Which universities produce the most prize-winning scientists?

01 Key findings

1. Harvard leads: 142 of 1,571 winners of 21 top prize categories (1901-2026) earned a first degree or doctorate there, ahead of Cambridge (101), Berkeley (81) and MIT (80).IQ Metrics analysis, 2026
2. Harvard awarded the most doctorates (107, against 65 at Cambridge); for first degrees Cambridge and Harvard are level (64 and 59). The top 10 universities awarded 42.0% of the doctorates we could place, against 26.4% of first degrees.IQ Metrics analysis of 1,208 first degrees and 1,189 doctorates
3. Since 2000, MIT is second: 62 of the 742 winners of 2000-2026 studied there, against 88 at Harvard and 48 at Berkeley.IQ Metrics analysis, 2026
4. Women won 16.9% of awards in 2020-2026 (47 of 278), against 2.6% before 2000 and 6.5% of all 1,891 awards since 1901.Nobel Prize API; Wikidata
5. Most winners stay in one country to study: 15.0% of the 986 with both degrees placed took the doctorate abroad; later, 23% of Nobel laureates did their prize work outside the country of their first degree.IQ Metrics analysis; Nobel Prize API

02 Statistics to quote

A Harvard doctorate is the most common credential among top-prize scientists. For the first degree, Cambridge is level with Harvard: the first degree and the doctorate tell two different stories.

Leon Falkner, IQ Metrics Research

03 Which universities have produced the most prize-winning scientists?

Harvard, by a wide margin. Of the 1,571 people who won one of 21 top prize categories in science, mathematics, computing, medicine and economics between 1901 and 2026, 142 earned a first degree or a doctorate at Harvard, followed by Cambridge (101), Berkeley (81) and MIT (80), then Princeton (65) ^{[1] [3]}. We count where winners studied, not where they worked: a professor who joined Harvard after winning does not count for Harvard.

Figure 1

Universities where the most top-prize winners studied

Winners who earned a first degree or a doctorate there; each winner counts once per university. Of 1,571 winners of 21 prize categories, 1901-2026. Short names; full names in Table 1.

Harvard142

Cambridge101

Berkeley81

MIT80

Princeton65

Chicago50

Caltech49

Columbia49

Yale43

Stanford40

Oxford34

Paris (to 1970)29

Cornell26

Wisconsin25

Johns Hopkins21

The list is mostly American and British. Of the top 15, 12 are in the United States and 2 in the United Kingdom; the highest-placed university elsewhere is the old University of Paris (split in 1970), at number 12. The prizes counted here are listed in the prize table.

04 Do prize winners study where they earn their doctorate?

Often not, and it changes the ranking. For doctorates Harvard is far ahead: 107 winners earned theirs there, against 65 at Cambridge and 62 at MIT. For first degrees Cambridge and Harvard are level: 64 and 59 on all the evidence, 36 and 46 when only degrees recorded in Wikidata or the infobox are counted (the rest come from article text and single-university records, see the method). Doctorates are also more concentrated: the top 10 universities account for 42.0% of the doctorates we could place and 26.4% of the first degrees.

Figure 2

First degree or doctorate? Where the same universities shine

Winners per university by the degree they earned there: the 15 universities of Figure 1 and the next five. A winner with both degrees from one university counts in both.

First degree (bachelor's or equivalent)Doctorate (PhD or equivalent; MD where it was the only one)

Harvard University59107

University of Cambridge6465

UC Berkeley3062

MIT3062

Princeton University2049

University of Chicago2537

Caltech2627

Columbia University2635

Yale University2025

Stanford University1130

University of Oxford1924

University of Paris (to 1970)1223

Cornell University1117

University of Wisconsin919

Johns Hopkins University418

Hebrew University of Jerusalem916

Moscow State University1017

New York University1112

Kyoto University1116

University of Göttingen914

020406080100

Winners, 1901-2026 (1,208 with a first degree placed, 1,189 with a doctorate placed)

Some universities are first-degree feeders. City College of New York, a public college, gave 14 winners their first degree and 1 their doctorate. Moscow State University (17 first degrees), Kyoto (16) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (16) play the same role in their countries. Graduate schools such as MIT, Princeton and Stanford show the opposite pattern.

