Thomson Reuters Predicts 2013 Nobel Laureates

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The 2013 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates by Nobel Prize category are:

CHEMISTRY

A. Paul Alivisatos, Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA and Chad A. Mirkin, George B. Rathmann, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and Nadrian C. Seeman, Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA - for contributions to DNA nanotechnology.

Bruce N. Ames, Senior Scientist and Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA and University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA - For the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity.

M.G. Finn, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA and Valery V. Fokin, Associate Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA and K. Barry Sharpless W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA - for the development of modular click chemistry.

PHYSICS

Francois Englert, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence, Chapman Institute for Quantum Studies, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA and Peter W. Higgs, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson.

Hideo Hosono, Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory and Director of Materials Research Center for Element Strategy,Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan - for his discovery of iron-based superconductors.

Geoffrey W. Marcy, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA and Michel Mayor, Emeritus Professor University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland and Didier Queloz, Professor University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland - for their discoveries of extrasolar planets

PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE

Adrian P. Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and Chaim Cedar, Edmond J. Safra Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and Aharon Razin, Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel - for their fundamental discoveries concerning DNA methylation and gene expression.

Daniel J. Klionsky, Alexander G. Ruthven Professor of Life Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Noboru Mizushima, Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo,Tokyo Japan and Yoshinori Ohsumi, Professor, Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan - for elucidating the molecular mechanisms and physiological function of autophagy.

Dennis J. Slamon, Professor, Chief, and Executive Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology and Director of Revlon/UCLA, Women's Cancer Research Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA - for his pioneering research identifying the HER-2/neu oncogene, leading to more effective cancer therapy.

ECONOMICS

Joshua D. Angrist, Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA and David E. Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA and Alan B. Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA - for their advancement of empirical microeconomics.

Sir David F. Hendry Professor of Economics, University of Oxford,Oxford, England, UK and M. Hashem Pesaran, John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics & Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Professor of Economics & Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK and Peter C.B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA - for their contributions to economic time-series, including modeling, testing and forecasting.

Sam Peltzman, Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, USA and Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, USA - for extending economic theories of regulation.

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