Sunday, September 20, 2009

More Time for Your Breakthrough

"Over the last century and a half, the average age of a Nobel Prize winner at the moment of his great breakthrough has risen more than five years, from 34 to almost 39 years old." (read more)
Posted by at 9/20/2009 01:48:00 AM
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Average not too meaningful without reporting standard deviation also... typical inflight magazine science :)

September 20, 2009 4:06 AM
Gabor said...

Good point. I looked into this and I was only able to find info on the age distribution at time of receiving the award: http://www.almaz.com/nobel/papers/age/

September 20, 2009 11:45 AM

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