Table 1

The 50 universities with the most top-prize winners

University	Country	Winners	First degree	Doctorate	First degree, 2000+	Doctorate, 2000+	Winners, recorded degrees only
Harvard University	US	142	59	107	42	58	124
University of Cambridge	UK	101	64	65	33	29	75
UC Berkeley	US	81	30	62	17	37	74
MIT	US	80	30	62	24	46	67
Princeton University	US	65	20	49	13	34	53
University of Chicago	US	50	25	37	10	17	39
Caltech	US	49	26	27	14	11	40
Columbia University	US	49	26	35	8	8	38
Yale University	US	43	20	25	12	15	38
Stanford University	US	40	11	30	7	23	34
University of Oxford	UK	34	19	24	11	16	27
University of Paris (to 1970)	France	29	12	23	2	8	16
Cornell University	US	26	11	17	5	10	21
University of Wisconsin	US	25	9	19	2	8	17
Johns Hopkins University	US	21	4	18	0	5	15
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	20	16	9	11	5	10
Moscow State University	Russia	20	17	10	15	9	10
New York University	US	19	11	12	6	6	10
Kyoto University	Japan	17	16	11	9	8	13
University of Göttingen	Germany	16	9	14	1	3	8
University of Illinois	US	16	7	10	3	3	12
University of Tokyo	Japan	16	12	12	9	8	13
LMU Munich	Germany	15	7	12	2	3	6
McGill University	Canada	15	12	6	7	3	12
UCLA	US	15	9	11	6	9	15
University of Michigan	US	15	10	8	7	4	15
Carnegie Mellon University	US	14	8	8	4	6	10
City College of New York	US	14	14	1	4	0	12
ETH Zurich	Switzerland	14	11	6	0	1	7
Sorbonne University	France	14	2	13	2	11	12
University of Toronto	Canada	14	12	6	7	3	11
Leiden University	Netherlands	13	9	8	1	2	5
University of Vienna	Austria	13	8	11	1	2	12
Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	12	3	9	0	1	7
University of Pennsylvania	US	12	5	9	1	3	10
University of Edinburgh	UK	11	4	8	3	6	7
Q219563	US	10	4	7	1	4	4
University of Minnesota	US	10	6	7	1	2	5
Washington University in St. Louis	US	10	5	7	2	2	8
Brandeis University	US	9	6	3	6	3	8
Rutgers University	US	9	6	3	2	2	4
Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	9	8	4	4	3	6
University of Copenhagen	Denmark	9	7	6	2	2	3
University of Geneva	Switzerland	9	4	8	2	6	5
University of Rochester	US	9	3	8	1	4	7
Case Western Reserve University	US	8	4	4	2	1	8
King’s College London	UK	8	5	6	3	4	6
University College London	UK	8	4	5	2	3	5
University of London	UK	8	3	5	1	2	4
University of Manchester	UK	8	8	3	1	0	7

05 Which universities lead this century?

Harvard again, and MIT has moved up to second. Among the 742 people who won a prize in 2000-2026, 88 studied at Harvard, 62 at MIT, 48 at Berkeley and 47 at Cambridge. MIT’s share of all winners rose from 5.1% to 8.4%, mostly through doctorates (46 since 2000). The largest falls are Columbia University (3.1% to 1.9%) and the old University of Paris (split in 1970) (1.8% to 1.2%).

Figure 3

Share of all winners who studied there: all years against 2000-2026

Percent of winners who earned a first degree or doctorate at each of the 15 leading universities. Left: all 1,571 winners since 1901. Right: the 742 who won a prize in 2000-2026. Coloured: a change of 1.5 points or more.

Larger share since 2000Within 1.5 points

1901-2026All2000-20262000+

Harvard 9.0%Cambridge 6.4%Berkeley 5.2%MIT 5.1%Princeton 4.1%Chicago 3.2%Caltech 3.1%Columbia 3.1%Yale 2.7%Stanford 2.5%Oxford 2.2%Paris (to 1970) 1.8%Cornell 1.7%Wisconsin 1.6%Johns Hopkins 1.3%

11.9% Harvard6.3% Cambridge6.5% Berkeley8.4% MIT6.1% Princeton3.1% Chicago3.2% Caltech1.9% Columbia3.5% Yale3.9% Stanford2.7% Oxford1.2% Paris (to 1970)2.0% Cornell1.2% Wisconsin0.7% Johns Hopkins

06 How has the ranking changed over the decades?

European universities led the first decades of the Nobel Prize: the University of Paris in the 1900s, Berlin and Munich in the 1910s, Cambridge (with Copenhagen) in the 1920s, then Cambridge in the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s. Harvard has led every decade since the 1970s, level with MIT in 2020-2026. Over four eras, Harvard climbs from 15th to first and MIT from outside the top 20 to second, while Cambridge slips from first to fourth. The shift follows the rise of American science in the mid-20th century, and most of the prizes counted here began when American universities were already strong: the Turing Award in 1966, the economics prize in 1969, the Wolf Prizes in 1978, the Abel Prize in 2003, the Kavli Prizes in 2008 and the Breakthrough Prizes in 2012.

