ノーベル化学賞候補に日本人研究者
ノーベル化学賞候補に日本人研究者 米の学術情報会社9/20(水) 米国に本拠を置く学術情報会社「クラリベイト・アナリティクス」は20日、10月に発表されるノーベル賞の新たな有力候補22人を発表した。日本人では化学賞候補に、新型太陽電池として期待される「ペロブスカイト太陽電池」を研究する、宮坂力(つとむ)・桐蔭横浜大学特任教授(64)を選んだ。 宮坂さんは神奈川県出身。特殊な結晶構造の一種「ペロブスカイト」が太陽電池として使えることを発見し、2009年に報告した。材料を塗るだけでつくれたり、曲げたり半透明にしたりできるのが特徴で、次世代太陽電池の一つとして期待されている。 現在は耐久性などに課題があるが、コストが低く、窓や壁に貼るなど、従来のシリコン太陽電池とのすみ分けも目指せる技術だ。宮坂さんは「多くの人のつながりが研究を成功させたと考えています。研究が産業実用化に発展し、社会貢献を果たすのを見届けたい気持ちです」とコメントした。同じペロブスカイトの研究で韓国と英国の研究者も選ばれた。 クラリベイト社は論文の引用データを分析し、2002年から毎年ノーベル賞の有力候補を発表している。このうち、43人が実際にノーベル賞を受賞。日本人では医学生理学賞を昨年受賞した東京工業大の大隅良典栄誉教授や、物理学賞を14年に受賞した中村修二氏などがいる。 クラリベイト社は昨年10月、トムソン・ロイターから独立した。(小堀龍之)朝日新聞社いったい、ほかの21人は誰かという興味がわくが、日本語への翻訳はないようだ。原文は以下のとおり最後の国籍でみるとUSAが圧倒的で、イギリス、ロシア、オランダが続き日本と韓国が一人ずつである。あるいは韓国初のノーベル賞受賞者(Nam-Gyu Park)が誕生するかもしれない。Identifying extreme impact in research, Clarivate Analytics uses citations to forecast Nobel Prize winnersSep 20, 2017Of 22 named researchers, first Russian Citation Laureates selectedPHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced its 2017 Citation Laureates.Each year since 2002, analysts at Clarivate Analytics have mined millions of citations in the Web of Science to identify top-tier researchers in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry – fields recognized by the Nobel Prizes in science. It also names Citation Laureates in economics since the Swedish National Bank established an award in this domain, in memory of Alfred Nobel, in 1968.Citation Laureates are scientists and economists whose publications have been cited so often by their colleagues – and thus who have been so influential – that they are forecast as potential recipients of the Nobel Prize in this year or in the future.In 15 years, 43 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel honors.A good bet for a Nobel Prize this year may be the award in Physics for the detection of gravitational waves resulting from the coalescence of black holes, something predicted by Einstein more than a century ago. The likely recipients would be Kip S. Thorne of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, who were named Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureates last year.There are many noteworthy nominees. For the first time, Russian scientists have been named Citation Laureates. This year's cohort also includes researchers from Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, The Netherlands, South Korea and Taiwan, as well as from the UK and USA. They are listed below.The 2017 Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureates:PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINELewis C. CantleyMeyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USAFor discovering the signaling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and elucidation of its role in tumor growthKarl J. FristonProfessor of Imaging Neuroscience and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UKFor fundamental contributions to the analysis of brain imaging data, specifically through statistical parametric mapping and voxel-based morphometryYuan ChangAmerican Cancer Society Research Professor, Distinguished Professor of Pathology, and UPMC Endowed Chair in Cancer Virology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA-and-Patrick S. MooreDirector of the Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society Research Professor, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and the Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Innovative Cancer Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USAFor their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)PHYSICSPhaedon AvourisIBM Fellow and Group Leader for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA -and-Cornelis (Cees) DekkerDistinguished University Professor and Director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Delft, The Netherlands-and-Paul McEuenJohn A. Newman Professor of Physical Science, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USAFor seminal contributions to carbon-based electronicsMitchell J. FeigenbaumToyota Professor, Laboratory of Mathematical Physics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA For pioneering discoveries in nonlinear and chaotic physical systems and for identification of the Feigenbaum ConstantRashid A. SunyaevDirector and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany (since 1995), Head of the High-Energy Astrophysics Department of the Institute for Space Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (in 1982 - 2002; Chief Scientist since 1992); Visiting Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (since 2010), Moscow, RussiaFor his profound contributions to our understanding of the universe, including its origins, galactic formation processes, disk accretion of black holes, and many other cosmological phenomenaCHEMISTRYJohn E. BercawCentennial Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA-and-Robert G. BergmanGerald E.K. Branch Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA-and-Georgiy B. Shul'pinSenior Scientific Researcher, N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RussiaFor critical contributions to C-H functionalizationJens NørskovLeland T. Edwards Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Photon Science and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAFor fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfacesTsutomu MiyasakaProfessor of Photoelectrochemistry and Energy Science, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and Graduate School of Engineering, Toin University of Yokohama; group leader of national research projects funded by Japan Science Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Yokohama, Japan -and-Nam-Gyu ParkProfessor, School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea-and-Henry J. SnaithProfessor in Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKFor their discovery and application of perovskite materials to achieve efficient energy conversionECONOMICSColin F. CamererRobert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA-and-George F. LoewensteinHerbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USAFor pioneering research in behavioral economics and in neuroeconomicsRobert E. HallRobert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAFor his analysis of worker productivity and studies of recessions and unemploymentMichael C. JensenJesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA-and-Stewart C. MyersRobert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Financial Economics, Emeritus, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA-and-Raghuram G. RajanKatherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAFor their contributions illuminating the dimensions of decisions in corporate finance"Analysis that begins with and mainly depends on highly-cited papers, allows Clarivate Analytics to objectively identify excellence in research," said Jessica Turner, global head of the Scientific and Academic Research business at Clarivate Analytics. "It is our honor to recognize trailblazing researchers and we hope this designation is an honor for them. Our analysis faithfully reflects what their colleagues' citations have already indicated about the influence and importance of the Citation Laureates' research contributions. However, our analysis only reflects what their colleagues have already indicated about the influence and importance of the Citation Laureates' research contributions."This is what we do," she added, "we comprehensively record and carefully analyze scientific and academic research to provide a clear and accurate window on the world of research."For detailed information on the methodology of this study, the Citation Laureates and their fields of research and institutional affiliations visit: https://clarivate.com/2017-citation-laureates/Follow @Clarivate, @WebofScience and #CitationLaureate on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news on the predictions and deeper insight into their fields of research.Clarivate AnalyticsClarivate™ Analytics is the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Building on a heritage going back more than a century and a half, we have built some of the most trusted brands across the innovation lifecycle, including the Web of Science™, Cortellis™, Derwent™, CompuMark™, MarkMonitor® and Techstreet™. Today, Clarivate Analytics is a new and independent company on a bold entrepreneurial mission, to help our clients radically reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing innovations. For more information, please visit clarivate.com.SOURCE Clarivate AnalyticsRelated Linkshttp://www.clarivate.com