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Oct 3, 2011
Biologist and Immunologist Ralph Steinman wins Nobel Prize, is then discovered to have died
Rockefeller University in New York says Ralph Steinman, co-winner of this years Nobel Prize in medicine, has died. The immunologist and cell biologist is reported to have died on Friday after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The Nobel awards committee was unaware that he was no longer alive. Associated Press, New Scientist, Washington Post.
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What is extra amazing about him is that he extended his own life by using the treatment he discovered.
This actually causes kind of a problem for the Nobel since it cannot be awarded posthumously. You have to be alive at the time of the announcement.
If it was awarded prior to his death but only announced today… then solution. His heirs can keep the 500k
It can still be awarded as long as there is a representative on behalf of the recipient that can collect the prize/money. This was done for the Nobel Peace Prize for the human’s rights activist in China that was jailed (and still is).
Schroedinger’s Nobel Prize: if they don’t know he’s dead at the time of the announcement, can he be considered to be alive enough to be given the prize?
Well, that should keep the acceptance speech short.
Well nobody is immune from death. Not even Steinman. And Steinman was in charge of the coffee fund!
Yes, but stripping for a webcam can hardly be considered productive.
I think they pretty clearly cannot award him the prize, based on the rules in force. There are historically many instances of work that would have won the prize if the person who had done it had lived long enough, and if they had learned of his death at any moment up to the announcement, I am sure they would have not made the announcement as they did. I am guessing that the prize is instead awarded 50-50 between the other two recipients and a footnote is added to the records explaining what happened.
The whole “Who gets the money?” issue is slightly awkward here. The prize has been awarded 25-25-50, with Steinman getting the 50. The other two get quite a lot more if things are switched to 50-50. I am sure nobody is talking about this.
Don’t you see what’s happening? Hasn’t anyone seen “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”? You people are so naïve. One more of these Nobelers is going to die conveniently: the remaining one will be the killer.
The Nobel Committee have decided to let him keep it (source).
They seem to be sticking to the spirit of the rules here, and that’s good enough for me. It’s not like anybody is likely to want to exploit this loophole in the future.
Personally, I’d love a speech by zombie Ralph Steinman.