Nobel laureates affiliated with University of California
43 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 | Ernest Lawrence | Physics | 1939 | 149Informal estimate |
| 2 | William F. Giauque | Chemistry | 1949 | 154Informal estimate |
| 3 | Edwin M. McMillan | Chemistry | 1951 | 152Informal estimate |
| 4 | Glenn T. Seaborg | Chemistry | 1951 | 151Informal estimate |
| 5 | Emilio Segrè | Physics | 1959 | 149Informal estimate |
| 6 | Owen Chamberlain | Physics | 1959 | 148Informal estimate |
| 7 | Donald A. Glaser | Physics | 1960 | 147Informal estimate |
| 8 | Willard F. Libby | Chemistry | 1960 | 152Informal estimate |
| 9 | Melvin Calvin | Chemistry | 1961 | 151Informal estimate |
| 10 | Maria Goeppert Mayer | Physics | 1963 | 153Informal estimate |
| 11 | Luis Alvarez | Physics | 1968 | 155Informal estimate |
| 12 | Gerard Debreu | Economic Sciences | 1983 | 143Informal estimate |
| 13 | Yuan T. Lee | Chemistry | 1986 | 148Informal estimate |
| 14 | Donald J. Cram | Chemistry | 1987 | 146Informal estimate |
| 15 | John C. Harsanyi | Economic Sciences | 1994 | 151Informal estimate |
| 16 | Frederick Reines | Physics | 1995 | 147Informal estimate |
| 17 | F. Sherwood Rowland | Chemistry | 1995 | 154Informal estimate |
| 18 | Paul D. Boyer | Chemistry | 1997 | 150Informal estimate |
| 19 | Walter Kohn | Chemistry | 1998 | 148Informal estimate |
| 20 | Herbert Kroemer | Physics | 2000 | 153Informal estimate |
| 21 | Alan Heeger | Chemistry | 2000 | 149Informal estimate |
| 22 | Daniel L. McFadden | Economic Sciences | 2000 | 142Informal estimate |
| 23 | George A. Akerlof | Economic Sciences | 2001 | 143Informal estimate |
| 24 | Clive W.J. Granger | Economic Sciences | 2003 | 151Informal estimate |
| 25 | Irwin Rose | Chemistry | 2004 | 147Informal estimate |
| 26 | Finn E. Kydland | Economic Sciences | 2004 | 149Informal estimate |
| 27 | George F. Smoot | Physics | 2006 | 147Informal estimate |
| 28 | Roger Y. Tsien | Chemistry | 2008 | 155Informal estimate |
| 29 | Elizabeth H. Blackburn | Physiology or Medicine | 2009 | 149Informal estimate |
| 30 | Oliver E. Williamson | Economic Sciences | 2009 | 147Informal estimate |
| 31 | Saul Perlmutter | Physics | 2011 | 149Informal estimate |
| 32 | Lloyd S. Shapley | Economic Sciences | 2012 | 148Informal estimate |
| 33 | Randy W. Schekman | Physiology or Medicine | 2013 | 148Informal estimate |
| 34 | Shuji Nakamura | Physics | 2014 | 151Informal estimate |
| 35 | Reinhard Genzel | Physics | 2020 | 155Informal estimate |
| 36 | Andrea Ghez | Physics | 2020 | 155Informal estimate |
| 37 | Jennifer A. Doudna | Chemistry | 2020 | 149Informal estimate |
| 38 | David Julius | Physiology or Medicine | 2021 | 144Informal estimate |
| 39 | David Card | Economic Sciences | 2021 | 148Informal estimate |
| 40 | John Clarke | Physics | 2025 | 149Informal estimate |
| 41 | Michel H. Devoret | Physics | 2025 | 148Informal estimate |
| 42 | John M. Martinis | Physics | 2025 | 147Informal estimate |
| 43 | Omar M. Yaghi | Chemistry | 2025 | 153Informal estimate |