Eight graduates of City College have won the Nobel Prize:

Dr. Julius Axelrod : Class of 1933; Medicine 1970

Dr. Robert Hofstadter (deceased) : Class of 1935; Physics 1961

Dr. Jerome Karle : Class of 1937; Chemistry 1985

Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman : Class of 1937; Chemistry 1985

Dr. Arthur Kornberg : Class of 1937; Medicine 1959

Dr. Kenneth Arrow : Class of 1940; Economics 1972

Dr. Leon M. Lederman : Class of 1943; Physics 1988

Dr. Arno A. Penzias : Class of 1954; Physics 1978