University of California

Awards

1. 2026

   Stanford Woosley

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy · University of California, Santa Cruz

2. 2026

   Veerabhadran Ramanathan

   Crafoord Prize — Geosciences · University of California, San Diego

3. 2026 (special)

   David J. Gross

   Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara

4. 2025

   Brian J. Staskawicz

   Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Berkeley

5. 2025

   John M. Martinis

   Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara

6. 2025

   John Clarke

   Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

7. 2025

   Omar M. Yaghi

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

8. 2025

   Stephen L. Hauser

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, San Francisco

9. 2024

   Venkatesan Sundaresan

   Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Davis

10. 2024

    Terrence Sejnowski

    The Brain Prize · University of California, San Diego

11. 2023

    Eva Nogales

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, Berkeley

12. 2022

    Pamela C. Ronald

    Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Davis

13. 2021

    David Julius

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

14. 2021

    Peter J. Goadsby

    The Brain Prize · University of California, Los Angeles

15. 2020

    Jennifer A. Doudna

    Wolf Prize — Medicine · University of California, Berkeley

16. 2020

    Andrea M. Ghez

    Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Los Angeles

17. 2020

    Jennifer A. Doudna

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

18. 2020

    David Julius

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, San Francisco

19. 2019

    John F. Hartwig

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

20. 2019

    David Zilberman

    Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Berkeley

21. 2019

    Dennis J. Slamon

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award · University of California, Los Angeles

22. 2019

    Ronald Vale

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

23. 2019 (special)

    Sergio Ferrara

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics · University of California, Los Angeles

24. 2018

    Omar M. Yaghi

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

25. 2018

    Michael Grunstein

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, Los Angeles

26. 2018

    James McKernan

    Breakthrough Prize — Mathematics · University of California, San Diego

27. 2018

    Peter Walter

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, San Francisco

28. 2018

    Don W. Cleveland

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, San Diego

29. 2017

    Richard Schoen

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Irvine

30. 2017

    Robert G. Bergman

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

31. 2017

    David Patterson

    Turing Award · University of California, Berkeley

32. 2017

    Ronald Vale

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

33. 2017

    Ian R. Gibbons

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, Berkeley

34. 2017

    Jennifer A. Doudna

    Japan Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, Berkeley

35. 2017

    David Julius

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

36. 2017

    Frederick J. Ramsdell

    Crafoord Prize — Polyarthritis · University of California, San Francisco

37. 2017

    Harry F. Noller

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, Santa Cruz

38. 2017

    Joseph Polchinski

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara

39. 2016

    Bruce M. Alberts

    Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science · University of California, San Francisco

40. 2016

    Jennifer A. Doudna

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Berkeley

41. 2016

    Ian Agol

    Breakthrough Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Berkeley

42. 2015

    Theodore Friedmann

    Japan Prize — Medical Science, Medicinal Science · University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

43. 2015

    Terence Tao

    Breakthrough Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Los Angeles

44. 2015

    Jennifer A. Doudna

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, Berkeley

45. 2015

    Saul Perlmutter

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics · University of California, Berkeley

46. 2014

    Jorge Dubcovsky

    Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Davis

47. 2014

    Peter Walter

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

48. 2014

    Shuji Nakamura

    Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara

49. 2014

    Peter Walter

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

50. 2014

    Napoleone Ferrara

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Diego

51. 2013

    Randy W. Schekman

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, Berkeley

52. 2013

    Shinya Yamanaka

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, San Francisco

53. 2013

    Napoleone Ferrara

    Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences · University of California, San Diego

54. 2012

    David Jewitt

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy · University of California, Los Angeles

55. 2012

    Ronald Vale

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

56. 2012

    Terence Tao

    Crafoord Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Los Angeles

57. 2012

    Andrea M. Ghez

    Crafoord Prize — Astronomy · University of California, Los Angeles

58. 2012

    Alexei Kitaev

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara

59. 2011

    Judea Pearl

    Turing Award · University of California, Los Angeles

60. 2010

    David Julius

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

61. 2009

    Frank H. Shu (徐遐生)

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy · University of California, San Diego

62. 2009

    Elizabeth H. Blackburn

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

63. 2009

    Peter Walter

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

64. 2008

    Roger Y. Tsien

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, San Diego

65. 2008

    Richard M. Karp

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology · University of California, Berkeley

66. 2007

    Harry F. Noller

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Santa Cruz

67. 2007

    Dennis J. Slamon

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Los Angeles

68. 2006/2007

    Stephen Smale

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Berkeley

69. 2006/2007

    George Feher

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, San Diego

70. 2006

    George F. Smoot

    Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

71. 2006

    Elizabeth H. Blackburn

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

72. 2006

    Terence Tao

    Fields Medal · University of California, Los Angeles

73. 2005

    Geoffrey Marcy

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy · University of California, Berkeley

