University of Cambridge

Awards

1. 2025

   George Efstathiou

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy

2. 2025

   Azim Surani

   Kyoto Prize — Basic Sciences

3. 2024

   Martin Rees

   Wolf Prize — Physics

4. 2024

   Shankar Balasubramanian

   Canada Gairdner International Award

5. 2024

   David Klenerman

   Canada Gairdner International Award

6. 2024

   Douglas Gough

   Crafoord Prize — Astronomy

7. 2023

   Christine Holt

   The Brain Prize

8. 2022

   Shankar Balasubramanian

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

9. 2018

   Azim Surani

   Canada Gairdner International Award

10. 2018

    Caucher Birkar

    Fields Medal

11. 2014

    Michael Green

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

12. 2013 (special)

    Stephen Hawking

    Breakthrough Prize — Fundamental Physics

13. 2012

    Roy Calne

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

14. 2010

    David Baulcombe

    Wolf Prize — Agriculture

15. 2010

    Robert G. Edwards

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

16. 2009

    John B. Gurdon

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

17. 2008

    David Baulcombe

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

18. 2005

    Martin Rees

    Crafoord Prize — Astronomy

19. 2002

    Dan McKenzie

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

20. 2001

    Robert G. Edwards

    Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

21. 2000

    Sydney Brenner

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

22. 1999

    Andrew H. Wyllie

    Canada Gairdner International Award

23. 1998

    W. Timothy Gowers

    Fields Medal

24. 1998

    Richard E. Borcherds

    Fields Medal

25. 1997

    Fred Hoyle

    Crafoord Prize — Astronomy

26. 1995

    Nicholas Shackleton

    Crafoord Prize — Geosciences

27. 1994/1995

    Michael Berridge

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

28. 1992

    John G. Thompson

    Wolf Prize — Mathematics

29. 1992

    Maurice Wilkes

    Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

30. 1990

    Dan McKenzie

    Japan Prize — Earth Science

31. 1989

    John B. Gurdon

    Wolf Prize — Medicine

32. 1989

    Alan R. Battersby

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

33. 1988

    Stephen Hawking

    Wolf Prize — Physics

34. 1977

    Sir Nevill Francis Mott

    Nobel Prize — Physics

35. 1974

    Antony Hewish

    Nobel Prize — Physics

36. 1974

    Sir Martin Ryle

    Nobel Prize — Physics

37. 1973

    Brian David Josephson

    Nobel Prize — Physics

38. 1971

    Sydney Brenner

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

39. 1970

    Alan Baker

    Fields Medal

40. 1967

    Maurice Wilkes

    Turing Award

41. 1967

    Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry · Institute of Physical Chemistry

42. 1965

    Robin R.A. Coombs

    Canada Gairdner International Award

43. 1963

    Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

44. 1960

    Francis Harry Compton Crick

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

45. 1958

    Frederick Sanger

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

46. 1957

    Lord (Alexander R.) Todd

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

47. 1952

    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

    Max Planck Medal

48. 1933

    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

    Nobel Prize — Physics

49. 1932

    Edgar Douglas Adrian

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

50. 1929

    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

51. 1927

    Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

    Nobel Prize — Physics

52. 1922

    Francis William Aston

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

53. 1906

    Joseph John Thomson

    Nobel Prize — Physics