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Do Nobel-caliber work, and die before the award is given. There have been so many great potential laureates who have gone unrecognized by society at large beca
by ISL 8y ago
Do Nobel-caliber work, and die before the award is given.
There have been so many great potential laureates who have gone unrecognized by society at large because entropy caught up to them before the Nobel committee got around to them.
Those who immediately come to mind: Debbie Jin and Ron Drever.
- bduerst 8y agoThen they just award it to your peers for your work - see Prospect Theory from Daniel Kahneman (winner) and Amos Tversky (deceased).
- dnautics 8y agoRosalind Franklin is a huge one. Everyone thinks she missed out because she was a woman, which might have been the case, but we'll never know.
- stan_rogers 8y agoShe was deceased by the time the Nobel was awarded. (She died of cancer in '58; the Nobel was in '62.) That's not to say that she wouldn't have lost out on the three-recipients rule being female, but being dead is an automatic disqualification.
- dnautics 8y agoThat was my point.