<p>Anyone have a list of the colleges that have nobel prize winning professors that actually teach undergraduates?</p>
<p>I remember reading that U Chicago has at least one.</p>
<p>It’s fairly unusual for faculty to never teach undergrads, or to stop teaching them due to the award of a prize. Nobelists or other high-status faculty may have a lower teaching load in general, and more administrative support (secretaries, grad student assistants) distancing them from the students in courses that they do teach. A lot of Nobel prizes are awarded to emeritus professors who aren’t required to teach any students at all, due to retirement. </p>
<p>At lower ranked schools where a Nobel Prize makes a professor an academic demigod, they can demand whatever perks they want, including never teaching. At the very top research schools, a Nobel doesn’t necessarily place a professor atop the pecking order in his department (though it certainly might in some cases), and may not be enough to circumvent minimal residency and teaching requirements.</p>
<p>A few schools have explicit privileges for Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals and other stipulated awards, but I don’t know if those benefits include not teaching undergrads.</p>
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<p>At Berkeley Nobel winners get special personal parking spaces right in the heart of campus.</p>
<p>Two Nobel winners I know each teach one-half of one-course one-semester annually … Graduate students only. </p>
<p>If a student is really interested in finding out, look up Nobel winners at the college of interest and call the appropriate secretary.</p>
<p>George Smoot, Berkeley physics prof, Nobel prize winner teaching undergrads in 2006 when he won the award (see last pic on link below):
[George</a> F. Smoot - Photo Gallery](<a href=“http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/smoot-photo.html]George”>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/smoot-photo.html)</p>
<p>I searched the current schedule of classes…he’s leading a small, interdisciplinary undergrad research course in the Spring semester with 15 undergrads.</p>
<p>Henry Kissinger taught an udergrad seminar for several years in the late 1970s and early 1980s at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.</p>
<p>Age or status can make some professors more likely to engage with undergraduates or to take a stronger hand in influencing undergraduate programs. They’ve proven themselves already. </p>
<p>Chicago’s Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching has gone to Danielle Allen (Classics professor and MacArthur “genius grant” recipient in 2001), James Cronin (Nobel, Physics), Hanna Gray (former president of the University), Bernard Roizman (“widely considered the world’s foremost expert on the herpes simplex virus”), Richard Kron (Director of Yerkes Observatory and head of the Experimental Astrophysics Group at Fermilab), and Norman Maclean (author of A River Runs Through It), among others.</p>
<p>Robert E. Lucas Jr. (Nobel, Economics 1995) taught a course each year to undergraduates; as far as I know he still holds an appointment in the College. Roger Myerson (Nobel, Economics 2007) teaches Economics 207, Introduction to Game Theory.</p>
<p>I know a few of the Nobel Laureates at UC-Santa Barbara teach upper level undergraduate courses in the physics dept.</p>
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An interesting point. Many of the genius grant professors I’ve met have been among THE most interesting lecturers (and people) I’ve met/had. </p>
<p>It’s fairly common for such professors to teach. Of the top of my head, I can think of MacArthur recipients at UCSD, NYU (2), Brown (2), Harvard, WUStL, Michigan, and MIT.</p>
<p>^ Berkeley has 28 MacArthur fellows on current faculty.</p>
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<p>My D’s former House Master in her residence hall at Harvard has a Nobel. He moved out of the House this summer and was replaced by a faculty member who’s list in Time’s 100 Most Influential People. Both of them teach (and eat with, and live with) undergrads.</p>
<p>Horst Stormer teaches undergrad applied physics as well as frontiers of science, a required core course, at Columbia, he’s widely liked by those who take his class. Edmund Phelps and Robert Mundell teach undergrad economics senior seminars at Columbia, there are definitely a few others as well.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you find one.</p>