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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.

2024

2024 awardees included: # Ekkehard Peik: Father time # Kaitlin Kharas: Fair-pay champion # : Moon-rock guardian # Anna Abalkina: Fraud buster # Huji Xu Daring doctor #

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, entrepreneur, and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, Chief Adviser of the Interim government of Muhammad Yunus, interim Yunus ministry, g ...

: Nation builder # Placide Mbala: Virus hunter # Cordelia Bähr: Climate crusader # Rémi Lam: AI weather sleuth # Wendy Freedman: Cosmic ranger Ones to watch in 2025: # Mark Thomson: Next director-general,

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 Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

Emma Hodcroft Emma Hodcroft (born 1986) is a British-American molecular Epidemiology, epidemiologist at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern. Her research focuses on the phylogenetics of viruses and other Pathogen, pathoge ...

: Co-founder, Pathoplexus #

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...

: US president-elect

2023

2023 awardees included: # Kalpana Kalahasti: To the Moon #

Marina Silva Maria Osmarina Marina da Silva Vaz de Lima (born Maria Osmarina da Silva; 8 February 1958), known as Marina Silva, is a Brazilian politician and environmentalist, currently serving as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, a position ...

: Amazon protector # Katsuhiko Hayashi: Rewiring reproduction # Annie Kritcher: Fusion igniter # Eleni Myrivili: Warming warden #

Ilya Sutskever Ilya Sutskever (; born 8 December 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning. He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-inv ...

: AI visionary # James Hamlin: Superconductivity sleuth #

Svetlana Mojsov Svetlana Mojsov is a Yugoslav-born Macedonian American chemist who is a research associate professor at Rockefeller University. Her research considers peptide synthesis. She discovered the glucagon-like peptide-1 and uncovered its role in gluc ...

: Unsung drug developer #

Halidou Tinto Halidou Tinto is a Professor of parasitology and global health scientist with research that has contributed to understanding and combating malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tinto founded the Clinical Research Unit of Nanaro (CRUN) in Burkina Faso as p ...

: Malaria fighter #

Thomas Powles Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

: Cancer explorer Special awardee: #

ChatGPT ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o as well as other Multimodal learning, multimodal models to create human-like re ...

: Boon and burden? Ones to watch in 2024: # Monica M. Bertagnolli, Director, US

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Service ...

Colin Waters Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), Thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydn ...

, Chair,

Anthropocene Working Group The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to the study of the Anthropocene as a geological time unit. It was established in 2009 as part of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), a constitu ...

Ilan Gur Ilan Gur is an American chief executive officer and entrepreneur. In 2022 he was appointed as the chief executive officer of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), an independent science funding body. Education Gur obtained his ...

, Chief executive, UK

Advanced Research and Invention Agency The Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, is a research funding agency of the UK government, announced on 19 February 2021 and formally established on 26 January 2023. History The Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act 2022 cre ...

# Muhammad Masroor Alam, Molecular biologist, Pakistan

2022

2022 awardees included: # Jane Rigby: Sky hunter # Yunlong Cao: COVID predictor # Saleemul Huq: Climate revolutionary # Svitlana Krakovska: Voice for Ukraine # Dimie Ogoina: Monkeypox watchman #

Lisa McCorkell Lisa McCorkell is an American public health researcher, policy analyst and Long COVID advocate who co-founded the Patient-Led Research Collaborative (PLRC). McCorkell co-founded PLRC together with Hannah Davis and three others with Long COVID, se ...

: 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 who is serving as the ninth and current secretary-general of the United Nations since 2017. A member of the Socialist Party (Portugal), ...

