# 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. Since 2024, 18 of the selected citation laureates starting in 2008 were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (2010), Dan Shechtman in Chemistry (2011), Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2011), François Englert and Peter W. Higgs (2013), Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss (2017), Michel Mayor and Didier P. Queloz (2019), Roger Penrose (2020), Giorgio Parisi (2021), Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger (2022), and Ferenc Krausz (2023).

## Laureates

* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2022
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
| | Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute |
| 2008 |||||
| | Andre Geim (born 1958) | Netherlands United Kingdom | "for their discovery and analysis of graphene." | University of Manchester |
| | 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 |
| | Roger Penrose (born 1931) | United Kingdom | "for their related discoveries of, Penrose-tilings and quasicrystals, respectively." | University of Oxford |
| | Dan Shechtman (born 1941) | Israel | "for their related discoveries of, Penrose-tilings and quasicrystals, respectively." | Iowa State UniversityTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| 2009 |||||
| | Yakir Aharonov (born 1932) | Israel | "for their discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the related Berry phase, respectively." | Chapman UniversityTel Aviv University |
| | Michael Berry (born 1941) | United Kingdom | "for their discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the related Berry phase, respectively." | 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 | "for their pioneering research on quantum optics and quantum computing." | University of InnsbruckAustrian 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 | "for their prediction and discovery of negative refraction." | University of California, San Diego |
| | David R. Smith (born 1964) | United States | "for their prediction and discovery of negative refraction." | Duke University |
| 2010 |||||
| | 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 UniversityNational Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| | Lyman Page (born 1957) | United States | "for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition." | Princeton University |
| | David Spergel (born 1961) | United States | "for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition." | 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 StrasbourgInstitute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering |
| | 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, BerkeleyLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| | Adam Riess (born 1969) | United States | "for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy." | Johns Hopkins UniversitySpace Telescope Science Institute |
| | Brian Schmidt (born 1967) | United States | "for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy." | Australian National University |
| 2011 |||||
| | Alain Aspect (born 1947) | France | "for their tests of Bell inequalities and research on quantum entanglement." | Institut d'OptiqueÉcole Polytechnique |
| | John Clauser (born 1942) | United States | "for their tests of Bell inequalities and research on quantum entanglement." | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| | Anton Zeilinger (born 1945) | Austria | "for their tests of Bell inequalities and research on quantum entanglement." | University of ViennaAustrian Academy of Sciences |
| | Sajeev John (born 1957) | India Canada | "for their invention and development of photonic band gap materials." | University of Toronto |
| | Eli Yablonovitch (born 1946) | United States | "for their invention and development of photonic band gap materials." | University of California, Berkeley |
| | Hideo Ohno (born 1954) | Japan | "for contributions to ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors." | Tohoku UniversityResearch Institute of Electronic Communication |
| 2012 |||||
| | 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 | "for their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified." | University of Montreal |
| | William Wootters (born 1951) | United States | "for their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified." | 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 | "for the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)." | Harvard University |
| 2013 |||||
| | François Englert (born 1932) | Belgium | "for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson." | Universite Libre de BruxellesChapman University |
| | Peter W. Higgs (1929-2024) | 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 |
| | Michel Mayor (born 1942) | Switzerland | "for their discoveries of extrasolar planets." | University of Geneva |
| | Didier P. Queloz (born 1966) | Switzerland | "for their discoveries of extrasolar planets." | University of GenevaUniversity of Cambridge |
| 2014 |||||
| | 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 | "for theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators." | University of Würzburg |
| | Shoucheng Zhang (1963–2018) | China United States | "for theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators." | 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) | India United States | "for their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura)." | University of California, Berkeley |
| | Yoshinori Tokura (born 1954) | Japan | "for their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura)." | 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, BerkeleyLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 2015 |||||
| | Paul Corkum (born 1943) | Canada | "for contributions to the development of attosecond physics." | University of Ottawa |
| | Ferenc Krausz (born 1962) | Hungary | "for contributions to the development of attosecond physics." | Max Planck Institute for Quantum OpticsLudwig 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 |||||
| | 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, BerkeleyLawrence 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 |
| | Kip Thorne (born 1940) | United States | "for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) that made possible the detection of gravitational waves." | California Institute of Technology |
| | Rainer Weiss (born 1932) | United States | "for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) that made possible the detection of gravitational waves." |
| | 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 | "for their description of a control theory of chaotic systems, the OGY method." | University of Maryland |
| | James A. Yorke (born 1941) | United States | "for their description of a control theory of chaotic systems, the OGY method." | University of Maryland |
| 2017 |||||
| | Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) | Greece | "for seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics." | Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| | Cornelis Dekker (born 1949) | Netherlands | "for seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics." | Delft University of Technology |
| | Paul McEuen (born 1963) | United States | "for seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics." | 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 AstrophysicsRussian Academy of Sciences |
| 2018 |||||
| | David Awschalom (born 1956) | United States | "for observation of the spin Hall effect in semiconductors." | University of Chicago |
| | Arthur Gossard (1935–2022) | United States | "for observation of the spin Hall effect in semiconductors." | 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 | "for discoveries advancing the understanding and development of carbon-based materials, including for capacitive energy storage and understanding the mechanisms of operation of supercapacitors." | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology |
| | Patrice Simon (born 1969) | France | "for discoveries advancing the understanding and development of carbon-based materials, including for capacitive energy storage and understanding the mechanisms of operation of supercapacitors." | Université Paul Sabatier |
| 2019 |||||
| | Artur Ekert (born 1961) | Poland United Kingdom | "for contributions to quantum computation and quantum cryptography." | Oxford UniversityNational University of Singapore |
| | Tony Heinz (born 1956) | United States | "for pioneering research on optical and electronic properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials." | Stanford UniversitySLAC 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 |||||
| | 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 | "for research in nonlinear dynamics including synchronization of chaotic systems." | 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 | "for fabrication and novel applications of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes." | University of California, BerkeleyLawrence 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 | "for their fundamental studies of galaxy formation and evolution, cosmic structure, and dark matter halos." | University of Victoria |
| | Simon White (born 1951) | United Kingdom | "for their fundamental studies of galaxy formation and evolution, cosmic structure, and dark matter halos." | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| 2021 |||||
| | 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 (born ?) | United Kingdom United States | "for wide-ranging research on network systems including work on community structure and random graph models." | University of Michigan |
| | 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 |||||
| | 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 UniversityMax Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
| | Stephen Quake (born 1969) | United States | "for contributions to the physics of fluid phenomena on the nanoliter scale." | Stanford UniversityChan 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 | "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 |
| 2023 |||||
| | Sharon C. Glotzer (born ?) | 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 |
| 2024 |||||
| | Rafi Bistritzer (born 1974) | Israel | "for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene and related moiré quantum devices." | Tel Aviv University |
| | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born 1976) | Spain | "for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene and related moiré quantum devices." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| | Allan H. MacDonald (born 1951) | Canada United States | "for pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to the physics of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene and related moiré quantum devices." | University of Texas at Austin |
| | David Deutsch (born 1953) | United Kingdom | "for revolutionary contributions to quantum algorithms and computing." | Oxford University |
| | Peter Shor (born 1959) | United States | "for revolutionary contributions to quantum algorithms and computing." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| | Christoph Gerber (born 1942) | Switzerland | "for invention and application of atomic force microscopy." | University of Basel |