{"id":1943,"date":"2026-07-10T02:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:30:34","slug":"nonobelpeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2026\/07\/10\/nonobelpeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Have We Reached Peak Nobel? &#8211; 10 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To finally answer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2016\/10\/15\/have-we-reached-peak-nobel\/\">a question I asked 10 years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JeffersonConza\/The_Nobel_Laureates\">data from Jefferson Conza<\/a>, notwithstanding the suspiciously few recorded deaths in the last few years, <strong>no we haven&#8217;t reached Peak Nobel yet<\/strong>. That is, we haven&#8217;t reached the point where as many Nobel Prize winners are dying as are winning awards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NobelPrizeWinners-scaled.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NobelPrizeWinners-scaled.png\" height=150 width=256 class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other news, this WordPress theme hasn&#8217;t aged well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To finally answer a question I asked 10 years ago: Based on the data from Jefferson Conza, notwithstanding the suspiciously few recorded deaths in the last few years, no we haven&#8217;t reached Peak Nobel yet. That is, we haven&#8217;t reached the point where as many Nobel Prize winners are dying as are winning awards. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[379],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-showerthoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}