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of ten "people who mattered" in science, produced by the scientific journal ''

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''. Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad. Reporters and editorial staff at ''Nature'' judge nominees to have had "a significant impact on the world, or their position in the world may have had an important impact on science". Short biographical profiles describe the people behind some of the year's most important discoveries and events. Alongside the ten, five "ones to watch" for the following year are also listed.

2022

2022 awardees included: # Jane Rigby: Sky hunter # Yunlong Cao: COVID predictor #

Saleemul Huq Saleemul Huq (born 1952) is a Bangladeshi-British scientist and has been the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) based in Bangladesh, also Professor at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He was ...

: Climate revolutionary # Svitlana Krakovska: Voice for Ukraine # Dimie Ogoina: Monkeypox watchman # Lisa McCorkell: Long-COVID advocate # Diana Greene Foster: Abortion fact-finder #

António Guterres António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres ( , ; born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat. Since 2017, he has served as secretary-general of the United Nations, the ninth person to hold this title. A member of the Portuguese Socia ...

: Crisis diplomat # Muhammad Mohiuddin: Transplant trailblazer #

Alondra Nelson Alondra Nelson (born April 22, 1968) is an American policy advisor, non-profit administrator, academic, and writer. She is the Harold F. Linder Chair and Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independen ...

: Policy principal Ones to watch in 2023: #

Sherry Rehman Sherry Rehman ( ur, ; born 21 December 1960) is a Pakistani politician, journalist and former diplomat who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2015. She was the first female Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from March to ...

, Minister of climate change, Pakistan # Nallathamby Kalaiselvi, Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research #

Sun Chunlan The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...

, Chinese Communist Party # Renee Wegrzyn, US Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health #

Anthony Tyson Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, ...

, University of California, Davis

2021

2021 awardees included: #

Winnie Byanyima Winifred Byanyima (born 13 January 1959), is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist and diplomat. She is the executive director of UNAIDS, effective November 2019. From May 2013 until November 2019, she ser ...

vaccine warrior #

Friederike Otto Friederike (Fredi) Elly Luise Otto (born 29 August 1982) is a climatologist who as of December 2021 works as a Senior Lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. Previously she was Associ ...

, weather detective #

Zhang Rongqiao Zhang Rongqiao (; born March 1966) is a Chinese physicist and aerospace engineer who is the chief designer of Tianwen-1, China's first mission to Mars. Biography Zhang was born in the town of , Qimen County, Anhui, in March 1966. He secondary st ...

, Mars explorer #

Timnit Gebru Timnit Gebru ( am, ትምኒት ገብሩ; born 1983/1984) is an American computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and data mining. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and co-founder of Black in AI, a community of Black resear ...

, AI ethics leader #

Tulio de Oliveira Tulio de Oliveira is a Brazilian, Portuguese, and South African permanent resident professor of bioinformatics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and associate professor of global health at the Universit ...

, variant tracker #

John Jumper John Jumper may refer to: * John Jumper (Seminole chief), principal chief of the Seminole Nation * John M. Jumper, AI researcher * John P. Jumper John Phillip Jumper (born February 4, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force general, who serv ...

, protein predictor #

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is a Filipino development consultant and an international indigenous activist of Kankana-ey Igorot ethnicity. As UN special rapporteur, she was tasked to investigate alleged violations of indigenous peoples rights and promo ...

, indigenous defender #

Guillaume Cabanac Guillaume may refer to: People * Guillaume (given name), the French equivalent of William * Guillaume (surname) Other uses * Guillaume (crater) See also

* ''Chanson de Guillaume'', an 11th or 12th century poem * Guillaume affair, a Cold War e ...

, deception sleuth #

Meaghan Kall Meaghan Kall is an epidemiologist at the UK Health Security Agency. In 2021 the journal ''Nature'' named her in ''Natures 10, their global top ten list of people who helped shape science that year. Early life and education Kall grew up in a ...

