Mike Kosterlitz - climber and Nobel prize winner
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Hendo1

Trad climber
Toronto
Jan 9, 2017 - 11:49am PT
>>>>What other rock climbing or mountaineering Nobel laureates are there? >>>>

I was reading up yesterday on the Victorian mountaineer Emil Zsigmondy and learned that his brother Richard, also an alpinist though not at the cutting edge of the day like his brother, was later awarded a Nobel prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adolf_Zsigmondy
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Jan 9, 2017 - 02:47pm PT
Up to about 1976 (age 46) Stephen Smale, a justly famous American mathematician, climbed in places like the Tetons and Colorado Rockies.

Stephen Smale


FA: Direct Underhill Ridge on the Grand, with Bill Buckingham in 1953.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jan 9, 2017 - 08:59pm PT
Henry Kendall for one.

http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/945436/Henry-Kendall-Nobel-Physicist-Alpinist-and-Activist
jgill

Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
Jan 9, 2017 - 09:29pm PT
Kendall died while diving at Wakulla Springs in Florida. About 1950 I used to swim in flippers and face mask out over the huge chasm where the spring begins , maybe 180 feet deep and perfectly clear water - a real spooky feeling. That year or next a well-known Florida State football player - "Brick" Bradford? - went down to the bottom with an air hose and didn't come up. While swimming across the chasm I could look up at the reeds and rushes on the other side and see Alligators staring back.

FWIW
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