User:Markus Pössel/Nobel Laureates and Wikipedia Pages

Objective: find and document which Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine/Physiology had Wikipedia pages before their Nobel was announced. Sample: last ten fifteen years.

	WP before Nobel	Nobel before WP
male	93	10
female	12	1

Physiology/Medicine

• 2009
  • Elizabeth Blackburn – September 2004 [1]
  • Carol W. Greider – November 2006 [2]
  • Jack W. Szostak – November 2007 [3]
• 2010
  • Robert G. Edwards – March 2005 [4]
• 2011
  • Bruce Beutler – November 2007 [5]
  • Jules A. Hoffmann – November 2007 [6]
  • Ralph M. Steinman – September 2007 [7]
• 2012
  • John B. Gurdon – November 2004 [8]
  • Shinya Yamanaka – November 2007 [9]
• 2013
  • James Rothman – March 2005 [10]
  • Randy Schekman – March 2005 [11]
  • Thomas C. Südhof – April 2010 [12]
• 2014
  • John O'Keefe – November 2013 [13]
  • May-Britt Moser – June 2009 [14]
  • Edvard Moser – May 2009 [15]
• 2015
  • William C. Campbell – October 2015 w/Nobel [16]
  • Satoshi Ōmura – October 2015 w/Nobel [17]
  • Tu Youyou – September 2011 [18]
• 2016
  • Yoshinori Ohsumi – November 2012 [19]
• 2017
  • Jeffrey C. Hall – October 2013 [20]
  • Michael Rosbash – April 2013 [21]
  • Michael W. Young – October 2013 [22]
• 2018
  • James P. Allison – July 2012 [23]
  • Tasuku Honjo – February 2014 [24]
• 2019
  • William Kaelin Jr. – November 2016 [25]
  • Peter J. Ratcliffe – November 2012 [26]
  • Gregg L. Semenza – November 2016 [27]
• 2020
  • Harvey J. Alter – April 2006 [28]
  • Michael Houghton – January 2014 [29]
  • Charles M. Rice – November 2016 [30]
• 2021
  • David Julius – June 2011 [31]
  • Ardem Patapoutian – January 2021 [32]
• 2022
  • Svante Pääbo – August 2002 [33]
• 2023
  • Katalin Karikó – April 2020 [34]
  • Drew Weissman – January 2021 [35]
• 2024

Physics

• 2009
  • Charles K. Kao – May 2002 [36]
  • Willard Boyle – January 2006 [37]
  • George E. Smith – January 2006 [38]
• 2010
  • Andre Geim – April 2004 [39]
  • Konstantin Novoselov – September 2010 [40]
• 2011
  • Saul Perlmutter – January 2005 [41]
  • Adam Riess – July 2006 [42]
  • Brian Schmidt – August 2006 [43]
• 2012
  • David J. Wineland – October 2009 [44]
  • Serge Haroche – December 2007 [45]
• 2013
  • François Englert – December 2006 [46]
  • Peter Higgs – October 2003 [47]
• 2014
  • Isamu Akasaki – January 2007 [48]
  • Hiroshi Amano – October 2014 w/Nobel [49]
  • Shuji Nakamura – September 2004 [50]
• 2015
  • Takaaki Kajita – October 2015 w/Nobel [51]
  • Arthur B. McDonald – November 2007 [52]
• 2016
  • David J. Thouless – June 2006 [53]
  • Duncan Haldane – June 2011 [54]
  • J. Michael Kosterlitz – March 2009 [55]
• 2017
  • Rainer Weiss – September 2003 [56]
  • Barry Barish – July 2012 [57]
  • Kip Thorne – June 2003 [58]
• 2018
  • Arthur Ashkin – November 2005 [59]
  • Gérard Mourou – June 2005 [60]
  • Donna Strickland – October 2018 w/Nobel [61]

• 2019
  • Jim Peebles – July 2004 [62]
  • Michel Mayor – April 2004 [63]
  • Didier Queloz – October 2004 [64]
• 2020
  • Roger Penrose – November 2001 [65]
  • Reinhard Genzel – November 2007 [66]
  • Andrea M. Ghez – June 2004 [67]
• 2021
  • Syukuro Manabe – November 2006 [68]
  • Klaus Hasselmann – April 2005 [69]
  • Giorgio Parisi – October 2006 [70]
• 2022
  • Alain Aspect – December 2004 [71]
  • John Clauser – June 2010 [72]
  • Anton Zeilinger – August 2004 [73]
• 2023
  • Anne L'Huillier – April 2014 [74]
  • Ferenc Krausz – March 2006 [75]
  • Pierre Agostini – October 2023 w/Nobel [76]
• 2024

Chemistry

• 2009
  • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – December 2005 [77]
  • Thomas A. Steitz – October 2009 w/Nobel [78]
  • Ada E. Yonath – June 2005 [79]
• 2010
  • Richard F. Heck – June 2008 [80]
  • Akira Suzuki – March 2010 [81]
  • Ei-ichi Negishi – February 2008 [82]
• 2011
  • Dan Shechtman – January 2006 [83]
• 2012
  • Robert Lefkowitz – June 2007 [84]
  • Brian Kobilka – October 2008 [85]
• 2013
  • Martin Karplus – March 2006 [86]
  • Michael Levitt – March 2006 [87]
  • Arieh Warshel – August 2007 [88]
• 2014
  • Eric Betzig – October 2014 w/Nobel [89]
  • Stefan Hell – November 2006 [90]
  • William E. Moerner – July 2006 [91]
• 2015
  • Tomas Lindahl – November 2008 [92]
  • Paul L. Modrich – April 2007 [93]
  • Aziz Sancar – June 2006 [94]
• 2016
  • Jean-Pierre Sauvage – December 2005 [95]
  • Fraser Stoddart – October 2005 [96]
  • Ben Feringa – Januar 2015 [97]
• 2017
  • Jacques Dubochet – October 2017 w/Nobel [98]
  • Joachim Frank – April 2017 [99]
  • Richard Henderson – September 2006 [100]
• 2018
  • Frances Arnold – October 2008 [101]
  • Greg Winter – May 2005 [102]
  • George Smith – October 2018 w/Nobel [103]

• 2019
  • John B. Goodenough – March 2005 [104]
  • M. Stanley Whittingham – October 2006 [105]
  • Akira Yoshino – July 2011 [106]
• 2020
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier – June 2015 [107]
  • Jennifer Doudna – August 2012 [108]
• 2021
  • Benjamin List – October 2021 w/Nobel [109]
  • David MacMillan – January 2007 [110]
• 2022
  • Carolyn Bertozzi – November 2006 [111]
  • Morten P. Meldal – March 2009 [112]
  • Karl Barry Sharpless – December 2003 [113] (after his 2001 Nobel, but before his 2022 Nobel)
• 2023
  • Moungi Bawendi – May 2017 [114]
  • Louis E. Brus – May 2008 [115]
  • Alexey Ekimov – June 2010 [116]
• 2024