, COVID communicator #

Janet Woodcock Janet Woodcock (born August 29, 1948) is an American physician and former Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She joined the FDA in 1986, and has held a number of senior leadership positions there, including terms ...

, drug chief Ones to watch in 2022: #

Chikwe Ihekweazu Chikwe Ihekweazu is a Nigerian epidemiologist, public health physician and World Health Organization’s Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems. Ihekweazu previously served as Director General of N ...

, epidemiologist at the

WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence The World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence was established by the Director-General of the World Health Organization and the former Chancellor of Germany in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pandemic Hub is ...

# Jane Rigby, astrophysicist at the

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC empl ...

# Love Dalén, geneticist at the

Swedish Museum of Natural History The Swedish Museum of Natural History ( sv, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, literally, the National Museum of Natural History), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg. The ...

# Xie Zhenhua, China's special envoy on climate change #

Graziano Venanzoni Graziano is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Graziano Battistini (1936–1994), Italian professional road bicycle racer * Graziano Battistini (footballer) (born 1970), Italian fo ...

, physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics

2020

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2020 awardees included: # Tedros Ghebreyesus, Warning the world # Verena Mohaupt, Polar patroller #

Gonzalo Moratorio Gonzalo may refer to: * Gonzalo (name) * Gonzalo, Dominican Republic, a small town * Isla Gonzalo, a subantarctic island operated by the Chilean Navy * Hurricane Gonzalo, 2014 See also

* Gonzalez (disambiguation) * Gonzales (disambiguatio ...

, Coronavirus hunter # Adi Utarini, Mosquito commander # Kathrin Jansen, Vaccine leader # Zhang Yongzhen, Genome sharer # Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, A force in physics #

Li Lanjuan Li Lanjuan (; born 13 September 1947), also romanized as Lan-Juan Li, is a Chinese epidemiologist and hepatologist. She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves a ...

, Lockdown architect #

Jacinda Ardern Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern ( ; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician who has been serving as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party since 2017. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the member of ...

, Crisis leader #

Anthony Fauci Anthony Stephen Fauci (; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to the president. ...

, Science’s defender Ones to watch in 2021: #

Marion Koopmans Maria Petronella Gerarda Koopmans (born 21 September 1956) is a Dutch virologist who is Head of the Erasmus MC Department of Viroscience. Her research considers emerging infectious diseases, noroviruses and veterinary medicine. In 2018 she was aw ...

, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands #

, China National Space Administration # Karen Miga, University of California, Santa Cruz #

Rochelle Walensky Rochelle Paula Walensky (née Bersoff; born April 5, 1969) is an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. P ...

, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts #

Jane Greaves Jane Greaves is a Professor of Astronomy based at Cardiff University. While at the University of St Andrews she led the team which discovered a protoplanet within the protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri. In 2017, she was awarded t ...

, Cardiff University, UK

2019

2019 awardees included: # Ricardo Galvão: Science defender #

Victoria Kaspi Victoria Michelle Kaspi (born June 30, 1967) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University. Her research primarily concerns neutron stars and pulsars.

: Sky sleuth #

Nenad Sestan Nenad Šestan (born 1970 in Zadar, CroatiaHAZU
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: Britain recove rebooter # Sandra Díaz: Biodiversity guardian #

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum Jean-Jacques Muyembe is a Congolese microbiologist. He is the general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (''INRB''). He was part of team at the Yambuku Catholic Mission Hospital that ...

: Ebola fighter #

Yohannes Haile-Selassie Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye (born 23 February 1961) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist. An authority on pre-''Homo sapiens'' hominids, he particularly focuses his attention on the East African Rift and Middle Awash valleys.Mangels, John (20 ...

: Origin seeker # Wendy Rogers: Transplant ethicist # Deng Hongkui: CRISPR translator #

John M. Martinis John M. Martinis (born 1958) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2014, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab announced that it had hired Martinis and his team in a multimillion dollar deal ...

