Thomson Scientific Predicts Nobel Laureates

Thomson Scientific Predicts Nobel Laureates

September 10, 2007

Seventeen "Thomson Scientific Laureates"
Recognized for Their Contributions to the Advancement of
Science

    PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Sept. 10
/Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Scientific, part
of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and
leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide
research and business communities, today announced its 2007
Thomson Scientific Laureates -- researchers likely to be in
contention for Nobel honors -- in anticipation of this
year's Nobel Prize winners to be announced in October.

    Each year, data from ISI Web of Knowledge(SM), a
Thomson Scientific research solution, is used to
quantitatively determine the most influential researchers
in the Nobel categories of chemistry, economics, physiology
or medicine, and physics. Because of the total citations to
their works, these high-impact researchers are named
Thomson Scientific Laureates and predicted to be Nobel
Prize winners, either this year or in the near future.  Of
the 54 Thomson Scientific Laureates named since 2002, four
have gone on to win Nobel honors.

    "Citations are an acknowledgement of intellectual
debt-a direct demonstration of influence in a given subject
area," said Henry Small, chief scientist of Thomson
Scientific. "Over the past 30 years, our studies have
demonstrated a strong relationship between journal article
citations and peer esteem.  Researchers who have
accumulated such credits from their peers are also often
nominated for prizes and other honors, such as the Nobel
Prize."

    Thomson Scientific is the only organization to use
quantitative data to make annual predictions of Nobel Prize
winners.  

    The Thomson Scientific Laureates typically rank among
the top one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of researchers in
their fields, based on citations of their published papers
over the last two decades. 

    To select the 2007 Thomson Scientific Laureates, total
citation counts and number of high-impact papers in the
Nobel science fields were examined. These data were applied
to categories within those scientific fields considered
worthy of special recognition by the Nobel Committee:
physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and economics.
Based on these criteria, possible winners -- leaders within
a particularly noteworthy area of study within each field --
were selected.  

    The 2007 Thomson Scientific Laureates by Nobel Prize
category are as follows:

    Field             Researcher                
Institution
 
    Physics           Sumio Iijima               Meijo
University (Japan)

                      Martin J. Rees, F.R.S.     University
of Cambridge
                      (Lord Rees of Ludlow)      (U.K.)

                      Arthur B. McDonald         Queen's
University (Canada)

                      Yoji Totsuka               University
of Tokyo (Japan)
 
    Chemistry         Samuel J. Danishefsky      Memorial
Sloan-Kettering  
                                                 Cancer
Center Columbia 
                                                 University
(U.S.A.)

                      Barry M. Trost             Stanford
University (U.S.A.)

                      Dieter Seebach            
Eidhenossiche Technische 
                                                 Hochschule
(Switzerland)

    Physiology or 
     Medicine         R. John Ellis, F.R.S.      University
of Warwick (U.K.)

                      R. Ulrich Hartl            Max Planck
Institute for 
                                                
Biochemistry (Germany)

                      Arthur Horwich             Yale
University School of 
                                                 Medicine
(U.S.A.)

                      Fred H. Gage               Salk
Institute (U.S.A.)

                      Joan Massague              Memorial
Sloan-Kettering 
                                                 Cancer
Center (U.S.A.)

    Economics         Elhanan Helpman            Harvard
University (U.S.A.)
                                                 Tel Aviv
University (Israel)

                      Gene M. Grossman           Princeton
University (U.S.A.)
                                                 Woodrow
Wilson School of 
                                                 Public and
International 
                                                 Affairs
(U.S.A.)

                      Jean Tirole                University
of Social    
                                                 Sciences
(France)

                      Robert B. Wilson           Stanford
University (U.S.A.)

                      Paul R. Milgrom            Stanford
University (U.S.A.)

    For detailed information about each of the Laureates,
including information about their areas of study, visit the
Thomson Scientific Laureates website at
http://scientific.thomson.com/nobel. Visitors also may make
their own Nobel Prize predictions, read about previously
named Laureates and learn more about Thomson Scientific's
selection process.

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    For more information, please contact:

     Susan Besaw
     Thomson Scientific
     Phone: [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Kate McDermott 
     Anne Klein Communications Group
     Phone: [phone] ext. 19
     Email: [e-mail]

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