Successful Nobel Predictions

Since the inception of the Citation Laureates in 2002, our analysts have identified 75 eminent scientists and economists who went on to receive the Nobel Prize.

2023 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”

2015 Citation Laureate, recognized “for contributions to the development of attosecond physics”

Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz

Chair of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich; Director, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching

2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”

2012 Citation Laureate, recognized “for the discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)”

Louis E. Brus

Louis E. Brus

Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY

2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”

2020 Citation Laureate, recognized “for synthesis of nanocrystals with precise attributes for a wide range of applications in physical, biological, and medical systems”

Moungi G. Bawendi

Moungi G. Bawendi

Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

2023 Nobel Prize in Economics “having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes”

2020 Citation Laureate, recognized “for contributions to labor economics, especially her analysis of women and the gender pay gap”

Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin

Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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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