Figure 4

How the 10 leading universities ranked in four eras

Each era ranks universities by the winners whose first prize fell in it and who earned a first degree or doctorate there (1 = most; ties share a rank): 1901-1939 (129 winners), 1940-1969 (236 winners), 1970-1999 (512 winners), 2000-2026 (694 winners). Not drawn: ranked below 20. Before 1936 the only prizes were the Nobels.

HarvardCambridgeThe other eight

1901-1939'011940-1969'401970-1999'702000-2026'00

Harvard 8Cambridge 1Princeton 8Columbia 8Yale 16

1 Harvard4 Cambridge3 Berkeley2 MIT4 Princeton9 Chicago8 Caltech11 Columbia7 Yale6 Stanford

Table 2

The leading university in each decade

Decade	Winners	Most studied at	Next
1900s	33	Paris (to 1970) (3)	5 universities (2)
1910s	23	Humboldt (Berlin) and LMU Munich (2)	14 universities (1)
1920s	33	Cambridge and Copenhagen (3)	5 universities (2)
1930s	40	Cambridge (4)	Göttingen and Vienna (3)
1940s	45	Columbia and Johns Hopkins (4)	Harvard, Berkeley and Cambridge (3)
1950s	105	Cambridge (6)	Harvard (5)
1960s	86	Cambridge (11)	Princeton and Chicago (5)
1970s	160	Harvard (12)	Columbia (11)
1980s	186	Harvard (18)	Berkeley (11)
1990s	166	Harvard (13)	Berkeley (11)
2000s	190	Harvard (28)	MIT and Berkeley (13)
2010s	308	Harvard (36)	MIT (27)
2020-2026	196	Harvard (23)	MIT (21)

07 Do future prize winners move abroad to study?

Less than you might think, at least for the doctorate. Of 986 winners whose first degree and doctorate we could both place, 148 (15.0%) earned the doctorate in a different country. The largest single move is from Canada to the United States (26 winners). Countries are today’s: a German university that is now in Poland counts as Poland.

Figure 5

Where winners took their first degree, and where they earned their doctorate

986 winners with both degrees placed, by the country the university is in today. Most stayed: 85% earned the doctorate in the same country. Hover or tap a ribbon.

First degreeFirst degreeDoctorateDoctorate

United StatesUS 538United KingdomUK 108CanadaCanada 42JapanJapan 40GermanyGermany 38FranceFrance 31Other countriesOther 189

United StatesUS 620United KingdomUK 119GermanyGermany 42JapanJapan 37FranceFrance 34RussiaRussia 18Other countriesOther 116

The bigger move comes later. 23% of Nobel laureates in the sciences and economics did their prize-winning work in a different country from their first degree; for laureates working in the United States it was 88 of 344 (26%) ^[1]. Migration of laureates has been studied in detail by others (see our comparison); this table keeps to what the degree data add.

Table 3

Nobel laureates whose first degree was in another country than their prize work

Country of the prize work	Laureates	First degree abroad	Share
United States	344	88	26%
United Kingdom	68	11	16%
Germany	36	8	22%
France	22	2	9%
Switzerland	17	6	35%
Japan	16	0	0%
All countries	582	135	23%

08 How many top-prize winners are women?

Few, but more since 2000. Women won 122 of the 1,891 awards whose winner’s sex is recorded (6.5%). Before 2000 the share was 2.6% (26 of 983); in 2020-2026 it was 16.9% (47 of 278). The Nobel prizes in the sciences and economics have gone to women 30 times in 769 awards.

Figure 6

Share of awards that went to women, by prize and decade

Percent of the awards in each cell won by women, by decade from the 1960s (all years before 1960 in one column). Blank: the prize was not given then. Small cells swing a lot: a Fields Medal decade has 8 to 16 awards.

