Nobel Prize winners at RAND

Over 30 Nobel Prize Winners have been affiliated with RAND!

Research Staff

Luis Walter Alvarez, RAND consultant - awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics

Kenneth Joseph Arrow RAND consultant Nobel Prize for Economics

Robert J. Aumann, RAND consultant Nobel Prize in Economics

Gary Stanley Becker, RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Ronald Harry Coase, affiliated with RAND - Nobel Prize for Economics

Gerard Debreu, affiliated with RAND - Nobel Prize in Economics

Peter A. Diamond was a graduate student intern at RAND while working on his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics

Murray Gell-Mann, RAND consultant Nobel Prize in physics

James Heckman was a RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz, a RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Henry Alfred Kissinger, a RAND consultant from 1961 to 1969 - received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977

Tjalling Charles Koopmans RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Robert Lempert senior scientist at RAND - He was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007

Willard Frank Libby, RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Harry M. Markowitz, an employee from 1951 to 1957, again from 1960 to 1962, and then a consultant from 1962 to 1967 - Nobel Prize for Economics

Maria Goeppert Mayer, a consultant at RAND - Nobel Prize for Physics

John Forbes Nash, Jr., consultant at RAND - - Nobel Prize for Economics

Edmund S. Phelps, whose first job was a year spent at the RAND Corporation (1959 to 1960), was awarded the 2006 Prize in Economics

Paul Anthony Samuelson, RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Dr. Thomas Schelling, recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics, had a nearly 50-year affiliation with RAND, including one year as a staff economist in the late 1950s.

Theodore William Schultz, a RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Lloyd S. Shapley, a longtime RAND researcher - Nobel Prize in Economics

William Forsyth Sharpe, employee 1957 to 1961, again in 1965, and a consultant from 1963 to 1964 and then from 1965 to 1971 – Nobel Prize for Economics

Herbert Alexander Simon, a RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Vernon L. Smith, a RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

Robert Merton Solow, a consultant at RAND - Nobel Prize for Economics

James Tobin, RAND consultant - Nobel Prize for Economics

William Spencer Vickrey, a consultant at RAND - Nobel Prize for Economics

Oliver Williamson, a consultant to RAND - Nobel Prize in Economics

Advisors

Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a RAND trustee – Nobel Prize for Physics

Edwin Mattison McMillan, RAND trustee and consultant - Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Charles Hard Townes, RAND trustee - Nobel Prize for Physics