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List of Nobel laureates who endorse Barack Obama is a comprehensive list of Nobel laureates who officially endorsed Barack Obama for the 44th President of the United States. They are not only Nobel laureates but also American citizens (or residents). Before the 2008 presidential election, 85 Nobel laureates (including 82 laureates in the science disciplines for chemistry, medicine and physiology, physics and economics) publicly endorsed Obama through various news media. This was the largest number of Nobel laureates to ever endorse a political candidate for office. The previous record was in 2004, when 58 Nobel laureates endorsed John Kerry for the 43rd President of the United States.

The open letter of endorsement
The letter opens: This year’s presidential election is among the most significant in our nation’s history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness.

We are convinced that Senator Barack Obama is such a leader, and we urge you to join us in supporting him.

And closes,

The signatories
• Alexei A. Abrikosov (condensed matter physics)

• Peter Agre (aquaporins)

• Sidney Altman (ribozymes)

• Philip W. Anderson (theoretical physics)

• Richard Axel (olfaction)

• David Baltimore (virus classification)

• Baruj Benacerraf (major histocompatibility complex)

• Paul Berg

• J. Michael Bishop

• Günter Blobel

• Nicolaas Bloembergen

• Michael S. Brown

• Linda B. Buck (olfaction)

• Mario R. Capecchi

• Martin Chalfie

• Stanley Cohen

• Leon Cooper

• James W. Cronin

• Robert F. Curl

• Johann Deisenhofer

• John B. Fenn

• Edmond H. Fischer

• Val Fitch

• Jerome I. Friedman

• Murray Gell-Mann (elementary particles)

• Riccardo Giacconi

• Ivar Giaever

• Walter Gilbert

• Alfred G. Gilman

• Donald A. Glaser

• Sheldon Glashow

• Roy J. Glauber

• Joseph L. Goldstein

• Paul Greengard

• David Gross (asymptotic freedom)

• Robert H. Grubbs

• Roger Guillemin

• John L. Hall

• Leland H. Hartwell

• Herbert A. Hauptman

• Dudley Herschbach

• Roald Hoffmann

• H. Robert Horvitz

• Louis Ignarro

• Eric R. Kandel

• Har Gobind Khorana

• Walter Kohn

• Roger Kornberg

• Leon M. Lederman (neutrinos)

• Anthony J. Leggett

• Roderick MacKinnon

• Craig C. Mello

• Kary Mullis

• Yoichiro Nambu

• Marshall Nirenberg

• Douglas D. Osheroff

• Martin L. Perl

• Stanley B. Prusiner

• Norman F. Ramsey

• Robert Coleman Richardson

• Burton Richter

• Irwin Rose

• Sherwood Rowland

• Oliver Smithies gel electrophoresis

• Richard R. Schrock

• George Smoot

• Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

• E. Donnall Thomas

• Charles H. Townes

• Roger Tsien

• Daniel C. Tsui (fractional quantum Hall effect)

• Harold Varmus

• James D. Watson

• Eric Wieschaus

• Frank Wilczek (asymptotic freedom)

• Robert W. Wilson

Other U.S. Nobel laureates who have publicly endorsed Obama
• Jimmy Carter

• Al Gore

• Paul Krugman

• Daniel McFadden

• Toni Morrison

• Edmund Phelps

• Amartya Sen

• Robert Solow

• Joseph E. Stiglitz