The Doctor’s World: When the Honor of a Lifetime, a Nobel Prize, Arrives Too Late

Monday, December 19, 2011 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space

The rule against posthumous Nobel Prizes has been violated several times — most recently when the prize in medicine was given to the widow of a Rockefeller University scientist.

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