Breakthroughs
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This year's Citation Laureates are...

Breakthroughs in Physiology or Medicine

Discover the insights and inspirations from Ann M. Graybiel, one of the world's most influential researchers and a Citation Laureate 2024

for the discovery of genomic imprinting, advancing our understanding of epigenetics and mammalian development

Physiology or Medicine

Davor Solter

Emeritus Director and Member, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Department of Developmental Biology, Freiburg, Germany

Germany

Physiology or Medicine

Azim Surani

Director of Germline and Epigenetics Research, Gurdon Institute; and Affiliated Professor, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

for research on the genetics of lipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases

Physiology or Medicine

Jonathan C. Cohen

C. Vincent Prothro Distinguished Chair in Human Nutrition Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States

United States

Physiology or Medicine

Helen H. Hobbs

Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States

United States

for physiological studies of the basal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning

Physiology or Medicine

Okihide Hikosaka

NIH Distinguished Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

United States

Physiology or Medicine

Ann M. Graybiel

Institute Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

United States

Physiology or Medicine

Wolfram Schultz

Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, and Professorial Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Visiting Research Associate, Division of Human & Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

United States

Breakthroughs in Chemistry

Discover the insights and inspirations from John M. Jumper, one of the world's most influential researchers and a Citation Laureate 2024

for the Car-Parrinello method for calculating ab-initio molecular dynamics, a revolution in computational chemistry

Chemistry

Roberto Car

Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute; Director, Chemistry in Solution and at Interfaces Computational Chemical Science Center; Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

United States

Chemistry

Michele Parrinello

Professor Emeritus of Computational Science at the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland; Professor Emeritus at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Switzerland

for fundamental research on photocatalysts for water splitting and the construction of solar hydrogen production systems

Chemistry

Kazunari Domen

Special Contract Professor, Institute for Aqua Regeneration, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan; University Professor, Office of University Professors, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Japan

for contributions to the prediction and design of three-dimensional protein structures and functions

Chemistry

John M. Jumper

Director, Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Chemistry

Demis Hassabis

Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Chemistry

David Baker

Professor of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Director of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States

United States

Breakthroughs in Physics

Discover the insights and inspirations from Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, one of the world's most influential researchers and a Citation Laureate 2024

for revolutionary contributions to quantum algorithms and computing

Physics

Peter W. Shor

Henry Adams Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

United States

Physics

David Deutsch

Visiting Professor of Physics, Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene and related moiré quantum devices

Physics

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

United States

Physics

Allan H. MacDonald

Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States

United States

Physics

Rafi Bistritzer

Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel

for invention and application of atomic force microscopy

Physics

Christoph Gerber

Professor, Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Switzerland

Breakthroughs in Economics

Discover the insights and inspirations from Janet Currie, one of the world's most influential researchers and a Citation Laureate 2024

for pioneering economic analysis of child development

Economics

Janet Currie

Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

United States

for integrating nature and its resources in the human economy

Economics

Partha Dasgupta

Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

for empirical studies of the effects of corruption on investment and economic growth

Economics

Paolo Mauro

Director, Economic and Market Research Department, International Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C., United States

United States