List of Clarivate Citation laureates in Chemistry explained

The following is a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates in chemistry, considered likely candidates to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[1]

Laureates

Citation Laureates Nationality MotivationsInstitute
2008[2]
Charles M. Lieber
(born 1959)
United States"for his transformational research on nanowires, nanomaterials, and their applications."Harvard University
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
(born 1950)
Poland
United States
"for his development of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and other methods of "living" polymerization."Carnegie Mellon University

2008
Roger Y. Tsien
(1952–2016)
United States"for his development and application of fluorescent protein probes as visual indicators of cellular function."
2009[3]
Michael Grätzel
(born 1944)
Switzerland"for his invention of dye-sensitized solar cells, now known as Grätzel cells."ETH Zurich
Jacqueline Barton
(born 1952)
United States"for their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA."California Institute of Technology
Bernd Giese
(born 1940)
GermanyUniversity of Basel
Gary Schuster
(born 1946)
United StatesGeorgia Institute of Technology

2021
Benjamin List
(born 1968)
Germany"for his development of organic asymmetric catalysis using enamines."
2010[4]
Patrick O. Brown
(born 1954)
United States"for the invention and application of DNA microarrays, a revolutionary tool in the study of variation in gene expression."
Susumu Kitagawa
(born 1951)
Japan"for the design and development of porous metal-organic frameworks, whose applications include hydrogen and methane storage, gas purification, and gas separation, among others."Kyoto University
Omar M. Yaghi
(born 1965)
Jordan
United States
University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen J. Lippard
(born 1940)
United States"for pioneering research in bioinorganic chemistry, including the discovery of metallointercalators to disrupt DNA replication, an important contribution to improved cancer therapy."Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011[5]
Allen J. Bard
(born 1933)
United States"for the development and application of scanning electrochemical microscopy."University of Texas at Austin

2012
Martin Karplus
(born 1930)
Austria
United States
"for pioneering simulations of the molecular dynamics of biomolecules."
Jean Fréchet
(born 1944)
France
United States
"for the invention and development of dendritic polymers."
Donald Tomalia
(born 1938)
United States
Fritz Vögtle
(1939–2017)
GermanyUniversity of Bonn
2012[6]

2023
Louis E. Brus
(born 1943)
United States"for discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)."Columbia University
Akira Fujishima
(born 1942)
Japan"for the discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect)."Tokyo University of Science
Masatake Haruta
(1947–2022)
Japan"for independent foundational discoveries of catalysis by gold."Tokyo Metropolitan University
Graham Hutchings
(born 1951)
United KingdomCardiff University
2013[7]
Paul Alivisatos
(born 1959)
United States"for contributions to DNA nanotechnology."University of California, Berkeley
Chad Mirkin
(born 1963)
United StatesNorthwestern University
Nadrian Seeman
(1945–2021)
United StatesNew York University
Bruce Ames
(born 1928)
United States"for the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity."
M.G. Finn
(born 1958)
United States"for the development of modular click chemistry."Georgia Institute of Technology
Valery Fokin
(born 1971)
United StatesScripps Research Institute

2001


2022
Karl Barry Sharpless
(born 1941)
United States
2014[8]
Charles T. Kresge
(born 1954)
United States"for design of functional mesoporous materials."Saudi Aramco
Ryoo Ryong
(born 1955)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Galen D. Stucky
(born 1936)
United StatesUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Graeme Moad
(born 1952)
Australia"for development of the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process."Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ezio Rizzardo
(born 1943)
Australia
San Thang
(born 1954)
Australia
Ching Wan Tang
(1947)
Hong Kong
United States
"for their invention of the organic light emitting diode."
Steven Van Slyke
(born 1956)
United StatesKateeva
2015[9]

2022
Carolyn Bertozzi
(born 1966)
United States"for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry."

2020
Emmanuelle Charpentier
(born 1968)
France"for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing."

2020
Jennifer Doudna
(born 1964)
United States

2019
John B. Goodenough
(born 1922)
United States"for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery."University of Texas at Austin

