Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case Western Reserve, Case Western, Case, Reserve, and CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The university was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1881 by Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve). TIME magazine described the merger as the creation of "Cleveland's Big-Leaguer" university.
In U.S. News & World Report's 2012 rankings, Case Western Reserve's undergraduate program ranked 38th among national universities. The University is associated with 16 Nobel Laureates. Case Western is particularly well known[citation needed] for its medical school, dental school, law school, and its biomedical teaching and research capabilities. Case Western is a member of the Association of American Universities.
The university is approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle. It is contained within a 550-acre (220 ha) area containing numerous educational, medical and cultural institutions. Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions, including the Cleveland Clinic, the University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Cleveland Play House.
Case Western Reserve was the site of the famous Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment, conducted in 1887 by A. A. Michelson of Case School of Applied Science and E. W. Morley of Western Reserve University. This experiment proved the non-existence of the luminiferous ether and was later cited as circumstantial evidence in support of special relativity as proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905. Michelson became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science. The commemorative Michelson-Morley Memorial Fountain is located on campus, near where the actual experiment was performed.
| Year | Recipient | Prize | Details |
| 1907 | Albert Michelson | Physics | First American scientist to win the Nobel Prize |
| 1923 | John J.R. Macleod | Medicine | Discovery of Insulin |
| 1938 | Corneille Heymans | Medicine | Carotid sinus reflex |
| 1954 | Frederick C. Robbins | Medicine | Polio vaccine. Dean of CaseMed |
| 1955 | Polykarp Kusch | Physics | BS in physics in 1931 |
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser | Physics | BS in physics in 1946 |
| 1971 | Earl W. Sutherland Jr. | Medicine | Professor and chair of pharmacology |
| 1980 | Paul Berg | Chemistry | PhD in 1952 |
| 1988 | George H. Hitchings | Medicine | |
| 1994 | Alfred G. Gilman | Medicine | MD and PhD in 1969 |
| 1994 | Ferid Murad | Medicine | MD and PhD in 1965. Current Trustee of Case |
| 1994 | George A. Olah | Chemistry | Professor and chair of chemistry |
| 1995 | Frederick Reines | Physics | Professor and chair of physics |
| 2003 | Paul C. Lauterbur | Chemistry | BS in chemistry |
| 2003 | Peter Agre | Chemistry | Instructor, 1978 Internal Medicine alumnus |
| 2004 | Edward C. Prescott | Economics | MS in operations research in 1964 |