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]
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2023 awardees included:[11]
Kalpana Kalahasti : To the Moon
Marina Silva : Amazon protector
Katsuhiko Hayashi : Rewiring reproduction
Annie Kritcher : Fusion igniter
Eleni Myrivili : Warming warden
Ilya Sutskever : AI visionary
James Hamlin: Superconductivity sleuth
Svetlana Mojsov : Unsung drug developer
Halidou Tinto : Malaria fighter
Thomas 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 awardees included:[12]
Jane Rigby : Sky hunter
Yunlong Cao : COVID predictor
Saleemul Huq : Climate revolutionary
Svitlana Krakovska : Voice for Ukraine
Dimie Ogoina : Monkeypox watchman
Lisa McCorkell : Long-COVID advocate
Diana Greene Foster : Abortion fact-finder
António Guterres : Crisis diplomat
Muhammad Mohiuddin : Transplant trailblazer
Alondra Nelson : Policy principal
Ones to watch in 2023:
Sherry Rehman , Minister of climate change, Pakistan
Nallathamby Kalaiselvi , Indian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Sun Chunlan , Chinese Communist Party
Renee Wegrzyn , US Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Anthony Tyson , University of California, Davis
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 warrior
Friederike Otto , weather detective
Zhang Rongqiao , Mars explorer
Timnit Gebru , 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
Love Dalén , geneticist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Xie Zhenhua , China's special envoy on climate change
Graziano Venanzoni , physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
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 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 , Lockdown architect
Jacinda Ardern , Crisis leader
Anthony Fauci , Science’s defender
Ones to watch in 2021:
Marion Koopmans , Erasmus University Medical Center , Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Zhang Rongqiao , China National Space Administration
Karen Miga , University of California, Santa Cruz
Rochelle Walensky , Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts
Jane Greaves , Cardiff University , UK
Greta Thunberg was nominated in 2019 for her work as a climate catalyst.
2019 awardees included:[4]
Ricardo Galvão : Science defender
Victoria Kaspi : Sky sleuth
Nenad Sestan : Neuroscientist
Sandra Díaz : Biodiversity guardian
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum : Ebola fighter
Yohannes Haile-Selassie : Origin seeker
Wendy Rogers : Transplant ethicist
Deng Hongkui : CRISPR translator
John M. Martinis : Quantum builder
Greta Thunberg : Climate catalyst
Ones to watch in 2020:
António Guterres : 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 : European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
Markus Rex : Alfred Wegener Institute , Germany
Jess Wade was nominated in 2018 for her work as a diversity champion
2018 awardees included:[1]
Yuan Cao : Graphene wrangler
Viviane Slon : Humanity's historian
He Jiankui : 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 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 (IPBES) Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
David R. Liu was nominated in 2017 for his work as a gene corrector
2017 awardees included:[2]
David R. Liu : Gene corrector
Marica Branchesi : Merger maker
Emily Whitehead: Living testimonial
Scott Pruitt : Agency dismantler
Pan Jianwei : Father of quantum
Jennifer Byrne : 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 , 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)
Alexandra Elbakyan was nominated in 2016 for her work on Sci-Hub
2016 awardees included:[5]
Gabriela Gonzalez : Gravity spy
Demis Hassabis : Mind crafter
Terry Hughes : Reef sentinel
Guus Velders : Cooling agent
Celina M. Turchi : Zika detective
Alexandra Elbakyan : 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
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
Mikhail Eremets was nominated in 2015 for his work on electrical resistance and conductance
2015 awardees included:[6]
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 , Director-general of CERN
Gabriela González , Spokesperson at Advanced LIGO
Kathy Niakan , Stem-cell biologist, Francis Crick Institute
Demis Hassabis , Co-founder, DeepMind
Yang Wei , Head of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
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 combatant
Radhika Nagpal : Robot-maker
Sheik Umar Khan : Ebola doctor
David Spergel : Cosmic skeptic
Maryam Mirzakhani : Surface explorer
Pete Frates : Ice-bucket challenger
Koppillil Radhakrishnan : Rocket launcher
Masayo Takahashi : Stem-cell tester
Sjors Scheres : Structure solver
Ones to watch in 2015:
Xie Zhenhua , China's top climate official
Alan Stern , Principal investigator of NASA 's New Horizons mission
Joanne Liu , International president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Bernard Bigot , Nominated as next director-general of ITER
Rick Horwitz , Executive director, Allen Institute for Cell Science
Tania Simoncelli was nominated for her work on science policy and gene patents
2013 awardees included:[8]
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 : 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 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Incoming president, European Research Council (ERC)
Koppillil Radhakrishnan Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation
Gordon Sanghera from Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Rolf-Dieter Heuer of CERN was nominated for his work on the Higgs boson
2012 awardees included:[9]
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 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
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 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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