<i>The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution: The Science Prizes, 1901–1915 and the Nobel Population 1901–1937: A Census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry</i>

Crawford, Elisabeth; Heilbron, J. L.; Ullrich, Rebecca; Andersen, Per H.

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“…The sample is drawn from a published census of Nobel Prize nominees 5 in the Chemistry and Physics Prizes for the period 1901-1950(Crawford, 2002. Of the 560…”

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“…Where possible, when information from the internet was conflicting, we used information linked to reputable published sources, such as the online entries from the Encyclopedia Britannica. Information on nationality, sex, year of birth, plus a full record of the years in which each scientist was nominated and/or won each Prize was collected from Crawford (2002). A further three scientists are thought to be alive at time of writing.…”

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Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

Rablen

Oswald

2008

Journal of Health Economics

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It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which extra status could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control group of comparable individuals received none. This paper attempts to formulate a test in that spirit. It collects 19th-century birth data on science Nobel Prize winners. Correcting for potential biases, we estimate that winning the Prize, compared to merely being nominated, is associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity.JEL classification: I12

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“…The sample is drawn from a published census of Nobel Prize nominees 5 in the Chemistry and Physics Prizes for the period 1901-1950(Crawford, 2002. Of the 560…”

Section: The Empirical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Empirical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

Rablen

Oswald

2008

Journal of Health Economics

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“…Prizes for the period 1901-1950(Crawford, 2002. Of the 560 scientists nominated for one of these Prizes over this period, we were able to find the year of death for 532 scientists using the internet search engine Google, the `Recent Deaths' column of the academic journal Science, and a rolling scientific bibliographic dictionary initiated as Poggendorff (1863).…”

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Mortality and Immortality

Rablen

Oswald

2015

Mortality and Music

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It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control group received neither. This paper attempts to formulate a test in that spirit. It collects 19th-century birth data on science Nobel Prize winners and nominees. Using a variety of corrections for potential biases, the paper concludes that winning the Nobel Prize, rather than merely being nominated, is associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity. Greater wealth, as measured by the real value of the Prize, does not seem to affect lifespan. JEL classification: I12

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“…They are awarded by Kungliga Vetenskapakademien (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) on the basis of proposals made by respective Committees on Physics and Chemistry, which receive recommendations from Swedish and foreign scientists [2]. The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) "in recognition of the extraordinary service he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him".…”

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Nobel Prize awards in Radiochemistry

Adloff

2012

Radiochimica Acta

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In 1996 the Editors of Radiochimica Acta brought out a special volume of the journal to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of radioactivity [1]. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Radiochimica Acta, which follows closely upon the centenary of Marie Curie’s second Nobel Prize in 1911, the author has the privilege to informally review “Radiochemistry and Nobel Prize Awards”, including discoveries of radioelements and new fields in chemistry based on radiochemical methods.

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The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution: The Science Prizes, 1901–1915 and the Nobel Population 1901–1937: A Census of the Nominators and Nominees for the Prizes in Physics and Chemistry

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Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

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