2019
M. Stanley Whittingham
(born 1941)
United Kingdom
United States
Birmingham University
2016[10]
George Church
(born 1954)
United States"for application of CRISPR-cas9 gene editing in mouse and human cells."Harvard Medical School
Feng Zhang
(born 1981)
China
United States
Dennis Lo Yuk-Ming
(born 1963)
Hong Kong"for detecting cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma, a revolution in noninvasive prenatal testing."Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hiroshi Maeda
(1938–2021)
Japan"for discovering the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect of macromolecular drugs, a key finding for cancer therapeutics."Kumamoto University
Yasuhiro Matsumura
(born 1955)
JapanNational Cancer Center
2017[11]
John E. Bercaw
(born 1944)
United States"for critical contributions to C-H functionalization."California Institute of Technology
Robert G. Bergman
(born 1942)
United StatesUniversity of California, Berkeley
Georgiy B. Shul'pin
(born 1946)
Russian Academy of Sciences
Jens Nørskov
(born 1952)
Denmark"for fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfaces."
Tsutomu Miyasaka
(born 1953)
Japan"for their discovery and application of perovskite materials to achieve efficient energy conversion."Toin University of Yokohama
Nam-Gyu Park
(born 1960)
Sungkyunkwan University
Henry Snaith
(born 1978)
United KingdomUniversity of Oxford
2018[12]
Eric Jacobsen
(born 1960)
United States"for contributions to catalytic reactions for organic synthesis, especially for the development of Jacobsen epoxidation."Harvard University
George M. Sheldrick
(born 1942)
United Kingdom"for his enormous influence in structural crystallography."University of Göttingen
JoAnne Stubbe
(born 1946)
United States"for her discovery that ribonucleotide reductases transform ribonucleotides into deoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism."Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019[13]
Rolf Huisgen
(1920–2020)
Germany"for development of the 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition Reaction (Huisgen reaction) and the variant Copper(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne cycloaddition (Meldal)."University of Munich

2022
Morten P. Meldal
(born 1954)
DenmarkUniversity of Copenhagen
Edwin Southern
(born 1938)
United Kingdom"for invention of the Southern blot method for determining specific DNA sequences."University of Oxford
Marvin H. Caruthers
(born 1940)
United States"for contributions to protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis."University of Colorado
Leroy Hood
(born 1938)
United States
Michael Hunkapiller
(born 1948)
United StatesPacific Biosciences
2020[14]

2023
Moungi Bawendi
(born 1961)
United States"for synthesis of nanocrystals with precise attributes for a wide range of applications in physical, biological, and medical systems."Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher B. Murray
(born ?)
United StatesUniversity of Pennsylvania
Hyeon Taeghwan
(born 1964)
Stephen L. Buchwald
(born 1955)
United States"for contributions to organometallic chemistry, notably the Buchwald–Hartwig amination which forms carbon–nitrogen bonds through palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of amines with aryl halides."Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John F. Hartwig
(born 1964)
United StatesUniversity of California, Berkeley
Makoto Fujita
(born 1957)
Japan"for advances in supramolecular chemistry through self-assembly strategies that take inspiration from nature itself."University of Tokyo
2021[15]
Barry Halliwell
(born 1949)
United Kingdom"for pioneering research in free-radical chemistry including the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human disease."
William L. Jorgensen
(born 1949)
United States"for methods and studies in the computational chemistry of organic and biomolecular systems in solution, contributing to rational drug design and synthesis."Yale University
Mitsuo Sawamoto
(born 1954)
Japan"for discovery and development of metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization."
2022[16]
Zhenan Bao
(born 1970)
China
United States
"for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'."Stanford University
Bonnie Bassler
(born 1962)
United States"for research on regulation of gene expression in bacteria through quorum sensing, a chemical communication system."
Everett Peter Greenberg
(born 1948)
United StatesUniversity of Washington
Daniel G. Nocera
(born 1957)
United States"for fundamental experimental and theoretical contributions to proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and its application to energy science and biology."Harvard University
2023[17]
James J. Collins
(born 1965)
United States"for pioneering work on synthetic gene circuits, which launched the field of synthetic biology."Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Elowitz
(born 1970)
United StatesCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Stanislas Leibler
(born 1957)
United StatesInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Shankar Balasubramanian
(born 1966)
United Kingdom"for the co-invention of next-generation DNA sequencing methodology that has revolutionized biological research."University of Cambridge, Cambridge
David Klenerman
(born 1959)
United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge

(born 1950)
Japan"for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods."University of Tokyo
Vladimir P. Torchilin
(born 1946)
United StatesNortheastern University, Boston
Karen L. Wooley
(born 1966)
United StatesTexas A&M University

Notes and References

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  10. Web site: Web of Science Predicts 2016 Nobel Prize Winners. PR Newswire. 21 September 2016.
  11. Web site: The 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureates . Clarivate Analytics . 20 September 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170920220728/https://clarivate.com/2017-citation-laureates/ . 20 September 2017 .
  12. Web site: The 2018 Clarivate Citation Laureates . Clarivate Analytics . 20 September 2018.
  13. Web site: The 2019 Clarivate Citation Laureates . Clarivate Analytics . 24 September 2019.
  14. Web site: Clarivate Reveals 2020 Citation Laureates - Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class. 23 September 2020. PR Newswire.
  15. Web site: Clarivate Unveils Citation Laureates 2021 - Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class. 22 September 2021. PR Newswire.
  16. Web site: Clarivate Reveals Citation Laureates 2022 - Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class. 21 September 2022. PR Newswire.
  17. https://clarivate.com/citation-laureates/chemistry-2023/ Researchers of Nobel Class 2023