Clavivate Reveals This Year's Nobel Prize Prediction Researchers List... Including Professor Lee Ho-wang from Korea University

▲Professor Emeritus Ho-Wang Lee, Korea University College of Medicine [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwon Jae-hee] Honorary Professor Lee Ho-wang of Korea University was the only Korean included in the list of Nobel Prize award prediction candidates released by the information analysis company Clarivate Analytics.

On the 23rd, Clarivate announced the list of "2021 Highly Cited Researchers" who are expected to have a possibility of winning the Nobel Prize this year.

This year's list included 16 researchers from six countries including the United States, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and France.

Honorary Professor Lee, who was included as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is the founding president of the Korean Society for Virology and a former president of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea.

He was selected as a Nobel Prize prediction candidate for his contributions to the isolation and identification of hantavirus and research on hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), together with Carl Johnson, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, USA.

Other candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine include Honorary Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux of the Pasteur Institute in France, Toshio Hirano, Director of the Quantum Science and Technology Research and Development Organization (QST) in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Professor of the Immunoregulation Laboratory at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI-IFReC), Osaka University, Japan.

In the field of Physics, predicted candidates include Alexei Kitaev, Professor at the Institute for Quantum Information Science, California Institute of Technology, USA; Mark Newman, Distinguished Professor at the University of Michigan, USA; and Giorgio Parisi, Honorary Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

In Chemistry, the selected candidates are Barry Halliwell, Senior Advisor to the President's Office at the National University of Singapore; William Jorgensen, Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, USA; and Mitsuo Sawamoto, Professor of Applied Chemistry at the Frontier Research Institute, Chubu University, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Economics candidates include David Teece, Director of the Tusher Initiative for Intellectual Capital Management; Joel Mokyr, Professor at Northwestern University, USA; Carmen Reinhart, Professor at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA; and Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, USA.

Clarivate Analytics annually announces a list of scientists expected to win the Nobel Prize through literature and citation index analysis of the Web of Science.

Last year, Distinguished Professor Hyun Taek-hwan of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University was included in this list, but unfortunately did not win the award.