0%30% or more

<1960<601960s'601970s'701980s'801990s'902000s'002010s'102020+'20+Nobel Physics1%6%0%0%0%0%4%11%Nobel Chemistry3%7%0%0%0%4%4%17%Nobel Medicine1%0%4%13%5%15%8%12%Nobel Economics0%0%0%0%5%5%6%Fields Medal0%0%0%0%0%0%8%25%Abel Prize0%9%0%Turing Award0%0%0%0%12%6%0%Wolf Prizes5%2%4%2%4%23%Lasker Awards4%0%2%7%8%4%11%14%Kavli Prizes0%28%28%Breakthrough Prizes11%17%All 21 prizes2%2%2%4%3%5%10%17%

The newest prizes have the highest shares: Kavli Prizes, 21 of 83 awards; Breakthrough Prizes, 22 of 166 awards. The Abel Prize has gone to one woman, Karen Uhlenbeck, in 2019.

09 How old are scientists when they win?

About 60. The median age when the prize was announced is 60 across 1,877 awards, from 23 to 97. Nobel laureates have grown older: the median was 50 in 1901-1959, 59 in 1960-1999 and 68 in 2000-2026 ^[1]. The Fields Medal is the exception: it goes only to mathematicians under 40 ^[5].

Figure 7

Age when the prize was announced, by prize

Box: the middle half of winners; line: the median; whiskers: the youngest and the oldest. Per award, so a person who won two prizes counts twice. The Fields Medal goes only to mathematicians under 40.

Middle halfMedianYoungest to oldest

Nobel Physics231 awards56

Nobel Chemistry202 awards58

Nobel Medicine235 awards58

Nobel Economics101 awards67

Fields Medal68 awards36

Abel Prize29 awards76

Turing Award81 awards57

Wolf Prizes336 awards64

Lasker Awards355 awards58

Kavli Prizes79 awards68

Breakthrough Prizes160 awards62

2030405060708090100

Age in years when the prize was announced (Nobel: October; other prizes: their year, within a year). Dotted line: median of all 1,877 awards with a known age, 60.

Women and men win at similar ages: a median of 63 for women and 60 for men. For when different thinking skills peak, see our study At what age is your brain sharpest?

10 Where did the 2026 winners study?

The 2026 Nobel prizes are presented in Stockholm on 10 December 2026. The eight laureates in the sciences and economics took their doctorates at seven institutions; both economics laureates, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, at MIT ^[2]. Across all 47 people who won one of the 21 categories in 2026 (with the Turing Award announced that March), MIT awarded the most doctorates (4), and 10 earned theirs outside the country where they took their first degree. The table links each winner to the official announcement.

Table 4

The 47 winners of 2026 and where they studied

Prize	Winner (official page)	First degree	Doctorate
Nobel Physics	Francis Halzen	Catholic University of Leuven (to 1968)	KU Leuven
Nobel Chemistry	Henri B. Kagan	Chimie ParisTech	Collège de France
Nobel Chemistry	Kenso Soai	University of Tokyo	University of Tokyo
Nobel Medicine	Georg Nagel	University of Konstanz	Goethe University Frankfurt
Nobel Medicine	Karl Deisseroth	Harvard University	Stanford University
Nobel Medicine	Peter Hegemann	not found	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Nobel Economics	Michael Woodford	University of Chicago	MIT
Nobel Economics	Robert E. Hall	UC Berkeley	MIT
Fields Medal	Hong Wang	Peking University	MIT
Fields Medal	Jacob Tsimerman	University of Toronto	Princeton University
Fields Medal	John Pardon	Princeton University	Stanford University
Fields Medal	Yu Deng	MIT	Princeton University
Abel Prize	Gerd Faltings	University of Münster	University of Münster
Turing Award (2025 award, announced 2026)	Charles Henry Bennett	Brandeis University	Harvard University
Turing Award (2025 award, announced 2026)	Gilles Brassard	Université de Montréal	Cornell University
Wolf Physics	Immanuel F. Bloch	University of Bonn	LMU Munich
Wolf Physics	Jun Ye	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	University of Colorado Boulder
Wolf Chemistry	David Klenerman	University of Cambridge	University of Cambridge
Wolf Chemistry	Pascal Mayer	University of Strasbourg	University of Strasbourg
Wolf Chemistry	Shankar Balasubramanian	University of Cambridge	University of Cambridge
Wolf Mathematics	David Kazhdan	Moscow State University	Moscow State University
Wolf Mathematics	Joseph Bernstein	Moscow State University	Moscow State University
Wolf Medicine	Charles S. Zuker	Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso	MIT
Lasker Basic	Emmanuel Mignot	Paris Cité University	Sorbonne University
Lasker Basic	Masashi Yanagisawa	University of Tsukuba	University of Tsukuba
Lasker Clinical	Kunihiro Hattori	University of Osaka	University of Osaka
Lasker Clinical	Takehisa Kitazawa	University of Tokyo	University of Tsukuba
Lasker Clinical	Tomoyuki Igawa	University of Tokyo	University of Tokyo
Kavli Astrophysics	Amina Helmi	National University of La Plata	Leiden University
Kavli Astrophysics	Rodrigo Ibata	University of Bristol	University of Cambridge
Kavli Astrophysics	Vasily Belokurov	Moscow State University	University of Oxford
Kavli Nanoscience	Allan H. MacDonald	St. Francis Xavier University	University of Toronto
Kavli Nanoscience	Eva Andrei	Tel Aviv University	Rutgers University
Kavli Nanoscience	Pablo Jarillo-Herrero	University of Valencia	Delft University of Technology
Kavli Neuroscience	Christine Holt	University of Sussex	King’s College London
Kavli Neuroscience	Erin Schuman	University of Southern California	Princeton University
Kavli Neuroscience	Kelsey C. Martin	Harvard University	Yale University
Kavli Neuroscience	Oswald Steward	University of Colorado Boulder	University of California, Irvine
Breakthrough Physics	David J. Gross	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	UC Berkeley
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Albert Maguire	Princeton University	Harvard University (MD)
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Bryan Traynor	University College Dublin	University College Dublin
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Jean Bennett	Yale University	UC Berkeley
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Katherine A. High	Harvard University	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MD)
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Rosa Rademakers	University of Antwerp	University of Antwerp
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Stuart H. Orkin	MIT	Harvard University (MD)
Breakthrough Life Sciences	Swee Lay Thein	Universiti Malaya	not found
Breakthrough Mathematics	Frank Merle	École normale supérieure, Paris	Sorbonne University

