Nobel laureates with a physics Ph.D. from Leiden University 1981
physics prizeNico Bloembergen
Ph.D. 1948 with Cor Gorter
Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation1975
economics prizeTjalling Koopmans
Ph.D. 1936 with Hans Kramers
Linear regression analysis of economic time series1969
economics prizeJan Tinbergen
Ph.D. 1929 with Paul Ehrenfest
Minimumproblemen in de natuurkunde en de economie1910
physics prizeJohannes van der Waals
Ph.D. 1873 with Pieter Rijke
Over de continuiteit van den gas- en vloeistoftoestand1902
physics prizeHendrik Lorentz
Ph.D. 1875 with Pieter Rijke
Over de theorie der terugkaatsing en breking van het licht1902
physics prizePieter Zeeman
Ph.D. 1893 with Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Metingen over het verschijnsel van KerrOutside of physics, there are two more Leiden Ph.D. alumni who went on to win a Nobel prize:
Tobias Asser, 1860 Ph.D. in law, 1911 Nobel peace prize.
Niko Tinbergen, 1932 Ph.D. in biology, 1973 Nobel prize in medicine.