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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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