Have you won any noble prizes? – Drug Discovery Zone

Question: Have you won any noble prizes?
- Keywords:
  nobel,
  prize
Asked by anon-196310 to Sebastian, Paddy, Lee, Jennifer, Fiona, Eleanor on 5 Mar 2019.
- Jennifer Harris answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  I haven’t won any noble prizes – usually these are awarded to people after a lifetime of work dedicated to a field of research.
- Lee Steinberg answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  I also haven’t won any Nobel prizes. Like Jennifer said, these are given to people after incredibly successful careers, where they have made significant discoveries. For theoretical work, prizes are also usually awarded after it has been validated by experiment – like when Higgs won his Nobel prize after the discovery of the Higgs boson.
  
  It is rare, but sometimes Nobel prizes are awarded quickly – Andre Geim’s award for the discovery of graphene came not long after he actually did the work.
- Fiona Scott answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  How very kind of you to ask! Sadly not. Nobel Prizes are usually awarded at least a decade or so after a scientific discovery because they are awarded for work that has transformed a discipline, and you need to see what happens after that discovery was made to work out whether it has been of significance or not.
  
  This model came into place because a Nobel Prize was awarded for some recently done science that was then proved wrong!
- Eleanor Senior answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  Unfortunately not but who knows what could happen far in the future,
- Paddy Sudhakar answered on 6 Mar 2019:
  
  Well – good one – no nobel prizes. As Jennifer replied, noble prizes generally take a mountain of work for more than 1-2 decades and with high novelty.

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