Nobel laureates affiliated with California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
20 individual laureates in the pinned Nobel Prize API snapshot with this prize-time affiliation. IQ numbers are informal estimates, not tests.
Affiliation is the institution listed at prize time. It is not a ranking of universities by IQ.
| # | Name | Prize | Year | IQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert A. Millikan | Physics | 1923 | 155Informal estimate |
| 2 | Thomas H. Morgan | Physiology or Medicine | 1933 | 145Informal estimate |
| 3 | Carl D. Anderson | Physics | 1936 | 153Informal estimate |
| 4 | Linus Pauling | Chemistry | 1954 | 147Informal estimate |
| 5 | George Beadle | Physiology or Medicine | 1958 | 143Informal estimate |
| 6 | Rudolf Mössbauer | Physics | 1961 | 156Informal estimate |
| 7 | Linus Pauling | Peace | 1962 | 147Informal estimate |
| 8 | Richard P. Feynman | Physics | 1965 | 125Reported claim |
| 9 | Murray Gell-Mann | Physics | 1969 | 155Informal estimate |
| 10 | Max Delbrück | Physiology or Medicine | 1969 | 152Informal estimate |
| 11 | Roger W. Sperry | Physiology or Medicine | 1981 | 144Informal estimate |
| 12 | William A. Fowler | Physics | 1983 | 148Informal estimate |
| 13 | Rudolph A. Marcus | Chemistry | 1992 | 148Informal estimate |
| 14 | Edward B. Lewis | Physiology or Medicine | 1995 | 150Informal estimate |
| 15 | Ahmed Zewail | Chemistry | 1999 | 146Informal estimate |
| 16 | H. David Politzer | Physics | 2004 | 152Informal estimate |
| 17 | Robert H. Grubbs | Chemistry | 2005 | 145Informal estimate |
| 18 | Barry C. Barish | Physics | 2017 | 154Informal estimate |
| 19 | Kip S. Thorne | Physics | 2017 | 153Informal estimate |
| 20 | Frances H. Arnold | Chemistry | 2018 | 155Informal estimate |