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Of all the Physics Nobel Laureates that were associated with Columbia, 13 received the award for their work in theoretical physics, and 16 for their experimental discoveries; 11 were Columbia PhD's in Physics and 10 performed their prize-winning research in Pupin.
| Nobel Prize Date | Name | Association with Columbia |
| 1902 | H.A. Lorentz | EKA Lecturer in Mathematical Physics,1905-1906 |
| 1913 | W. Wien | EKA Lecturer in Mathematical Physics,1913 |
| 1918 (awarded 1919) | M. Planck | EKA Lecturer in Mathematical Physics,1909 |
| 1923 | R.A.Millikan | ColumbiaPh.D.,1895 (The first Ph.D. awarded by the Department) |
| 1938 | E. Fermi | Faculty, 1939-1946 |
| 1944 | I.I. Rabi * | Columbia Ph.D., 1927 Faculty, 1929-1967 Professor Emeritus, 1967-1988 |
| 1949 | H. Yukawa | Faculty, 1949-1953 |
| 1955 | W.E. Lamb | Faculty, 1938-1951 |
| 1955 | P. Kusch * | Faculty, 1939-1971 |
| 1957 | T.D. Lee * | Faculty, 1953-Present |
| 1963 | M. Goeppert-Mayer | Research Staff and Faculty 1939-1946 |
| 1964 | C.H. Townes * | Faculty, 1948-1961 |
| 1965 | J. Schwinger | Columbia B.A., 1936 & Columbia Ph.D., 1939 |
| 1967 | H.A. Bethe | Visiting Professor, 1948 and 1949 |
| 1969 | M. Gell-Mann | Visiting Professor, 1954-1955 |
| 1972 | L. Cooper | Columbia B.A., 1951 & Columbia Ph.D., 1954 |
| 1975 | A. Bohr * | Research Staff, 1948-1949 |
| 1975 | J. Rainwater * | Columbia Ph.D., 1946 & Faculty, 1946-1986 |
| 1976 | S.C.C. Ting | Faculty, 1965-1969 |
| 1978 | A.A. Penzias | Columbia Ph.D., 1962 |
| 1979 | S. Weinberg | Faculty, 1957-1959 |
| 1980 | V.L. Fitch | Columbia Ph.D., 1954 |
| 1981 | A.L. Schawlow | Research Staff, 1949-1951 |
| 1984 | C. Rubbia | Research Staff, 1958-1959 |
| 1988 | L.M. Lederman * | Columbia Ph.D., 1951 & Faculty, 1951-1979 |
| 1988 | M. Schwartz * | Columbia B.A., 1953, Columbia Ph.D., 1958 & Faculty, 1957-1966, 1991-2000 |
| 1988 | J. Steinberger * | Faculty, 1950-1969 |
| 1989 | N. Ramsey | Columbia B.A., 1935, Columbia Ph.D., 1937 & Faculty, 1942-1946 |
| 1995 | M. Perl | Columbia Ph.D., 1955 |
| 1998 | H. Stormer | Faculty, 1998-present |
* Nobel awarded for work done in the Department.
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