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
James E. Rothman

James E. Rothman

Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor and Chairman of Cell Biology, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Yoshinori Ohsumi

Professor, Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama

Mario R. Capecchi

Mario R. Capecchi

Distinguished Professor of Biology and Human Genetics and Co-Chairman, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

David Julius

David Julius

Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Professor and Chair of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Tasuku Honjo

Tasuku Honjo

Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto

Jules A. Hoffmann

Jules A. Hoffmann

President, French Academy of Sciences, Paris

Carol W. Greider

Carol W. Greider

Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Martin Evans

Martin Evans

Director of the School of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Bruce A. Beutler

Bruce A. Beutler

Professor and Chairman, Department of Genetics, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

James P. Allison

James P. Allison

Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX

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