The Nobel Prize delay
arXiv:1405.7136
Abstract
The time lag between the publication of a Nobel discovery and the conferment of the prize has been rapidly increasing for all disciplines, especially for Physics. Does this mean that fundamental science is running out of groundbreaking discoveries?
Extended version of Nature 508, 186 (2014) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v508/n7495/full/508186a.html ; http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.2012