. Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Rockefeller University New York, NY USA

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Robert G. Roeder 

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University New York, NY USA

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Robert Tjian 

Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, and President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Berkeley, CA, and Chevy Chase, MD USA

For fundamental discoveries concerning eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation 

 Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA USA

For elucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation

 Professor and Scientific Director of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Farmington, CT USA

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Stephen W. Scherer

 Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist and Director, Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto ON CANADA

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Michael H. Wigler

 Professor and Head, Mammalian Cell Genetics Section, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY USA

For their discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases 

 Class of 1965 Endowed Term Chair Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA

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Laurens W. Molenkamp 

Professor of Physics and Chair of Experimental Physics, University of Würzburg Würzburg, GERMANY

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Shoucheng Zhang 

J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics, Stanford University Stanford, CA USA

For theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators 

Governor’s Chair for Nanomaterials Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, and Deputy Director of Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Knoxville, TN, and Oak Ridge, TN USA

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James F. Scott 

Director of Research, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK

For their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh) 

S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA

For his contributions to nanowire photonics including the creation of first nanowire nanolaser 

 Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran SAUDI ARABIA

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Ryong Ryoo

 Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, KAIST, and Director, Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA

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Galen D. Stucky

E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA USA

For design of functional mesoporous materials 

Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

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Ezio Rizzardo 

CSIRO Fellow, CSIRO Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

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San H. Thang 

Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA

For development of the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process 

Doris Johns Cherry Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, and Bank of East Asia Professorship, Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Rochester, NY USA and Hong Kong, CHINA

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Steven Van Slyke 

Chief Technology Officer, Kateeva Menlo Park, CA USA

For their invention of the organic light emitting diode 

Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University Cambridge, MA USA

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Peter W. Howitt

 Lyn Crost Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Brown University Providence, RI USA

For contributions to Schumpeterian growth theory 

 Professor of Economics and Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship, New York University New York, NY USA

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Israel M. Kirzner

 Emeritus Professor of Economics, New York University New York, NY USA

For their advancement of the study of entrepreneurism 

 Joan Butler Ford Professor and Chair of Sociology, and Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University