| Year | Winner | Institution | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | Robert A. Millikan | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 1933 | Thomas Hunt Morgan | Cal Tech | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1936 | Carl D. Anderson* | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 1950 | Ralph Bunche | UCLA** | Peace |
| 1951 | Edwin Mattison McMillan* | Cal Tech** | Chemistry |
| 1951 | Glenn T. Seaborg* | UCLA** | Chemistry |
| 1954 | Linus Pauling | Cal Tech | Chemistry |
| 1956 | William Shockley* | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1958 | George Wells Beadle | Cal Tech | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1960 | Willard Libby | UCLA | Chemistry |
| 1961 | Rudolf Mössbauer | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 1962 | Linus Pauling | Cal Tech | Peace |
| 1964 | Charles H. Townes* | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1965 | Richard P. Feynman* | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 1969 | Max Delbrück* | Cal Tech | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 1975 | Leo James Rainwater* | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1976 | William Lipscomb | Cal Tech** | Chemistry |
| 1978 | Robert Woodrow Wilson | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1981 | Roger W. Sperry* | Cal Tech | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1983 | William A. Fowler* | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 1984 | Bruce Merrifield | UCLA** | Chemistry |
| 1987 | Donald Cram* | UCLA | Chemistry |
| 1990 | William F. Sharpe* | UCLA** | Economics |
| 1992 | Rudolph A. Marcus | Cal Tech | Chemistry |
| 1994 | George Andrew Olah | USC | Chemistry |
| 1995 | Edward B. Lewis* | Cal Tech | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1996 | Douglas D. Osheroff* | Cal Tech** | Physics |
| 1997 | Paul D. Boyer* | UCLA | Chemistry |
| 1997 | Robert C. Merton* | Cal Tech** | Economics |
| 1998 | Louis Ignarro* | UCLA | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | Cal Tech | Chemistry |
| 2001 | Leland H. Hartwell* | Cal Tech** | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2002 | Vernon L. Smith | Cal Tech** | Economics |
| 2004 | H. David Politzer* | Cal Tech | Physics |
| 2005 | Robert H. Grubbs* | Cal Tech | Chemistry |
| 2009 | Elinor Ostrom* | UCLA* | Economics |
| 2010 | Richard Heck* | UCLA* | Chemistry |
| 2012 | Lloyd Shapley* | UCLA | Economics |
| 2013 | Arieh Warshel* | USC | Chemistry |
| 2013 | Martin Karplus* | Cal Tech* | Chemistry |
| 2013 | Randy Schekman* | UCLA* | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2014 | Eric Betzig* | Cal Tech* | Chemistry |
| 2015 | Arthur B. McDonald* | Cal Tech* | Physics |
*Co-winner of the prize
** Winner was a student/graduate at this institution, but was not awarded the prize while there.
Source: Nobel Prizes
