Thomson Reuters Predicts 2014 Nobel Laureates, Researchers Forecast for Nobel Recognition

PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE

James E. Darnell, Jr.
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

David Julius

Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine,
Professor and Chair of Physiology, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA USA

For elucidating molecular mechanisms of pain sensation

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

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Stephen W. Scherer

Senior Scientist and Director, The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Professor and Director, McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto
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

PHYSICS

Charles L. Kane 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 Wurzburg
Wurzburg, 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

James F. Scott
Director of Research, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

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Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Professor, Physics and MSE, and Associate Lab Director for Energy Technologies, University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA USA

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Yoshinori Tokura*

Director, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, and

Professor, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo

Saitama and Tokyo, JAPAN

For their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura). *Tokura was previously named a Citation Laureate in 2002.

Peidong Yang

S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in Energy, Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, and Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA USA

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

CHEMISTRY

Charles T. Kresge Chief Technology Officer, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran
SAUDI ARABIA

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Ryong Ryoo 

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

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Galen D. Stucky 

E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Professor in Letters and Science, University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA USA

For design of functional mesoporous materials

Graeme Moad
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

Ching W. Tang

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bank of East Asia Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Rochester, and Chair Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Physics, 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

ECONOMIC SCIENCES

Philippe M. Aghion
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

William J. Baumol
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

Mark S. Granovetter
Joan Butler Ford Professor and Chair of Sociology, and Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA

For his pioneering research in economic sociology