Not technically a Nobel Prize, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968. The first prizes were awarded in 1969. Thirty two economists associated with the University of Chicago at some point in their careers have been awarded the Prize.
2023
Claudia Goldin, 1946 -
PhD, 1972
2022
Douglas W. Diamond, 1953 -
Professor of Finance, 1979 -
2019
Micheal Kremer, 1964 -
Professor of Economics, 2020 -
2018
Paul Romer, 1955 -
Professor of Economics, 1988-1990
2017
Richard H. Thaler, 1945 -
Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, 1995 -
2013
Eugene F. Fama, 1939 -
Professor of Finance, 1963 -
MBA 1963, Ph.D 1964
Lars Peter Hansen 1952 -
Professor in Economics, Statistics and the College 1981 -
2011
Thomas J. Sargent, 1943 -
Professor of Economics, 1991-1998
2007
Roger B. Myerson, 1951 -
Professor of Economics, 2001 -
2004
Edward C. Prescott, 1940 -
Professor of Economics, 1998-99
2000
James J. Heckman, 1944 -
Professor of Economics, 1973-
Daniel McFadden, 1937 -
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, 1966-67
1999
Robert A. Mundell 1932 - 2001
Professor of Economics, 1965 - 1971
1997
Myron Scholes, 1941 -
MBA 1964, Ph.D 1969
Professor, Graduate School of Business, 1973-1983
1995
Robert E. Lucas, Jr., 1937 - 2023
Professor of Economics, 1974 - 2023
1993
Robert W. Fogel, 1926 - 2013
Professor of American Institutions 1981 - 2013
1992
Gary S. Becker, 1930 - 2014
Ph.D, 1955
University Professor in Economics, Booth School of Business, and Sociology, 1954-57, 1970 - 2014
1991
Ronald H. Coase, 1910 - 2013
Professor of Economics, the Law School, 1964 - 2013
1990
Harry M. Markowitz, 1927 - 2023
Ph.B. 1947, A.M., 1950, Ph.D 1954
Merton H. Miller 1923 - 2000
Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business 1961-2000
1989
Trygve Haavelmo, 1911 - 1999
Visiting Professor of Economics, 1957-58 Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1946-7
1986
James M. Buchanan, Jr., 1919 - 2013
Ph.D 1948
1985
Franco Modigliani, 1918 - 2003
Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics 1948-50
1983
Gerard Debreu, 1921 - 2004
Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1950 - 1955
1982
George J. Stigler, 1911 - 1991
Ph.D 1938
Professor of Economics, 1958-81
1980
Lawrence R. Klein, 1920 - 2013
Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1942-43
1979
Theodore W. Schultz, 1902 -1998
Professor of Economics 1943 - 72
1978
Herbert A. Simon, 1916 - 2001
AB 1936, Ph.D 1943
Research Associate of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, 1936 - 38
1976
Milton Friedman, 1912 - 2007
Professor of Economics, 1946 - 2007
1975
Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1910 - 1986
Research Associate of the Cowles Commission of Economics Research and Professor of Economics, 1944 - 1955
1974
Friedrich August von Hayek, 1889 - 1992
Professor of Social and Moral Science in the Committee on Social Thought, 1950-1962
1972
Kenneth J. Arrow, 1921 - 2017
Research Associate and Instructor in the Department of Economics, 1947-48; Assistant Professor, 1948-49.
1970
Paul A. Samuelson, 1915 - 2009
A.B., 1935