Winners live longer, at least when it comes to the Nobel Prize, new research shows. An analysis of 524 nominees for the Nobels in physics and in chemistry between 1901 and 1950 showed that the group’s 135 winners lived about two years longer than the also-rans. The finding points to the health benefits of social status and suggests that status benefits the bodies of the cerebrally normal too.
Do Nobel Prize winners live longer as a result of having that status? It could be a mental thing, it makes sense. Personally, I believe it’s all coincidence but hey, that’s why I don’t have a Nobel Prize. You can read the full article while I am in the corner kicking myself for not paying more attention in school.
Source: Live Science