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I've been wanting to do an analysis of lifespans of Nobel vs the rest of the population since they seem to live longer than average. Of course, you have to be

• jedberg 8y ago
  Here is a list of all of them with their birth and death days: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/birthdays.html?day=0&month=0&year=&photo=1#birthday_result https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/birthdays.html...
• gumby 8y ago
  Social status seems to be correlated with life expectancy so it is possible wining the prize extends it.
• a_bonobo 8y ago
  Rablen and Oswald 2008 beat you to that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18649962 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18649962 >Mortality and immortality: the Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity. >Correcting for potential biases, we estimate that winning the Prize, compared to merely being nominated, is associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity [in men].
• Pulcinella 8y ago
  Not a Nobel prize winner, but still interesting, Albert Hofmann, of LSD fame, lived to be a 102.
• kurlberg 8y ago
  An interesting point made in https://web.math.princeton.edu/~kollar/FromMyHomePage/fm-essay.pdf https://web.math.princeton.edu/~kollar/FromMyHomePage/fm-ess... is that getting a fields medal is good for longevity, but bad if you "nearly got it": +8 yrs if you get it, -6 for "just missed" (see p. 6.) The main point of the article is not about longevity, but rather: does the award lead to better or worse research? (It is awarded relatively early.)