: Crisis diplomat # Muhammad Mohiuddin: Transplant trailblazer #

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

: Policy principal Ones to watch in 2023: # Sherry Rehman, Minister of

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

, Pakistan # Nallathamby Kalaiselvi, Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research # Sun Chunlan,

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

# Renee Wegrzyn, US Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health # Anthony Tyson,

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

2021

2021 awardees included: #

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

vaccine warrior # Friederike Otto, weather detective # Zhang Rongqiao, Mars explorer #

Timnit Gebru Timnit Gebru (Amharic and ; 1982/1983) is an Eritrean Ethiopian-born computer scientist who works in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic bias and data mining. She is a co-founder of Black in AI, an advocacy group that has pu ...

, AI ethics leader # Tulio de Oliveira, variant tracker # John Jumper, protein predictor # Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, indigenous defender # Guillaume Cabanac, deception sleuth # Meaghan Kall, COVID communicator # Janet Woodcock, drug chief Ones to watch in 2022: # Chikwe Ihekweazu, epidemiologist at the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence # 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 ...

# Love Dalén, geneticist at the

Swedish Museum of Natural History The Swedish 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 museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes bac ...

# Xie Zhenhua, China's special envoy on climate change # Graziano Venanzoni, physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics

2020

2020 awardees included: #

Tedros Ghebreyesus Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (, sometimes spelled ; born 3 March 1965) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, diplomat, and the DGWHO, Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017. He is the first African to become W ...

, Warning the world # Verena Mohaupt, Polar patroller # Gonzalo Moratorio, 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 ...

, Lockdown architect #

Jacinda Ardern Dame Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern ( ; born 26 July 1980) is a New Zealand politician and activist who was the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023. She was ...

, Crisis leader #

Anthony Fauci Anthony Stephen Fauci ( ; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical ...

, 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 # Zhang Rongqiao,

China National Space Administration The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is a government agency of the People's Republic of China headquartered in Haidian District, Haidian, Beijing, responsible for civil space administration and international space cooperation. These ...

# Karen Miga,

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

# Rochelle Walensky,

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...

, Boston, Massachusetts # Jane Greaves,

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

, UK

2019

2019 awardees included: # Ricardo Galvão: Science defender # Victoria Kaspi: Sky sleuth # Nenad Sestan: Neuroscientist # Sandra Díaz: Biodiversity guardian # Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum: Ebola fighter #

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

: Origin seeker # Wendy Rogers: Transplant ethicist # Deng Hongkui: CRISPR translator # John M. Martinis: Quantum builder #

Greta Thunberg Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (; born 3January 2003) is a Swedish climate activist, climate and political activist initially known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to climate change mitigation, mitigate the effec ...

: 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 (, ''née'' Nedelcheva, , born 20 May 1979) is a Bulgarian and European politician, president of the Robert Schuman Institute. She served as Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Mini ...

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

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 ...

, Germany

2018

2018 awardees included: # Yuan Cao: Graphene wrangler # Viviane Slon: Humanity's historian #

He Jiankui He Jiankui ( zh, s=贺建奎, p=Hè Jiànkuí ; born 1984) is a Chinese biophysicist known for his controversial first use of genome editing in humans. He served as associate professor of biology at the Southern University of Science and ...

: CRISPR rogue # Jess Wade: Diversity champion # Valérie Masson-Delmotte: Earth monitor # Anthony Brown: Star mapper # Yeo Bee Yin: Force for the environment # Barbara Rae-Venter: DNA detective # Robert-Jan Smits: Open-access leader # Makoto Yoshikawa: Asteroid hunter Ones to watch in 2019: # Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Director-general of the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

National Institute for Biomedical Research # Julia Olson, Co-counsel in Juliana v. United States # Muthayya Vanitha, Director of India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission # Maura McLaughlin, Chair at the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves # 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 communication 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 attorney, lobbyist and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) f ...

: Agency dismantler #

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

: 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: Test-ban tracker # Victor Cruz-Atienza: Quake chaser # Ann Olivarius: Legal champion # Khaled Toukan: Opening SESAME Ones to watch in 2018: # Shaughnessy Naughton, President of 314 Action #

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. I ...

, 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 Science, Innovation and Technology. ...

