D. Kornberg

    Canada Gairdner International Award

47. 1998

    Robert B. Laughlin

    Nobel Prize — Physics

48. 1997

    Steven Chu

    Nobel Prize — Physics

49. 1996/1997

    Joseph B. Keller

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

50. 1996

    Douglas D. Osheroff

    Nobel Prize — Physics

51. 1996

    Donald Knuth

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

52. 1995

    Martin L. Perl

    Nobel Prize — Physics

53. 1995

    Arthur Kornberg

    Canada Gairdner International Award

54. 1994

    Edward Feigenbaum

    Turing Award

55. 1990

    Richard E. Taylor

    Nobel Prize — Physics

56. 1990

    Paul R. Ehrlich

    Crafoord Prize — Biosciences

57. 1989

    Mark M. Davis

    Canada Gairdner International Award

58. 1988

    John McCarthy

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

59. 1985

    Conyers Herring

    Wolf Prize — Physics

60. 1985

    John R. Pierce

    Japan Prize — Information and Communications

61. 1985

    Charles Yanofsky

    Canada Gairdner International Award

62. 1983/1984

    Harden M. McConnell

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

63. 1983

    Henry Taube

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

64. 1982

    Martin L. Perl

    Wolf Prize — Physics

65. 1981

    Stanley N. Cohen

    Wolf Prize — Medicine · School of Medicine

66. 1981

    Arthur Leonard Schawlow

    Nobel Prize — Physics

67. 1980

    Paul Berg

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

68. 1980

    Stanley N. Cohen

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · School of Medicine

69. 1980

    Paul Berg

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · School of Medicine

70. 1980

    A. Dale Kaiser

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · School of Medicine

71. 1980

    Paul Berg

    Canada Gairdner International Award

72. 1978

    Carl Djerassi

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

73. 1978

    Robert W. Floyd

    Turing Award

74. 1974

    Donald Knuth

    Turing Award

75. 1974

    Paul J. Flory

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

76. 1971

    John McCarthy

    Turing Award

77. 1971

    Charles Yanofsky

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

78. 1966

    Paul Joseph Cohen

    Fields Medal

79. 1961

    Robert Hofstadter

    Nobel Prize — Physics

80. 1959

    Arthur Kornberg

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

81. 1955

    Willis Eugene Lamb

    Nobel Prize — Physics

82. 1952

    Felix Bloch

    Nobel Prize — Physics