The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals,today announcedits 2015 Citation Laureates. Having accurately forecast 37 Nobel Prize winners since 2002, the annual study mines scientific research citationswithin the Web of ScienceTM—the premier global search and discovery platform for the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities—to identify the most influential researchers in chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economicswho are likely winners of the Nobel Prize now or in the future.
This year’s noteworthy nominees include, in chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of the CRISPR/cas 9 method for precision genome editing to identify potential treatments for genetic diseases. In physiology or medicine, Kazutoshi Mori and Peter Waltershowed that a mechanism, known as the unfolded protein response acts as cellular “quality control system.” In physics, Deborah S. Jin created the first fermionic condensate at ultra-low temperatures, which may find application in precision measurement, quantum computing and superconductors. In economics, Sir Richard R. Blundell advanced the understanding of the impact of policy decisions on labor markets and consumer demand, particularly in how families are affected by adverse economic conditions.
Since 1901, only 17 women have been awarded Nobel Prizes in the sciences.However, the analysis signals a narrowing of this gender gap by identifying a significant growth in female authorship ofscience’s most prominentresearch. Four of the 2015 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates inductees are women while between2002 and 2014 just six women were named to the list.
The 2015 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates:
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PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE |
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Jeffrey I. Gordon
For demonstrating the relationship between the human gut microbiome and physiology, metabolism, and nutrition |
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Kazutoshi Mori -and-
Peter Walter
For independently identifying the mechanism by which unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are detected and corrected |
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Alexander Y. Rudensky New York, NY USA -and- Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, World Premier International Research Center, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University Osaka JAPAN -and- Ethan M. Shevach Chief, Cellular Immunology Section, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Bethesda, MD USA
For their seminal discoveries concerning the nature and function of regulatory T cells and the transcription factor Foxp3 |
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PHYSICS |
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Paul B. Corkum National Research Council-Canada Research Chair in Attosecond Photonics, University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON CANADA -and- Ferenc Krausz Director at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and Chair of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Garching GERMANY and Munich, GERMANY
For contributions to the development of attosecond physics |
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Deborah S. Jin Fellow, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Adjoint Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO USA
For pioneering research on atomic gases at ultra-cold temperatures and the creation of the first fermionic condensate |
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Zhong Lin Wang Regent’s Professor, Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA USA
For his invention of piezotronic and piezophototronic nanogenerators |
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CHEMISTRY |
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Carolyn R. Bertozzi Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology at Stanford University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford, CA USA
For foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry |
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Emmanuelle Charpentier Associate Professor, Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS, Swedish Node of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] Partnership for Molecular Medicine), Umeå University, Umeå, SWEDEN; Professor, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, GERMANY; and, Head, Department Regulation in Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig, GERMANY -and- Jennifer A. Doudna Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA
For the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing |
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John B.Goodenough -and-
M. Stanley Whittingham For pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery |
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ECONOMIC SCIENCES |
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Sir Richard Blundell, CBE FBA Ricardo Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University College London and Research Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies London UK
For microeconometric research on labor markets and consumer behavior |
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John A. List Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Chicago, IL USA
For advancing field experiments in economics |
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Charles F. Manski Board of Trustees Professor in Economics, Northwestern University Evanston, IL USA
For his description of partial identification and economic analysis of social interactions |