SUCCESSFUL PREDICTION TABLE

Year

Nobel Prizewinners

Prize

Citation for Prediction

1989

J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus

Medicine

Pendlebury, The Scientist, October 2, 1989

1990

Elias J. Corey

Chemistry

Martello, The Scientist, September 17, 1990

1991

Ronald H. Coase

Economics

Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990

1992

Edwin G. Krebs

Gary S. Becker

Medicine

Economics

Pendlebury, The Scientist, October 2, 1989

Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990

1993

None

   

1994

Alfred G. Gilman

George A. Olah

Medicine

Chemistry

Pendlebury, The Scientist, October 2, 1989

Martello, The Scientist, September 17, 1990

1995

Robert E. Lucas

Economics

Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990

1996

None

   

1997

Robert C. Merton*

Economics

Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990 (*51st most cited)

1998

John A. Pople


Amartya Sen

Chemistry


Economics

Martello, The Scientist, September 17, 1990; Pendlebury, Email 1997

Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990

1999

Ahmed H. Zewail

Chemistry

Martello, The Scientist, September 17, 1990; Pendlebury, Email 1997

2000

Eric R. Kandel

Alan J. Heeger

Medicine

Chemistry

Pendlebury, The Scientist, October 2, 1989

Martello, The Scientist, September 3, 1990 (for Physics)

2001

Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Chemistry


Economics

Pendlebury, Email 1997


Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990

2002

Sydney Brenner

Daniel Kahneman

Medicine

Economics

Pendlebury, The Scientist, October 2, 1989

2002 website

2003

Robert F. Engle, Clive W.J. Granger

Economics

Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990 (Granger); 2003 website

2004

David J. Gross, Frank A. Wilczek

Physics

Martello, The Scientist, September 3, 1990

2005

Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock

Chemistry

Pendlebury, Email 1997 (Schrock); 2005 website (Grubbs)

2006 Edmund S. Phelps Economics Garfield, Current Contents, March 12, 1990 (*34th most cited)
2007

Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin Evans
and Oliver Smithes


Peter Gruenberg, Albert Fert

Medicine

 


Physics

2006 website

 


2006 website