Nobel laureates affiliated with Columbia University
18 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 | Nicholas Murray Butler | Peace | 1931 | 145Informal estimate |
| 2 | Harold C. Urey | Chemistry | 1934 | 150Informal estimate |
| 3 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Physics | 1944 | 147Informal estimate |
| 4 | Hideki Yukawa | Physics | 1949 | 154Informal estimate |
| 5 | Polykarp Kusch | Physics | 1955 | 156Informal estimate |
| 6 | Dickinson W. Richards | Physiology or Medicine | 1956 | 145Informal estimate |
| 7 | Tsung-Dao Lee | Physics | 1957 | 151Informal estimate |
| 8 | James Rainwater | Physics | 1975 | 154Informal estimate |
| 9 | William Vickrey | Economic Sciences | 1996 | 146Informal estimate |
| 10 | Horst L. Störmer | Physics | 1998 | 151Informal estimate |
| 11 | Robert Mundell | Economic Sciences | 1999 | 143Informal estimate |
| 12 | Eric Kandel | Physiology or Medicine | 2000 | 152Informal estimate |
| 13 | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Economic Sciences | 2001 | 141Informal estimate |
| 14 | Richard Axel | Physiology or Medicine | 2004 | 151Informal estimate |
| 15 | Edmund S. Phelps | Economic Sciences | 2006 | 150Informal estimate |
| 16 | Martin Chalfie | Chemistry | 2008 | 145Informal estimate |
| 17 | Joachim Frank | Chemistry | 2017 | 149Informal estimate |
| 18 | Louis Brus | Chemistry | 2023 | 154Informal estimate |