I have a feeling there used to be a thread for this, but it seems to have been decommissioned. So, here are the currently-still-breathing-and-over-85 (subject to wiki accuracy, of course) Nobel Prize laureates, all handily wiki-linked. Not household names, I grant you, but probably obit-worthy for the more discerning ‘pooler all the same.
Many have been discussed in other threads, but I thought it’d be nice to drag them in under one umbrella. I’ve probably missed one or two; I’m not the most diligent of researchers.
Physics: when will they quark it?
Willis Lamb (Canadian Paul‘s very own CL-S), 94.
Chen Ning Yang, 85.
Charles Townes, 92.
Aage Bohr (son of Nils), 85.
Nicolaas Bloembergen, 87.
Leon Lederman, 85.
Jack Steinberger, 86.
Norman Ramsey, 91.
Hans Dehmelt, 85.
Chemistry: soon to be inert?
Frederick Sanger, 89.
John Cornforth, 90.
William Lipscomb, 87.
Herbert Hauptman, 90.
Jerome Karle, 89.
Paul Boyer, 89.
Jens Skou, 89.
William Knowles, 90.
John Fenn, 90.
Literature: the final chapter?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89. (7-time DL laureate i.e. someone you‘ve heard of)
Jose Saramago, 85.
Doris Lessing, 88.
Only three, but they often receive it later in life, for a body of work.
Peace: RIP? (hell, this stuff writes itself)
Norman Borlaug, 93.
Nelson Mandela, 89.
Not many, as it’s often given to organisations or not given at all. That paragon of peace Kissinger doesn’t turn 85 till May.
Medicine: Nurse, the screens!!
Thomas Weller, 92.
Andrew Huxley (Aldous‘s half-brother), 90.
Francois Jacob, 87.
Har Khorana, 86.
Christian de Duve, 90.
George Palade, 95.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, 98 (oldest living laureate )
Renato Dulbecco, 93.
Rosalyn Yalow, 86.
Jean Dausset, 91.
Robert Furchgott, 91.
Edwin Krebs, 89.
Joseph Murray, 87.
Baruj Benacerraf, 87.
Don Thomas, 87.
Edmond Fischer, 87.
Quite apt that the docs have the most living OAPS. Also, lots more of them, as they seem to work in teams more than other scientists.
Economics: cashing their final cheque?
Ronald Coase, 97.
Maurice Allais, 96.
Paul Samuelson, 92.
Ken Arrow, 86.
Larry Klein, 87.
James Buchanan, 88.
Douglass North, 87.
Leo Hurwicz, 90.
Tom Schelling, 86.
(Acknowledgements: the lost Magere Hein for this and the equally disappeared Life Begins at 5 for this.)