(UKRI) # Kate Crawford, Co-founder of AI Now Institute # John M. Martinis, Team leader of

Quantum computing A quantum computer is a computer that exploits quantum mechanical phenomena. On small scales, physical matter exhibits properties of wave-particle duality, both particles and waves, and quantum computing takes advantage of this behavior using s ...

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

# Patricia Espinosa, Executive secretary of the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change. It is an international treaty among countries to combat "dangerous human interference with th ...

(UNFCC)

2016

2016 awardees included: # Gabriela Gonzalez: Gravity spy #

Demis Hassabis Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind, and Isomorphic Labs, and a UK Government AI Adviser. In 2024, Ha ...

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

Alexandra Elbakyan Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (, , born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, S ...

: Paper pirate # John J. Zhang: Fertility rebel # Kevin Esvelt: CRISPR cautionary # Guillem Anglada-Escudé: 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 lifetim ...

# Robert Feidenhans’l, Chairman, European XFEL # Jef Boeke, Co-leader, Human Genome Project–Write # Wu Weiren, Chief Designer, China Lunar Programme # Marcia McNutt, President,

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, 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 ...

2015

2015 awardees included: # Christiana Figueres: Climate guardian # Junjiu Huang: Embryo editor # Alan Stern: Pluto hunter # Zhenan Bao: Master of materials # Ali Akbar Salehi: Nuclear diplomat # Joan Schmelz: A voice for women # David Reich: Genome archaeologist # Mikhail Eremets: Super conductor # Christina Smolke: Fermenting revolution # Brian Nosek: 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, Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Her first mandate ...

, Director-general of

# Gabriela González, 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, Im ...

, Co-founder,

DeepMind DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Go ...

# 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: Robot-maker # Sheik Umar Khan: Ebola doctor # David Spergel: Cosmic skeptic #

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

: Surface explorer # Pete Frates: Ice-bucket challenger # Koppillil Radhakrishnan: Rocket launcher # Masayo Takahashi: 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 Sy ...

: Structure solver Ones to watch in 2015: # Xie Zhenhua, China's top climate official # Alan Stern, Principal investigator of

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

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

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced ), known in some English-speaking settings as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zo ...

(MSF) # Bernard Bigot, Nominated as next director-general of

ITER ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ''iter'' meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process s ...

# Rick Horwitz, Executive director, Allen Institute for Cell Science

2013

2013 awardees included: # Feng Zhang: DNA's master editor # Tania Simoncelli: Gene patent foe # Deborah Persaud: Viral victor # Michel Mayor: In search of sister Earths # Naderev Saño: Climate conscience # Viktor Grokhovsky: Meteorite hunter # Hualan Chen: Front-line flu sleuth #

Shoukhrat Mitalipov Shoukhrat Mitalipov (, ; born 1961) is an American biologist who heads the Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. He is a well known pioneer of many nuclear transplantation studies and ...

: The cloning chief # Kathryn Clancy: An eye on harassment # Henry Snaith: Sun worshipper Ones to watch in 2014: # Masayo Takahashi, 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 300 scientific publications, Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to t ...

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 "provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies". The World Met ...

# Jean-Pierre Bourguignon 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

2012

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2012 awardees included: # Rolf-Dieter Heuer: The Higgs diplomat # Cynthia E. Rosenzweig: Guardian of Gotham # Adam Steltzner: Our man on Mars # Cédric Blanpain: Cell tracker # Elizabeth Iorns: Replication hound # Jun Wang: Genome juggernaut # Jo Handelsman: The bias detective # Tim Gowers: 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, of the

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

European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 23-member International organization, international organization devoted to space exploration. With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, ESA was founded in 1975 ...

’s ''Planck'' mission # Rafael Yuste, of

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, New York

2011

2011 awardees included: # Dario Autiero: Relativity challenger # Sara Seager: Planet seeker # Lisa Jackson: Pollution cop # Essam Sharaf: Science revolutionary # Diederik Stapel: 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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