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ralph-steinman

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

• 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
• Ralph Steinman fought pancreatic cancer for four and a half years, designing his own course of experimental immunotherapy and becoming, formally, a clinical trial of one
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · nobel-prize, immunology, ralph-steinman, dendritic-cells, self-experimentation
• 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