posthumous-award

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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

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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