11 Do prize winners have a high IQ?

For almost all of them nobody knows: very few were ever tested, and fewer published a score. Our news story on the IQ of Nobel Prize winners separates the few measured scores from the guesses. The most famous test of the question, Lewis Terman’s study of 1,528 high-IQ children, produced no Nobel laureate and missed William Shockley, who won the physics prize in 1956: see our study of Terman’s gifted children.

12 How is this different from other university rankings?

Earlier rankings looked at the Nobel Prize alone, at one degree, or at where winners worked. Jonathan Wai and Stephen Hsu ranked first-degree universities per undergraduate for Nobel, Fields and Turing winners of 1966-2013, with Caltech first ^[12]; a 2016 Nature analysis did the same for Nobel winners of 1901-2015 and put the École normale supérieure first ^[13]. Times Higher Education counted where Nobel winners of 2000-2014 worked when they won, with Stanford first ^[14]. This study covers 21 prize categories, runs to the 2026 winners, counts first degrees and doctorates separately, and publishes every row so any number can be checked.

Table 5

Other rankings of universities by prize winners

Ranking	Prizes and years	What it counts	Top of its list
Wai and Hsu, reported by Quartz (2015) [12]	Nobel, Fields Medal, Turing Award, 1966-2013	Winners per undergraduate (where they took their first degree)	Caltech
Clynes, Nature (2016) [13]	Nobel physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, 1901-2015	Winners per undergraduate, 81 institutions with 3 or more alumni winners	École normale supérieure, Paris
Times Higher Education (2015) [14]	Nobel (no literature or peace), 2000-2014	Where winners worked when they won, weighted	Stanford
This study (2026)	21 categories: Nobel, Fields, Abel, Turing, Wolf, Lasker, Kavli, Breakthrough; 1901-2026	Winners by first degree and by doctorate, counted separately; every row public	Harvard University

13 For university press offices: how can you cite these numbers?

Universities may quote any number on this page for their own institution, on news pages, “facts and figures” pages, alumni magazines and library guides. Please link to this page and say which degree the number counts.

• Suggested wording: “64 winners of the Nobel and other top science prizes earned their first degree at the University of Cambridge (IQ Metrics Research, 2026).” Replace the number, the degree and the university with your own row.
• Your row: sort the top-50 table, or open the CSV (Get the data) and filter the first_degree_institution or doctorate_institution column for your university. Every winner is listed by name.
• What counts: a first degree (bachelor’s or equivalent) or a doctorate earned at the university. Faculty, postdocs and visitors do not count, so our numbers are lower than “affiliated laureates” counts on many university websites.
• Names are today’s: colleges and medical schools count for their university (Trinity College for Cambridge, Harvard Medical School for Harvard), and merged institutions count for the university they became.
• Spotted a missing or wrong degree? Send it through the contact page with a source; we correct the data and note the change in the version history.

