Thomson Reuters Forecasts Nobel Prize Winners

PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE

Jeffrey I. Gordon
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center of Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO USA

For demonstrating the relationship between the human gut microbiome and physiology, metabolism, and nutrition

Kazutoshi Mori
Professor, Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Kyoto, JAPAN

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Peter Walter
Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA

For independently identifying the mechanism by which unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum are detected and corrected

Alexander Y. Rudensky
Chairman, Immunology Program; Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy; Tri-Institutional Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Cornell University; Professor, Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

New York, NY USA

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Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, World Premier International Research Center, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University

Osaka JAPAN

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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

PHYSICS

Paul B. Corkum

National Research Council-Canada Research Chair in Attosecond Photonics, University of Ottawa

Ottawa, ON CANADA

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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

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

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

CHEMISTRY

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

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

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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

John B. Goodenough
Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, University of Texas Austin
Austin, TX USA

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M. Stanley Whittingham
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY and Research Professor and Director DOE NECCES EFRC, SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY USA

For pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery

ECONOMIC SCIENCES

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

John A. List

Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, IL USA

For advancing field experiments in economics

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