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=== Nobel laureates === There are nine Nobel laureates who were either students or fellows of King's: * [[Charles Glover Barkla]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] 1917 "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1917/barkla-bio.html|title=Nobel Prize 1917: Charles Glover Barkla Biography|website=Nobel Prize Website|access-date= 23 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Glover-Barkla|title=Charles Glover Barkla|date=26 October 2016|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=23 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Barkla.html|title=Biography: Charles Glover Barkla|last1=O'Connor|first1=J. J.|last2=Robertson|first2=E. F.|date=November 2007|website=School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews|access-date=23 April 2017}}</ref> * [[Patrick Blackett]], fellow of King's, was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] 1948 "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation".<ref name="nobel-blackett">{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1948/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref><ref name="cam-nobel">{{cite web|title=Nobel Prize Winners|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/nobel-prize/|access-date=4 April 2017|work=Research at Cambridge| date=28 January 2013 |publisher=University of Cambridge}}</ref> * [[Frederick Sanger]], fellow of King's, was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] 1958 "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin".<ref name="nobel-sanger1">{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1958/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> Sanger was awarded his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 jointly with [[Walter Gilbert]] for "their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".<ref name="nobel-sanger2">{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1980/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> Sanger is one of only five people to have won a Nobel Prize twice, and the only affiliate of the University of Cambridge to have done so.<ref name="cam-nobel"/> * [[Philip Noel-Baker]] was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] 1959 for work towards global disarmament.<ref name="cam-nobel"/><ref name="nobel-baker">{{cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1959|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1959/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> * [[Patrick White]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] 1973 "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature".<ref name="cam-nobel"/><ref name="nobel-white">{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1973/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> * [[Richard Stone]], fellow of King's, was awarded the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] 1984 "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis".<ref name="cam-nobel"/><ref name="nobel-stone">{{cite web|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1984|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1984/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> *[[Sydney Brenner]], fellow of King's, was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] 2002 jointly with [[H. Robert Horvitz]] and [[John E. Sulston]] "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death".<ref name="cam-nobel"/><ref name="nobel-brenner">{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2002/|access-date=20 July 2012|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> *[[Oliver Hart (economist)|Oliver Hart]] was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2016 jointly with [[Bengt Holmström]] "for their contributions to contract theory".<ref name="cam-nobel"/><ref name="nobel-hart">{{cite web|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2016/|access-date=4 April 2017|publisher=Nobelprize.org}}</ref> *[[Geoffrey Hinton]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] 2024 jointly with [[John Hopfield]] for using "tools from physics to develop methods that are the foundation of today’s powerful machine learning".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/}}</ref>
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