74. 2004

    Roger Y. Tsien

    Wolf Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Diego

75. 2004

    Yuet Wai Kan

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

76. 2004

    Herbert W. Boyer

    Shaw Prize — Life Science and Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

77. 2004

    David J. Gross

    Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

78. 2004

    Irwin Rose

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Irvine

79. 2004

    George Sachs

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Los Angeles

80. 2002

    Randy W. Schekman

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, Berkeley

81. 2000

    Herbert Kroemer

    Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Santa Barbara

82. 2000

    Alan J. Heeger

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Santa Barbara

83. 1998

    Gabor A. Somorjai

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

84. 1998

    Louis J. Ignarro

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine

85. 1998

    Walter Kohn

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Santa Barbara

86. 1998

    Daniel E. Koshland Jr.

    Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science · University of California, Berkeley

87. 1998

    Elizabeth H. Blackburn

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

88. 1997

    Stanley B. Prusiner

    Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

89. 1997

    Paul D. Boyer

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Los Angeles

90. 1997

    Bruce N. Ames

    Japan Prize — Biotechnology in Medicine · University of California, Berkeley

91. 1997

    Corey S. Goodman

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Berkeley

92. 1996

    Randy W. Schekman

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Berkeley

93. 1995/1996

    Stanley B. Prusiner

    Wolf Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Francisco

94. 1995

    Manuel Blum

    Turing Award · University of California, Berkeley

95. 1995

    Frederick Reines

    Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Irvine

96. 1995

    F. Sherwood Rowland

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Irvine

97. 1995

    Roger Y. Tsien

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Diego

98. 1995

    Bruce M. Alberts

    Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

99. 1994/1995

    Peter Schultz

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

100. 1994/1995

     Carl B. Huffaker

     Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Berkeley

101. 1994

     John Allen Clements

     Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

102. 1994

     Stanley B. Prusiner

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

103. 1993

     John E. Casida

     Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Berkeley

104. 1993

     Stanley B. Prusiner

     Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

105. 1991

     Alexander Pines

     Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

106. 1991

     Shang Fa Yang

     Wolf Prize — Agriculture · University of California, Davis

107. 1991

     Yuet Wai Kan

     Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

108. 1989

     William Kahan

     Turing Award · University of California, Berkeley

109. 1989

     Harold E. Varmus

     Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

110. 1989

     J. Michael Bishop

     Nobel Prize — Medicine · University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

111. 1989

     Bruno Zumino

     Max Planck Medal · University of California, Berkeley

112. 1989

     F. Sherwood Rowland

     Japan Prize — Environmental Science and Technology · University of California, Irvine

113. 1987

     Donald J. Cram

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Los Angeles

114. 1986

     Yuan T. Lee

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

115. 1986

     Michael H. Freedman

     Fields Medal · University of California, San Diego

116. 1985

     Richard M. Karp

     Turing Award · University of California, Berkeley

117. 1984

     Erwin L. Hahn

     Wolf Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

118. 1984/1985

     Hans Lewy

     Wolf Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Berkeley

119. 1984

     Yuet Wai Kan

     Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

120. 1984

     J. Michael Bishop

     Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

121. 1984

     Harold E. Varmus

     Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

122. 1983/1984

     Shiing-Shen Chern

     Wolf Prize — Mathematics · University of California, Berkeley

123. 1983

     John Allen Clements

     Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, San Francisco

124. 1983

     Bruce N. Ames

     Canada Gairdner International Award · University of California, Berkeley

125. 1982

     George C. Pimentel

     Wolf Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

126. 1982

     J. Michael Bishop

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

127. 1982

     Harold E. Varmus

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

128. 1980

     Herbert W. Boyer

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, San Francisco

129. 1968

     Luis Walter Alvarez

     Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

130. 1966

     Stephen Smale

     Fields Medal · University of California, Berkeley

131. 1964

     Harry Rubin

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, Berkeley

132. 1963

     Maria Goeppert Mayer

     Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, San Diego

133. 1962

     Choh H. Li

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, Berkeley Hormone Research Laboratory

134. 1961

     Melvin Calvin

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

135. 1960

     Donald Arthur Glaser

     Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

136. 1960

     Willard Frank Libby

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Los Angeles

137. 1959

     Owen Chamberlain

     Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

138. 1959

     Emilio Gino Segrè

     Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley

139. 1958

     Theodore Puck

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, Berkeley

140. 1958

     Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

     Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · University of California, Berkeley

141. 1951

     Glenn Theodore Seaborg

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

142. 1951

     Edwin Mattison McMillan

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

143. 1950

     Eugene Lindsay Bishop

     Lasker Award — Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award · University of California, San Francisco

144. 1949

     William Francis Giauque

     Nobel Prize — Chemistry · University of California, Berkeley

145. 1939

     Ernest Orlando Lawrence

     Nobel Prize — Physics · University of California, Berkeley