The following is a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates in chemistry, considered likely candidates to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[1] Since 2024, 15 of the selected citation laureates starting in 2008 were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize: Roger Y. Tsien (2008), Martin Karplus (2012), John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham (2019), Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna (2020), Benjamin List (2021), Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless (2022) Louis E. Brus and Moungi Bawendi (2023), David Baker, John M. Jumper and Demis Hassabis (2024).
| Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008[2] | ||||
| Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) | "for his transformational research on nanowires, nanomaterials, and their applications." | Harvard University | ||
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (born 1950) | "for his development of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and other methods of "living" polymerization." | Carnegie Mellon University | ||
| 2008 | Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016) | "for his development and application of fluorescent protein probes as visual indicators of cellular function." | ||
| 2009[3] | ||||
| Michael Grätzel (born 1944) | "for his invention of dye-sensitized solar cells, now known as Grätzel cells." | ETH Zurich | ||
| Jacqueline Barton (born 1952) | "for their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA." | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Bernd Giese (born 1940) | University of Basel | |||
| Gary Schuster (born 1946) | Georgia Institute of Technology | |||
| 2021 | Benjamin List (born 1968) | "for his development of organic asymmetric catalysis using enamines." | ||
| 2010[4] | ||||
| Patrick O. Brown (born 1954) | "for the invention and application of DNA microarrays, a revolutionary tool in the study of variation in gene expression." | |||
| Susumu Kitagawa (born 1951) | "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) | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Stephen J. Lippard (born 1940) | "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) | "for the development and application of scanning electrochemical microscopy." | University of Texas at Austin | ||
| 2012 | Martin Karplus (born 1930) | "for pioneering simulations of the molecular dynamics of biomolecules." | ||
| Jean Fréchet (born 1944) |  United States | "for the invention and development of dendritic polymers." | ||
| Donald Tomalia (born 1938) | ||||
| Fritz Vögtle (1939–2017) | University of Bonn | |||
| 2012[6] | ||||
| 2023 | Louis E. Brus (born 1943) | "for discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)." | Columbia University | |
| Akira Fujishima (born 1942) | "for the discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect)." | Tokyo University of Science | ||
| Masatake Haruta (1947–2022) | "for independent foundational discoveries of catalysis by gold." | Tokyo Metropolitan University | ||
| Graham Hutchings (born 1951) | Cardiff University | |||
| 2013[7] | ||||
| Paul Alivisatos (born 1959) | "for contributions to DNA nanotechnology." | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Chad Mirkin (born 1963) | Northwestern University | |||
| Nadrian Seeman (1945–2021) | New York University | |||
| Bruce Ames (born 1928) | "for the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity." | |||
| M.G. Finn (born 1958) | "for the development of modular click chemistry." | Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
| Valery Fokin (born 1971) | Scripps Research Institute | |||
| 2001 2022 | Karl Barry Sharpless (born 1941) | |||
| 2014[8] | ||||
| Charles T. Kresge (born 1954) | "for design of functional mesoporous materials." | Saudi Aramco | ||
| Ryoo Ryong (born 1955) | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | |||
| Galen D. Stucky (born 1936) | University of California, Santa Barbara | |||
| Graeme Moad (born 1952) | "for development of the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process." | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | ||
| Ezio Rizzardo (born 1943) | ||||
| San Thang (born 1954) | ||||
| Ching Wan Tang (1947) | "for their invention of the organic light emitting diode." | |||
| Steven Van Slyke (born 1956) | Kateeva | |||
| 2015[9] | ||||
| 2022 | Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966) | "for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry." | ||
| 2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968) | "for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing." | ||
| 2020 | Jennifer Doudna (born 1964) | |||
| 2019 | John B. Goodenough (born 1922) | "for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery." | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 2019 | M. Stanley Whittingham (born 1941) | Birmingham University | ||
| 2016[10] | ||||
