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Re:How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off by lordnacho on Sunday January 31, 2016 @06:41AM (#11006103)
And also consider people who win a science Nobel tend to be pretty old. Suppose you have to be ~55 or so to win one, you'd have to be born latest in ~1960, probably doing the contest in the late 1970s. And I would guess the field of finalists got bigger as the contest got older.
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Re:How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off by tosseraccount on Sunday January 31, 2016 @11:31AM (#11006859)
You may have to be 55 or so; but the work was done 20 years ago.

"What's more, after 1985 about 60% of physics, 52% of chemistry, and 49% of medicine prizes were awarded following a post-discovery delay of more than 20 years."

[ source : http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/n... ]

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