Annual listicle of ten "people who mattered" in science
Award
Nature 's 10 is an annual listicle of ten "people who mattered" in science, produced by the scientific journal Nature . Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad.[1] [2] [3] 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".[1] 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.[4] [1] [2] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
2023 2023 awardees included:[11]
Kalpana Kalahasti : To the MoonMarina Silva : Amazon protectorKatsuhiko Hayashi : Rewiring reproductionAnnie Kritcher : Fusion igniterEleni Myrivili : Warming wardenIlya Sutskever : AI visionaryJames Hamlin: Superconductivity sleuth Svetlana Mojsov : Unsung drug developerHalidou Tinto : Malaria fighterThomas Powles: Cancer explorer Special awardee:
ChatGPT : Boon and burden?Ones to watch in 2024:
Monica M. Bertagnolli , Director, US National Institutes of Health Colin Waters, Chair, Anthropocene Working Group Ilan Gur , Chief executive, UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency Muhammad Masroor Alam, Molecular biologist, Pakistan National Institutes of Health
2022 2022 awardees included:[12]
Jane Rigby : Sky hunterYunlong Cao: COVID predictor Saleemul Huq : Climate revolutionarySvitlana Krakovska : Voice for UkraineDimie Ogoina : Monkeypox watchmanLisa McCorkell: Long-COVID advocate Diana Greene Foster : Abortion fact-finderAntónio Guterres : Crisis diplomatMuhammad Mohiuddin: Transplant trailblazer Alondra Nelson : Policy principalOnes to watch in 2023:
Sherry Rehman , Minister of climate change, PakistanNallathamby Kalaiselvi, Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Sun Chunlan , Chinese Communist Party Renee Wegrzyn , US Advanced Research Projects Agency for HealthAnthony Tyson, University of California, Davis
2021 Winnie Byanyima was nominated in 2021 for her work on COVID-19 vaccine equity . She is the executive director of UNAIDS .2021 awardees included:[13]
Winnie Byanyima vaccine warriorFriederike Otto , weather detectiveZhang Rongqiao , Mars explorerTimnit Gebru , AI ethics leaderTulio de Oliveira , variant trackerJohn Jumper , protein predictorVictoria Tauli-Corpuz , indigenous defenderGuillaume Cabanac, deception sleuth Meaghan Kall , COVID communicatorJanet Woodcock , drug chiefOnes 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 Love Dalén, geneticist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Xie Zhenhua , China's special envoy on climate changeGraziano Venanzoni, physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
2020 Tedros Ghebreyesus was nominated in 2020 for his work as the Director-General of the World Health Organization .2020 awardees included:[14]
Tedros Ghebreyesus , Warning the worldVerena Mohaupt, Polar patroller Gonzalo Moratorio, Coronavirus hunter Adi Utarini , Mosquito commanderKathrin Jansen , Vaccine leaderZhang Yongzhen , Genome sharerChanda Prescod-Weinstein , A force in physicsLi Lanjuan , Lockdown architectJacinda Ardern , Crisis leaderAnthony Fauci , Science’s defenderOnes to watch in 2021:
Marion Koopmans , Erasmus University Medical Center , Rotterdam, the NetherlandsZhang Rongqiao , China National Space Administration Karen Miga , University of California, Santa Cruz Rochelle Walensky , Harvard Medical School , Boston, MassachusettsJane Greaves , Cardiff University , UK
2019 Greta Thunberg was nominated in 2019 for her work as a climate catalyst. 2019 awardees included:[4]
Ricardo Galvão : Science defenderVictoria Kaspi : Sky sleuthNenad Sestan : NeuroscientistSandra Díaz : Biodiversity guardianJean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum : Ebola fighterYohannes Haile-Selassie : Origin seekerWendy Rogers : Transplant ethicistDeng Hongkui : CRISPR translatorJohn M. Martinis : Quantum builderGreta Thunberg : Climate catalystOnes to watch in 2020:
António Guterres : Secretary-general, United NationsDenis Rebrikov: Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Moscow Geng Meiyu: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, China Mariya Gabriel : European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and YouthMarkus Rex: Alfred Wegener Institute , Germany
2018 Jess Wade was nominated in 2018 for her work as a diversity champion2018 awardees included:[1]
Yuan Cao : Graphene wranglerViviane Slon : Humanity's historianHe Jiankui : CRISPR rogueJess Wade : Diversity championValérie Masson-Delmotte : Earth monitorAnthony Brown : Star mapperYeo Bee Yin : Force for the environmentBarbara Rae-Venter : DNA detectiveRobert-Jan Smits : Open-access leaderMakoto Yoshikawa : Asteroid hunterOnes to watch in 2019:
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum , Director-general of the Democratic Republic of the Congo National Institute for Biomedical ResearchJulia Olson , Co-counsel in Juliana v. United States Muthayya Vanitha , Director of India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon missionMaura 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 (IPBES) Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
