He received his DPhil at New College, Oxford with Nobelist Sir Peter Medawar. The asteroid was named after Russian physiologist and Nobelist Ivan Pavlov. His Ph.D. thesis work was done in the laboratory of Nobelist Martin Karplus. It was named after the Albanian Roman Catholic nun, missionary and nobelist Mother Teresa. It is named after the Albanian Roman Catholic nun, missionary and nobelist Mother Teresa. The phosphine imides were first prepared in the laboratory of Nobelist Hermann Staudinger. The nobelist George Seferis wrote an essay under the title "Delphi", in the book "Dokimes". At Columbia, Serber served as doctoral advisor to future Nobelist Leon Cooper.