Nobel laureates affiliated with Howard Hughes Medical Institute
16 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 | Johann Deisenhofer | Chemistry | 1988 | 155Informal estimate |
| 2 | Günter Blobel | Physiology or Medicine | 1999 | 153Informal estimate |
| 3 | Roderick MacKinnon | Chemistry | 2003 | 146Informal estimate |
| 4 | Mario R. Capecchi | Physiology or Medicine | 2007 | 149Informal estimate |
| 5 | Roger Y. Tsien | Chemistry | 2008 | 155Informal estimate |
| 6 | Jack W. Szostak | Physiology or Medicine | 2009 | 147Informal estimate |
| 7 | Thomas A. Steitz | Chemistry | 2009 | 145Informal estimate |
| 8 | Robert J. Lefkowitz | Chemistry | 2012 | 145Informal estimate |
| 9 | Randy W. Schekman | Physiology or Medicine | 2013 | 148Informal estimate |
| 10 | Thomas C. Südhof | Physiology or Medicine | 2013 | 147Informal estimate |
| 11 | Paul Modrich | Chemistry | 2015 | 148Informal estimate |
| 12 | Michael Rosbash | Physiology or Medicine | 2017 | 152Informal estimate |
| 13 | William G. Kaelin Jr | Physiology or Medicine | 2019 | 147Informal estimate |
| 14 | Ardem Patapoutian | Physiology or Medicine | 2021 | 143Informal estimate |
| 15 | Carolyn Bertozzi | Chemistry | 2022 | 145Informal estimate |
| 16 | David Baker | Chemistry | 2024 | 145Informal estimate |