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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:36PM
Obama being named for essentially being the first black head of state in a non-majority black country
Not even close.
Obama got the Peace Prize for not being Dubya.
...then he turned around and out-Dubya'd Dubya, ESCALATING the hostilities in southwest Asia.
The Nobel "Peace" Prize has been a joke since Kissinger got it.
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