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Bay Area saw Nobel winners in its scientific community

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Larry Miller
Larry Miller
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In 2025, the San Francisco / Bay Area region saw notable Nobel laureates linked to its scientific community:

  • Fred Ramsdell, based in San Francisco and serving as a scientific adviser for Sonoma Biotherapeutics, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi. Their work revealed how regulatory T cells enforce peripheral immune tolerance, preventing the immune system from attacking the body’s own tissues. NobelPrize.org
  • John Clarke, a physicist and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley (and former scientist at Berkeley Lab), was a recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational contributions to quantum phenomena in macroscopic systems.
  • Also from UC Berkeley, Omar Yaghi, a chemist, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on metal-organic frameworks, which have applications in gas storage, CO₂ capture, and water harvesting technologies.

Thus, 2025 saw at least three Nobel laureates with strong ties to the Bay Area: one working in a biochemistry/biomed lab in San Francisco, another as a physicist at UC Berkeley, and a third as a chemist professor at Berkeley.