List of female Clarivate Citation laureates

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The following is a list of candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in their respective field. The candidates are so named based on the citation impact of their published research. [1] Since 2023, six of the 26 female Clarivate Citation laureates starting in 2008 were subsequently awarded with a Nobel Prize: Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider in Physiology or Medicine (2009), Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna in Chemistry (2020), Carolyn Bertozzi in Chemistry (2022), and Claudia Goldin in Economics (2023).

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Female Citation laureates

YearFieldPortraitCitation LaureateNationalityMotivationsInstitute
2008 [2] Physics Vera Rubin (cropped).jpg Vera Rubin
(1928–2016)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for her pioneering research indicating the existence of dark matter in the universe." Carnegie Institution of Washington
2009 [3] Physiology or Medicine Elizabeth Blackburn (cropped).JPG Elizabeth Blackburn
(born 1948)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Flag of the United States.svg United States
"for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research on telomeres and telomerases."
(selected with Jack W. Szostak)
University of California, San Francisco
Carol Greider (cropped).JPG Carol W. Greider
(born 1961)
Flag of the United States.svg United States Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Chemistry Jacqueline Barton AIC Gold Medal 2015 (cropped).jpg Jacqueline Barton
(born 1952)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA."
(selected with Bernd Giese and Gary Schuster)
California Institute of Technology
2011 [4] Economic Sciences Anne O. Krueger (2004) (cropped).jpg Anne Krueger
(born 1934)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for their description of rent-seeking behavior and its implications."
(selected with Gordon Tullock)
Johns Hopkins University
2012 [5] Physics Professor Lene Hau (cropped).jpg Lene Hau
(born 1959)
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark"for the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)."
(selected with Stephen E. Harris)
Harvard University
2015 [6] Deborah S. Jin (cropped).jpg Deborah S. Jin
(1968–2016)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for pioneering research on atomic gases at ultra-cold temperatures and the creation of the first fermionic condensate." University of Colorado
Chemistry Carolyn Bertozzi (cropped).jpg Carolyn Bertozzi
(born 1966)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry."
Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier at York University, Toronto (cropped).jpg Emmanuelle Charpentier
(born 1968)
Flag of France.svg France"for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing."
Jennifer Doudna (2016) (cropped1).jpg Jennifer Doudna
(born 1964)
Flag of the United States.svg United States
2016 [7] Physiology or Medicine BLANK ICON (cropped).png Arlene Sharpe
(born 1953)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for elucidating programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advanced cancer immunotherapy."
(selected with Gordon J. Freeman and Tasuku Honjo)
2017 [8] Yuan Chang (cropped).JPG Yuan Chang
(born 1959)
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan
Flag of the United States.svg United States
"for their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)."
(selected with husband Patrick S. Moore)
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
2018 [9] Physics Sandra-faber-barack-obama (cropped1).png Sandra Faber
(born 1944)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for pioneering methods to determine the age, size and distance of galaxies and for other contributions to cosmology." University of California, Santa Cruz
Chemistry JoAnne Stubbe 2009 (cropped).jpg JoAnne Stubbe
(born 1946)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for her discovery that ribonucleotide reductases transform ribonucleotides into deoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism." Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019 [10] Physiology or Medicine Philippa Marrack 1992 - National Jewish Health (cropped).jpg Philippa Marrack
(born 1945)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom"for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus."
(selected with husband John Kappler)
National Jewish Health
Economic Sciences BLANK ICON (cropped).png Katarina Juselius
(born 1943)
Flag of Finland.svg Finland
Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
"for contributions to econometrics and cointegration analysis."
(selected with husband Søren Johansen)
University of Copenhagen
2020 [11] Physiology or Medicine Plos bjorkman (cropped).jpg Pamela J. Bjorkman
(born 1956)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for determining the structure and function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." California Institute of Technology
Huda Zoghbi (cropped).jpg Huda Zoghbi
(born 1954)
Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon
Flag of the United States.svg United States
"for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome."
Economic Sciences Claudia Goldin Headshot (cropped).jpg Claudia Goldin
(born 1946)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for contributions to labor economics, especially her analysis of women and the gender pay gap." Harvard University
2021 [12] Carmen M. Reinhart (cropped).jpg Carmen Reinhart
(born 1955)
Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba
Flag of the United States.svg United States
"for contributions to international macroeconomics and insights on global debt and financial crises." Harvard Kennedy School
2022 [13] Physiology or Medicine Virginia M.-Y. Lee (cropped).png Virginia Man-Yee Lee
(born 1945)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
Flag of the United States.svg United States
"for the identification of TDP-43, a pathological signature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases."
(selected with Masato Hasegawa)
University of Pennsylvania
Mary-claire king (cropped).jpg Mary-Claire King
(born 1946)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for demonstrating inherited susceptibility for breast and ovarian cancer and discovering the role played by mutations of the BRCA1 gene." University of Washington
Chemistry Zhenan Bao (cropped1).jpg Zhenan Bao
(born 1970)
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
Flag of the United States.svg United States
"for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'." Stanford University
Bassler (cropped).jpg Bonnie Bassler
(born 1962)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for research on regulation of gene expression in bacteria through quorum sensing, a chemical communication system."
(selected with Everett Peter Greenberg)
2023 [14] Physics Sharon Glotzer at ENIAC (cropped).jpg Sharon Glotzer
(born 1967)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for demonstrating the role of entropy in the self-assembly of matter and for introducing strategies to control the assembly process to engineer new materials." University of Michigan
Chemistry BLANK ICON (cropped).png Karen L. Wooley
(born 1972)
Flag of the United States.svg United States"for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods."
(selected with Vladimir Torchilin and Kazunori Kataoka)
Texas A&M University

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