Gerald R. Crabtree:
Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. Listed in isihighlycited.com in immunology.
ESI Rank: among top 1% in citations for molecular biology and genetics, for biology and biochemistry, and for immunology.
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David A. Evans:
Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Listed in isihighlycited.com; Ranks in ESI, among the top 1% of cited scientists in chemistry by total citations for the period January 1996-April 2006.
ESI RANK: Evans Both appear in ESI as chemists who rank in the top 1% by total citations for the period January 1996-April 2006. A field of importance, and there are many potential winners — spoiled for choice with this award.
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Robert H. Grubbs **
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, Calif.

Steven V. Ley, CBE, FRS: BP [1702] Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of Trinity College. interviewed in Science Watch, January 1994.
ESI RANK: among the top 1% of cited scientists in chemistry by total citations for the period January 1996-April 2006.
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Tobin J. Marks:
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. Listed in isihighlycited.com in chemistry;
ESI Rank: among the top 1% of cited scientists in chemistry (in the top 100) and in materials science for the period January 1996-April 2006. Recipient of the 2003 Sir Edward Frankland Prize of the British Royal Society of Chemistry, the highest award of the society for accomplishments in organometallic chemistry research. First American winner of the Karl Ziegler Prize of the Gasellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (Germany). Awarded the American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal for 2002. Very high ranking in terms of citations per paper for chemists publishing significantly (15 or more papers per year).
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K.C. Nicolaou
Chairman, Department of Chemistry
Aline W. and L.S. Skaggs Professor in Chemical Biology and Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, Calif.
Professor of Chemistry
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, Calif.

Stuart L. Schreiber:
Morris Loeb Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Institute Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, January 1995; listed isihighlycited.com in chemistry.
ESI Rank: among top 1% in citations for molecular biology and genetics, for biology and biochemistry, and for chemistry.
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Seiji Shinkai
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kyushu University
Graduate School of Engineering
Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

J. Fraser Stoddart
Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.

George M. Whitesides
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.

Adriaan Bax
Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Section Chief
Laboratory of Chemical Physics
National Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Md.

Robert J. Barro
Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass.
Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution
Stanford, Calif.

Jagdish N. Bhagwati:
University Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
Distinction: Listed among top 50 cited economists in E. Garfield's essay "Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Here's a Forecast Based on Citation Indicators," Current Contents, March 12, 1990, based on 1966-1986 data - a list that has been extraordinarily predictive of future Nobel Prize winners.

Avinash K. Dixit:
John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Highly cited, and known for developing and expanding on Bhagwati's seminal work. isihighlycited.com in Economics and Business.
ESI Rank: In the top 1% for January 1996-April 2006 by total citations.
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Robert F. Engle **
Michael Armellino Professor in the Management of Financial Services
New York University Stern School of Business
New York, N.Y.

Eugene F. Fama
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Kenneth R. French
Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance
Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth College
Hanover, N.H.

Clive W. J. Granger **
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, Calif.

Oliver D. Hart:
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. isihighlycited.com.
ESI Rank: in the top 1% of economists by citations for the period January 1996-April 2006.
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Bengt R. Holmstrom:
Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics and Chairman, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; joint appointment with MIT's Sloan School of Management
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Dale W. Jorgenson:
Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) Listed among the top 50 cited economists in E. Garfield's essay "Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Here's a Forecast Based on Citation Indicators," Current Contents, March 12, 1990, based on 1966-1986 data — a list that has been extraordinarily predictive of future Nobel Prize winners.
ESI Rank: Listed in the top 1% by citations for Economics and Business for January 1996-April 2006. Winner of John Bates Clark Medal of American Economic Association (1971).

Paul Krugman:
Professor, Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) Highly cited, and known for developing and expanding on Bhagwati's seminal work. isihighlycited.com in Economics and Business.
ESI Rank: In the top 1% for January 1996-April 2006 by total citations.

Paul Michael Romer
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and
Hoover Institution
Stanford, Calif.

Daniel Kahneman**
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Professor of Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.

Richard H. Thaler
Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Oliver E. Williamson:
Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Isihighlycited.com.
ESI Rank: in the top 1% of economists by citations for the period January 1996-April 2006. Recognized with the 2004 Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics, the premiere economics award in Germany.
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Sir Michael J. Berridge, FRS
Deputy Scientific Director and Head, Molecular Signaling
The Babraham Institute
Babraham
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Honorary Professor of Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mario R. Capecchi: **
Distinguished Professor of Biology and Human Genetics and Co-Chairman, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, July/August 1993. Joint winner (along with Evans & Smithies) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of Gairdner Award in 1993. March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 (along with Smithies)
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Pierre Chambon:
Former Director, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France; and Professor, College de France, Paris, France. Interviewed in Science Watch, February 1994; listed in isihighlycited.com in molecular biology and genetics and in biology and biochemistry. Joint winner (along with Evans & Jensen) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
ESI Rank: 21st in world in molecular biology and genetics
by total cites (Jan 1996-April 2006).
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Francis S. Collins
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
Senior Investigator
Genome Technology Branch
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Md.

