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Dead - just to be sure

Ion Iliescu

Good idea, if I find time to Highlight them... I did it in the first year, but it did not work, by the way.

Congrats @ladyfiona

I cannot accept the list, since I will be unable to verify, when the names were posted. Teams via PM cannot be accepted!

Teams for 2025/2026: Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Points diego Leo Esaki E. J. Corey Werner Arber Gao Xingjian Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Robert J. Auman Funeralopolis Carlo Rubbia Alan Jay Heeger Merio R. Capecci J.M.G. Le Clezio Lech Walesa Daniel L. MacFadden ladyfiona Rainer Weiss Robert Huber Tu Youyou Bob Dylan HRH, 14. Dalai Lama Eugene F. Fama livingbygrace David M. Lee Walter Gilbert Eric R. Kandel John M. Coetzee Ellen Johnson Sirleaf William F. Sharpe polar duck George E. Smith John C. Polanyi William C. Campbell Elfriede Jelinek Narges Mohammadi Amartya Kumar Sen theoldlady Chen Ning Yang Rudolph A. Marcus Torsten N. Wiesel Wole Soyinka Jimmy Carter Vernon L. Smith Toast Roger Penrose Akira Suzuki James D. Watson Mario Vargas Llosa Mairead Corrigan Edmund S. Phelps It is planned to update this list weekly or bi-weekly - please be patient Hits 2025/2026:

To make it easier, here is a list of all living Nobel laurates (sorry for the German spellings): Chemistry: 1992 Rudolph Arthur Marcus b. 1923 1990 Elias James Corey b. 1928 1986 John Charles Polanyi b. 1929 2010 Akira Suzuki b. 1930 2013 Martin Karplus b. 1930 1980 Walter Gilbert b. 1932 1986 Dudely Robert Hershbach b. 1932 1986 Yuan Tseh Lee b. 1936 2000 Alan Jay Heeger b. 1936 2000 Hideki Shirakawa b. 1936 2007 Gerhard Ertl b. 1936 1981 Roald Hoffman b. 1937 1988 Robert Huber b. 1937 2004 Avram Hershko b. 1937 2001 Ryoji Noyori b. 1938 2002 Kurt Wüthrich b. 1938 2015 Tomas Robert Lindahl b. 1938 1987 Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn b. 1939 2009 Ada E. Yonath b. 1939 2013 Arieh Warshel b. 1940 2017 Joachim Frank b. 1940 1997 John Ernest Walker b. 1941 2001/2022 Karl Berry Sharpless b. 1941 (Only living individual with two Nobel Prizes) 2011 Daniel Shechtman b. 1941 2018 George Pearson Smith b. 1941 2019 Michael Stanley Whittingham b. 1941 2016 James Fraser Stoddart b. 1942 2017 Jacques Dubochet b. 1942 1988 Johann Deisenhofer b. 1943 2012 Robert Joseph Lefkowitz b. 1943 2023 Louis Eugene Brus b. 1941 2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage b. 1944 2005 Richard Royce Schrock b. 1945 2017 Richard Henderson b. 1945 2023 Alexei Iwanowitsch Jekimow b. 1945 2015 Aziz Sancar b. 1946 2015 Paul Lawrence Modrich b. 1946 1989 Thomas Robert Cech b. 1947 2004 Aaron Ciechanover b. 1947 2006 Roger David Kornberg b. 1947 2008 Martin Chalfie b. 1947 2013 Michael Levitt b. 1947 1988 Hartmut Michel b. 1948 2019 Akira Yoshino b. 1948 2003 Peter Courtland Agre b. 1949 2016 Bernard Lucas "Ben" Feringa b. 1951 2018 Gregory Paul Winter b. 1951 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan b. 1952 2014 William Esco Moerner b. 1953 2022 Morten Peter Meldal b. 1954 2012 Brian Kent Kobilka b. 1955 2003 Roderick MacKinnon b. 1956 2018 Frances Hamilton Arnold b. 1956 2002 Koichi Tanaka b. 1959 2014 Robert Eric Betzig b. 1960 2023 Moungi Gabriel Bawendi b. 1961 2024 David Baker b. 1962 2014 Stefan Walter Hell b. 1962 2020 Jennifer Anne Doudna Cate b. 1964 2022 Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi b. 1966 2020 Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier b. 1968 2021 Benjamin List b. 1968 2021 David William Cross MacMillan b. 1968 2024 Demosthenes “Demis” Hassabis b. 1976 2024 John Michael Jumpe b. 1985 Peace: 2002 James Earl Carter jr. b. 1924 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel b. 1931 1989 HRH, 14. Dalai Lama b. 1935 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf b. 1938 2006 Muhammad Yunus b. 1940 1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez b. 1941 2005 Mohammed ElBaradei b. 1942 1983 Lech Wałęsa b. 1943 Last living laureate 1976 Mairead Corrigan b. 1944 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi b. 1945 2003 Schirin Ebadi b. 1947 1996 Carlos Felipe Belo b. 1948 2007 Albert Arnold Gore jr. b. 1948 1996 José Ramos-Horta b. 1949 1997 Jody Williams b. 1950 2016 Juan Manuel Santos Calderón b. 1951 2014 Kailash Satyarthi b. 1954 2018 Denis Mukengere Mukwege b. 1955 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum b. 1959 2021 Dmitri Andrejewitsch Muratow b. 1961 2009 Barack Hussein Obama jr. b. 1961 2022 Ales Bjaljatzki b. 1962 2021 Maria Angelita Ressa b. 1963 2023 Narges Mohammadi b. 1972 2011 Leymah Roberta Gbowee b. 1972 2019 Abiy Ahmed Ali b. 1976 2011 Tawakkul Karman b. 1979 2018 Nadia Murad Basee Taha b. 1993 2014 Malala Yousafzai b. 1997 Literature: 1986 Wole Soyinka b. 1934 2010 Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa b. 1936 2000 Gao Xingjian b. 1940 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio b. 1940 2003 John Maxwell Coetzee b. 1940 2022 Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux b. 1940 2016 Bob Dylan b. 1941 2019 Peter Handke b. 1943 2014 Jean Patrick Modiano b. 1945 2004 Elfriede Jelinek b. 1946 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah b. 1948 2015 Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch b. 1948 2006 Orhan Pamuk b. 1952 2009 Herta Müller b. 1953 2017 Kazuo Ishiguro b. 1954 2012 Mò Yán b. 1955 2023 Jon Olav Fosse b. 1959 2018 Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk b. 1962 2024 Han Kang b. 1970 Medicine/Pysiology: 1981 Torsten Nils Wiesel b. 1924 1962 James Dewey Watson b. 1928 Last living laureate of the decade 1978 Werner Arber b. 1929 2000 Eric Richard Kandel b. 1929 2015 Tu Youyou b. 1930 2015 William Cecil Campbell b. 1930 1978 Hamilton Othanel Smith b. 1931 2012 John Bertrand Gurdon b. 1933 2015 Satoshi Ōmura b. 1935 2020 Harvey James Alter b. 1935 1989 Michael John Bishop b. 1936 2007 Mario Renato Capecchi b. 1937 1975 David Baltimore b. 1938 Last living laureate 1987 Susumu Tonegawa b. 1939 1989 Harold Eliot Varmus b. 1939 2001 Leland Harrison Hartwell b. 1939 2014 John Michael O'Keefe b. 1939 1985 Joseph Leonard Goldstein b. 1940 1996 Peter Charles Doherty b. 1940 1985 Michael Stuart Brown b. 1941 1998 Louis Joseph Ignarro b. 1941 2007 Martin John Evans b. 1941 2011 Jules Alphonse Hoffmann b. 1941 1991 Bert Sakmann b. 1942 1995 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard b. 1942 1997 Stanley Ben Prusiner b. 1942 2018 Tasuku Honjo b. 1942 1993 Richard John Roberts b. 1943 2001 Richard Timothy Hunt b. 1943 1991 Erwin Neher b. 1944 1993 Phillip Allen Sharp b. 1944 1996 Rolf Martin Zinkernagel b. 1944 2017 Michael Morris Rosbash b. 1944 2016 Yoshinori Ōsumi b. 1945 2017 Jeffrey Connor Hall b. 1945 2004 Richard Axel b. 1946 1995 Eric Frank Wieschaus b. 1947 2002 Howard Robert Horvitz b. 1947 2004 Linda B. Buck b. 1947 2008 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi b. 1947 2009 Elizabeth Helen Blackburn b. 1948 2013 Randy Wayne Schekman b. 1948 2018 James "Jim" Patrick Allison b. 1948 2001 Paul Maxime Nurse b. 1949 2017 Michael Warren Young b. 1949 2020 Michael A. Houghton b. 1949 2013 James Edward Rothman b. 1950 2005 Barry James Marshall b. 1951 2009 Jack William Szostak b. 1952 2024 Gary Bruce Ruvkun b. 1952 2020 Charles Moen Rice III. b. 1952 2024 Victor Robert Ambros b. 1953 2019 Peter John Ratcliffe b. 1954 2022 Svante Erik Pääbo b. 1955 2013 Thomas Christian Südhof b. 1955 2021 David Jay Julius b. 1955 2023 Katalin Karikó b. 1955 2019 Gregg Leonard Semenza b. 1956 2011 Bruce Alan Beutler b. 1957 2019 William George Kaelin jr. b. 1957 2023 Drew Weissman b. 1959 2006 Andrew Zachary Fire b. 1959 2006 Craig Cameron Mello b. 1960 2009 Carol Widney Greider b. 1961 2012 Shin'ya Yamanaka b. 1962 2014 Edvard Ingjald Moser b. 1962 2014 May-Britt Moser b. 1963 2021 Ardem Patapoutian b. 1967 Physics: 1957 Chen Ning Yang b. 1922 Last living laureate of the decade 1973 Leo Esaki b. 1925 1973 Ivar Giaever b. 1929 1990 Jerome Isaac Friedman b. 1930 2009 George Elwood Smith b. 1930 1996 David Morries Lee b. 1931 2020 Roger Penrose b. 1931 2021 Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann b. 1931 2021 Syukurō Manabe b. 1931 1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow b. 1932 Last living laureate 2013 François Englert, Baron Englert b. 1932 2017 Rainer Weiss b. 1932 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji b. 1933 2024 John Joseph Hopfield b. 1933 1984 Carlo Rubbia b. 1934 Last living laureate 2005 John Lewis Hall b. 1934 2019 Philip James "Jim" Edwin Peebles b. 1935 1976 Samuel Chao Chung Ting b. 1936 1978 Robert Woodrow Wilson b. 1936 2017 Barry Clark Barish b. 1936 2003 Anthony James Leggett b. 1938 2007 Albert Louis François Fert b. 1938 1998 Daniel Chee Tsui b. 1939 1973 Brian David Josephson b. 1940 2017 Kip Stephen Thorne b. 1940 1993 Joseph Hooton Taylor b. 1941 2004 David Jonathan Gross b. 1941 2005 Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch b. 1941 2023 Pierre Agostino b. 1941 2016 John Michael Kosterlitz b. 1942 2019 Michel Gustave Mayor b. 1942 2022 John Francis Clauser b. 1942 1985 Klaus von Klitzing b. 1943 2015 Arthur Bruce McDonald b. 1943 2008 Makoto Kobayashi b. 1944 2012 David Jeffrey Wineland b. 1944 2012 Serge Haroche b. 1944 2018 Gérard Albert Mourou b. 1944 1996 Douglas Dean Osheroff b. 1945 2022 Anton Zeilinger b. 1945 2006 George Fitzgerald Smoot III b. 1945 1999 Gerardus 't Hooft b. 1946 Last living laureate 2006 John Cromwell Mather b. 1946 1986 Gerd Karl Binnig b. 1947 2024 Geoffrey Everest Hinton b. 1947 2022 Alain Aspect b. 1947 1997 Steven Chu b. 1948 1997 William Daniel Philips b. 1948 2021 Giorgio Parisi b. 1948 1998 Horst Ludwig Störmer b. 1949 2004 Hugh David Politzer b. 1949 1987 Johannes Georg Bednorz b. 1950 1993 Russel Alan Hulse b. 1950 1998 Robert Betts Laughlin b. 1950 2001 Carl Edwin Wieman b. 1951 2004 Frank Anthony Wilczek b. 1951 2016 Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane b. 1951 2020 Reinhard Genzel b. 1952 2014 Shūji Nakamura b. 1954 2001 Wolfgang Ketterle b. 1957 2010 Andre Konstantinowitsch Geim b. 1958 2023 Anne L’Huillier b. 1958 2011 Saul Perlmutter b. 1959 2015 Takaaki Kajita b. 1959 2018 Donna Theo Strickland b. 1959 2014 Hiroshi Amano b. 1960 2001 Eric Allin Cornell b. 1961 2023 Ferenc Krausz b. 1962 2020 Andrea Mia Ghez b. 1965 2019 Didier Patrick Queloz b. 1966 2011 Brian P. Schmidt b. 1967 2011 Adam Guy Riess b. 1969 2010 Konstantin Sergejewitsch Nowoselow b. 1974 Economic Sciences: 2002 Vernon Lomax Smith b. 1927 2005 Israel Robert John Aumann b. 1930 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen b. 1933 2006 Edmund Strother Phelps b. 1933 1990 William Forsyth Sharpe b. 1934 2000 Daniel Leigh McFadden b. 1937 2020 Robert Butler Wilson b. 1937 2013 Eugene Francis Fama b. 1939 2001 George Arthur Akerlof b. 1940 2010 Peter Arthur Diamond b. 1940 1997 Myron Samuel Scholes b. 1941 2018 William Dawbney Nordhaus b. 1941 2003 Robert Fry Engle III. b. 1942 2011 Christopher Albert Sims b. 1942 2001 Joseph Eugene Stiglitz b. 1943 2001 Michael Andrew Spence b. 1943 2004 Finn Erling Kydland b. 1943 2011 Thomas John Sargent b. 1943 1997 Robert Cox Merton b. 1944 2000 James Joseph Hackman b. 1944 2015 Angus Stewart Deaton b. 1945 2017 Richard H. Thaler b. 1945 2013 Robert James Shiller b. 1946 2023 Claudia Dale Goldin b. 1946 2010 Christopher Antoniou Pissarides b. 1948 2016 Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart b. 1948 2020 Paul Robert Milgrom b. 1948 2016 Bengt Robert Holmström b. 1949 2007 Eric Stark Maskin b. 1950 2007 Roger Bruce Myerson b. 1951 2012 Alwin Eliot Roth b. 1951 2013 Lars Peter Hansen b. 1952 2008 Paul Robin Krugman b. 1953 2022 Ben Shalom Bernanke b. 1953 2022 Douglas Warren Diamond b. 1953 2014 Jean Marcel Tirole b. 1953 2018 Paul Michael Romer b. 1955 2022 Philip Hallen Dybvig b. 1955 2021 David Edward Card b. 1956 2024 James Alan Robinson b. 1960 2021 Joshua David Angrist b. 1960 2019 Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee b. 1961 2024 Simon H. Johnson b. 1963 2021 Guido Wilhelmus Imbens b. 1963 2019 Michael Robert Kremer b. 1964 2024 Kamer Daron Acemoğlu b. 1967 2019 Esther Caroline Duflo b. 1972