: Quantum builder #

Greta Thunberg Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Thunberg's activism began when she persuaded ...

: Climate catalyst Ones to watch in 2020: #

: Secretary-general, United Nations # Denis Rebrikov: Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Moscow # Geng Meiyu: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China #

Mariya Gabriel Mariya Ivanova Gabriel ( bg, Мария Иванова Габриел) (''née'' Nedelcheva, bg, Неделчева) (born 20 May 1979) is a Bulgarian politician and a member of the GERB party serving as European Commissioner for Innovation, R ...

: European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth #

Markus Rex Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: * Marcus (name), a masculine given name * Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Places * Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44 * Mărcuş, a village in Dobârl� ...

Alfred Wegener Institute The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: ''Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung'') is located in Bremerhaven, Germany, and a member of the Helmholtz Association o ...

, Germany

2018

2018 awardees included: #

Yuan Cao Yuan Cao () is a Chinese physicist. His research is focused on the properties of two-dimensional materials. He discovered that a stack of two sheets of graphene, cooled to 1.7 kelvins, K, could act as a superconductor or as an insulator when e ...

: Graphene wrangler # Viviane Slon: Humanity's historian #

He Jiankui He Jiankui (; ; born 1984) is a Chinese biophysics researcher who was an associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China. Earning his Ph.D. from Rice University ...

: CRISPR rogue #

Jess Wade Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade (born October 1988) is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, specialising in Raman spectroscopy. Her research investigates polymer-based organic Light-emitting diode, light emitti ...

: Diversity champion #

Valérie Masson-Delmotte Valerie Masson-Delmotte is a French climate scientist and Research Director at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, where she works in the Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (LSCE). She uses data from past clim ...

: Earth monitor # Anthony Brown: Star mapper #

Yeo Bee Yin Yeo Bee Yin (; born 26 May 1983) is a Malaysian politician from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition. She served as the Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Cli ...

: Force for the environment #

Barbara Rae-Venter Barbara Rae-Venter (born July 17, 1948) is a New Zealand-born American genetic genealogist, biologist, and retired patent attorney best known for her work helping police and investigators identify Joseph James DeAngelo as the Golden State Kille ...

: DNA detective #

Robert-Jan Smits Robert-Jan Smits (born 1958) is the President of the Executive Board of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands since May 2019. In 2018-2019, he was a senior adviser for open access and innovation at the European Political Strat ...

: Open-access leader # Makoto Yoshikawa: Asteroid hunter Ones to watch in 2019: #

, Director-general of the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

National Institute for Biomedical Research # Julia Olson, Co-counsel in Juliana v. United States #

Muthayya Vanitha Muthayya Vanitha is an Indian electronics system engineer who has led projects on satellites at the Indian Space Research Organization. She was the project director of the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission of the ISRO. Early life and education Van ...

, Director of India's

Chandrayaan-2 Chandrayaan-2 (, ; ) is the second lunar exploration mission developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), after Chandrayaan-1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the ''Vikram'' lander, and the ''Pragyan'' lunar ...

Moon mission #

Maura McLaughlin Maura McLaughlin Ph.D. is currently an astrophysics professor at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. She holds a Bachelor's of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She is known ...

, Chair at the

North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) is a consortium of astronomers who share a common goal of detecting gravitational waves via regular observations of an ensemble of millisecond pulsars using the Green Bank ...

# Sandra Díaz, Co-leader of the

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is an intergovernmental organization established to improve the interface between science and policy on issues of biodiversity and ecosystem services. It ...

(IPBES) Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

2017

2017 awardees included: # David R. Liu: Gene corrector # Marica Branchesi: Merger maker # Emily Whitehead: Living testimonial #

Scott Pruitt Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American lawyer, lobbyist and Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 17, 2017, to July ...

