This is a list of members of the
Society for Psychical Research who won Nobel Prizes which I put together for
the SPR website in 2008, but it disappeared in the 2016 revamp. There is a long list of Nobel laureates who
had some connection to psychical research in the SPR’s Psi Encyclopedia, but
not all were SPR members. It is worth highlighting
the extent to which members of the Society achieved this high honour.
According to Fraser Nicol there
have been eleven SPR Nobeleates, which he unfortunately omitted to list, so we
are one short, unless Marie Curie counts twice.
I would be happy to hear of any I have missed.
Marie Curie: Physics 1903,
Chemistry 1911
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
Rayleigh: Physics 1904 (SPR president 1919)
Sir William Ramsay: Chemistry
1904
J J Thomson: Physics 1906
Maurice Maeterlinck: Literature
1911
Charles Richet: Medicine 1913
(SPR president 1905)
W B Yeats: Literature 1923
Henri Bergson: Literature 1927
(SPR president 1913)
Nicholas Murray Butler: Peace
1931
Brian Josephson: Physics 1973
