Nobel Laureates–31 winners (17 alumni), 32 prizes
| Name | Field | Year | Status |
| Robert A. Millikan | Physics | 1923 | Faculty |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | Physiology or Medicine | 1933 | Faculty |
| Carl D. Anderson, BS '27, PhD '30 | Physics | 1936 | Faculty |
| Edwin M. McMillan, BS '28, MS '29 | Chemistry | 1951 | |
| Linus Pauling, PhD '25 | Chemistry | 1954 | Faculty |
| William Shockley, BS '32 | Physics | 1956 | |
| George W. Beadle | Physiology or Medicine | 1958 | Faculty |
| Donald A. Glaser, PhD '50 | Physics | 1960 | |
| Rudolf Mossbauer | Physics | 1961 | Faculty |
| Linus Pauling, PhD ’25 | Peace | 1962 | Faculty |
| Charles H. Townes, PhD '39 | Physics | 1964 | |
| Richard Feynman | Physics | 1965 | Faculty |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Physics | 1969 | Faculty |
| Max Delbrück | Physiology or Medicine | 1969 | Faculty |
| *David Baltimore | Physiology or Medicine | 1975 | Faculty |
| Renato Dulbecco | Physiology or Medicine | 1975 | Former faculty |
| Leo James Rainwater, BS '39 | Physics | 1975 | |
| Howard M. Temin, PhD '60 | Physiology or Medicine | 1975 | |
| William N. Lipscomb, PhD '46 | Chemistry | 1976 | |
| Robert W. Wilson, PhD '62 | Physics | 1978 | |
| Roger W. Sperry | Physiology or Medicine | 1981 | Faculty |
| Kenneth G. Wilson, PhD '61 | Physics | 1982 | |
| William A. Fowler, PhD '36 | Physics | 1983 | Faculty |
| *Rudolph A. Marcus | Chemistry | 1992 | Faculty |
| Edward B. Lewis, PhD '42 | Physiology or Medicine | 1995 | Faculty |
| Douglas D. Osheroff, BS '67 | Physics | 1996 | |
| Robert C. Merton, MS '67 | Economics | 1997 | |
| *Ahmed H. Zewail | Chemistry | 1999 | Faculty |
| Leland H. Hartwell, BS '61 | Physiology or Medicine | 2001 | |
| Vernon L. Smith, BS '49 | Economics | 2002 | |
| *Hugh David Politzer | Physics | 2004 | Faculty |
| *Robert Grubbs | Chemistry | 2005 | Faculty |
*In residence
Brief bios of Caltech Nobel laureates are available at http://nobel.caltech.edu/
Crafoord Laureates–3 faculty members, 3 alumni
| Name | Field | Year | Status |
| *Gerald J. Wasserburg | Geosciences | 1986 | Faculty |
| Allan R. Sandage, PhD '53 | Astronomy | 1991 | |
| *Seymour Benzer | Biosciences | 1993 | Faculty |
| *Don L. Anderson, MS '58, PhD '62 | Geosciences | 1998 | Faculty |
| James E. Gunn, PhD '66 | Astronomy | 2005 | |
| Walterh H. Munk, BS '39, MS '40 | Geosciences | 2010 |
*In residence
