Research Analytics
Insights into career trajectories, global talent flows, and the path to academic excellence
5,862
Total Laureates
15
Max Awards (Single Person)
1178
Institutions Tracked
40%
Top Nobel Rate
Sorbonne University
Nobel Predictors
Awards that most often precede a Nobel Prize
101future Nobels
7yr avg lead time
29future Nobels
8yr avg lead time
21future Nobels
4yr avg lead time
15future Nobels
13yr avg lead time
15future Nobels
21yr avg lead time
13future Nobels
4yr avg lead time
13future Nobels
7yr avg lead time
13future Nobels
5yr avg lead time
13future Nobels
14yr avg lead time
12future Nobels
11yr avg lead time
11future Nobels
3yr avg lead time
10future Nobels
3yr avg lead time
Hot Streak (2020-2024)
Most decorated researchers in the last 5 years
1
Katalin Karikó
Hungary
8
awards
2
Demis Hassabis
United Kingdom
8
awards
3
Drew Weissman
United States
7
awards
4
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
United States
4
awards
5
John Michael Jumper
United States
4
awards
6
John M. Jumper
United States
4
awards
7
Geoffrey E. Hinton
Canada
3
awards
8
Elliott Lieb
United States
3
awards
9
Pieter Cullis
Canada
3
awards
Nobel Concentration
Institutions with highest % of Nobel laureates
1Sorbonne University
40%
8 of 20 awards
2Rockefeller University
39%
20 of 51 awards
3Bell Labs
33%
9 of 27 awards
4University of Manchester
30%
6 of 20 awards
5Columbia University
24%
19 of 78 awards
6University of Chicago
24%
23 of 96 awards
7NIH
23%
6 of 26 awards
8IBM
23%
5 of 22 awards
9Max Planck Society
22%
25 of 114 awards
10University of Cambridge
20%
36 of 178 awards
Most Decorated (All-Time)
Researchers with the most prestigious awards
1
Katalin Karikó
Hungary
15
awards
2
Emmanuelle Charpentier
France
14
awards
3
Jennifer A. Doudna
United States
14
awards
4
Stephen Hawking
United Kingdom
14
awards
5
Drew Weissman
United States
13
awards
6
Demis Hassabis
United Kingdom
12
awards
7
Andrew Wiles
United Kingdom
12
awards
8
Shinya Yamanaka
Japan
12
awards
9
Geoffrey E. Hinton
Canada
10
awards
10
Martin Rees
United Kingdom
10
awards
Awards Growth Over Time
Prestigious awards given per decade since 1900
Data sources: Wikidata (birth locations, citizenship), ORCID (career history), OpenAlex (publications), Nobel Prize API. Career trajectory and migration estimates based on historical analysis of laureate biographies.