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September 11, 2007
Thomson Scientific Predicts Nobel Laureates
Seventeen "Thomson Scientific Laureates" Recognized for Their Contributions to the Advancement of Science.
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON, Sept. 11 -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, has announced its 2007 Thomson Scientific Laureates. in anticipation of this year's Nobel Prize winners to be announced in October, these researchers are likely to be in contention for Nobel honors.
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 54 Thomson Scientific Laureates named since 2002, four have gone on to win Nobel honors.
The 2007 Thomson Scientific Laureates by Nobel Prize category are as follows:
Physics: Sumio Iijima, Meijo University (Japan) ; Martin J. Rees (Lord Rees of Ludlow) , F.R.S., University of Cambridge (U.K.); Arthur B. McDonald, Queen's University (Canada); Yoji Totsuka, University of Tokyo (Japan).
Chemistry: Samuel J. Danishefsky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Columb University (U.S.A.); Barry M. Trost, Stanford University (U.S.A.); Dieter Seebach, Eidhenossiche Technische, Hochschule (Switzerland).
Physiology or Medicine: R. John Ellis, F.R.S., University of Warwick (U.K.); R. Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Germany); Arthur Horwich, Yale University School of Medicine (U.S.A.); Fred H. Gage, Salk Institute (U.S.A.); Joan Massague, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Cancer Center (U.S.A.).
Economics: Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University (U.S.A.) & Tel Aviv University (Israel); Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University (U.S.A.) & Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (U.S.A.); Jean Tirole, University of Social Sciences (France); Robert B. Wilson, Stanford University (U.S.A.); Paul R. Milgrom, Stanford University (U.S.A.).
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