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from the I've-been-nominated-but-you-won't-see-it-for-50-years dept.
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:
- Gaston Ramon: 155 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Emile Roux: 115 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Arnold Sommerfeld: 84 (Physics)
- Rene Leriche: 79 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Jacques Loeb: 78 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Albert Calmette 77 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Rudolf Weigl 75 (Physiology or Medicine)
- Christopher Ingold 68 (Chemistry)
- Walter Reppe 63 (Chemistry)
- Aldo Castellani 61 (Physiology or Medicine)
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @04:56PM
Every comment here, besides this one of course, is commentary on the Peace Prize. You people do know that Nobels are given out in other fields, right? I'm not so sure, though. I've even heard people make comments like "So-and-so won the Nobel peace price in physics."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @07:07PM
The "Nobel" Prize for Economics is actually done by bankers who are not of any Nobel committee.
...but the actual Nobel folks don't have a problem with that being called a "Nobel Prize".
...and those bankers have the gall to include the word "Sciences" in the title of that.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences [wikipedia.org]
...then there's Bob Dylan's prize for LITERATURE.
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