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In 1983, the renowned geneticist Barbara McClintock received the Nobel Prize in the category of "Physiology or Medicine" for discovering genetic transposition. McClintock's research on Indian corn plants led to her discovery that genetic material can change positions on a chromosome or move from one chromosome to another. Her discovery was confirmed immediately in corn and in the 1960s and 1970s in bacteria and other organisms.
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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.
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Dr. Buck, associate director, Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work on olfactory receptors. Dr. Buck, whose primary focus is on how odors are recognized in the nose and interpreted in the brain, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) congratulates Mario R. Capecchi today for the richly deserved honor of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Capecchi, who sits on FBR's Board of Governors, is currently a Distinguished Professor and Co-Chair of the Human Genetics Department at the University of Utah, School of Medicine.
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[One] researcher, Oliver Smithies, who was concurrently pursuing a similar mission at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize ... belongs to Martin J. Evans of Cardiff University in Wales, who demonstrated that genes from embryonic stem cells can be inherited.
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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 27 Thomson Scientific Laureates named since 2002, four have gone on to win Nobel honors - an accurate-prediction average of better than one in seven.
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