What subjects have past winners studied? What age were they when they won? Where do they live? Nature crunched the data on every science prizewinner to find out.
crunched the data on the 346 prizes and their 646 winners to work out which characteristics can be reliably linked to medals.In the entire twentieth century, only 11 Nobel prizes were awarded to women. Since 2000, women have won another 15 prizes., with laureates before 1960 waiting an average of 14 years, and those honoured in the 2010s having to wait an average of 29 years. But there’s a time limit: prizes cannot be awarded posthumously.
You can greatly improve your chances of winning a Nobel by working in the laboratory of a scientist who already has one or will in the future, or by working with someone whose mentors won. Prizewinners often beget or emerge from the labs of other laureatesZooming out, here we see the Thomson and Strutt tree with its connections to other academic lineages that feature Nobel winners up to 2023.You might expect lots of separate clusters to emerge as distinct academic families.
An incredible 702 out of 736 researchers who have won science and economics prizes up to 2023 are part of the same academic family — connected by an academic link in common somewhere in their history.A possible explanation is that talent begets talent, or that previous winners nominate their scientific descendants . Either way, academic genealogy makes a big difference.that any trend can have several different explanations.
As one last option, consider changing your name. The given names of 69 out of 642 science prize winners begin with J, and 62 with A. Good luck, Jennifer and Antonio!
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