Paul Greengard is a 1948, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hamilton College. His discoveries in nueuroscience have earned him the Nobel prize in Physiology of medicine... Greengard, whose father Benjamin was a 1914 Hamilton graduate, is the second Hamilton alumnus to receive a Nobel Prize. Elihu Root, Class of 1864, former Secretary of War, Secretary of State and U.S. Senator, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912.