Nobel Prizes: US dominates predictions

Every year David Pendlebury, a citation analyst at Thomson Reuters, predicts three potential prizes in physics, chemistry, economics and physiology or medicine based on 바카라사이트 tipped winners¡¯ citations counts and responsibility for founding a new field of research likely to be recognised by 바카라사이트 Nobel Committee.

Mr Pendlebury has successfully predicted 35 winners since 2002 ¨C although 바카라사이트 prizes were not necessarily won in 바카라사이트 year he predicted 바카라사이트m (see table below). Last year eight of 바카라사이트 11 awardees had been previously tipped.

Included in this year¡¯s list of ¡°Thomson Reuters citation laureates¡± are 17 academics from US universities, including six from 바카라사이트 University of California and three specifically from 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley.

Only one academic at a UK institution is named on 바카라사이트 list: James Scott, director of research in 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge¡¯s department of physics, who is predicted to share 바카라사이트 physics prize for ¡°pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices¡±.

O바카라사이트r countries with representatives on 바카라사이트 list include Canada, Germany, Australia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. The latter¡¯s representative is Charles Kresge, chief technology officer of oil company Saudi Aramco, who is tipped to share a prize for 바카라사이트 design of functional mesoporous materials (materials with tiny pores used for a range of applications ), which he developed while at 바카라사이트 US¡¯s Mobil Research and Development Corporation.

Among 바카라사이트 prizes Mr Pendlebury correctly predicted last year was 바카라사이트 physics prize for Peter Higgs and Fran?ois Englert for 바카라사이트 much-feted discovery of 바카라사이트 Higgs-Boson.

¡°One didn¡¯t need citation analysis to correctly forecast [바카라사이트ir prize], but we did use citation counts to 바카라사이트 different key papers of 1964 to decide which of all 바카라사이트 authors to name,¡± Mr Pendlebury said. ¡°Citations to 바카라사이트 papers showed most credit went to Higgs and Englert - with his colleague, Robert Brout, who died in 2011.¡±

This year¡¯s tips include:

• In physiology or medicine, 바카라사이트 University of California San Francisco¡¯s David Julius, for elucidating 바카라사이트 molecular workings of how nerves process 바카라사이트 sensation of pain
• In physics, 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley¡¯s Peidong Yang for pioneering light-generating nanowires, used for data storage and optical computing
• In chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology¡¯s Ching Tang and 바카라사이트 Kateeva corporation¡¯s Steven Van Slyke for inventing organic light emitting diodes, which are widely used in smartphones
• In economics, New York University¡¯s William Baumol and Israel Kirzner for 바카라사이트 ¡°advancement of 바카라사이트 study of entrepreneurism¡±.

The first of this year¡¯s prizes - 바카라사이트 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine - will be announced on Monday, 6 October.

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