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Wouldn't a 1998 prize year mean that their major work was done in the 60s and 70s? The average age of Nobel laureates is ~60, which would mean many could be in
by fovc 10y ago
Wouldn't a 1998 prize year mean that their major work was done in the 60s and 70s? The average age of Nobel laureates is ~60, which would mean many could be in their 80s now.
[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/laureates_ages/all_ages.html https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/laureates_ages...
- Godel_unicode 10y agoThat's a good point, I had remembered that age incorrectly as being lower. Is there a good source somewhere for mean time-to-nobel per field?
- fovc 10y agoI'm not sure about a quantitative source, but Wikipedia has a discussion on the subject [1]. There's a database [2] of all nominations, but it does not have the year of publishing of the research in question (if there is a specific item). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Recognition_time_lag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Recognition_time_l... [2] https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/manual.html https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/manual.html