Discovery of OLED, Advances in Pain Management and Genetic Predisposition to Disease Lead 2014 Picks
India,September 25, 2014 – The Intellectual Property& Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world leader in intelligent information for businesses and professionals,announcedits 2014 “Nobel-class” Citation Laureates today. Having accurately forecast 35 Nobel Prize winners since its inception in 2002, the annual Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates study mines scientific research citations to identify the most influential researchers in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine and economics.
This year, noteworthy nominees on the Thomson Reuters list include, in the field of physiology or medicine, David Julius, for elucidating the molecular workings of how our nerves process the sensation of pain, opening the way to new advances in pain management; and, Charles Lee, Stephen W. Scherer, and Michael H. Wigler, for their research clarifying how specific genetic variations link to disease. In physics, the list includes Peidong Yang, for his work with light-generating nanowires which can be used for data storage and optical computing.In chemistry, Ching W. Tang and Steven Van Slyke are notable for their invention of the organic light emitting diode, a technology that is now ubiquitous in smartphones, tablets and high definition televisions. In economics, William J. Baumol and Israel M. Kirzner are noted for their advancement of the study of entrepreneurism.
The complete list of the 2014 Nobel predictionsincludes 27 researchers representing 27 distinct academic and research organizations acrossnine different countries.
“As imitation is one of the most sincere forms of flattery, so too are scientific literature citations one of the greatest dividendsof a researcher’sintellectual investment,” said Basil Moftah, president of Thomson Reuters IP & Science. “The aggregate of such citations points to individuals who have contributed the most impactful work and allows us to identifycandidates likely to receivea Nobel Prize.”
The annual Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates study is based on an analysis of proprietary data within the Web of ScienceTM— the premier global search and discovery platform for the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities–which identifies the most influential researchers in the categories of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics.After a thorough review of citations, along with various qualitative measures, Thomson Reuters analysts identify the highest-impact researchers to be included among itsCitation Laureates, who are likely winners of the Nobel Prize now or in the future.
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The 2014 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates by Nobel Prize category are:
| PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE |
| James E. Darnell, Jr. Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Rockefeller University New York, NY USA -and-
Robert G. Roeder
–and-
Robert Tjian
For fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation |
| David Julius
Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine,
For elucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation |
| Charles Lee Professor and Scientific Director of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Farmington, CT USA-and- Stephen W. Scherer
Senior Scientist and Director, The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Professor and Director, McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto -and- Michael H. Wigler For their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases |
| PHYSICS |
| Charles L. Kane Class of 1965 Endowed Term Chair Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA-and- Laurens W. Molenkamp -and- Shoucheng Zhang
For theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators |
| James F. Scott Director of Research, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK -and- Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Professor, Physics and MSE, and Associate Lab Director for Energy Technologies, University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA
-and-
Yoshinori Tokura* Director, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, and Professor, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo Saitama and Tokyo, JAPAN
For their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura). *Tokura was previously named a Citation Laureate in 2002. |
| Peidong Yang
S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in Energy, Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
For his contributions to nanowire photonics including the creation of first nanowire nanolaser |
| CHEMISTRY |
| Charles T. Kresge Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran SAUDI ARABIA -and- Ryong Ryoo
Director, Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science and Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
-and- Galen D. Stucky
E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science, University of California Santa Barbara
For design of functional mesoporous materials |
| Graeme Moad Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA -and- Ezio Rizzardo
-and-
San H. Thang
For development of the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process |
| Ching W. Tang
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bank of East Asia Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Rochester, and Chair Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology -and- Steven Van Slyke For their invention of the organic light emitting diode |
| ECONOMIC SCIENCES |
| Philippe M. Aghion Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University Cambridge, MA USA -and- Peter W. Howitt
For contributions to Schumpeterian growth theory |
| William J. Baumol Professor of Economics and Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship, New York University New York, NY USA -and- Israel M. Kirzner
For their advancement of the study of entrepreneurism |
| Mark S. Granovetter Joan Butler Ford Professor and Chair of Sociology, and Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University Stanford, CA USA For his pioneering research in economic sociology |
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