Oldest Nobel Prize Laureates as of 2016

The Top Ten
1 Leonid Hurwicz - 90

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2007 - "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"

2 Lloyd Shapley - 89

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 - "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"

3 Raymond Davis Jr. - 88

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 - "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"

4 Doris Lessing - 88

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

5 Vitaly Ginzburg - 87
6 Yoichiro Nambu - 87
7 Peyton Rous - 87
8 Karl von Frisch - 87
9 Joseph Rotblat - 87
10 Ferdinand Buisson - 86