Thomson Reuters Predicts 2012 Nobel Laureates
- Quantum Teleportation among discoveries forecast for honors in Science; Economics selectees include man who predicted bubbles in the stock and housing markets
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With the eyes of the world firmly fixed on Stockholm and the upcoming announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize recipients, the IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced its 2012 "Nobel-class" Citation Laureates today.
Annually, Thomson Reuters citation analysts mine proprietary data from the company's research platform, Web of Knowledge™, to identify the most influential researchers in the categories of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics. Based on a thorough review of citations to their research, the company names these high-impact researchers as Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates and predicts them to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the future.
"Our Citation Laureate selection process operates much like the Nobel Foundation's selection process," said David Pendlebury, Thomson Reuters citation analyst. "We recognize fundamental discoveries and identify the most important contributors to these discoveries. Our Citation Laureates have made such important contributions to science that we believe them to be peers of the Nobel Prize winners in every way; they simply have yet to win."
The Citation Laureates rank among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of researchers in their fields in terms of citation impact, based on citations of their published papers over the last three decades. The 2012 Laureates include 21 influential researchers whose high-profile discoveries cover pioneering work such as quantum teleportation (Charles H. Bennett of IBM Corporation, Gilles Brassard of the University of Montreal and William K. Wootters of Williams College); the experimental demonstration of "slow light" (Stephen E. Harris of Stanford University and Lene V. Hau of Harvard University); and fundamental discoveries in genetic regulation (C. David Allis of Rockefeller University and Michael Grunstein of University of California, Los Angeles).
Also among the high-profile achievements of this year's picks is the pioneering work in financial market volatility and the dynamics of asset prices by Robert Shiller of Yale University. Shiller is known as the author of the best-selling book Irrational Exuberance, which warned of the damaging stock and housing market bubbles.
Thirteen of the 2012 Citation Laureates hail from American institutions, two are from Canada, three from Japan and three from the United Kingdom. Now in its eleventh consecutive year of predictions, Thomson Reuters has successfully predicted 26 Nobel Prize recipients to date.
For detailed information about the Citation Laureates and their fields of research, and to learn about previously named Citation Laureates who are still contending for a Nobel Prize, visit the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates website at http://sciencewatch.thomsonreuters.com/nobel.
Follow @nobelcitings and @TR_ScienceWatch on Twitter.com for up-to-the-minute news on the predictions and deeper insight into their fields of research. Facebook users are encouraged to submit their guesses for the 2012 Nobel Prize winners and take part in Nobel discussions on the Web of Knowledge Facebook page.
The 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates by Nobel Prize category are:
CHEMISTRY | |
Louis E. Brus | |
Akira Fujishima | |
Masatake Haruta | |
PHYSICS | |
Charles H. Bennett Yorktown Heights, New York, USA -and- Gilles Brassard Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing University of Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada -and- William K. Wootters Department of Physics Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA For their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified | |
Leigh T. Canham Chief Scientific Officer pSiMedica Ltd. Malvern Honorary Professor School of Physics and Astronomy University of Birmingham Birmingham, England, U.K. For discovery of photoluminescence in porous silicon | |
Stephen E. Harris Stanford University Stanford, California, USA -and- Lene V. Hau Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA For the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau) | |
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE | |
C. David Allis Tri-Institutional Professor and Joy and Jack Fishman Professor Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics New York, New York, USA -and- Michael Grunstein Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, USA For fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role in genetic regulation | |
Anthony "Tony" R. Hunter American Cancer Society Professor Renato Dulbecco Chair Salk Institute for Biological Studies Adjunct Professor, Section of Molecular Biology University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California, USA For the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation and contributions to understanding protein kinases and their role in signal transduction -and- Anthony "Tony" J. Pawson Distinguished Scientist and Apotex Chair in Molecular Oncology Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada For identification of the phosphotyrosine binding SH2 domain and demonstrating its function in protein-protein interactions | |
Richard O. Hynes David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA -and- Erkki Ruoslahti Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, USA -and- Masatoshi Takeichi Kobe, Japan For pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins | |
ECONOMICS | |
Sir Anthony B. Atkinson | |
Stephen A. Ross | |
Robert J. Shiller | |
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