| George Church (born 1954) | "for application of CRISPR-cas9 gene editing in mouse and human cells." | Harvard Medical School | ||
| Feng Zhang (born 1981) | United States | |||
| Dennis Lo Yuk-Ming (born 1963) | "for detecting cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma, a revolution in noninvasive prenatal testing." | Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
| Hiroshi Maeda (1938–2021) | "for discovering the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect of macromolecular drugs, a key finding for cancer therapeutics." | Kumamoto University | ||
| Yasuhiro Matsumura (born 1955) | National Cancer Center | |||
| 2017[11] | ||||
| John E. Bercaw (born 1944) | "for critical contributions to C-H functionalization." | California Institute of Technology | ||
| Robert G. Bergman (born 1942) | University of California, Berkeley | |||
| Georgiy B. Shul'pin (born 1946) | Russian Academy of Sciences | |||
| Jens Nørskov (born 1952) | "for fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfaces." | |||
| Tsutomu Miyasaka (born 1953) | "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) | University of Oxford | |||
| 2018[12] | ||||
| Eric Jacobsen (born 1960) | "for contributions to catalytic reactions for organic synthesis, especially for the development of Jacobsen epoxidation." | Harvard University | ||
| George M. Sheldrick (born 1942) | "for his enormous influence in structural crystallography." | University of Göttingen | ||
| JoAnne Stubbe (born 1946) | "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) | "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) | University of Copenhagen | ||
| Edwin Southern (born 1938) | "for invention of the Southern blot method for determining specific DNA sequences." | University of Oxford | ||
| Marvin H. Caruthers (born 1940) | "for contributions to protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis." | University of Colorado | ||
| Leroy Hood (born 1938) | ||||
| Michael Hunkapiller (born 1948) | Pacific Biosciences | |||
| 2020[14] | ||||
| 2023 | Moungi Bawendi (born 1961) | "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 ?) | University of Pennsylvania | |||
| Hyeon Taeghwan (born 1964) | ||||
| Stephen L. Buchwald (born 1955) | "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) | University of California, Berkeley | |||
| Makoto Fujita (born 1957) | "for advances in supramolecular chemistry through self-assembly strategies that take inspiration from nature itself." | University of Tokyo | ||
| 2021[15] | ||||
| Barry Halliwell (born 1949) | "for pioneering research in free-radical chemistry including the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human disease." | |||
| William L. Jorgensen (born 1949) | "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) | "for discovery and development of metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization." | |||
| 2022[16] | ||||
| Zhenan Bao (born 1970) | "for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'." | Stanford University | ||
| Bonnie Bassler (born 1962) | "for research on regulation of gene expression in bacteria through quorum sensing, a chemical communication system." | |||
| Everett Peter Greenberg (born 1948) | University of Washington | |||
| Daniel G. Nocera (born 1957) | "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) | "for pioneering work on synthetic gene circuits, which launched the field of synthetic biology." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Michael Elowitz (born 1970) | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | |||
| Stanislas Leibler (born 1957) | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | |||
| Shankar Balasubramanian (born 1966) | "for the co-invention of next-generation DNA sequencing methodology that has revolutionized biological research." | University of Cambridge, Cambridge | ||
| David Klenerman (born 1959) | University of Cambridge, Cambridge | |||
| Kazunori Kataoka (born 1950) | "for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods." | University of Tokyo | ||
| Vladimir P. Torchilin (born 1946) | Northeastern University, Boston | |||
| Karen L. Wooley (born 1966) | Texas A&M University | |||
| 2024[18] | ||||
| 2024 | David Baker (born 1962) | "for contributions to the prediction and design of three-dimensional protein structures and functions." | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Washington School of Medicine | |
| 2024 | John M. Jumper (born 1985) | Google DeepMind | ||
| 2024 | Demis Hassabis (born 1976) | |||
| Kazunari Dōmen (born 1953) | "for fundamental research on photocatalysts for water splitting and the construction of solar hydrogen production systems." | Shinshu University University of Tokyo | ||
| Roberto Car (born 1947) | "for the Car–Parrinello method for calculating ab-initio molecular dynamics, a revolution in computational chemistry." | Princeton University | ||
| Michele Parrinello (born 1945) | Università della Svizzera italiana ETH Zurich |