Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates

Chemistry

Patrick O. Brown
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif., USA and Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chevy Chase, Md., USA

- For the invention and application of DNA microarrays, a revolutionary tool in the study of variation in gene expression.

Susumu Kitagawa
Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences and Professor, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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Omar M. Yaghi
Jean Stone Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif., USA

- For the design and development of porous metal-organic frameworks, whose applications include hydrogen and methane storage, gas purification, and gas separation, among others.

Stephen J. Lippard

Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
-For pioneering research in bioinorganic chemistry, including the discovery of metallointercalators to disrupt DNA replication, an important contribution to improved cancer therapy.

Physics

Charles L. Bennett
Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.,USA and Senior Scientist for Experimental Cosmology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA

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Lyman A. Page
Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ., USA

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David N. Spergel
Charles Young Professor of the Class of 1897 Foundation and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA

- For discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition.

Thomas W. Ebbesen
Professor, University of Strasbourg, and Director, ISIS (Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering), Strasbourg, France

- For observation and explanation of the transmission of light through subwavelength holes, which ignited the field of surface plasmon photonics.

Saul Perlmutter
Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif., USA and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., USA

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Adam G. Riess
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md., USA

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Brian P. Schmidt
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia

-For discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy.

Physiology or Medicine

Douglas L. Coleman
Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

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Jeffrey M. Friedman
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chevy Chase, Md., USA

- For the discovery of leptin, a hormone regulating appetite and metabolism.

Ernest A. McCulloch
Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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James E. Till

Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Shinya Yamanaka
Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, Calif., USA and Professor of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif., USA

- For the discovery of stem cells and the development of induced pluripotent stem cells.

Ralph M. Steinman
Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA

- For the discovery of dendritic cells, key regulators of immune response.

Economics

Albert Alesina
Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA

- For theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between politics and macroeconomics, and specifically for research on politico-economic cycles.

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton N.J., USA

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John H. Moore
George Watson's and Daniel Stewart's Professor of Political Economics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London, England

- For formulation of the Kiyotaki-Moore model, which describes how small shocks to an economy may lead to a cycle of lower output resulting from a decline in collateral values that create a restrictive credit environment.

Kevin M. Murphy
George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Il., USA, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif., USA

- For pioneering empirical research in social economics, including wage inequality and labor demand, unemployment, addiction, and the economic return on investment in medical research among other topics.

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