To further add to this, one of the fastest Nobel prizes in Physics was also for high temperature superconductivity in 1987, awarded less than 2 years after th

To further add to this, one of the fastest Nobel prizes in Physics was also for high temperature superconductivity in 1987, awarded less than 2 years after the discovery was made public (the other which ties with it being the 1957 prize for parity violation). So even if LK-99 had been easily verified to be a true room temperature superconductor, they'd probably be looking at the 2024 Nobel.