**Denotes Nobel Prize Winners • Updated September 2009
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Chemistry
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Thomson Reuters Laureates in Chemistry
- Adriaan Bax:
Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Section Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
- Gerald R. Crabtree:
Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. Listed in isihighlycited.com in immunology.
ESI Rank: among top 1% in citations for molecular biology and genetics, for biology and biochemistry, and for immunology.
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- Samuel J. Danishefsky:
Laboratory Head, Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, and Eugene W. Kettering Chair, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Winner of the Franklin Institute award in 2006. Joint winnner of the Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry 1995/6.
ESI Rank: Ranked #108 by total citations in most recent ESI in chemistry.
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- David A. Evans:
Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Listed in isihighlycited.com; Ranks in ESI, among the top 1% of cited scientists in chemistry by total citations for the period January 1996-April 2006.
ESI RANK: Evans Both appear in ESI as chemists who rank in the top 1% by total citations for the period January 1996-April 2006. A field of importance, and there are many potential winners — spoiled for choice with this award.
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- Robert H. Grubbs: **
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,Pasadena, Calif.
- Steven V. Ley, CBE, FRS:
BP [1702] Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of Trinity College. interviewed in Science Watch, January 1994.
ESI RANK: among the top 1% of cited scientists in chemistry by total citations for the period January 1996-April 2006.
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- Tobin J. Marks:
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. Listed in isihighlycited.com in chemistry;
ESI Rank: among the top 1% of cited scientists in chemistry (in the top 100) and in materials science for the period January 1996-April 2006. Recipient of the 2003 Sir Edward Frankland Prize of the British Royal Society of Chemistry, the highest award of the society for accomplishments in organometallic chemistry research. First American winner of the Karl Ziegler Prize of the Gasellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (Germany). Awarded the American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal for 2002. Very high ranking in terms of citations per paper for chemists publishing significantly (15 or more papers per year).
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- K.C. Nicolaou:
Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs Professor in Chemical Biology and Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, Calif., Professor of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Calif.
- Stuart L. Schreiber:
Morris Loeb Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Institute Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, January 1995; listed isihighlycited.com in chemistry.
ESI Rank: among top 1% in citations for molecular biology and genetics, for biology and biochemistry, and for chemistry.
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- Dieter Seebach:
Professor, Emeritus, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule), Zurich, Switzerland. Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry 2002. King Faisal International Prize For Science.
ESI Rank: Ranked #75 by total citations in most recent ESI in chemistry
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- Seiji Shinkai:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
- J. Fraser Stoddart:
Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Barry Trost:
Tamaki Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
ESI Rank: Ranked #62 by total citations in most recent ESI in chemistry
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- Roger Y. Tsien: **
Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA; also Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Investigator,
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Gairdner Award,
Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2002,
Max Delbrueck Medal 2002,
The 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine
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- George M. Whitesides:
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Economics
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Thomson Reuters Laureates in Economics
- Oliver E. Williamson:
Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Isihighlycited.com.
ESI Rank: in the top 1% of economists by citations for the period January 1996–April 2006. Recognized with the 2004 Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics, the premiere economics award in Germany.
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- Robert J. Barro:
Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif.
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati:
University Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
Distinction: Listed among top 50 cited economists in E. Garfield's essay "Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Here's a Forecast Based on Citation Indicators," Current Contents, March 12, 1990, based on 1966-1986 data — a list that has been extraordinarily predictive of future Nobel Prize winners.
- Avinash K. Dixit:
John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Highly cited, and known for developing and expanding on Bhagwati's seminal work. isihighlycited.com in Economics and Business.
ESI Rank: In the top 1% for January 1996-April 2006 by total citations.
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- Robert F. Engle: **
Michael Armellino Professor in the Management of Financial Services, New York University Stern School of Business, New York, N.Y.
- Eugene F. Fama:
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
- Kenneth R. French:
Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance, Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
- Clive W. J. Granger: **
Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
- Gene M. Grossman:
Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA; Professor, Department of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, USA.
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- Oliver D. Hart:
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. isihighlycited.com.
ESI Rank: in the top 1% of economists by citations for the period January 1996-April 2006.