14 How was this study built?

1. 01

   List the winners

   Nobel laureates come from the Nobel Prize API, the Nobel Foundation’s own data ^[1]. The other 17 categories come from Wikidata ^[3], checked name by name against each prize’s official list on 2026-10-23 ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}: 59 missing winners added, 44 wrong years corrected and 24 entries removed (mostly members of prize-winning collaborations and awards outside these categories).

2. 02

   Find where each winner studied

   Wikidata’s “educated at” records, with their degree and dates, then the education line of the English Wikipedia infobox, which usually names the degree next to each university ^{[3] [4]}. Where neither names the degree, we read the article’s sentences that pair a degree with a university (“received his PhD from …”). High schools and lycées are left out.

3. 03

   Separate the two degrees

   First degree: the bachelor’s, or its local equivalent (Diplom, licence, laurea, a first medical degree). Doctorate: the first research doctorate; a Doctor of Medicine counts only when it was the only one. A winner with one university and no degree recorded is counted there for the first degree only, and flagged as inferred.

4. 04

   Use today's names

   Colleges, faculties and medical schools roll up to their university, and dissolved institutions to their successor (Victoria University of Manchester to the University of Manchester). The University of Paris, split into 13 universities in 1970, keeps its own name; so does the Catholic University of Leuven before its 1968 split.

5. 05

   Check

   Each winner’s sex was checked against the pronouns in their Wikipedia article, and every age at the award under 27 or over 95 by hand. 72 winners drawn at random, and all 47 winners of 2026, were looked up in prize pages, university pages and CVs, academy memoirs and dissertation records: 92 of the 105 degrees the check could settle were right (88%), and every error it found was corrected (table below).

6. 06

   Publish the data

   One row per award in a CSV under CC BY 4.0, with the source of every degree (recorded, text, inferred, checked). Our standards are on the methods page.

Table 6

Where each placed degree came from, and how often it was right

Source of the fact	First degree	Doctorate	Right in the random check
Recorded: a degree named next to the university in Wikidata or the Wikipedia infobox	676	784	40 of 43
From the article text: “received a PhD from …”	253	252	30 of 39
Inferred: only one university in the record (first degree only)	246	0	14 of 15
Doctor of Medicine was the only doctorate	0	119	8 of 8
Checked by hand against prize, university or academy pages	33	34
Not placed	363	382	27 of 34 hold a degree we could not place

Table 7

How complete the education records are, by prize

Prize	Winners	First degree placed	Doctorate placed
Nobel Physics	230	173 (75%)	179 (78%)
Nobel Chemistry	200	155 (78%)	156 (78%)
Nobel Medicine	235	167 (71%)	158 (67%)
Nobel Economics	101	91 (90%)	88 (87%)
Fields Medal	68	46 (68%)	61 (90%)
Abel Prize	29	26 (90%)	28 (97%)
Turing Award	81	81 (100%)	68 (84%)
Wolf Prizes	338	277 (82%)	276 (82%)
Lasker Awards	353	239 (68%)	245 (69%)
Kavli Prizes	83	69 (83%)	69 (83%)
Breakthrough Prizes	165	138 (84%)	141 (85%)
All 21 categories	1,571	1,208 (77%)	1,189 (76%)

Table 8

The 21 prize categories counted

Prize	Years	Awards	Winners	Awards to women	Official list
Nobel Prize in Physics	1901-2026	231	230	5	[1]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	1901-2026	202	200	8	[1]
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	1901-2026	235	235	14	[1]
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel	1969-2026	101	101	3	[1]
Fields Medal	1936-2026	68	68	3	[5]
Abel Prize	2003-2026	29	29	1	[6]
ACM A.M. Turing Award	1966-2025	81	81	3	[7]
Wolf Prize in Physics	1978-2026	74	74	2	[8]
Wolf Prize in Chemistry	1978-2026	65	65	3	[8]
Wolf Prize in Mathematics	1978-2026	70	70	1	[8]
Wolf Prize in Medicine	1978-2026	68	68	10	[8]
Wolf Prize in Agriculture	1978-2025	61	61	5	[8]
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award	1946-2026	174	174	7	[9]
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award	1946-2026	166	164	11	[9]
Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science	1994-2025	19	19	3	[9]
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics	2008-2026	24	24	5	[10]
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience	2008-2026	28	28	4	[10]
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience	2008-2026	31	31	12	[10]
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics	2012-2026	62	62	2	[11]
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences	2013-2026	87	87	20	[11]
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics	2015-2026	17	17	0	[11]