List of Clarivate Citation laureates in Physics

The following is a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates in Physics, considered likely candidates to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.^[1]

Laureates

	Citation Laureates	Nationality	Motivations	Institute
2008^[2]
²⁰¹⁰	Andre Geim (born 1958)	Netherlands United Kingdom	"for their discovery and analysis of graphene."	University of Manchester
²⁰¹⁰	Konstantin Novoselov (born 1974)	Russia United Kingdom	"for their discovery and analysis of graphene."	University of Manchester
	Vera Rubin (1928–2016)	United States	"for her pioneering research indicating the existence of dark matter in the universe."	Carnegie Institution of Washington
²⁰²⁰	Roger Penrose (born 1931)	United Kingdom	"for their related discoveries of, Penrose-tilings and quasicrystals, respectively."	University of Oxford
²⁰¹¹	Dan Shechtman (born 1941)	Israel		Iowa State University Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2009^[3]
	Yakir Aharonov (born 1932)	Israel	"for their discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the related Berry phase, respectively."	Chapman University Tel Aviv University
	Michael Berry (born 1941)	United Kingdom		University of Bristol
	Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 1965)	Spain	"for their pioneering research on quantum optics and quantum computing."	Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
	Peter Zoller (born 1952)	Austria		University of Innsbruck Austrian Academy of Sciences
	John Pendry (born 1943)	United Kingdom	"for their prediction and discovery of negative refraction."	Imperial College London
	Sheldon Schultz [de] (1933–2017)	United States		University of California, San Diego
	David R. Smith (born 1964)	United States		Duke University
2010^[4]
	Charles L. Bennett (born 1956)	United States	"for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition."	Johns Hopkins University National Aeronautics and Space Administration
	Lyman Page (born 1957)	United States		Princeton University
	David Spergel (born 1961)	United States		Princeton University
	Thomas Ebbesen (born 1954)	Norway	"for observation and explanation of the transmission of light through subwavelength holes, which ignited the field of surface plasmon photonics."	University of Strasbourg Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering
²⁰¹¹	Saul Perlmutter (born 1959)	United States	"for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy."	University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
²⁰¹¹	Adam Riess (born 1969)	United States		Johns Hopkins University Space Telescope Science Institute
²⁰¹¹	Brian Schmidt (born 1967)	United States		Australian National University
2011^[5]
²⁰²²	Alain Aspect (born 1947)	France	"for their tests of Bell inequalities and research on quantum entanglement."	Institut d'Optique École Polytechnique
²⁰²²	John Clauser (born 1942)	United States		Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
²⁰²²	Anton Zeilinger (born 1945)	Austria		University of Vienna Austrian Academy of Sciences
	Sajeev John (born 1957)	Canada	"for their invention and development of photonic band gap materials."	University of Toronto
	Eli Yablonovitch (born 1946)	United States		University of California, Berkeley
	Hideo Ohno (born 1954)	Japan	"for contributions to ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors."	Tohoku University Research Institute of Electronic Communication
2012^[6]
	Charles H. Bennett (born 1943)	United States	"for their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified."	IBM Research
	Gilles Brassard (born 1955)	Canada		University of Montreal
	William Wootters (born 1951)	United States		Williams College
	Leigh Canham (born 1958)	United Kingdom	"for discovery of photoluminescence in porous silicon."	University of Birmingham
	Stephen E. Harris (born 1936)	United States	"for the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)."	Stanford University
	Lene Hau (born 1959)	Denmark		Harvard University
2013^[7]
²⁰¹³	François Englert (born 1932)	Belgium	"for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson."	Universite Libre de Bruxelles Chapman University
²⁰¹³	Peter W. Higgs (born 1929)	United Kingdom	"for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson."	University of Edinburgh
	Hideo Hosono (born 1953)	Japan	"for his discovery of iron-based superconductors."	Tokyo Institute of Technology
	Geoffrey Marcy (born 1954)	United States	"for their discoveries of extrasolar planets."	University of California, Berkeley
²⁰¹⁹	Michel Mayor (born 1942)	Switzerland		University of Geneva
²⁰¹⁹	Didier P. Queloz (born 1966)	Switzerland		University of Geneva University of Cambridge
2014^[8]
	Charles L. Kane (born 1963)	United States	"for theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators."	University of Pennsylvania
	Laurens W. Molenkamp (born 1956)	Netherlands		University of Würzburg
	Shoucheng Zhang (1963–2018)	China United States		Stanford University
	James F. Scott (1942–2020)	United States	"for their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura)."	University of Cambridge
	Ramamoorthy Ramesh (born 1960)	United States		University of California, Berkeley
	Yoshinori Tokura^[a] (born 1954)	Japan		University of Tokyo
	Peidong Yang (born 1971)	China United States	"for his contributions to nanowire photonics including the creation of first nanowire nanolaser."	University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2015^[9]
	Paul Corkum (born 1943)	Canada	"for contributions to the development of attosecond physics."	University of Ottawa
²⁰²³	Ferenc Krausz (born 1962)	Hungary		Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Ludwig Maximilians University
	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
	Zhong Lin Wang (born 1961)	China United States	"for his invention of piezotronic and piezophototronic nanogenerators."	Georgia Institute of Technology