: Agency dismantler #

Pan Jianwei Pan Jianwei (; born 11 March 1970) is a Chinese quantum physicist, university administrator and professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. Pan is known for his work in the field of quantum entanglement, quantum inf ...

: Father of quantum #

Jennifer Byrne Jennifer Victoria Byrne (born 5 March 1955) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and former book publisher. She hosted the monthly ABC television program ''The Book Club'', originally titled ''First Tuesday Book Club''. Early lif ...

: Error sleuth #

Lassina Zerbo Lassina Zerbo (born 10 October 1963) is a Burkinabé politician and scientist who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that he was the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organizati ...

: Test-ban tracker # Victor Cruz-Atienza: Quake chaser #

Ann Olivarius Ann Olivarius (born 19 February 1955) is an American-British lawyer who specializes in cases of civil litigation, sexual discrimination, and sexual harassment, assault, and abuse. Early life and education Ann Olivarius grew up in New Jersey, th ...

: Legal champion #

Khaled Toukan Khaled Toukan ( ar, خالد طوقان) is the current chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, he served previously as the Minister of Energy for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2011), Minister of Education (2000-2008), and as Ministry ...

: Opening SESAME Ones to watch in 2018: # Shaughnessy Naughton, President of

314 Action 314 Action is a nonprofit political action committee that seeks to elect scientists in the United States. Mission The mission of 314 Action is to connect people with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math to the skills and f ...

Mark Walport Sir Mark Jeremy Walport (born 25 January 1953) is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017 and Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from 2017 to 2020. ...

, Chief executive of

United Kingdom Research and Innovation UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom that directs research and innovation funding, funded through the science budget of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Str ...

(UKRI) #

Kate Crawford Kate Crawford (born 1976) is a writer, composer, producer and academic. Crawford is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visitin ...

, Co-founder of

AI Now Institute The AI Now Institute at NYU (AI Now) is an American research institute studying the social implications of artificial intelligence. AI Now was founded by Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker in 2017 after a symposium hosted by the White House und ...

, Team leader of

Quantum computing Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

Patricia Espinosa Patricia Espinosa Cantellano (born October 21, 1958) is a Mexican diplomat who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2016 to 2022. She was Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet o ...

, Executive secretary of the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in th ...

(UNFCC)

2016

2016 awardees included: # Gabriela Gonzalez: Gravity spy #

Demis Hassabis Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In his early career he was a video game AI programmer and designer, and an expert player of board games. He is the chief executive officer and ...

: Mind crafter # Terry Hughes: Reef sentinel # Guus Velders: Cooling agent # Celina M. Turchi: Zika detective #

Alexandra Elbakyan Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers witho ...

: Paper pirate # John J. Zhang: Fertility rebel # Kevin Esvelt: CRISPR cautionary #

Guillem Anglada-Escudé Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born in Ullastrell, Barcelona in 1979), is a Catalan astronomer. In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign, which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the close ...

: Planet hunter # Elena Long: Diversity trailblazer Ones to watch in 2017: # Cori Bargmann, Science president,

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime ...

# Robert Feidenhans’l, Chairman, European XFEL #

Jef Boeke Jef D. Boeke is an American geneticist who is currently the founding director of The Institute for Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Medical Center. From 1986 to 2014 he was on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where h ...

, Co-leader, Human Genome Project–Write # Wu Weiren, Chief Designer, China Lunar Programme #

Marcia McNutt Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States. Previously, she served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal ''Science'' fro ...

, President,

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

2015

2015 awardees included: #

Christiana Figueres Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFC ...

: Climate guardian # Junjiu Huang: Embryo editor #

Alan Stern Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the ''New Horizons'' mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express. Stern has been involved in 24 suborbital ...

: Pluto hunter # Zhenan Bao: Master of materials #

Ali Akbar Salehi Ali Akbar Salehi ( fa, علی‌اکبر صالحی, ; born 24 March 1949) is an Iranian academic, diplomat and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who served in this position from 2009 to 2010 and also from 2013 to 2021. He se ...

