Photos: Northwestern University’s Nobel Prize winners

Fraser Stoddart, board of trustees professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, works in his office on campus in Evanston, on Oct. 5, 2016, the same day he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two other scientists for their work in developing minuscule machines at the molecular level.

Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University looks on Oct. 11, 2010, after being awarded the Nobel Prize in economics with two other economists “for their analysis of markets with search frictions.”

Northwestern University graduate Robert F. Furchgott shared a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1998. He is best known for his discovery of a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels.

Writer Saul Bellow received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976. Bellow studied at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, and he taught at the U. of C.  (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images)

Professor Edward Prescott, who was at Northwestern Unviersity from 1979 to 1982, was one of two recepients for the 2003 Nobel Prize for economics “for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.”