Ohio Stateâ s faculty includes a Nobel Prize-winning physicist , Kenneth G. Wilson . It has twenty-one members of the United States National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering , plus four members of the Institute of Medicine . Ohio Stateâ s faculty currently includes a Nobel Prize-winning physicist , 21 members of the National Academy of Sciences or National Academy of Engineering , four members of the Institute of Medicine , and 177 elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .