Nobels, no degrees (English)

Nobels, no degrees This visualization explores Nobel How to read it Prizes and graduate qualifications from 1901 to 1912, by analysing the age of recipients at the time prizes were awarded, average age evolution through time and among categories, graduation grades, main university affiliations and the Each dot represents a Nobel laureate, each recipient is positioned according to the year the prize was awarded (x axis) and age of the person at the time of the award (y axis). principal hometowns of the graduates. in-depth examination grade level тan Nobel awarded to more than one woman PhD master Principal university affiliations of Nobel laureates at the moment the Prize was awarded. person bachelor no degree age time trend 2012 10 years each for each CATEGORY 2001 average age for 1991 average age 1981 1971 of Nobel laureate 1961 1951 Harvard 1941 1931 MIT 1921 1911 4. Stanford 1901 Caltech CHEMISTRY (59 years) 57 years Columbia SCIENCES 66 years ECONOMIC Cambridge (59 years) Berkeley PHYSICS 4. (59 years) 54 years 6. EG -- - - -/- -S- - 5. 1. LITERATURE 64 years (59 years) total of laureate for each city 2012 12 1991 OR MEDICINE (59 years) -4- 51 PHYSIOLOGY 6- -17 17 57 years 1961 23 28 PEACE 61 years 10 1931 13 (59 years) 11- -.---. 8. 1901 1- 2. Chicago principal hometowns of laureates Washington New York Boston --........ London Paris 11 - 3. Munich -1 1..... I- 4. I 2. ... 4. Sibling pride: Jan and Nikolaas Tinbergen, the only brothers to win a prize each (economics and medicine) Berlln Wien 1-4 ---.. 1. Multiple awards: Marie Curie, the first recipient of two Nobel Prizes (chemistry and physics) Budapest Moscow 5. The self-taught: Guglielmo Marconi, the only Nobel laureate (physics) without a degree 2. The oldest: Leonid Hurwicz, awarded at age 90 6. 3. The youngest: Lawrence Bragg, awarded at age 25 The posthumous: Erik Axel Karlfeldt, the first person to be awarded a Nobel Prize after his death 7. The First Lady of Economics: Elinor Ostrom, the only female recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics ----- I 3- 3. 4.