which institution has the most nobel laureates in physiology and medicine after harvard ?

[bargostovan2]

see link for answer :

s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_nobel-prizes_20091012.html

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[chillaxbro]

Wow harvard owns everyone by a mile. I takes like 5 schools together to beat it

 

[chondroblast]

I'm assuming University of California includes all of the medical schools in the UC system.

Also "Max-Planck-Institut" doesn't count... they have 82 different institutes across Germany...

So it's the University of Chicago after Harvard.


Edit:
Oops. So I was looking at totals, not "Physiology and Medicine".

Looks like "Rockefeller University".

 

[ChemEngMD]

I think these numbers need to be updated? For instance it says Washington University only has 3 Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology and they definitely have pictures hanging in their medical school lobby of their Nobel Laureates and there were something like a half dozen.

This also depends on the method you use to count Nobel Laureates. Some methodology counts anyone ever associated with the university (i.e. undergraduate alumnus, graduate alumnus, associate professor, tenured professor, adjunct professor, professor emeritus, etc.) and others count institution affiliated when award was received, while others count the institution where you were when you did the majority of the research that led to you winning.

I personally only go by secondary school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_secondary_school_affiliation

Bronx High School of Science FTW overall (8), Stuyvesant and St. Peters tied for the most in medicine (2).

Really though. If you go by maximum count (any affiliation) then WashU has 17 in medicine. It's all dependent upon how you count it.

 

[kittykattat]

I think these numbers need to be updated? For instance it says Washington University only has 3 Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology and they definitely have pictures hanging in their medical school lobby of their Nobel Laureates and there were something like a half dozen.

This also depends on the method you use to count Nobel Laureates. Some methodology counts anyone ever associated with the university (i.e. undergraduate alumnus, graduate alumnus, associate professor, tenured professor, adjunct professor, professor emeritus, etc.) and others count institution affiliated when award was received, while others count the institution where you were when you did the majority of the research that led to you winning.

I personally only go by secondary school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_secondary_school_affiliation

Bronx High School of Science FTW overall (8), Stuyvesant and St. Peters tied for the most in medicine (2).

Really though. If you go by maximum count (any affiliation) then WashU has 17 in medicine. It's all dependent upon how you count it.

This is only logical

 

[chillaxbro]

I think these numbers need to be updated? For instance it says Washington University only has 3 Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology and they definitely have pictures hanging in their medical school lobby of their Nobel Laureates and there were something like a half dozen.

This also depends on the method you use to count Nobel Laureates. Some methodology counts anyone ever associated with the university (i.e. undergraduate alumnus, graduate alumnus, associate professor, tenured professor, adjunct professor, professor emeritus, etc.) and others count institution affiliated when award was received, while others count the institution where you were when you did the majority of the research that led to you winning.

I personally only go by secondary school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_secondary_school_affiliation

Bronx High School of Science FTW overall (8), Stuyvesant and St. Peters tied for the most in medicine (2).

Really though. If you go by maximum count (any affiliation) then WashU has 17 in medicine. It's all dependent upon how you count it.

Interesting. James Madison is a very "diverse" school and they have to line their students up for an hour every morning so they can check everyone for drugs and weapons. Yet they have the same number of nobel prizes as Stuy, one of the highest ranking HSs in the country

 

[Reckoner]

This also depends on the method you use to count Nobel Laureates. Some methodology counts anyone ever associated with the university (i.e. undergraduate alumnus, graduate alumnus, associate professor, tenured professor, adjunct professor, professor emeritus, etc.) and others count institution affiliated when award was received, while others count the institution where you were when you did the majority of the research that led to you winning

This is why these counts are meaningless. Should Linda Buck's Nobel go to UTSW, where she did her graduate training? What about Columbia, where she and Richard Axel started the prize winning work? And then there's Harvard, where she expanded on that work. But don't forget Fred Hutchinson and University of Washington, where she was when the prize was awarded.

 

[lumbricoides]

Why not just go with the institute the receipient ws affliated with at the time of publication of the "key publication" cited by the Nobel committee? (Granted I don't think there is an easily available compiled list to do this from).

 

[mcloaf]

This is why these counts are meaningless. Should Linda Buck's Nobel go to UTSW, where she did her graduate training? What about Columbia, where she and Richard Axel started the prize winning work? And then there's Harvard, where she expanded on that work. But don't forget Fred Hutchinson and University of Washington, where she was when the prize was awarded.

Ah Linda Buck. She's probably drafting up another retraction letter as we speak.

 

[ChemEngMD]

Interesting. James Madison is a very "diverse" school and they have to line their students up for an hour every morning so they can check everyone for drugs and weapons. Yet they have the same number of nobel prizes as Stuy, one of the highest ranking HSs in the country

Funny how demographics of schools change over time huh? The Bronx HS of Science used to be predominantly children of Jewish immigrants, now it's predominantly children of Asian and Hispanic immigrants. I'm sure whenever those students went to James Madison it was a very different school environment.