: Nuclear diplomat # Joan Schmelz: A voice for women # David Reich: Genome archaeologist #

Mikhail Eremets Mikhail Ivanovich Eremets (born January 3, 1949) is an experimentalist in high pressure physics, chemistry and materials science. He is particularly known for his research on superconductivity, having discovered the highest critical temperature ...

: Super conductor # Christina Smolke: Fermenting revolution #

Brian Nosek Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social-cognitive psychologist, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and the co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science. He also co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psycholog ...

: Bias blaster Ones to watch in 2016: #

Fabiola Gianotti Fabiola Gianotti (; born 29 October 1960) is an Italian experimental particle physicist who is the current and first woman Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Her first mandate began on 1 Janua ...

, Director-general of

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...

Gabriela González Gabriela Ines González, (born 24 February 1965) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the Louisiana State University and was the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from March 2011 until March 2017. Biography Gabriela Gonzá ...

, Spokesperson at Advanced LIGO # Kathy Niakan, Stem-cell biologist,

Francis Crick Institute The Francis Crick Institute (formerly the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation) is a biomedical research centre in London, which was established in 2010 and opened in 2016. The institute is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Impe ...

, Co-founder,

DeepMind DeepMind Technologies is a British artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and research laboratory founded in 2010. DeepMind was List of mergers and acquisitions by Google, acquired by Google in 2014 and became a wholly owned subsid ...

# Yang Wei, Head of the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2014

2014 awardees included: # Andrea Accomazzo: Comet chaser # Suzanne L. Topalian: Cancer combatant #

Radhika Nagpal Radhika Nagpal is an American computer scientist and researcher in the fields of self-organising computer systems, biologically-inspired robotics, and biological multi-agent systems. She is the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard ...

: Robot-maker #

Sheik Umar Khan Sheik Umar Khan (6 March 1975 – 29 July 2014) was the chief Sierra Leonean doctor attempting to curb the country's 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, Ebola outbreak in 2014. The virologist is credited with treating over a hundred patients b ...

: Ebola doctor #

David Spergel David Nathaniel Spergel is an American theoretical astrophysicist and the Emeritus Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation at Princeton University. Since 2021, he has been the President of the Simons Foundatio ...

: Cosmic skeptic #

Maryam Mirzakhani Maryam Mirzakhani ( fa, مریم میرزاخانی, ; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ...

: Surface explorer #

Pete Frates The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amy ...

: Ice-bucket challenger # Koppillil Radhakrishnan: Rocket launcher #

Masayo Takahashi is a Japanese medical physician, ophthalmologist and stem cell researcher. Takahashi serves as a project research leader at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe focusing on the clinical application of iPS Cell (induced Plurip ...

: Stem-cell tester #

Sjors Scheres Sjors Hendrik Willem Scheres FRS (born 1975) is a Dutch scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK. Education Scheres studied Chemistry at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and spent nine months at the European Syn ...

: Structure solver Ones to watch in 2015: # Xie Zhenhua, China's top climate official #

, Principal investigator of

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

's New Horizons mission # Joanne Liu, International president of

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced ), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) or charity of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. M ...

(MSF) # Bernard Bigot, Nominated as next director-general of ITER # Rick Horwitz, Executive director, Allen Institute for Cell Science

2013

2013 awardees included: #

Feng Zhang Feng Zhang (; born October 22, 1981) is a Chinese-American biochemist. Zhang currently holds the James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and in the departments of Brain and Cognitive ...

: DNA's master editor # Tania Simoncelli: Gene patent foe #

Deborah Persaud Deborah Persaud (born 23 August 1960) is a Guyanese-born American virologist who primarily works on HIV/AIDS at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Biography Persaud was born on 23 August 1960 in Port Mourant, East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. At a ...

: Viral victor #

Michel Mayor Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory ...

