Objective: find and document which Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine/Physiology had Wikipedia pages before their Nobel was announced. Sample: last ten years.
| WP before Nobel | Nobel before WP | |
| male | 62 | 8 |
| female | 6 | 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]
Physics edit
- 2009
- Charles K. Kao - May 2002 [25]
- Willard Boyle - January 2006 [26]
- George E. Smith - January 2006 [27]
- 2010
- Andre Geim - April 2004 [28]
- Konstantin Novoselov - September 2010 [29]
- 2011
- Saul Perlmutter - January 2005 [30]
- Adam Riess - July 2006 [31]
- Brian Schmidt - August 2006 [32]
- 2012
- David J. Wineland - October 2009 [33]
- Serge Haroche - December 2007 [34]
- 2013
- François Englert - December 2006 [35]
- Peter Higgs - October 2003 [36]
- 2014
- Isamu Akasaki - January 2007 [37]
- Hiroshi Amano - October 2014 w/Nobel [38]
- Shuji Nakamura - September 2004 [39]
- 2015
- Takaaki Kajita - October 2015 w/Nobel [40]
- Arthur B. McDonald - November 2007 [41]
- 2016
- David J. Thouless - June 2006 [42]
- Duncan Haldane - June 2011 [43]
- J. Michael Kosterlitz - March 2009 [44]
- 2017
- Rainer Weiss - September 2003 [45]
- Barry Barish - July 2012 [46]
- Kip Thorne - June 2003 [47]
- 2018
- Arthur Ashkin - November 2005 [48]
- Gérard Mourou - June 2005 [49]
- Donna Strickland - October 2018 w/Nobel [50]
Chemistry edit
- 2009
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - December 2005 [51]
- Thomas A. Steitz - October 2009 w/Nobel [52]
- Ada E. Yonath - June 2005 [53]
- 2010
- Richard F. Heck - June 2008 [54]
- Akira Suzuki - March 2010 [55]
- Ei-ichi Negishi - February 2008 [56]
- 2011
- Dan Shechtman - January 2006 [57]
- 2012
- Robert Lefkowitz - June 2007 [58]
- Brian Kobilka - October 2008 [59]
- 2013
- Martin Karplus - March 2006 [60]
- Michael Levitt - March 2006 [61]
- Arieh Warshel - August 2007 [62]
- 2014
- Eric Betzig - October 2014 w/Nobel [63]
- Stefan Hell - November 2006 [64]
- William E. Moerner - July 2006 [65]
- 2015
- Tomas Lindahl - November 2008 [66]
- Paul L. Modrich - April 2007 [67]
- Aziz Sancar - June 2006 [68]
- 2016
- Jean-Pierre Sauvage - December 2005 [69]
- Fraser Stoddart - October 2005 [70]
- Ben Feringa - Januar 2015 [71]
- 2017
- Jacques Dubochet - October 2017 w/Nobel [72]
- Joachim Frank - April 2017 [73]
- Richard Henderson - September 2006 [74]
- 2018
- Frances Arnold - October 2008 [75]
- Greg Winter - May 2005 [76]
- George Smith - October 2018 w/Nobel [77]