Can the Nobel Prize Winners be Predicted?
Can the winners of the Nobel Prize be correctly predicted? Since 1989, our Science business has developed a list of likely winners in medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics. Those chosen are named Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates - researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors based on the citation impact of their published research. This week in Stockholm, three of our predictions have been right on target.
We congratulate the following predicted Citation Laureates who were awarded 2009 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine and Economics:
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Carol W. Greider, Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Jack W. Szostak, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Oliver E. Williamson, Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
See how our 2009 predictions match the Nobel Prizes awarded this week in Stockholm.
These predictions generate international press coverage, both within scientific media and beyond, including a Newsweek article on the 2009 predictions which says, "Thomson Reuters, whose ISI Web of Knowledge offers databases of, among other things, the scientists whose research has had the greatest impact on their field, has come up with its own predictions ... based on how influential scientists have been, as measured by how often their work is cited by others."