How to win a Nobel prize: what kind of scientist scoops medals?

Let's not say the quiet part out loud.

This is a data visualization of three papers on this topic by the Nature team. The three papers are listed below (all are open access!). You are not misreading them (including the second paper), the titles mean what they say.

• Mitsis P. The Nobel Prize time gap. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01418-8
• Tol RSJ. The Nobel family. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04936-1
• Ioannidis JPA, Cristea I-A, Boyack KW. Work honored by Nobel prizes clusters heavily in a few scientific fields. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234612