2017 David R. Liu was nominated in 2017 for his work as a gene corrector2017 awardees included:[2]
David R. Liu : Gene correctorMarica Branchesi : Merger makerEmily Whitehead: Living testimonial Scott Pruitt : Agency dismantlerPan Jianwei : Father of quantumJennifer Byrne : Error sleuthLassina Zerbo : Test-ban trackerVictor Cruz-Atienza: Quake chaser Ann Olivarius : Legal championKhaled Toukan : Opening SESAMEOnes to watch in 2018:
Shaughnessy Naughton , President of 314 Action Mark Walport , Chief executive of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)Kate Crawford , Co-founder of AI Now Institute John M. Martinis , Team leader of Quantum computing at Google Patricia Espinosa , Executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)
2016 Alexandra Elbakyan was nominated in 2016 for her work on Sci-Hub 2016 awardees included:[5]
Gabriela Gonzalez : Gravity spyDemis Hassabis : Mind crafterTerry Hughes : Reef sentinelGuus Velders: Cooling agent Celina M. Turchi : Zika detectiveAlexandra Elbakyan : Paper pirateJohn J. Zhang : Fertility rebelKevin Esvelt : CRISPR cautionaryGuillem Anglada-Escudé : Planet hunterElena Long : Diversity trailblazerOnes to watch in 2017:
Cori Bargmann , Science president, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Robert Feidenhans’l, Chairman, European XFEL Jef Boeke , Co-leader, Human Genome Project–WriteWu Weiren , Chief Designer, China Lunar ProgrammeMarcia McNutt , President, National Academy of Sciences
2015 Mikhail Eremets was nominated in 2015 for his work on electrical resistance and conductance 2015 awardees included:[6]
Christiana Figueres : Climate guardianJunjiu Huang: Embryo editor Alan Stern : Pluto hunterZhenan Bao : Master of materialsAli Akbar Salehi : Nuclear diplomatJoan Schmelz : A voice for womenDavid Reich : Genome archaeologistMikhail Eremets : Super conductorChristina Smolke : Fermenting revolutionBrian Nosek : Bias blasterOnes to watch in 2016:
Fabiola Gianotti , Director-general of CERNGabriela González , Spokesperson at Advanced LIGOKathy Niakan , Stem-cell biologist, Francis Crick Institute Demis Hassabis , Co-founder, DeepMind Yang Wei , Head of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
2014 Sjors Scheres was nominated in 2014 for his work on Cryogenic electron microscopy 2014 awardees included:[7]
Andrea Accomazzo: Comet chaser Suzanne L. Topalian : Cancer combatantRadhika Nagpal : Robot-makerSheik Umar Khan : Ebola doctorDavid Spergel : Cosmic skepticMaryam Mirzakhani : Surface explorerPete Frates : Ice-bucket challengerKoppillil Radhakrishnan : Rocket launcherMasayo Takahashi : Stem-cell testerSjors Scheres : Structure solverOnes to watch in 2015:
Xie Zhenhua , China's top climate officialAlan Stern , Principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons missionJoanne Liu , International president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)Bernard Bigot , Nominated as next director-general of ITERRick Horwitz, Executive director, Allen Institute for Cell Science
2013 Tania Simoncelli was nominated for her work on science policy and gene patents 2013 awardees included:[8]
Feng Zhang : DNA's master editorTania Simoncelli : Gene patent foeDeborah Persaud : Viral victorMichel Mayor : In search of sister EarthsNaderev Saño: Climate conscience Viktor Grokhovsky: Meteorite hunter Hualan Chen : Front-line flu sleuthShoukhrat Mitalipov : The cloning chiefKathryn Clancy : An eye on harassmentHenry Snaith : Sun worshipperOnes to watch in 2014:
Masayo Takahashi , RIKEN Center for Developmental BiologyChristopher Field of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Incoming president, European Research Council (ERC)Koppillil Radhakrishnan Chairman, Indian Space Research OrganisationGordon Sanghera from Oxford Nanopore Technologies
2012 Rolf-Dieter Heuer of CERN was nominated for his work on the Higgs boson 2012 awardees included:[9]
Rolf-Dieter Heuer : The Higgs diplomatCynthia E. Rosenzweig : Guardian of GothamAdam Steltzner : Our man on MarsCédric Blanpain : Cell trackerElizabeth Iorns : Replication houndJun Wang : Genome juggernautJo Handelsman : The bias detectiveTim Gowers : Seed of discontentBernardo De Bernardinis: On the fault line Ron Fouchier: Flu fighter Ones to watch in 2013:
Anne Glover , European Commission chief science adviserThomas Stocker , of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)Chris Austin, US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency ’s Planck mission Rafael Yuste , of Columbia University , New York
2011 Rosie Redfield was nominated in 2011 for her work on arsenic biochemistry and open science 2011 awardees included:[10]
Dario Autiero: Relativity challenger Sara Seager : Planet seekerLisa Jackson : Pollution copEssam Sharaf : Science revolutionaryDiederik Stapel : Fallen starRosie Redfield : Critical enquirerDanica May Camacho: Child of the times Mike Lamont: The Higgs mechanic Tatsuhiko Kodama: Fukushima's gadfly John Rogers: Tech executive
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