As last year, the scoring will appear on a four digit base. The first digit will represent the category, sorted from least living laureates to most: Literature (20): 6.000 points Peace (30): 5.000 points Economic Scienes (48): 4.000 points Chemistry (62): 3.000 points Medicine/Physiology (70): 2.000 points Physics (75): 1.000 points The second digit will honor the decade, the laureate was awarded: 2020s – 900 points 2010s – 800 points 2000s – 700 points 1990s – 600 points 1980s – 500 points 1970s – 400 points 1960s – 300 points 1950s – 200 points There were no laureates left from the decades before, so a sore of 100 points is not possible! The third digit will show the age of your laureate: < 30 – 90 points. 30-39 – 80 points 40-49 – 70 points 50-59 – 60 points 60-69 – 50 points 70-79 – 40 points 80-89 – 30 points 90-99 – 20 points 100-??? – 10 points The last digit gives a bonus score: Last survivor of his awarding year: 9 points bonus. Youngest death of the contest: 8 points (awarded in February 2026!) Represents an African country: 7 points Represents an Asian country: 6 points A female laureate: 5 points. Awarded alone (organizations excluded): 4 points Represents a South or Middle American country: 3 points Comes from Germany (born there or naturalized): 2 points Oldest death of the contest: 1 point (awarded in February 2026!) NEW: Ther will be a 500 points bonus for the last surviving laureate of the decade! So for example: Leon N Cooper, currently the last laureate to die, was worth 1.429 points. 1.000 as a Physics Prize laureate, 400 for the decade (he was awarded in 1972), 20 for his age (94), and 9 bonus points as he was the last living laureate of that year.

