When Sir Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001) comes to the 92nd Street Y on June 13 with psychologist Daniel Wegner, neuroscientist Patrick Haggard and philosopher Alfred Mele to discuss pivotal research into whether free will is real or an illusion, he will be the 50th Nobel Prize winner to have appeared here. Not bad company, the previous 49 are below in alphabetical order.

Kofi Annan, Peace 2001
Saul Bellow, Literature 1976
Heinrich Böll, Literature 1972
Pearl S. Buck, Literature 1938
Joseph Brodsky, Literature 1987
Jimmy Carter, Peace 2002
J. M. Coetzee, Literature 2003
T. S. Eliot, Literature 1948
Mikhail Gorbachev, Peace 1990
Nadine Gordimer, Literature 1991
Al Gore, Peace 2007
Günter Grass, Literature 1999
Seamus Heaney, Literature 1995
Roald Hoffman, Chemistry 1981
Eric R. Kandel, Physiology or Medicine 2000
Imre Kertesz, Literature 2002
Henry Kissinger, Peace 1973
Paul Krugman, Economics 2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Literature 2008
Leon M. Lederman, Physics 1988
Doris Lessing, Literature 2007
Konrad Lorenz, Physiology or Medicine 1973
Thomas Mann, Literature 1929
Wangari Muta Maathai, Peace 2004
Czeslaw Milosz, Literature 1980
Franco Modigliani, Economics 1985
Toni Morrison, Literature 1993
V. S. Naipaul, Literature 2001
Pablo Neruda, Literature 1971
Octavio Paz, Literature 1990
Arno Penzias, Physics 1978
Shimon Peres, Peace 1994
Harold Pinter, Literature 2005
Yitzhak Rabin, Peace 1994
Bertrand Russell, Literature 1950
Jose Saramago, Literature 1998
George Seferis, Literature 1963
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Literature 1978
Wole Soyinka, Literature 1986
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics 2001
Desmond Tutu, Peace 1984
Harold Varmus, Physiology or Medicine 1989
Derek Walcott, Literature 1992
George Wald, Physiology or Medicine 1967
Lech Walesa, Peace 1983
James Watson, Physiology or Medicine 1962
Elie Wiesel, Peace 1986
Rosalyn Yalow, Physiology or Medicine 1977
Muhammad Yunus, Peace 2006