During this Nobel Prize season where we celebrate the annual winners, Nature has gone through the Nobel archives and compiled a top ten list of the most nominated, but never won people. The "winners" are:
The Nobel commission doesn't reveal nomination information for at least 50 years, so one can't say who really has the most nominations. There are a plethora of reasons these people never won the award because the prestige of the prize brings in a variety of factors that have little to do with merit.
"A kaleidoscope of human agency is necessarily involved in awarding the Nobel Prize, as with any other prize," says Friedman. "There are no grounds for assuming the winners of the Nobel Prize constitute a unique population of the very 'best' in science."
(Score: 4, Informative) by moondrake on Monday October 17 2016, @09:18AM
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Nobel_Committee [wikipedia.org]
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize [wikipedia.org]
The people for scientific awards are selected by Swedish institutes. The peace prize is awarded by a committee from another country in which politicians are involved. Its different.
That is not to say that the science prices are free of politics though.