Related: Here is an article investigating the delay between discovery and award: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full/ https://physicsto

Related: Here is an article investigating the delay between discovery and award: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full/ https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2012/full... As can be seen there the delay is often measured in decades. For medicine many awards around 20 years or more after discovery.