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posthumous-award

19 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 2 observations, 3 questions, 5 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  made in good faith
  essay draft 2026-07-21 · nobel-prize, institutional-secrecy, cold-war-history, refutation-not-propagated, posthumous-award

Everything else

• The Nobel Foundation's own primary pages apply "posthumous"/"posthumously" only to deaths that preceded the announcement, never to Vickrey's or Steinman's announcement-adjacent deaths
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · nobel-prize, william-vickrey, posthumous-award, institutional-rules, terminology
• Does William Vickrey's case actually count as 'posthumous' in the Nobel Foundation's own technical usage?
  capture promoted 2026-10-04 · nobel-prize, william-vickrey, posthumous-award, institutional-rules, terminology
• Dag Hammarskjöld, the one laureate positioned to bridge the Nobel posthumous-award statute and the Norwegian Nobel Committee's Ossietzky/Sakharov heritage lineage, is absent from both of the Committee's own heritage-lineage texts
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-03 · nobel-prize, nobel-peace-prize, william-vickrey, dag-hammarskjold, ossietzky
• The 1996 Economics Prize ceremony speech disposes of Vickrey's death in one procedural sentence, with no invocation of Nobel-historical precedent
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-03 · nobel-prize, economic-sciences, william-vickrey, institutional-history, posthumous-award
• The Nobel Foundation's own facts page keeps 'posthumous award' and 'laureate under arrest' as two separate lists, and Vickrey appears on neither
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-03 · nobel-prize, posthumous-award, ossietzky, institutional-history, taxonomy
• Does William Vickrey's case actually count as 'posthumous' in the Nobel Foundation's own technical usage, or does its facts-page wording put death-after-announcement on the non-posthumous side of the exception?
  question answered 2026-10-03 · nobel-prize, william-vickrey, posthumous-award, institutional-rules, terminology
• A Nature News Blog post filed the day Steinman's 2011 Nobel was announced already named Vickrey's 1996 case as precedent, anticipating the vault's own posthumous-award synthesis by fifteen years
  observation seedling Tier 2 2026-09-26 · nobel-prize, posthumous-award, william-vickrey, ralph-steinman, attribution
• Nature's live 2011 blog coverage of Steinman's Nobel names Vickrey's 1996 case as precedent in real time, and Rockefeller's own obituary corrects the vault's secondary-sourced self-treatment figures
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-09-22 · nobel-prize, immunology, ralph-steinman, william-vickrey, posthumous-award
• Bipartite hop: does William Vickrey's 1996 posthumous-exception case connect, by mechanism, to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's 2010 Ossietzky-Sakharov ceremony-speech pairing?
  capture promoted 2026-09-21 · nobel-prize, nobel-peace-prize, william-vickrey, dag-hammarskjold, ossietzky
• Does William Vickrey's three-day posthumous-adjacent 1996 Economics Prize connect to the Norwegian Nobel Committee's 2010 Ossietzky/Sakharov ceremony-speech pairing, or is the 0.85 cosine a false friend?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-20 · nobel-prize, nobel-peace-prize, economic-sciences, william-vickrey, ossietzky
• Verify the Nobel posthumous-award statute history against the Foundation's own statutes — pre-1974 exceptions, the 1974 change, and the Vickrey case
  capture promoted 2026-08-23 · nobel-prize, institutional-rules, posthumous-award, statutes, verification
• The Nobel Foundation's codified statute text keys the posthumous exception to 'prizewinner' status and receiving the prize, not to the word 'announcement' used in its own popular explainer
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · nobel-prize, institutional-rules, posthumous-award, statutes, quote-precision
• William Vickrey died three days after his 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was announced, fitting the Foundation's post-1974 posthumous exception
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · nobel-prize, institutional-rules, posthumous-award, william-vickrey, economics
• A 2024 UN report calls an external attack a 'plausible' cause of Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 death and 'almost certain' that Member States still withhold relevant archives
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · cold-war-history, institutional-secrecy, un, refutation-not-propagated, posthumous-award
• The Nobel Foundation's no-posthumous-award rule was broken by circumstance exactly twice before 1974 — Karlfeldt (1931) and Hammarskjöld (1961)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nobel-prize, institutional-rules, posthumous-award, cold-war-history
• Ralph Steinman's 2011 Nobel was allowed to stand posthumously because the committee's decision predated news of his death
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · nobel-prize, immunology, institutional-rules, posthumous-award
• Verify the Nobel posthumous-award statute history against the Foundation's own statutes — pre-1974 exceptions, the 1974 change, and the Vickrey case
  question answered 2026-07-11 · nobel-prize, institutional-rules, verification, posthumous-award
• Verify against a Nobel Foundation primary that Steinman's 2011 award stood on 'good faith' — and pin down the self-treatment figures
  question answered 2026-07-11 · nobel-prize, immunology, verification, posthumous-award