00:00The biggest prize in chemistry is named today, and these are the names everyone is watching.
00:05At 2.45 Pakistan time, Sweden's Royal Academy names the 2026 Chemistry Nobel.
00:11The winner is still secret, but Clarivate tracks the most cited scientists on Earth.
00:15Here are the frontrunners. First, Alara, Nuzzo, and Sagiv, behind self-assembled monolayers,
00:22invisible films one molecule thick that made surfaces waterproof and launched nanotech.
00:26Second, Caltech's Harry Gray and Jay Winkler, who decoded how electrons travel long distances inside living proteins.
00:34Third, Harvard's David Liu, whose base and prime editing tools rewrite DNA letter by letter.
00:41But careful, Clarivate measures citations, not the secret committee's mind.
00:4689 of its picks since 2002 eventually won, often years later.
00:50The winner drops at 2.45 Pakistan time.
00:53Full result in tonight's video.
00:55Because the chemistry prize is named today.
