Thomson Scientific Predicts Nobel Laureates
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PHILADELPHIA, and LONDON, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson
Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading
provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business
communities, today announced its 2006 Thomson Scientific Laureates -
researchers likely to contend for Nobel honors - in anticipation of this
year's Nobel Prize winners to be announced in October.
Each year, data from ISI Web of Knowledge(SM), a Thomson Scientific
research solution, is used to quantitatively determine the most influential
researchers in the Nobel categories of chemistry, economics, physiology or
medicine, and physics. Because of the total citations to their works, these
high-impact researchers are named Thomson Scientific Laureates and predicted
to be Nobel Prize winners, either this year or in the near future. Of the 27
Thomson Scientific Laureates named since 2002, four have gone on to win Nobel
honors - an accurate-prediction average of better than one in seven.
"Citations are an acknowledgement of intellectual debt - a direct
demonstration of influence in a given subject area," said Henry Small, chief
scientist at Thomson Scientific. "Over the past 30 years, our studies have
demonstrated a strong relationship between journal article citations and peer
esteem. Researchers who have accumulated such credits from their peers are
also often nominated for prizes and other honors, such as the Nobel Prize."
Thomson Scientific is the only organization to use quantitative data to
make annual predictions of Nobel Prize winners. The Thomson Scientific
Laureates typically rank among the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of
researchers in their fields, based on citations of their published papers over
the last two decades.
To select the 2006 Thomson Scientific Laureates, total citation counts and
number of high-impact papers in the Nobel science fields were examined. These
data were applied to categories within those scientific fields considered
worthy of special recognition by the Nobel Committee: physics, chemistry,
physiology or medicine, and economics. Based on these criteria, possible
winners - leaders within a particularly noteworthy area of study within each
field - were selected.
The 2006 Thomson Scientific Laureates in four Nobel Prize categories are
as follows:
Field Researcher Institution
Physics Emmanuel Desurvire Alcatel Technical Academy
(France)
Albert Fert University of Paris-Sud
(France)
Peter Gruenberg Julich Research Center
(Germany)
Alan H. Guth Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Andrei Linde Stanford University School of Med.
Masataka Nakazawa Tohoku University (Japan)
David N. Payne University of Southampton (U.K.)
Paul J. Steinhardt Princeton University
Chemistry Gerald R. Crabtree Stanford University
David A. Evans Harvard University
Steven V. Ley University of Cambridge (U.K.)
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University
Physiology or
Medicine Mario R. Capecchi University of Utah
Pierre Chambon Universite Louis Pasteur (France)
Sir Martin Evans Cardiff University (U.K.)
Ronald M. Evans Salk Inst. for Biological Studies
Elwood V. Jensen Univ. of Cincinnati Medical Center
Sir Alec J. Jefferys University of Leicester (U.K.)
Oliver Smithies Univ. North Carolina School of Med.
Economics Jagdish N. Bhagwati Columbia University
Avinash K. Dixit Princeton University
Oliver D. Hart Harvard University
Bengt R. Holmstrom Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University
Paul Krugman Princeton University
Oliver E. Williamson University of California, Berkeley
For detailed information about each of the Laureates, including
information about their areas of study, visit the Thomson Scientific Laureates
Website at scientific.thomson.com/nobel. Visitors also may make their
own Nobel Prize predications, read about previously name laureates, and learn
more about the Thomson Scientific selection process.
About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Scientific
The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com), with 2005 revenues of
approximately $8.40 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated
information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson
provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than
20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services,
higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment,
scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in
Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,500 employees and provides
services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are
listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its
information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and
development - from discovery to analysis to product development and
distribution. Thomson scientific information solutions can be found at
http://www.scientific.thomson.com.
SOURCE Thomson Scientific
CONTACT: Rodney Yancey, Manager, Marketing Communications, Thomson
Scientific, +1-215-823-5397, rodney.yancey@thomson.com; or Chris Lukach,
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chris@mail.akleinpr.com, for Thomson Scientific/
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