2016^[10]
	Marvin L. Cohen (born 1935)	United States	"for theoretical studies of solid materials, prediction of their properties, and especially for the empirical pseudopotential method."	University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	Ronald Drever (1931–2017)	United Kingdom	"for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) that made possible the detection of gravitational waves."	California Institute of Technology
²⁰¹⁷	Kip Thorne (born 1940)	United States		California Institute of Technology
²⁰¹⁷	Rainer Weiss (born 1932)	United States
	Celso Grebogi (born 1947)	Brazil	"for their description of a control theory of chaotic systems, the OGY method."	University of Aberdeen
	Edward Ott (born 1941)	United States		University of Maryland
	James A. Yorke (born 1941)	United States		University of Maryland
2017^[11]
	Phaedon Avouris (born 1945)	Greece	"for seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics."	Thomas J. Watson Research Center
	Cornelis Dekker (born 1949)	Netherlands		Delft University of Technology
	Paul McEuen (born 1963)	United States		Cornell University
	Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019)	United States	"for pioneering discoveries in nonlinear and chaotic physical systems and for identification of the Feigenbaum constants."	Rockefeller University
	Rashid Sunyaev (born 1943)	Russia Germany	"for his profound contributions to our understanding of the universe, including its origins, galactic formation processes, disk accretion of black holes, and many other cosmological phenomena."	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Russian Academy of Sciences
2018^[12]
	David Awschalom (born 1956)	United States	"for observation of the spin Hall effect in semiconductors."	University of Chicago
	Arthur Gossard (1935–2022)	United States		University of California, Santa Barbara
	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
	Yury Gogotsi (born 1961)	Ukraine	"for discoveries advancing the understanding and development of carbon-based materials, including for capacitive energy storage and understanding the mechanisms of operation of supercapacitors."	Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
	Rodney S. Ruoff (born 1957)	United States		Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
	Patrice Simon (born 1969)	France		Université Paul Sabatier
2019^[13]
	Artur Ekert (born 1961)	Poland United States	"for contributions to quantum computation and quantum cryptography."	Oxford University National University of Singapore
	Tony Heinz (born 1956)	United States	"for pioneering research on optical and electronic properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials."	Stanford University SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
	John Perdew (born 1943)	United States	"for advances in density functional theory of electronic structure, revealing 'nature's glue'."	Temple University
2020^[14]
	Thomas L. Carroll [de]	United States	"for research in nonlinear dynamics including synchronization of chaotic systems."	United States Naval Research Laboratory
	Louis M. Pecora [de] (born 1947)	United States		United States Naval Research Laboratory
	Hongjie Dai (born 1966)	China United States	"for fabrication and novel applications of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes."	Stanford University
	Alex Zettl (born 1956)	United States		University of California, Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	Carlos Frenk (born 1951)	Mexico United Kingdom	"for their fundamental studies of galaxy formation and evolution, cosmic structure, and dark matter halos."	Durham University
	Julio Navarro (born 1962)	Argentina Canada		University of Victoria
	Simon White (born 1951)	United Kingdom		Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
2021^[15]
	Alexei Kitaev (born 1963)	Russia United States	"for topological quantum computation, in which quantum information is encoded and protected using topological properties of many-body systems."	California Institute of Technology
	Mark Newman	United Kingdom United States	"for wide-ranging research on network systems including work on community structure and random graph models."	University of Michigan
²⁰²¹	Giorgio Parisi (born 1948)	Italy	"for ground-breaking discoveries in quantum chromodynamics and in the study of complex disordered systems."	Sapienza University of Rome
2022^[16]
	Immanuel Bloch (born 1972)	Germany	"for ground-breaking research on quantum many-body systems using ultra-cold atomic and molecular gases, opening the way to quantum simulations of 'artificial solids'."	Ludwig-Maximilians University Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
	Stephen Quake (born 1969)	United States	"for contributions to the physics of fluid phenomena on the nanoliter scale."	Stanford University Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
	Takashi Taniguchi [jp] (born 1959)	Japan	"for fabrication of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride crystals, the availability of which enabled a revolution in research on the electronic behavior of two-dimensional materials."	National Institute for Materials Science
	Kenji Watanabe [jp] (born 1969)	Japan		National Institute for Materials Science
2023^[17]
	Sharon C. Glotzer	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, Ann Arbor
	Federico Capasso (born 1949)	Italy United States	"for pioneering research on photonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces, as well as contributions to the invention of and improvements on the quantum cascade laser."	Harvard University, Cambridge
	Stuart S. P. Parkin (born 1955)	United Kingdom Germany	"for research on spintronics and specifically the development of racetrack memory for increased data storage density."	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg