Notable burials · Science and work
Where Nobel laureates are buried
Wikidata records 86 Nobel laureates as buried in 64 of the cemeteries we list, across 24 states. Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena, CA, holds the most, with 4.
People whose Wikidata entry records a Nobel Prize or the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
86
Nobel laureates
64
cemeteries
24
states
2000s
the decade with the most deaths (13)
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In order of death
Nobel Prize laureates and where they rest
- Theodore Roosevelt1858-191926th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay Cove, NY
- Theodore William Richards1868-1928United States chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Jane Addams1860-1935American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writerCedarville Cemetery, Freeport, IL
- Karl Landsteiner1868-1943Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureateProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Thomas Hunt Morgan1866-1945American biologist and professor from KentuckyMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Nicholas Murray Butler1862-1947American philosopher, diplomat, and educatorCedar Lawn Cemetery, Elmwood Park, NJ
- George Minot1885-1950American physicianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Sinclair Lewis1885-1951American writer and playwrightGreenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, MN
- Charles G. Dawes1865-1951Vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953American physicistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Eugene O'Neill1888-1953American playwrightForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Enrico Fermi1901-1954Italian, American physicistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- James Batcheller Sumner1887-1955American chemistCanton Cemetery, Canton, MA
- Gerty Cori1896-1957Austro-Hungarian-American biochemistBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- George Marshall1880-1959American army officer and statesmanArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ernest Hemingway1899-1961American author and journalistKetchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID
- Emily Greene Balch1867-1961American economist and writerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Arthur Holly Compton1892-1962American physicistWooster Cemetery, Wooster, OH
- Herbert Spencer Gasser1888-1963American physiologistGreenwood Cemetery, Platteville, WI
- James Franck1882-1964German-American physicistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Philip Showalter Hench1896-1965American physicianOakwood Downtown Cemetery, Rochester, MN
- Peter Debye1884-1966Dutch-American physicist and physical chemistPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Otto Stern1888-1969German-American physicistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Wendell Meredith Stanley1904-1971American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Ralph Bunche1904-1971Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winnerWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Edward Calvin Kendall1886-1972American chemistOakwood Downtown Cemetery, Rochester, MN
- Maria Göppert Mayer1906-1972German-born American theoretical physicistEl Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
- Dickinson W. Richards1895-1973American physician, Nobel Prize recipientEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.1915-1974American pharmacologistBurlingame City Cemetery, Osage City, KS
- George Whipple1878-1976American physician and biomedical researcherMount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
- Lars Onsager1903-1976American physical chemist and theoretical physicistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Robert Burns Woodward1917-1979American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1899-1980American physicistForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Max Delbrück1906-1981BiophysicistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Paul Dirac1902-1984British theoretical physicistRoselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL
- Carl Ferdinand Cori1896-1984Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John Franklin Enders1897-1985American medical researcherFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Simon Kuznets1901-1985Russian-born American economist and statisticianSharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA
- Edward Adelbert Doisy1893-1986American biochemistOak Hill Cemetery, Oakland, MO
- Richard Feynman1918-1988American theoretical physicistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Isidor Isaac Rabi1898-1988American physicistRiverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, NJ
- William Shockley1910-1989American physicist and inventorAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Robert Hofstadter1915-1990American physicist and Nobel laureateHome of Peace Cemetery, Santa Cruz, CA
- Edwin McMillan1907-1991American physicistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Carl David Anderson1905-1991American physicistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Isaac Bashevis Singer1904-1991Polish-American writerCedar Park Cemetery, Oradell, NJ
- John Bardeen1908-1991American physicist and engineerForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Linus Pauling1901-1994American scientistOswego Pioneer Cemetery, Lake Oswego, OR
- Julian Seymour Schwinger1918-1994American theoretical physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Howard Temin1934-1994American geneticistForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Christian B. Anfinsen1916-1995American biochemistBeth Tfiloh Cemetery, Woodlawn, MD
- Eugene Paul Wigner1902-1995Hungarian-American physicist and mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Theodore Schultz1902-1998American economistBadger Cemetery, Hayti, SD
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg1912-1999American chemistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Clifford Shull1915-2001American physicistRosemont Cemetery, Newberry, SC
- James Tobin1918-2002American economistSaint Lukes Cemetery, Hayward, WI
- Saul Bellow1915-2005Canadian-American writerMorningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, VT
- Jack Kilby1923-2005American electrical engineerSparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
- Hans Bethe1906-2005German-American nuclear physicistPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Raymond Davis Jr.1914-2006American scientistBlue Point Cemetery, Blue Point, NY
- Melvin Schwartz1932-2006American experimental physicistKetchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID
- Owen Chamberlain1920-2006American physicistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Robert Bruce Merrifield1921-2006American biochemistBrookside Cemetery, Englewood, NJ
- Paul Lauterbur1929-2007American chemistGraceland Cemetery, Sidney, OH
- Alan MacDiarmid1927-2007New Zealand chemistArlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
- Thomas Huckle Weller1915-2008American virologistWoodlawn Cemetery, Wellesley, MA
- Robert F. Furchgott1916-2009American biochemistSaint Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, SC
- Donald Arthur Glaser1926-2013American physicist and neurobiologistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Ronald Coase1910-2013British economist and Nobel laureateGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Jerome Karle1918-2013American physical chemistColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Robert Edwards1925-2013English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisationElmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL
- Dale T. Mortensen1939-2014American economistMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Gary S. Becker1930-2014American economistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Forbes Nash1928-2015American mathematician and economistSaint Paul's Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Elie Wiesel1928-2016Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivorKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Thomas A. Steitz1940-2018American biochemistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Murray Gell-Mann1929-2019American physicistRed Butte Cemetery, Aspen, CO
- John Robert Schrieffer1931-2019American physicistGreenwood Cemetery, Eustis, FL
- Toni Morrison1931-2019African American novelist, essayist, and academicSouth View Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- Oliver E. Williamson1932-2020American economistGreenwood Cemetery, Superior, WI
- Philip W. Anderson1923-2020American physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Steven Weinberg1933-2021American theoretical physicistTexas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- Robert H. Grubbs1942-2021Nobel prize winning American chemistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Sidney Altman1939-2022Canadian American molecular biologistCongregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Henry Kissinger1923-2023American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John B. Goodenough1922-2023American materials scientistAustin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, TX
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1910s1
- 1920s1
- 1930s1
- 1940s3
- 1950s9
- 1960s8
- 1970s9
- 1980s10
- 1990s12
- 2000s13
- 2010s12
- 2020s7
By recorded year of death, for the 86 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum · Altadena, CA4
- Sunset View Cemetery · Kensington, CA4
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA4
- Oakwoods Cemetery · Chicago, IL3
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA3
- Forest Hill Cemetery · Madison, WI3
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA2
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA2
- Princeton Cemetery · Princeton, NJ2
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT2
- Pleasant Grove Cemetery · Cayuga Heights, NY2
- Oakwood Downtown Cemetery · Rochester, MN2
- Ketchum Cemetery · Ketchum, ID2
- Bellefontaine Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO1
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA1
- Roselawn Cemetery · Tallahassee, FL1
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Austin Memorial Park Cemetery · Austin, TX1
- Texas State Cemetery · Austin, TX1
- Mount Hope Cemetery · Rochester, NY1
- Memorial Park Cemetery · Skokie, IL1
- Rosehill Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Youngs Memorial Cemetery · Oyster Bay Cove, NY1
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY1
- Burlingame City Cemetery · Osage City, KS1
Top 25 of 64 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Nobel Prize laureates by state
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How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.