Nobel Prize 2010 Predictions
September 26, 2010
After two week long hiatus from blogging, I am back. During this time, I attended LIBS 2010 conference in Memphis and had a great time meeting fellow researchers. I will be a bit busy in coming month, so frequency of posts will be less but I will try to write from time to time. So, without any further delay, let’s get started, shall we 
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Nobel prizes are going to be announced on Oct 6th during Oct 4th- 11th. Any guesses who are top contenders this year for different fields? Well, Thomson Reuters has predicted possible winners based on it’s data from Web of Knowledge. The prediction is based upon citation counts over past two decades and number of high impact papers in certain identified fields and research themes which might be worthy of Nobel prize in current year or in future. Since 2002, Thomson Reuters have been able to predict 19 such Nobel prize winners.
“We choose our Citation Laureates by assessing citation counts and the number of high-impact papers while identifying discoveries or themes that may be considered worthy of recognition by the Nobel Committee,” said David Pendlebury, Citation Analyst, Research Services, Thomson Reuters. “A strong correlation exists between citations in literature and peer esteem. Professional awards, like the Nobel Prize, are a reflection of this peer esteem. [Thomson Reuters]
So who are possible contenders this year? [Source: Thomson Reuters]
Chemistry: Winner Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for “palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”
| Patrick O. Brown Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif., USA and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chevy Chase, Md.,USA
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Susumu Kitagawa Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences and Professor, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan-and-Omar M. Yaghi Jean Stone Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.,USA
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| Stephen J. Lippard Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.,USA
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Physics: Winner Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for pathbreaking work in graphene. They were predicted to win Nobel Prize in 2008 by Thomson Reuters predicitons.
| Charles L. Bennett Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.,USA and Senior Scientist for Experimental Cosmology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., USA-and-Lyman A. Page Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ., USA-and-David N. Spergel Charles Young Professor of the Class of 1897 Foundation and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA
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Thomas W. Ebbesen Professor, University of Strasbourg, and Director, ISIS (Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering), Strasbourg, France
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| Saul Perlmutter Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif., USA and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., USA-and-Adam G. Riess Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md., USA-and-Brian P. Schmidt Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
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Physiology or Medicine: Winner Robert G Edwards for in vitro fertilization
| Douglas L. Coleman Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA-and-Jeffrey M. Friedman Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chevy Chase, Md., USA
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Ernest A. McCulloch Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada-and-James E. Till Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada-and-Shinya Yamanaka Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Franscisco, Calif., USA and Professor of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif., USA
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| Ralph M. Steinman Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA
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Economics: Oct 11th
| Albert Alesina Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA
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Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton N.J., USA-and-John H. Moore George Watson’s and Daniel Stewart’s Professor of Political Economics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London, England
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| Kevin M. Murphy George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Il., USA, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, Calif., USA
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Joe | September 26, 2010 at 11:41 pm
First prize in announced on Monday 10/04 – Med, Physics is 10/05
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