These remarkable achievements bring the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to UC faculty to 75. This is also the first time in Nobel history that four faculty at one institution have won the award in a single year! 

UC’s 2025 Nobel laureates

• Last Monday, UC San Diego and UCLA alum Frederick J. Ramsdell, along with collaborators in Seattle and Japan, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying the cells that prevent the immune system from attacking the body’s own tissues.
• The next day, UC Berkeley emeritus professor John Clarke, UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor John Martinis and UC Santa Barbara professor Michel Devoret won the physics prize for experiments that underpin today’s most powerful quantum computers.
• And on Wednesday, UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi shared the chemistry prize with scientists in Australia and Japan for creating a new kind of super-absorbent molecular architecture that can clean pollutants from the atmosphere or harvest drinking water from bone-dry desert air.

Read more about our laureates — and the funding that made their research possible