Who won a Nobel Prize largely for work done while graduating at university?

lanfranco

Well, you could be talking about John Nash, b. 1928, who -- guess what? -- grew up just up the street from my mother in Bluefield, West Virginia. (And does SHE have a lot to say on the subject!) Nash entered university early, at the age of only 17, and received his Ph.D. by the age of 22. His doctoral work and publications on Game Theory at Princeton University, ca. 1950-3, later won him the Nobel Prize in 1994. Nash was, of course, the subject of Sylvia Nasar's very fine book "A Beautiful Mind" and the film of the same name. Though my mother collapsed with laughter when she heard that Russell Crowe had been cast as Nash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash Sep 13 05, 6:32 PM

gmackematix

He didn't do a bad job of it though did he? Of course that's a yay, Frankie. You're quite well connected aren't you? Sep 13 05, 11:38 PM

Arpeggionist

And I thought it woul be Watson and Crick, who figured out the structure of DNA as part of their college educations. Sep 13 05, 11:49 PM

lanfranco

Well, not really, Arpeggionist. They were doctoral students when they were working on the structure of DNA at the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge, with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. But yes, gmack, even my cynical mother thought that Crowe had done a terrific job. The other irony is that when the Maven and I were living in Princeton, we were very aware of Professor Nash's quiet (often nocturnal) peramubulations about the town and the campus. He was well-known and treated with great consideration, respect, and sympathy, even before he won the Nobel. A testament to the humanity of academics ... Sep 14 05, 4:13 PM

lammas1

Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Physics Prize for work he had done for his PhD thesis in 1924. Incidentally, this thesis was one of the shortest on record, a mere 24 pages. Sep 15 05, 2:28 AM

gmackematix

Someone going for a PhD has generally already graduated. Nov 06 05, 12:32 AM