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Science journal publisher predicts Nobel laureates for 2013

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Having accurately forecast 27 Nobel Prize winners since its inception in 2002, the annual Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates study mines scientific research citations to identify the most influential researchers in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine and economics.

This year, noteworthy nominees on the Thomson Reuters list include Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson particle in the field of physics …

Mind you, people have been saying Higgs’d win ever since the particle’s existence was confirmed, and some of the other choices would be, shall we say, a more rigorous test of their system.

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