2009 Nobel prize predictions
- Chemistry
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MICHAEL GRÄTZEL
Professor and Director, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland • Winner of the 2007 Harvey Prize of Technion and the 2009 International Balzan Award
ESI Rank: top 1% in Chemistry, 58 highly cited papers in last decade
ISI Highly CitedJACQUELINE K. BARTON
Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA • Winner of the 2007 Cotton Medal of the American Chemical Society and the 2007 Pauling Medal of the American Chemical Society
ESI Rank: top 1% in Chemistry, 10 highly cited papers in last decade
ISI Highly CitedBERND GIESE
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Winner of the 2005 Tetrahedron Prize in Creativity in Organic Chemistry and the 2009 Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society
ESI Rank: top 1% in Chemistry, 7 highly cited papers in last decadeGARY B. SCHUSTER
Provost and Professor, School of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA • Winner of the 1994: Arthur C Cope Award of the American Chemical Society
ESI Rank: top 1% in Chemistry, 4 highly cited papers in last decadeBENJAMIN LIST
Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, and Honorary Professor, University of Cologne, Germany • Winner of the 2007 AstraZeneca Award in Organic Chemistry and the 2003 Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society
ESI Rank: top 1% in Chemistry, 13 highly cited papers in last decade - Economics
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ERNST FEHR
Professor and Director of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland • Winner of the 2004 Cogito Prize of the Cogito Foundation and the 2008 Marcel Benoist Prize (Switzerland)
ESI Rank: top 1% in Economics, 9 highly cited papers in last decade
ISI Highly CitedMATTHEW J. RABIN
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA • Winner of the 2006 John von Neumann Award and Rajk Laszlo College of Advanced Studies
ESI Rank: top 1% in Economics, 4 highly cited papers in last decadeWILLIAM D. NORDHAUS
Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA • Winner of the 2005 Distinguished Fellow Award of the American Economic Association • Ranked 108th in output and 49th in citations, according to Coupe rankings.MARTIN L. WEITZMAN
Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA • Guggenheim Fellow 1970-1971 and in 1986 was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. • Ranked 35th in output and 56th in citations, according to Coupe rankings.JOHN B. TAYLOR
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, and Bowen H. and Mary Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, USA • Recipient of the 2005 Alexander Hamilton Award, U.S. Treasury Department and the 2005 George P. Schultz Public Service Award, Stanford University.
RePEc ranking 54th as of August 2009JORDI GALI
Professor, Department of Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in International Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain • Winner of 2008 Premi Societat Catalana d¹Economia and recipient in 2008 of the First Prize Award for Best Paper presented at the NBER'S International Seminar on Macroeconomics during its first 25 years
ESI Rank: top 1% in Economics, 7 highly cited papers in last decadeMARK L. GERTLER
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA • 2007-2008 Guggenheim Fellow and 2008 First Prize Award for Best Paper presented at the NBER'S International Seminar on Macroeconomics during its first 25 years
ESI Rank: top 1% in Economics, 4 highly cited papers in last decade
ISI Highly Cited - Physics
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YAKIR AHARONOV
Professor, Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA; also, Emeritus Professor, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, and University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA (joint appointment) • Winner of the 1998 Wolf Prize and the 2006 EMET Prize in the Exact SciencesSIR MICHAEL V. BERRY
FRS, Melville Wills Professor of Physics Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK • Winner of the 1998 Wolf Prize and the 2005 Polva Prize of the London Mathematical SocietyJUAN IGNACIO CIRAC
Director of Theory Division, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany • Winner of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research and the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
ESI Rank: top 1% in Physics, 25 highly cited papers in last decadePETER ZOLLER
Professor of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria • Winner of the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and inducted in 2009 as a Foreign Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences
ESI Rank: top 1% in Physics, 22 highly cited papers in last decade
ISI Highly CitedSIR JOHN B. PENDRY
FRS, Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics and Head of the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK
Winner of the 2005 Descartes Research Prize of the European Union and the 2006 Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London
ESI Rank: top 1% in Physics, 21 highly cited papers in last decadeSHELDON SCHULTZ
Research Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA • Developed a new class of composite materials with 'reversed' physical properties never before seen.
ESI Rank: top 1% in Physics, 10 highly cited papers in last decadeDAVID R. SMITH
William Bevan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engieering and Director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA • In 2002 elected member of Electromagnetics Academy and winner of the 2005 Descartes Research Prize of the European Union
ESI Rank: top 1% in Physics, 26 highly cited papers in last decade - Physiology or Medicine
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ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN
Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Winner of 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the 2009 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.
ESI Rank: top 1% in Molecular Biology and Genetics, 6 highly cited papers in last decade.
ISI Highly Cited
CAROL W. GREIDER
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Winner of 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the 2009 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.
ESI Rank: top 1% in Molecular Biology and Genetics, 4 highly cited papers in last decade
JACK W. SZOSTAK
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Winner of 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the 2008 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
ESI Rank: top 1% in Molecular Biology and Genetics, 2 highly cited papers in last decade
ISI Highly CitedJAMES E. ROTHMAN
Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor and Chairman of Cell Biology, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Winner of the 2002 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research and the 2002 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
ESI Rank: top 1% in Molecular Biology & Genetics, 2 highly cited papers in last decadeRANDY SCHEKMAN
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA; also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Winner of the 2002 Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research and in 2008 was elected to the American Philosophical Society
ESI Rank: top 1% in Molecular Biology & Genetics, 1 highly cited paper in last decade
ISI Highly CitedSEI JI OGAWA
Director, formerly with Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research, Hamano Life Science Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (closed in March 2008)
Winner of the 2007 ISMAR Prize of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance and the 2008 Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize of Finland