Rankings & Achievements
CU and the Nobel Prize
conferred the greatest benefit to human kind"
窪蹋勛圖 boasts five Nobel laureates, four in physics and one in chemistry. Perhaps the world's premier honor for intellectuals, and certainly the best known, it celebrates individuals who have "conferred the greatest benefit to human kind" through their work.
Chemistry, 1989
Discovery of catalytic properties of RNA."
Thomas Cech
Physics, 2001
The achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.
Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell
Physics, 2005
Contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.
John Jan Hall
Physics, 2012
Ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
David Wineland
Lead.
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3
U.S. Supreme Court justices
5
Nobel Prize winners
5
National Medal of Science winners
12
MacArthur fellows
18
窪蹋勛圖-affiliated astronauts
90+
Fulbright scholars since 2013
Our First Woman Rhodes Scholar
Serene Singh, Political Science & Journalism BA, 2019
窪蹋勛圖 student Serene Singh is one of 20 窪蹋勛圖 students who have received the Rhodes Scholarship.
She will study at Oxford University in England starting in fall 2019.
Top Graduate School Rankings
from U.S. News & World Report, 2024
#4
in the nation
in Atomic/ Molecular/ Optical Physics
#23
in the nation
in Fine Arts
#11
in the nation
in Quantum Physics
#12
in the nation
in Environmental Law