The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has ann
ounced its 2013 “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates on Wednesday, which names 28 researchers representing 22 distinct academic and research organisations, and six different countries.
The nominees on the list include François Englert and Peter W Higgs for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson particle in the field of physics; and, in the field of economics, Sam Peltzman and Richard A. Posner for their work extending economic theories of regulation.
Nominees in the field of medicine include Adrian P. Bird, Howard Cedar and Aharon Razin for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression. Chemistry nominees include M.G. Finn, Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless for their development of modular click chemistry. If selected, this would be Sharpless’s second Nobel Prize (he won in 2001 for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions).
Here is a complete list of the citation laureates:
CHEMISTRY
A Paul Alivisatos
Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
and
Chad A Mirkin
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
and
Nadrian C Seeman
Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry
New YorkUniversity
New York, NY, USA
For contributions to DNA nanotechnology
Bruce N Ames
Senior Scientist and Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA and University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
For the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity
M G Finn
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
and
Valery V Fokin
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
and
K Barry Sharpless
W M Keck Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, CA, USA
For the development of modular click chemistry
PHYSICS
François Englert
Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence, Chapman Institute for Quantum Studies
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and ChapmanUniversity, Orange, CA, USA
and
Peter W Higgs
Professor Emeritus
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
For their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson
Hideo Hosono
Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory and Director of
MaterialsResearchCenter for Element Strategy
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yokohama, Japan
For his discovery of iron-based superconductors
Geoffrey W Marcy
Professor of Astronomy
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
and
Michel Mayor
Emeritus Professor
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
and
Didier Queloz
Professor
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
For their discoveries of extrasolar planets
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
Adrian P Bird
Buchanan Professor of Genetics
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
and
Howard Cedar
Edmond J. Safra Distinguished Professor Emeritus
HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
and
Aharon Razin
Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus
HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
For their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression
Daniel J Klionsky
Alexander G. Ruthven Professor of Life Sciences
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
and
Noboru Mizushima
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
GraduateSchool and Faculty of Medicine
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
and
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Professor, FrontierResearchCenter
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yokohama, Japan
For elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy
Dennis J Slamon
Professor, Chief, and Executive Vice Chair for Research
Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology and Director of Revlon/UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program
University of CaliforniaLos Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
For his pioneering research identifying the HER-2/neu oncogene, leading to more effective cancer therapy
ECONOMICS
Joshua D Angrist
Ford Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
and
David E Card
Class of 1950 Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
and
Alan B Krueger
Bendheim Professor of Economics
PrincetonUniversity
Princeton, NJ, USA
For their advancement of empirical microeconomics
Sir David F. Hendry
Professor of Economics
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK
and
M Hashem Pesaran
John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics & Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Professor of Economics & Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK
and
Peter C B Phillips
Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics
YaleUniversity
New Haven, CT, USA
For their contributions to economic time-series, including modeling, testing and forecasting
Sam Peltzman
Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of ChicagoBoothSchool of Business
Chicago, IL, USA
and
Richard A Posner
Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Senior Lecturer
University of ChicagoLawSchool
Chicago, IL, USA
For extending economic theories of regulations
