"The Farm" is home to 17 living Nobel laureates -- 14 affiliated with the university and three affiliated with the Hoover Institution. Six additional Stanford laureates are deceased.

The business of "claiming" laureates can be controversial: Where and when was a winner's work done? Stanford, for example, lists but does not claim laureates who are not on the faculty, even if they have a significant Stanford connection. And Stanford does not list winners with a more fleeting or tenuous connection. John Steinbeck, the 1962 literature winner, for instance, did not make the cut although he attended Stanford -- receiving a "C" in freshman English in 1919 and dropping out in 1921, only to reenter the university as a journalism major in 1923 and drop out again in 1925.

Stanford University Nobel Laureates

Kenneth J. Arrow Economic sciences (1972)	Paul Berg Chemistry (1980)	Steven Chu Physics (1997)	Arthur Kornberg Medicine (1959)	Robert Laughlin Physics (1998)

Douglas Osheroff Physics (1996)	Martin Perl Physics (1995)	Burton Richter Physics (1976)	Myron Scholes Economic sciences (1997)	William F. Sharpe Economic sciences (1990)

A. Michael Spence Economic sciences (2001)	Joseph E. Stiglitz Economic sciences (2001)	Henry Taube Chemistry (1983)	Richard E. Taylor Physics (1990)

Hoover Institution Nobel Laureates

Gary Becker Economic sciences (1992)	Milton Friedman Economic sciences (1976)	Douglass North Economic sciences (1993)

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