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 2024, six of the 29 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).
Year | Field | Portrait | Citation Laureate | Nationality | Motivations | Institute |
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2008 [2] | Physics | Vera Rubin (1928–2016) | 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 (born 1948) | Australia 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 W. Greider (born 1961) | United States | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | ||||
Chemistry | Jacqueline Barton (born 1952) | 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 Krueger (born 1934) | United States | "for their description of rent-seeking behavior and its implications." (selected with Gordon Tullock) | Johns Hopkins University | |
2012 [5] | Physics | Lene Hau (born 1959) | 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 (1968–2016) | 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 (born 1966) | United States | "for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry." | |||
Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968) | France | "for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing." | ||||
Jennifer Doudna (born 1964) | United States | |||||
2016 [7] | Physiology or Medicine | Arlene Sharpe (born 1953) | 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 (born 1959) | Taiwan 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 (born 1944) | 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 (born 1946) | 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 (born 1945) | 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 | Katarina Juselius (born 1943) | Finland Denmark | "for contributions to econometrics and cointegration analysis." (selected with husband Søren Johansen) | University of Copenhagen | ||
2020 [11] | Physiology or Medicine | Pamela J. Bjorkman (born 1956) | 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 (born 1954) | Lebanon United States | "for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins of Rett syndrome." | ||||
Economic Sciences | Claudia Goldin (born 1946) | United States | "for contributions to labor economics, especially her analysis of women and the gender pay gap." | Harvard University | ||
2021 [12] | Carmen Reinhart (born 1955) | Cuba United States | "for contributions to international macroeconomics and insights on global debt and financial crises." | Harvard Kennedy School | ||
2022 [13] | Physiology or Medicine | Virginia Man-Yee Lee (born 1945) | China 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 (born 1946) | 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 (born 1970) | China United States | "for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'." | Stanford University | ||
Bonnie Bassler (born 1962) | 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 (born 1967) | 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 | Karen L. Wooley (born 1972) | 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 | ||
2024 [15] | Physiology or Medicine | Helen Hobbs (born 1952) | United States | "for research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases." (selected with Jonathan C. Cohen) | ||
Ann Graybiel (born 1942) | United States | "for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." (selected with Okihide Hikosaka and Wolfram Schultz) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
Economic Sciences | Janet Currie (born 1957) | Canada United States | "for pioneering economic analysis of child development." | Princeton University |
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