Harvard's Decline? Two Nobelists Leave for UChicago in Two Years

This week came the stunning news that the University of Chicago poached a second Nobel Prize-Winner from Harvard. In Two Years.

This is completely unprecedented. Never in the past 120 years has Harvard lost two Nobelists in two consecutive years--especially to the same institution.

Last year, UChicago attracted Harvard's newly-minted Nobelist Michael Kremer, an economist. This year it's biochemist Jack Szostak, who won the Nobel in Medicine in 2009.

It's a sign of the new clout coming from Hyde Park, Chicago. While UChicago has been one of the nation's leading universities since its founding 130 years ago, it sometimes lost faculty members to the Ivies or West Coast universities.

But now the trend has been reversed in a big way. It's not just that UChicago stole two Harvard faculty members in two years. That would be nothing new since UChicago has stolen a fair number of high-profile Harvard faculty in recent years. But to poach two Nobel Prize-Winners from an East Coast school that likes to think of itself as unmatched in prestige, it shows there has been a change in sea level lately, and not in Harvard's favor.

This comes at the same time as our own research showing that UChicago attracts more students from the Top 50 prep schools in America than any other college, including Harvard.

And it's not just Harvard. UChicago has hired a long list of Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, and Stanford faculty as well.

Some senior faculty UChicago has hired away from Harvard in recent years:

1) David Keith, geophysical sciences
2) Katherine Baicker, Dean of the Harris School
3) James Robinson, Harris School, author of "Why Nation's Fail"
4) Sendhil Mullainathan, Booth
5) Matthew Boyle, philosophy
6) John Maunsell, neurosciences
7) Ruth Anne Eatock, neurosciences
8) Michael Kremer, economics
9) Jack Szostak, chemistry
10) Dr. Laurie Comstock, medicine
11) Dr. James K. Liao, medicine
12) D. N. Rodowick, cinema and media studies

Plus, Jay Ellison, Dean of Students in the College

From Yale:
1) Bonnie Fleming, physics
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/09/22/yale-physics-professor-named-deputy-director-and-chief-research-officer-of-fermilab/
2) Susan Stokes, political science
3) Steven Pincus, history
4) David DeMille, physics
5)  Jessica Stockholder, visual arts
6) Haun Saussy, comparative literature

Tenured faculty from Princeton:
1) Nick Feamster, computer science
2) Greg Kaplan, economics
3) Jonathan Levy, history 
4) Mikhail Golosov, economics
5) Alexander Todorov, Booth
6) Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, economics

From Berkeley:
1) Matthew Tirrell, Dean of Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
2) Michael Franklin, Chair of Computer Science
3) Nipam Patel, Director of Marine Biological Laboratory
4) Paul Alivisatos, incoming President of UChicago

From Stanford:
1) Jacob Goldin, law
2) Madhav V. Rajan, Dean of Booth Business School
3) Sunil Kumar, former Dean of Booth
4) Alison Glass, art curator






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