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- Elhanan Helpman:
Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
ESI RANK: Ranked #197 by total citations in most recent ESI in economics
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- Bengt R. Holmstrom:
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics and Chairman, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; joint appointment with MIT's Sloan School of Management
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- Dale W. Jorgenson:
Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) Listed among the top 50 cited economists in E. Garfield's essay "Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Here's a Forecast Based on Citation Indicators," Current Contents, March 12, 1990, based on 1966-1986 data — a list that has been extraordinarily predictive of future Nobel Prize winners.
ESI Rank: Listed in the top 1% by citations for Economics and Business for January 1996-April 2006. Winner of John Bates Clark Medal of American Economic Association (1971).
- Daniel Kahneman: **
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
- Paul Krugman: **
Professor, Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) Highly cited, and known for developing and expanding on Bhagwati's seminal work. isihighlycited.com in Economics and Business.
ESI Rank: In the top 1% for January 1996-April 2006 by total citations.
- Paul R. Milgrom:
Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Paul Michael Romer:
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif.
- Richard H. Thaler:
Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
- Jean Tirole:
Scientific Director, IDEI (Institute of Industrial Economics), University of Social Sciences, Toulouse, France; Affiliated research member of CERAS, Paris, France
ESI RANK: Ranked #9 in total citations in most recent ESI in economics.
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- Robert B. Wilson:
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Medicine
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Thomson Reuters Laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- Sir Michael J. Berridge, FRS:
Deputy Scientific Director and Head, Molecular Signaling, The Babraham Institute
Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Honorary Professor of Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Mario R. Capecchi: **
Distinguished Professor of Biology and Human Genetics and
Co-Chairman, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT; and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, July/August 1993. Joint winner (along
with Evans & Smithies) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of
Gairdner Award in 1993. March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 (along with
Smithies)
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- Pierre Chambon:
Former Director,
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France; and Professor, College de France, Paris, France. Interviewed
in Science Watch, February 1994; listed in isihighlycited.com in molecular
biology and genetics and in biology and biochemistry. Joint winner (along with
Evans & Jensen) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
ESI Rank: 21st in world in molecular biology and genetics
by total cites (Jan 1996-April 2006).
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- Francis S. Collins:
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Senior Investigator, Genome Technology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
- R. John Ellis, F.R.S.:
Professor, Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.Ellis had a top ranked paper in 2002 818 Citations.
Distinction: Winner of Gairdner award in 2004.
- Sir Martin Evans: **
Director of the School
of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff University,
Cardiff, Wales, UK. Joint winner (along with Capecchi
& Smithies) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
- Ronald M. Evans:
Professor and
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology Salk Institute for
Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, December 1992; listed in isihighlycited.com in molecular biology
and genetics, in biology and biochemistry, and in microbiology. Joint winner
(along with Chambon & Jensen) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical
Research. Winner of Gairdner Award in 2006.
ESI Rank: 18th in world in
molecular biology and genetics by total cites (Jan 1996-April 2006).
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- Fred H. Gage:
Professor, Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA. Time Magazine named him an "Innovator of Science" for showing, in a groundbreaking experiment, that neurons are constantly being born, particularly in the learning and memory centers.
ESI RANK: Ranked #2 in total citations in most recent ESI in neurosciences.
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- Sir Alec J. Jefferys, FRS:
Professor, Department of
Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. Identified as author of
highly cited papers and interviewed in Science Watch, April 1995; listed in isihighlycited.com in molecular biology and genetics. Winner of 2005 Albert
Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
ESI Rank: Top 1% by total citations in molecular biology and genetics (January 1996-April 2006) but breakthrough
papers came in the 1980s. Received 1996 Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
There is a parallel here in that the Nobel Prize committee recognized the revolutionary
role of the PCR technique (K.B. Mullis — Chemistry Prize, 1993).
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- Elwood V. Jensen:
John and Gladys
Strauss Professor of Cancer Research, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Charles Huggins
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
USA. Joint winner (along with Chambon & Evans) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Distinction: Jensen was the pioneer with his work on estrogen in
the late 1950s, so his citation count does not reveal him in the same way as
Evans and Chambon, whose ground-breaking papers came in the last two and a half
decades.
