Why Are Nobel Prize Winners Getting Older?
The 2016 Nobel laureates for physics, medicine and chemistry: all men, at least 65 years old and mostly over 72.
Go back to the first half of the 20th Century, however, and the average laureate was “only” 56. Physics laureates, now typically a group of men in their late-sixties, used to have an average age of 47.
Why Are Nobel Prize Winners Getting Older?
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