Comment by ted_dunning
2 hours ago
After 1974 is when they decided to not award it posthumously. In 1962 that rule was still in the future.
2 hours ago
After 1974 is when they decided to not award it posthumously. In 1962 that rule was still in the future.
A Nobel Prize has never been awarded posthumously. The 1974 change was explicitly codifying a practice that had already been in-place — not awarding dead people.