The 2012 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates by Nobel Prize category are:
CHEMISTRY
Louis E. Brus
Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
New York, New York, USA
For discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)
Akira Fujishima
President, Tokyo University of Science
Special University Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Supreme Advisor, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology
Tokyo, Japan
For the discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the
Honda-Fujishima Effect)
Masatake Haruta
Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry
Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Tokyo, Japan
-and-
Graham J. Hutchings
Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Center
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales U.K.
For independent foundational discoveries of catalysis by gold
PHYSICS
Charles H. Bennett
IBM Fellow
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corporation
Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
-and-
Gilles Brassard
Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing
University of Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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William K. Wootters
Barclay Jermain Professor of Natural Philosophy
Department of Physics
Williams College,
Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
For their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation,
which has since been
experimentally verified
Leigh T. Canham
Chief Scientific Officer
pSiMedica Ltd.
Malvern
Honorary Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England, U.K.
For discovery of photoluminescence in porous silicon
Stephen E. Harris
Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor
of Applied Physics Emeritus
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA
-and-
Lene V. Hau
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
For the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced
transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
C. David Allis
Tri-Institutional Professor and Joy and Jack Fishman Professor
Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics
Rockefeller University
New York, New York, USA
-and-
Michael Grunstein
Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry
Geffen School of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
For fundamental discoveries concerning histone modifications and their role
in genetic regulation
Anthony "Tony" R. Hunter
American Cancer Society Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Renato Dulbecco Chair
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Adjunct Professor, Section of Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California, USA
For the discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation and contributions to
understanding protein kinases and their role in signal transduction
-and-
Anthony "Tony" J. Pawson
Distinguished Scientist and Apotex Chair in Molecular Oncology
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital
Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
For identification of the phosphotyrosine binding SH2 domain and
demonstrating its function in protein-protein interactions
Richard O. Hynes
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Erkki Ruoslahti
Distinguished Professor, Center for Nanomedicine
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, USA
-and-
Masatoshi Takeichi
Director, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Kobe, Japan
For pioneering discoveries of cell adhesion molecules, Hynes and Ruoslahti
for integrins and Takeichi for cadherins
ECONOMICS
Sir Anthony B. Atkinson
Research Professor, Department of Economics
Oxford University,
Oxford, England U.K.
For studies of income inequality and contributions to welfare state and
public sector economics\
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Angus S. Deaton
Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of
Economics and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
For empirical research on consumption, income and savings, poverty and
health, and well-being
Stephen A. Ross
Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics and Professor of Finance
The MIT Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
For his arbitrage pricing theory and other fundamental contributions to
finance
Robert J. Shiller
Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and Professor of Finance
The International Center for Finance
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
For pioneering contributions to financial market volatility and the dynamics
of asset prices
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