Successful Nobel Predictions

Since the inception of the Citation Laureates in 2002, our analysts have identified 71 eminent scientists and economists who went on to receive the Nobel Prize.

2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”

2011 Citation Laureates, recognized “for their tests of Bell’s inequalities and research on quantum entanglement”

Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect

CNRS Distinguished Scientist and Head of the Atom Optics Group, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau
John F. Clauser

John F. Clauser

Research Physicist, J.F. Clauser & Associates, Walnut Creek, CA
Anton Zeilinger

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

2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

2019 Citation Laureate, recognized “for development of the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction (Huisgen) and the variant Copper(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition (Meldal)”

Morten P. Meldal

Morten P. Meldal

George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

2013 Citation Laureate, recognized “for the development of modular click chemistry”

K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless

W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California

2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

2015 Citation Laureate, recognized “for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry”

Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for research on banks and financial crisis”

2011 Citation Laureate, recognized “for his analysis of financial intermediation and delegated monitoring”

Douglas W. Diamond

Douglas W. Diamond

Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi

Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome

Anton Zeilinger

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

Rainer Weiss

Rainer Weiss

Professor of Physics Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Kip S. Thorne

Kip S. Thorne

Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Brian P. Schmidt

Brian P. Schmidt

Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Australian National University, Weston Creek

Adam G. Riess

Adam G. Riess

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD

Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz

Professor, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, and Professor, University of Geneva, Geneva

Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter

Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley
and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

O.M., F.R.S., Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, Oxford

Kostya Novoselov

Kostya Novoselov

Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester

Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura

Professor, Materials Department, Director of the Center for Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CCA

Arthur B. McDonald

Arthur B. McDonald

Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute; Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics,Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Michel Mayor

Michel Mayor

Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva, Geneva

Peter W. Higgs

Peter W. Higgs

Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

† Peter Grünberg

† Peter Grünberg

Professor, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Julich Research Center, Julich

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