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I was curious and looked it up - Nobel prizes cannot be retracted.

• capableweb 4y ago
  Seems you're right, it's not mentioned in the statues that it can be retracted. However, the spirit of the prize seems to be around prize-worthy effort or achievement of the past, like discoveries or inventions. It makes sense that as long as those are truthful, it doesn't get retracted (like the peace prize going to Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, but later she helped with mass killings of Muslim Rohingya). But in the case where the discovery/invention was not truthful and instead made up, there should definitely be a retraction as the discovery wasn't made/invention didn't work.