1. Murray Gell-Mann (1929-):
An American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1969 for
his work on the theory of elementary particle, Murray Gell-Mann
earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1948, and a PhD in physics from MIT in 1951. He was a visiting research professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1952 to 1953, a visiting associate professor at Columbia University and an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1954–55.
2. Frank Anthony Wilczek (1951-):
An American physicist and mathematician born in Mineola, New York,
in 1951, Frank Anthony Wilczek received his BSc in Mathematics from
the University of Chicago in 1970, followed by a master's degree and a PhD in physics at Princeton University. Wilczek holds the Herman Feshbach Professorship of Physics at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.
In 2004, along with colleagues David Gross and H. David Politzer,
Wilczek received the Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of
asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
3. Linus Pauling (1901-1994): American chemist, peace activist and author, Linus Pauling made
important advances in medical research and was one of the founders
of the fields of molecular biology and quantum chemistry. He received
his PhD in physical chemistry and mathematics physics from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1925. He is the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes: the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(1954) and the Nobel Peace Prize (1962).
4. John Steinbeck (1902-1968):
American novelist John Steinbeck is best-known for his Pulitzer Prize-
winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, which portrays the plight of
migrant workers during the Great Depression. Steinbeck studied English
Literature at Stanford University, but left without graduating in 1925. His most notable works include Of Mice and Men (1937), The Grapes of
Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952). In 1962, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature for his "realistic and imaginative writing,
combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception."
5. Charles K. Kao (1933-): Chinese-born Charles Kuen Kao is known as the "father of fiber optic communications". He obtained a BSc in electrical engineering in the UK
at Woolwich Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich), going on to pursue research, and received a PhD in electrical engineering in 1965
from University College London (UCL). He was Vice-Chancellor (President) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1996. Kao later spent a six-month sabbatical leave at Imperial College London's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In 2009, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "groundbreaking
achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical
communication".
6. John Galsworthy (1867-1933): English novelist and playwright John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1932 "for his distinguished art of narration which
takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga", published between 1906
and 1921. He studied law at New College, University of Oxford, and was elected as an honorary fellow in 1926. Over the course of his
lifetime, Galsworthy earned honorary degrees from the Universities of St Andrews (1922), Manchester (1927), Dublin (1929), Cambridge (1930), Sheffield (1930), Oxford (1931) and Princeton (1931).
7. Henry A. Kissinger (1923-) American diplomat Henry A. Kissinger served as US secretary of state
under Richard Nixon, winning the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for the
Vietnam War accords. He studied accounting at City College of New
York until 1943, when he was drafted into the US Army, and later
returned to complete a bachelor's in political science at Harvard University, gaining his MA and PhD in 1951 and 1954 respectively.
8. Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming discovered one of the most famous
antibiotics, penicillin. This drug transformed the way disease was
treated and Fleming's name was written forever in medical history. In
1945 Fleming, Chain and Florey were awarded the Nobel Prize for
Medicine. Fleming earned his MBBS degree with distinction from St
Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1906. He was elected Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of London in 1948, and in
1951 became Rector of the University of Edinburgh for a term of three years.
9. Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965): English physicist Edward Victor Appleton won the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1947 for proving the existence of the ionosphere and
contributing to the understanding of radio wave propagation. He was
a professor of physics at King's College London (1924–36) and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1936–
39). From 1949 and until his death in 1965, he was Principal and Vice-
Chancellor at the University of Edinburgh.
10. Kofi Annan (1938-): Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General
of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. In 2001, Annan was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, jointly with the United Nations as a
whole. He completed a DEA degree in international relations at
the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland,
and later studied at MIT Sloan School of Management (1971–72) in the Sloan Fellows Program, earning a Masters in Management.
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