Nobel Laureates

Three of the Institute’s current faculty are Nobel Laureates:

	Kurt Wüthrich, Ph.D., 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution”
	K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions”
	Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, “for (his) discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies”
Additionally, a former member of our faculty is a Nobel Laureate for work performed at Scripps Research:
	Bruce Beutler, M.D., 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity."