Nobel Laureates of the Division

Historic photo of the Harvard Medical School quad buildings

The Division of Medical Sciences has been honored to have graduates go on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and in Physiology or Medicine.

Below please find a list of these graduates.

Edward A. Doisy, PhD (Bacteriology, 1920)
Physiology and Medicine, 1943
"for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K"

James B. Sumner, PhD (Biological Chemistry, 1914)
Chemistry, 1946
"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"

John F. Enders, PhD (Bacteriology, 1930)
Medicine and Physiology, 1954
"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"

Christian B. Anfinsen, PhD (Biological Chemistry, 1943)
Chemistry, 1972
"for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation"

George H. Hitchings, PhD (Biological Chemistry, 1933)
Physiology or Medicine, 1988
"for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"

Martin Chalfie, PhD (Physiology, 1977)
Chemistry, 2008
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"

For more information on these graduates or their research, please visit the Nobel Prize website.