The following is a list of candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in their respective field. The candidates are so named based on thecitation impact of their published research.[1] Since 2025, six of the 33 female Clarivate Citation laureates starting in 2008 were subsequently awarded with a Nobel Prize:Elizabeth Blackburn andCarol W. Greider in Physiology or Medicine (2009),Emmanuelle Charpentier andJennifer Doudna in Chemistry (2020),Carolyn Bertozzi in Chemistry (2022), andClaudia Goldin in Economics (2023).
| Year | Field | Portrait | Citation Laureate | Nationality | Motivations | Institute |
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| 2008[2] | Physics | .jpg) | Vera Rubin (1928–2016) |  United States | "for her pioneering research indicating the existence ofdark matter in theuniverse." | Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| 2009[3] | Physiology or Medicine | .JPG) | Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948) |  Australia United States | "for their roles in the discovery of and pioneering research ontelomeres andtelomerases." (selected withJack W. Szostak) | University of California, San Francisco |
.JPG) | Carol W. Greider (born 1961) | United States | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | |||
| Chemistry | .jpg) | Jacqueline Barton (born 1952) | United States | "for their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA." (selected withBernd Giese andGary Schuster) | California Institute of Technology | |
| 2011[4] | Economic Sciences | _(cropped).jpg) | Anne Krueger (born 1934) | United States | "for their description of rent-seeking behavior and its implications." (selected withGordon Tullock) | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2012[5] | Physics | .jpg) | Lene Hau (born 1959) |  Denmark | "for the experimental demonstration ofelectromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)." (selected withStephen E. Harris) | Harvard University |
| 2015[6] | .jpg) | Deborah S. Jin (1968–2016) | United States | "for pioneering research on atomic gases at ultra-cold temperatures and the creation of the firstfermionic condensate." | University of Colorado | |
| Chemistry | .jpg) | Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966) | United States | "for foundational contributions tobioorthogonal chemistry." | ||
.jpg) | Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968) |  France | "for the development of theCRISPR-cas9 method forgenome editing." | |||
_(cropped1).jpg) | Jennifer Doudna (born 1964) | United States | ||||
| 2016[7] | Physiology or Medicine | .png){kind=icon} | Arlene Sharpe (born 1953) | United States | "for elucidatingprogrammed cell death-1 (PD-1) and its pathway, which has advancedcancer immunotherapy." (selected withGordon J. Freeman andTasuku Honjo) | |
| 2017[8] | .JPG) | Yuan Chang (born 1959) |  Taiwan United States | "for their discovery of theKaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)." (selected with husbandPatrick S. Moore) | University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | |
| 2018[9] | Physics | .png) | Sandra Faber (born 1944) | United States | "for pioneering methods to determine theage, size and distance of galaxies and for other contributions tocosmology." | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Chemistry | .jpg) | JoAnne Stubbe (born 1946) | United States | "for her discovery thatribonucleotide reductases transformribonucleotides intodeoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2019[10] | Physiology or Medicine | .jpg) | Philippa Marrack (born 1945) |  United Kingdom | "for their discovery of T-cell tolerance by clonal elimination in thethymus." (selected with husbandJohn Kappler) | National Jewish Health |
| Economic Sciences | | Katarina Juselius (born 1943) |  Finland Denmark | "for contributions toeconometrics andcointegration analysis." (selected with husbandSøren Johansen) | University of Copenhagen | |
| 2020[11] | Physiology or Medicine | .jpg) | Pamela J. Bjorkman (born 1956) | United States | "for determining the structure and function ofmajor histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that has contributed to drug and vaccine development." | California Institute of Technology |
.jpg) | Huda Zoghbi (born 1954) |  Lebanon United States | "for discoveries on the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including the genetic origins ofRett syndrome." | |||
| Economic Sciences | .jpg) | Claudia Goldin (born 1946) | United States | "for contributions tolabor economics, especially her analysis of women and the gender pay gap." | Harvard University | |
| 2021[12] | .jpg) | Carmen Reinhart (born 1955) |  Cuba United States | "for contributions to international macroeconomics and insights on global debt and financial crises." | Harvard Kennedy School | |
| 2022[13] | Physiology or Medicine | .png) | Virginia Man-Yee Lee (born 1945) |  China United States | "for the identification ofTDP-43, a pathological signature ofamyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) andfrontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and for other contributions to the study ofneurodegenerative diseases." (selected with Masato Hasegawa) | University of Pennsylvania |
.jpg) | Mary-Claire King (born 1946) | United States | "for demonstrating inherited susceptibility forbreast andovarian cancer and discovering the role played by mutations of theBRCA1 gene." | University of Washington | ||
| Chemistry | .jpg) | Zhenan Bao (born 1970) | China United States | "for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'." | Stanford University | |
.jpg) | Bonnie Bassler (born 1962) | United States | "for research on regulation ofgene expression in bacteria throughquorum sensing, a chemical communication system." (selected withEverett Peter Greenberg) | |||
| 2023[14] | Physics | .jpg) | Sharon Glotzer (born 1967) | United States | "for demonstrating the role ofentropy in the self-assembly of matter and for introducing strategies to control the assembly process to engineer new materials." | University of Michigan |
| Chemistry | | Karen L. Wooley (born 1972) | United States | "for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods." (selected withVladimir Torchilin and Kazunori Kataoka) | Texas A&M University | |
| 2024[15] | Physiology or Medicine | | Helen Hobbs (born 1952) | United States | "for research on the genetics oflipid metabolism, which has led to new drugs to treat cardiovascular diseases." (selected with Jonathan C. Cohen) | |
.jpg) | Ann Graybiel (born 1942) | United States | "for physiological studies of thebasal ganglia, central to motor control and behavior including learning." (selected withOkihide Hikosaka andWolfram Schultz) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Economic Sciences | .jpg) | Janet Currie (born 1957) |  Canada United States | "for pioneering economic analysis of child development." | Princeton University | |
| 2025[16] | Physiology or Medicine | .JPG) | Andrea Ablasser (born 1983) |  Germany | "for elucidating thecGAS-STING pathway, a fundamental mechanism ofinnate immunity." (selected with Glen N. Barber andZhijian Chen) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Physics | .jpg) | Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954) |  Belgium United States | "for advancingwavelet theory, a revolution in mathematics and physics with practical applications includingimage processing."(selected withStéphane Mallat andYves Meyer) | Duke University | |
.jpg) | Ewine van Dishoeck (born 1955) |  Netherlands | "for pioneering contributions toastrochemistry revealinginterstellarmolecular clouds and their role instar and planet formation." | |||
| Economic Sciences | | Marianne Bertrand (born 1970) | Belgium | "for joint research onracial discrimination,corporate governance, and other aspects oflabor economics determined by psychology and culture."(selected withSendhil Mullainathan) | University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
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