University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn, although the former is the preferred and recognized nickname of the University) is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The fifth oldest institution of higher education in the U.S., it is also a member of the Ivy League. Penn is considered to be a leader in the sciences, the humanities, law, medicine, education, engineering and business http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php.

Nobel prize winners

• Alan MacDiarmid - 2000 Nobel prize in Chemistry
• Raymond Davis - 2002 Nobel prize in Physics for "pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos."
• Christian B. Anfinsen, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry
• Michael S. Brown, Nobel prize winner in Chemistry
• Lawrence Klein - 1980 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (sometimes called the Nobel prize in economics) "for the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies."