SCI基于被引用次数高的作者,预测诺贝尔奖的可能性。基于这种理念,他们从2002年开始凑热闹、预测诺贝尔奖。据说已经有21名诺贝尔奖的主被他们预测准了。也就是每年预测对了2-3名。今年,他们推出了预测名单。由于他们是严格基于引用率,所以之前生理医学奖的两个热门人物:屠呦呦和Carl R Woese均未上榜。
Chemistry
Allen J. Bard Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry and Director of the Center for Electrochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX, USA
For the development and application of scanning electrochemical microscopy
Martin Karplus Theodore William Richards Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA and Director, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, ISIS, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
For pioneering simulations of the molecular dynamics of biomolecules
Jean M. J. Fréchet Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical Engineering and Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA USA, and Vice President of Research, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Donald A. Tomalia Distinguished Professor and Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry. and Director of the National Dendrimer and Nanotechnology Center, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI USA. Also, Chief Scientific Officer, Dendritic Nanotechnologies, Inc., Mount Pleasant, MI USA
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Fritz Vogtle Emeritus Professor, Kekulé Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), Bonn Germany
For the invention and development of dendritic polymers
Economics
Douglas W. Diamond Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
For his analysis of financial intermediation and monitoring
Anne O. Krueger Professor of International Economics, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC USA
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Gordon Tullock Professor Emeritus of Law and Economics, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA USA
For their description of rent-seeking behavior and its implications
Jerry A. Hausman John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
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Halbert L. White, Jr. Chancellor’s Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
For their contributions to econometrics, specifically the Hausman specification test and the White standard errors test
Physics
Alain Aspect CNRS Distinguished Scientist and Head of the Atom Optics Group, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau France. Also, Professor at the Institut d’Optique and at the Ecole Polytechnique France
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John F. Clauser Research Physicist, J.F. Clauser & Associates, Walnut Creek, CA USA
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Anton Zeilinger Full Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, and Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Austria For their tests of Bell’s inequalities and research on quantum entanglement
Sajeev John University Professor of Physics and Canada Research Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Eli Yablonovitch Professor and James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA For their invention and development of photonic band gap materials
Hideo Ohno Professor of the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, and Director of the Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan For contributions to ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors
Physiology or Medicine
Brian J. Druker Professor of Medicine, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and Director, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR USA. Also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
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Nicholas B. Lydon Founder, Granite Biopharma, LLC, Jackson Hole, WY USA; Co-founder and Director, AnaptysBio, San Diego, CA USA; and Co-founder and Director, Blueprint Medicines, Cambridge, MA USA
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Charles L. Sawyers Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY USA. Also, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
For their development of imatinib and dasatinib, revolutionary, targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia
Robert S. Langer David H. Koch Institute Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
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Joseph P. Vacanti John Homans Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Surgeon-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
For their pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Jacques F. A. P. Miller Emeritus Professor, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
For his discovery of the function of the thymus and the identification of T cells and B cells in mammalian species
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Robert L. Coffman Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, CA USA
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Timothy R. Mosmann Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Michael and Angela Pichichero Director in the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA For their discovery of two types of T lymphocytes, TH1 and TH2, and their role in regulating host immune response