Welcome to the first Deathlist-competition dedicated to Nobel laureates: The Nobel Prize Dead Pool. As always, the nomination period opens on December 1st, 2024 (00:00 EST) and ends on January 31st, 2025 (23:59) EST. The rules are still easy: Pick one living Nobel laureate by each category (Physics, Chemistry, Medicine/Physiology/Peace/Literature and Economic Sciences), who you think will die during the following next twelve months. This will make six nominated people. Send your list between December 1st and January 31st! My remaining rule: No laureate can be chosen twice, so check who was picked by other deadpoolers! The list of teams published below will help you! Further rules: 1. In case, one of your laureates dies, replace him/her by a person from the same category. This will give you the chance to score twice in a category. 2. I will be the last to choose my picks – to avoid discrepancies for the other contestants! Every laureate who dies in December or January will be excluded automatically and should be replaced in case of being chosen. People, who accepted the award on behalf of someone or represent an organization are excluded from the contest, the 2025 laureates cannot be chosen since they are unknown until October! The Nobel Prize Dead Pool will start from February 1st, 2025, the day the nomination period for new laureates ends. The last day to score a hit will be January 31st, 2026! All main sources will be accepted as well as the official Nobel Prize website www.nobelprize.org. (The deaths will be mentioned there, so no lost hits to expect!) Since not so many Nobel laureates die during a year - 2017, 2019 and 2020 it had been 9 dead laureates per year, 2018 there were 18, in 2022 seven (So do not expect a rushing contest!) – the scoring will honor every hit separately. So good luck and enjoy the contest.

Congrats @polar duck

Congrats @Bobytomi

Two candidates for the LotM: Elvira Becker, mother of former tennis player Boris Becker: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2012/celebs_B.html#beckee Ursula Haverbeck, holocaus denier and politician: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_H.html#haveu0

German acror Bobby Brederlow has died at 63: https://www1.wdr.de/kultur/kulturnachrichten/bobby-brederlow-tot-100.html He was the first prominent actor in Germany with Down's syndrome

Congrst @DoorSlammer

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