- F. Ulrich Hartl:
Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. Hartl won the Gairdner award in 2004.
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- Arthur Horwich:
Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Investigator. Winner of Gairdner award in 2004.
ESI RANK: Ranked #105 in total citations in most recent ESI in molecular biology and genetics.
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- Alfred G. Knudson Jr.:
Senior Advisor to the President and Fox Distinguished Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Eric S. Lander:
Professor of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
- Joan Massague:
Chairman of Cell Biology Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Professor, Weill-Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Investigator.
ESI RANK: Ranked #16 in total citations in most recent ESI in molecular biology and genetics.
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- Yasutomi Nishizuka (deceased):
President Emeritus of Kobe University, Former Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
- Oliver Smithies: **
Excellence Professor, Department of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel
Hill, NC. Joint winner (along with Capecchi & Evans) of 2001 Albert
Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of Gairdner Award in 1993 and
1990. March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 (along with Capecchi)
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- J. Craig Venter:
President, The Center for Advancement of Genomics, Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, and Venter Science Foundation, Rockville, Md
- Bert Vogelstein:
Professor of Oncology and Pathology with a Joint Appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- Robert A. Weinberg:
Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research
MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Member, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Mass.
- Physics
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Thomson Reuters Laureates in Physics
- Emmanuel Desurvire:
Director, Thales Physics Research Group, Palaiseau, France, since early 2007. Interviewed in Science Watch, November 1990.
Distinction: Key, highly cited papers appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so are outside the time scope of ESI.
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- Albert Fert:
Professor of Physics, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) isi.highlycited.com.
ESI Rank: Among top 1% of physicists according to total citations for period January 1996–April 2006. Presented with Gold Medal of the CNRS 2003.
- Michael B. Green, FRS:
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics, Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Peter Gruenberg:
Professor, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany) Awarded the German Future Prize for Technology and Innovation by the German Federal President in 1998. European Patent Office Inventor of the Year for 2005.
Distinction: European Inventor of the Year 2006.
- Alan H. Guth:
Alan H. Guth (Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) Interviewed in Science Watch, June/July 1992. Winner of Dirac Medal 2002. Winner of the 2004 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
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- Sumio Iijima:
Professor, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan; Research Fellow, NEC Corporation, Ibaraki, Japan. Iijima pioneered work on Carbon nanotubes.
Distinctions: Awarded the Franklin Istitute Award in 2002.
- Andrei Linde:
Professor of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) Winner of Dirac Medal 2002. Winner of the 2004 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
ESI Rank: Listed in the top 1% of physicists by citations for January 1996-April 2006.
- Lord Rees of Ludlow (Martin J. Rees, F.R.S.):
Astronomer Royal; Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. 1993 Bruce Medalist.
A winner of the Franklin Institute Award in 1998. Received the 2001 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Awarded a Crafoord Prize 2005
ESI Rank : Ranked #157 in total citations in most recent ESI in space sciences.
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- Arthur B. McDonald:
Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute; Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Distinctions: Awarded the Franklin Istitute Award in 2007.
Awarded the 2003 Canadian Association of Physicists Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics. Also winner of the 2003 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
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- Shuji Nakamura:
Professor, Materials Department, Director of the Center for Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
- Masataka Nakazawa:
Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Distinction: Key, highly cited papers appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so are outside the time scope of ESI.
- David N. Payne, FRS:
Professor and Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Distinction: Key, highly cited papers appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so are outside the time scope of ESI.
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- John H. Schwarz:
Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
- Paul J. Steinhardt:
Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Departments of Physics and of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA) Winner of Dirac Medal 2002. Listed in isihighlycited.com in physics.
ESI Rank: Listed in the top 1% of physicists by citations for January 1996-April 2006.
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- Yoshinori Tokura:
Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoji Totsuka:
Former Director-General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK); Special University Professor, Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Awarded the Franklin Institute Award in 2007. Awarded an Order of Culture prize for his distinguished research in neutrino physics.
ESI Rank: Ranked #141 in total citations in most recent ESI in physics
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- Edward Witten:
Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.