: In search of sister Earths # Naderev Saño: Climate conscience # Viktor Grokhovsky: Meteorite hunter #

Hualan Chen Chen Hualan (; born March 1969) is a Chinese people, Chinese Veterinary virology, veterinary virologist best known for researching animal epidemic diseases. She is a member of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and a member of the Foo ...

: Front-line flu sleuth # Shoukhrat Mitalipov: The cloning chief # Kathryn Clancy: An eye on harassment #

Henry Snaith Henry James Snaith (born 1978) is a professor in physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Research from his group has led to the creation of a new research field, based on halide perovskites for use as solar absorbers. ...

: Sun worshipper Ones to watch in 2014: #

, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology #

Christopher Field Christopher B. Field is an American scientist and researcher, who has contributed to the field of climate change. The author of more than 200 scientific publications, Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the ...

of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) a ...

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (born 21 July 1947) is a French mathematician, working in the field of differential geometry. Biography Born in Lyon, he studied at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, graduating in 1969. For his graduate studies he went t ...

Incoming president,

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

(ERC) # Koppillil Radhakrishnan Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation # Gordon Sanghera from

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Oxford Nanopore Technologies Limited is a UK-based company which is developing and selling nanopore sequencing products (including the portable DNA sequencer, MinION) for the direct, electronic analysis of single molecules. History The company ...

2012

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2012 awardees included: #

Rolf-Dieter Heuer Rolf-Dieter Heuer (; born 24 May 1948 in Bad Boll, Boll) is a German particle physics, particle physicist. From 2009 to 2015 he was List of Directors General of CERN, Director General of CERN and from 5 April 2016 to 9 April 2018 President of the ...

: The Higgs diplomat #

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (''née'' Ropes) (born c. 1958) is an American agronomist and climatologist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, located at Columbia University, "who helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture."Justin ...

: Guardian of Gotham # Adam Steltzner: Our man on Mars # Cedric Blanpain: Cell tracker # Elizabeth Iorns: Replication hound # Jun Wang: Genome juggernaut #

Jo Handelsman Jo Emily Handelsman (born March 19, 1959 in New York City) is the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a Vilas Research Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Dr. H ...

: The bias detective #

Tim Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Co ...

: Seed of discontent #Bernardo De Bernardinis: On the fault line #Ron Fouchier: Flu fighter Ones to watch in 2013: # Anne Glover, European Commission chief science adviser #

Thomas Stocker Thomas F. Stocker (born 1959) is a Swiss climate scientist. Born in Zürich, Stocker obtained a degree in physics at the ETH Zurich. He was active in research at the University College London, at McGill University in Montreal and at Columbia Uni ...

, of the

(IPCC) # Chris Austin, US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences # Jan Tauber, the

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’s Planck mission #

Rafael Yuste Rafael Yuste (born April 25, 1963 in Madrid) is a Spanish-American neurobiologist and one of the initiators of the BRAIN Initiative announced in 2013. He is currently a professor at Columbia University. Biography Yuste's interest in neuroscienc ...

, of

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, New York

2011

2011 awardees included: # Dario Autiero: Relativity challenger #

Sara Seager Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the aut ...

: Planet seeker # Lisa Jackson: Pollution cop #

Essam Sharaf Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf ( ar, عصام عبد العزيز شرف, ; born 1952) is an Egyptian academic who was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 3 March 2011 to 7 December 2011. He served as Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005. Early li ...

: Science revolutionary #

Diederik Stapel Diederik Alexander Stapel (born 19 October 1966) is a Dutch former professor of social psychology at Tilburg University. In 2011 Tilburg University suspended Stapel for fabricating and manipulating data for his research publications. This scie ...

: Fallen star # Rosie Redfield: Critical enquirer #Danica May Camacho: Child of the times #Mike Lamont: The Higgs mechanic #Tatsuhiko Kodama: Fukushima's gadfly #John Rogers: Tech executive

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