[dm8]

Thoroughly deserved. 9 years since publishing their paper in Nature. CRISPR/Cas9 is that revolutionary. Is that the fastest Nobel since breakthrough/discovery? Or was it Graphene Nobel (albeit in Physics) in 2010?

EDIT: Looks like fastest Nobel prize since discovery was in 1987 (in Physics) - for high temperature super conductivity. Bednorz and Mueller won their Nobel within 2 years (!!!!!)

Ref - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/238/4826/481

[kryptiskt]

Yang and Lee got it 1957 for parity violation, work that they did in 1956 and which was experimentally confirmed the same year by Wu (who should have gotten a share, I think).

[cosmic_quanta]

Wasn't the Nobel awarded for the observation of gravitational waves 1 year after the publication in Physical Review Letters?

Edit: here's the paper (2016) https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRev...