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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Has anyone won a Nobel prize whilst working for any of today's tech giants — Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta etc.
Bell Labs & IBM employees have won 11 and 6 respectively.
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Geoffrey Hinton, who shared the physics prize last year, worked for Google until May 2023. So he wasn't working there when he got it, but obviously his work at Google counted toward the prize. That said, he resigned out of concern for the direction Google was going.
(I just happened to remember this one because it was so recent. I don't know if there are others.)