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
Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman

Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa; and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless

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

Morten P. Meldal

Morten P. Meldal

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

Benjamin List

Benjamin List

Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mulheim an der Ruhr and Honorary Professor, University of Cologne

Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus

Theodore William Richards Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Director, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, ISIS, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg

Robert H. Grubbs

Robert H. Grubbs

Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

John B. Goodenough

John B. Goodenough

Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Professor of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna

Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Associate Professor, Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS, Swedish Node of the European  Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] Partnership for Molecular Medicine), Umeå University, Umeå; Professor, Hannover Medical School, Hannover; and, Head, Department Regulation in Infection  Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig

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

Shinya Yamanaka

Shinya Yamanaka

Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto; Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, San Francisco, CA; and Professor of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Jack W. Szostak

Jack W. Szostak

Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

† Ralph M. Steinman

† Ralph M. Steinman

Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY

† Oliver Smithies

† Oliver Smithies

Excellence Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Randy Schekman

Randy Schekman

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

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