[zhemao]

The Nobel Prizes in science are generally awarded a few decades after the fact. That gives enough time for the impact of the work to become clear.

[jsferrei]

Very true. It took 8 years for Craig Mello and Andrew Fire to be awarded for RNAi (published 1998, awarded 2006 -- and that was considered fast). CRISPR as a gene engineering tool isn't even that old yet, so we've got a few years.

[apathy]

Counter example: yamanaka