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
Andre K. Geim

Andre K. Geim

FRS, Langworthy Research Professor, Chair of Condensed Matter Physics,
and Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology,University of Manchester, Manchester

Albert Fert

Albert Fert

Professor of Physics, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay

François Englert

François Englert

Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence, Chapman’s Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University, Orange, CA

John F. Clauser

John F. Clauser

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

Alain Aspect

Alain Aspect

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

Robert B. Wilson

Robert B. Wilson

Adams Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

† Oliver E. Williamson

† Oliver E. Williamson

Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole

Scientific Director, IDEI (Institute of Industrial Economics), University of Social Sciences, Toulouse, France; Affiliated research member of CERAS, Paris

Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims

Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Richard H. Thaler

Richard H. Thaler

Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, IL

Robert J. Shiller

Robert J. Shiller

Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Professor of Finance at the International Center for Finance, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Thomas J. Sargent

Thomas J. Sargent

William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY; and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA

Paul Michael Romer

Paul Michael Romer

Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA

William D. Nordhaus

William D. Nordhaus

Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Paul R. Milgrom

Paul R. Milgrom

Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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