The Nobel Prize winners are being selected this week and a Canadian was named at one of three people in the field of medicine.
Shortly after the announcement, the committee was informed that Dr. Ralph Steinman of Montreal had actually died on Friday from cancer.
It’s odd that a person’s family would delay the announcement of the death of such a prestigious member….or is it?
The fact that Dr. Steinman’s death was delayed by three days doesn’t surprise me if you look at the rules of the Nobel awards committee:
The Nobel statutes don't allow posthumous awards, unless a laureate dies after the announcement but before the December 10th award ceremony. Because he died before the announcement, he would not have been considered to win the Nobel Prize for medicine.
It was a very cheeky move by the family and how they kept his death from the committee over the weekend is amazing.
I mean, it’s a Nobel Prize…I would have done it for a member of my family, would you?
For sure! I was thinking this blog was going to be about the survivor guy (or was it big brother) who said his family member died, in order to get sympathy votes for the million dollars. Just FYI, I would lie about that too!
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