Ψ*Ψ even suggested to include the tag beard on this blog. (Great idea!)
Anyway... The Nobel laureates in the 5 traditional disciplines of 2007 are known. I am quite dissapointed. Let's compare this year to the first Nobel Prize year.
1901
Wilhelm C. Röntgen (Physics), Emil A. von Behring (Physiology or Medicine), Rene F. A. Sully Prudhomme (Literature)
Jean H. Dunant and Frédéric Passy (Peace), Jacobus H. van't Hoff (Chemistry)
5 bearded laureates, 1 not bearded
A bummer that the beardless guy is a chemist, but 5 out of 6 is a good score.
2007
Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg (Physics), Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies (Physiology or Medicine)
Doris Lessing (Literature), IPCC and Al Gore (Peace), Gerhard Ertl (Chemistry)
No beard at all!
How about the chemistry laureates? How bearded were they in history. (I mean that they must have a beard on the portrait on the official website.)
1901 was not very good but in 1902 there was Emil Fisher to show the world how it should be done.
A beard and a pince-nez!
A great shock when you count the amount of bearded chemistry Nobel laureates over the years.
149 laureates and only 13 were bearded (a lousy 8.7%).
1901-1925 : 9 bearded laureates. In 1995 Mario J. Molina was the first bearded laureate in 70 years.
There were 3 beards after Molina. The last hero was (sure) 'The Man' in 2005. Okay, not an imressive beard, but any visible facial hair on the chin is sufficient.
Let's hope that next year there is a prize for someone like Stoddart or Seeman.
6 comments:
Great post!
Any psycho-social analysis?
Is there a correlation between hairstyle (or: remaining amount of hair...) and Nobels?
LH07
Hmm, are you sure Doris doesn't have a beard?
nice statistics.
So, if I want to increase my chances of winning a Nobel prize I should shave my beard (i.e. 3 day growth).
That might increase chances. Not doing synthetic chemistry and being old may help too :-)
epic lulz for this post! =D
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