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<p>Odd that you’d focus on where someone went to school rather than where they’re on the faculty. Undergrads and grad students don’t win Nobel Prizes. The vast majority are academics, in most cases well into their professional careers. Surely their undergraduate and grad school experiences contribute to their intellectual development. But by and large, it’s their accomplishments in their professional careers, typically as academics on faculties, usually at leading research universities, that win them Nobels. From an academic’s perspective, where they did their undergraduate work is only slightly more relevant than which high schools they attended or which social clubs they belong to.</p>