Sir Martin Evans: **
Director of the School of Biosciences and Professor of Mammalian Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Joint winner (along with Capecchi & Smithies) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Ronald M. Evans:
Professor and March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Interviewed in Science Watch, December 1992; listed in isihighlycited.com in molecular biology and genetics, in biology and biochemistry, and in microbiology. Joint winner (along with Chambon & Jensen) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of Gairdner Award in 2006.
ESI Rank: 18th in world in molecular biology and genetics
by total cites (Jan 1996-April 2006).
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Sir Alec J. Jefferys, FRS:
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. Identified as author of highly cited papers and interviewed in Science Watch, April 1995; listed in isihighlycited.com in molecular biology and genetics. Winner of 2005 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research.
ESI Rank: Top 1% by total citations in molecular biology and genetics (January 1996-April 2006) but breakthrough papers came in the 1980s. Received 1996 Albert Einstein World Award of Science. There is a parallel here in that the Nobel Prize committee recognized the revolutionary role of the PCR technique (K.B. Mullis – Chemistry Prize, 1993).
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Elwood V. Jensen:
John and Gladys Strauss Professor of Cancer Research, Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Charles Huggins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Joint winner (along with Chambon & Evans) of 2004 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Distinction: Jensen was the pioneer with his work on estrogen in the late 1950s, so his citation count does not reveal him in the same way as Evans and Chambon, whose ground-breaking papers came in the last two and a half decades.

Alfred G. Knudson Jr.
Senior Advisor to the President and Fox Distinguished Scientist
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pa.

Eric S. Lander
Professor of Biology
MIT
Cambridge, Mass.
Director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research
Whitehead Institute
Cambridge, Mass.

Yasutomi Nishizuka (deceased)
President Emeritus of Kobe University
Former Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry
School of Medicine
Kobe University
Kobe, Japan

Oliver Smithies: **
Excellence Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. Joint winner (along with Capecchi & Evans) of 2001 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Winner of Gairdner Award in 1993 and 1990. March of Dimes Annual Prize for 2005 (along with Capecchi)
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J. Craig Venter
President
The Center for Advancement of Genomics
Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives, and Venter Science Foundation
Rockville, Md

Bert Vogelstein
Professor of Oncology and Pathology with a Joint Appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Md.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Robert A. Weinberg
Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research
MIT
Cambridge, Mass.
Member
Whitehead Institute
Cambridge, Mass.

Emmanuel Desurvire:
Director, Alcatel Technical Academy, La Ville du Bois, France. Interviewed in Science Watch, November 1990.
Distinction: Key, highly cited papers appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so are outside the time scope of ESI.
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Albert Fert:**
Professor of Physics, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) isi.highlycited.com.
ESI Rank: Among top 1% of physicists according to total citations for period January 1996-April 2006. Presented with Gold Medal of the CNRS 2003.

Michael B. Green, FRS
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics
Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Peter Gruenberg: **
Professor, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany) Awarded the German Future Prize for Technology and Innovation by the German Federal President in 1998. European Patent Office Inventor of the Year for 2005.
Distinction: European Inventor of the Year 2006.

Alan H. Guth:
Alan H. Guth (Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) Interviewed in Science Watch, June/July 1992. Winner of Dirac Medal 2002. Winner of the 2004 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
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Andrei Linde:
Professor of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) Winner of Dirac Medal 2002. Winner of the 2004 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
ESI Rank: Listed in the top 1% of physicists by citations for January 1996-April 2006.

Shuji Nakamura
Professor, Materials Department
Director of the Center for Solid State Lighting and Displays
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, Calif.

Masataka Nakazawa:
Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Distinction: Key, highly cited papers appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so are outside the time scope of ESI.

David N. Payne, FRS:
Professor and Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Distinction: Key, highly cited papers appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so are outside the time scope of ESI.
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John H. Schwarz
Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, Calif.

Paul J. Steinhardt:
Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Departments of Physics and of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA) Winner of Dirac Medal 2002. Listed in isihighlycited.com in physics.
ESI Rank: Listed in the top 1% of physicists by citations for January 1996-April 2006.
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Yoshinori Tokura
Professor, Department of Applied Physics
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Edward Witten
Charles Simonyi Professor
School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, N.J.