Clarivate Reveals Citation Laureates 2026 Recognizing Transformative Scientific Breakthroughs

Daniel J. Drucker, Senior Investigator at Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research
Institute; University Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Endocrinology, the
Banting and Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jens Juul Holst, Professor of Medical Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences,
and Senior Group Leader, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic
Research, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Svetlana Mojsov, Lulu Chow Wang and Robin Chemers Neustein Research Professor,
Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States

“for identification and characterization of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) and studies of
its biological activity”

James G. Fujimoto, Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering, Research
Laboratory of Electronics and Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

David Huang, Director of Research & Associate Director, Casey Eye Institute; Wold
Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmic Imaging; Professor of Ophthalmology &
Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United
States; Director, Center for Ophthalmic Optics & Lasers (COOL Lab)

Eric A. Swanson, Affiliate of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, United States

“for the development of optical coherence tomography, a new imaging modality in
medicine, biomedical research, and other applications”

Timothy A. Springer, Latham Family Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

“for identifying key adhesion receptors in the immune system”

Physics

Chihaya Adachi, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Organic
Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Stephen R. Forrest, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor and Paul G.
Goebel Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Mark E. Thompson, University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United
States

“for pioneering research on phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs)
and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), enabling ultrahigh-efficiency
organic light-emitting diodes”

Nicola A. Spaldin, Professor, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

“for fundamental theoretical developments leading to the establishment of room-
temperature magnetoelectric multiferroics, which are enabling new energy-efficient
device paradigms”

Qikun Xue, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Southern
University of Science and Technology, Professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing,
Mainland China

“for experimental observation of the quantum anomalous Hall Effect”

Chemistry

David L. Allara, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and
Materials and Engineering, Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, State College,
Pennsylvania, United States

Ralph G. Nuzzo, G. L. Clark Research Professor of Analytical Chemistry, and Research
Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois,
United States

Jacob Sagiv, Professor, Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Department,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

“for development of self-assembled monolayers (SAMS)”

Harry B. Gray, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

Jay R. Winkler, Member of the Beckman Institute and Faculty Associate in Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

“for advancing understanding of long-range electron transfer in proteins”

David R. Liu, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Richard Merkin Professor, Broad
Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

“for developing base editing and prime editing, precision gene editing technologies that
directly edit DNA in living systems, revolutionizing the life sciences and enabling life-
saving programmable medicines”

Economics

Susan C. Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

Hal R. Varian, Formerly Chief Economist, Google, and Professor Emeritus at the School
of Information, Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics, University of
California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States

“for pioneering analysis of the economics of information technology”

Michael D. Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia
University, New York, New York, United States

“for contributions to the theory and practice of monetary policy”

Sidney G. Winter, Deloitte and Touche Professor Emeritus of Management, The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

“for studies of economic dynamism and organizational behavior inspired by evolutionary
theory”