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The Nobel-iest

The folks at FindtheBest, which develops databases of data on colleges, companies, and more, have tallied up the number of Nobel laureates that undergraduate institutions in the US have produced, the Huffington Post reports. As HuffPo says, FindtheBest only counted the undergrad school the winner graduated from — for example, it says, President Barack Obama's Peace Prize thus counts as a Nobel for Columbia University rather than Occidental College as he transferred from Occidental to Columbia and Columbia awarded him his degree.

Topping the list is Harvard University, which has had 21 future Nobel laureates among its students, followed by Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.