The University of Texas at Austin faculty is distinguished nationally and internationally and includes winners of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Medal of Science and the Wolf Prize.
In addition, numerous faculty members have been selected to membership in prestigious scholarly organizations.
Notable prize winners include:
Nobel Prize
Steven Weinberg, Jack S. Josey - Welch Foundation Chair in Science Regental Professor, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for his work on what is called the weak force in particle physics.
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Pulitzer Prize
David Oshinsky, the George Littlefield Professor of American History, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “Polio: An American Story.”
Dirac Medal
George Sudarshan, professor in the Department of Physics, received the 2010 Dirac Medal and Prize with Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo for the two scientists’ work on the fundamental forces of nature.
National Medal of Science
Karen Uhlenbeck, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics #3, is one of three faculty members who have received the National Medal of Science. She received it in 2000 for pioneering contributions to global analysis and gauge theory that resulted in advances in mathematical physics and the theory of partial differential equations.
Wolf Prize
Luis Caffarelli, Sid W. Richardason Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics #1, receive the Wolf Prize in mathematics in 2012. His research is in nonlinear analysis, partial differential equations and their applications, calculus of variations and optimization.
