Bibliogryphon 9,614 Posted June 11, 2021 On 19/03/2021 at 18:16, Salmon Mousse said: Chemistry: Ei-ichi Negishi Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi Literature: Svetlana Alexievich Medicine: Andrew Schally Physics: Benjamin Mottelson Economics: Paul Krugman (bad pick, just wishful thinking on my part) Hit for Salmon 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted June 11, 2021 Yes, 2010 chenistry laureate Ei-ich Negishi from Japan has died: http://www.wbiw.com/2021/06/11/ei-ichi-negishi-one-of-two-nobel-prize-winners-from-purdue-university-dies/ Value 3.836 points. Congrats to @Salmon Mousse https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2010/negishi/facts/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted June 11, 2021 On 19/03/2021 at 13:44, WEP said: Your team starts from the moment, you sent it in and ends on January 31st, 2022 @MariNisia You are welcome to join. Next year there will be a deadline, but this year I messed up the start. That's why you're welcome to participate. And thanks for your words. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,234 Posted June 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, WEP said: @MariNisia You are welcome to join. Thank you, @WEP. My candidates: Chemistry: Martin Karplus. Peace: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Literature: Elfriede Jelinek. Medicine/Psychology: Edmond Henri Fischer. Physics: Karl Alexander Müller. Economic Sciences: Israel Robert John Aumann. And Thanks @WEP for hosting this game. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Salmon Mousse 473 Posted June 12, 2021 3 hours ago, WEP said: Yes, 2010 chenistry laureate Ei-ich Negishi from Japan has died: http://www.wbiw.com/2021/06/11/ei-ichi-negishi-one-of-two-nobel-prize-winners-from-purdue-university-dies/ Value 3.837 points. Congrats to @Salmon Mousse Thank you 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted June 12, 2021 @Salmon Mousse now leads the scoreboard with 3.836 point, followed by @Bibliogryphon with 3.634 points. Third place is @TomTomTelekom, who has scored 1.826 point. (Sorry, @Salmon Mousse, but it was late yesterday, so I falsely scored Mr. Negishi for Africa, not for Asia. One point had to be removed, I apologize.) 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted July 25, 2021 1979 physics laureate Steven Weinberg has died aged 88: https://apnews.com/article/science-nobel-prizes-physics-fa5df3e3f8027f545d6d41c19151caeb He was not chosen in the NPDP but would have been worth 1.430 points. It seems that US-American scientists who share their prizes are very unlikely to score bonus points. Unless you are Weinberg's Co-laureate Sheldon Lee Glashow, who is now the last surviving laureate from 1979! One to put an eye on in 2022 - when he will turn 90 as well! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted July 29, 2021 Japanese physicist and 2008 laureate Toshihide Mas(u)kawa has died. https://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2021072901347 Not chosen, value 1.736 points. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2008/maskawa/facts/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted August 29, 2021 Edmond Henri Fischer, oldest Nobel laureate seems to be dead: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/news-nobel-laureate-edmond-h-fischer Laureate in Medicine 1992, who was 101! This brings @MariNisia 2.610 points (+ 1 bonus point as oldest possible nominee). Oldest laureate is now John B. Goodenough (99). Congrats! 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted September 17, 2021 1974 physics laureate Anthony Hewish has died aged 97. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/16/professor-antony-hewish-astronomer-jointly-won-nobel-prize-discovery/ He was the last living laureate of 1974, so his point value is 1.429 - unfortunately, he has not been chosen by any player. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted November 11, 2021 Frederik Willem de Klerk, last president of South Africa during Apartheid and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has died aged 85: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59247115 He was the first Peace Prize laureate to die in 2021 - I expected Desmond Tutu or Mikhail Gorbatshov - and was worth 5.637 points (as African octogenarian Peace laureate from the 1990s). During my calculations, in was unsure whether he was even nominated, only to find out that he was my own candidate. This now puts my own competition in a damned bad light, since I'm now leading the field: 1. @WEP - 5.637 points 2. @Salmon Mousse - 3.836 points 3. @Bibliogryphon - 3.634 points 4. @MariNisia - 2.161 points 5. @TomTomTelekom - 1.826 points 6. @arghton / @Book / @chilean way / @frleon - 0 points But only one hit can change the situation. The contest still goes on until January 31st, the last day, that new laureates can be nominated - for the 2022 Nobel Prizes and the new Nobel Prize Contest 2022/2023! 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted December 20, 2021 Robert H. Grubbs, 2005 chemistry laureate, has died aged 79. He was worth 3.740 points. Since he was not chosen, no one scored them. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-mourns-the-loss-of-nobel-laureate-robert-h-grubbs 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted December 26, 2021 Desmond Tutu has died. African Peace laureate from the 1980s in his 90s awarded alone makes 5.531 points for @chilean way 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted December 26, 2021 A change at the scoreboard: 1. @WEP - 5.645 points 2. @chilean way - 5.531 points 3. @Salmon Mousse - 3.836 points 4. @Bibliogryphon - 3.634 points 5. @MariNisia - 2.161 points 6. @TomTomTelekom - 1.826 points 7. @arghton / @Book / @frleon - 0 points One bonus point for @MariNisia (oldest laureate) and 8 bonus points for @WEP for the youngest. 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 900 Posted February 2, 2022 The first Nobel Prize Dead Pool is over now, thanks for all participants for joining. Ther following Nobel laureates scored in this contest: Isamu Akasaki, physics 2014 (92), 1.826 points for TomTomTelekom Frederik William de Klerk, peace 1993 (85), 5.637 points for WEP Richard Robert Ernst, chemistry 1991 (87), 3.634 points for Bibliogryphon Edmond Henri Fischer, medicine 1992 (101), 2.610 points for MariNisia Ei-ichi Negishi, chemistry 2010 (85), 3.836 points for Salmon Mousse Desmond Mpilo Tutu, peace 1984 (90), 5.531 points for chilean way The following laureates did not score since they were not chosen: Robert Howard Grubbs, chemistry 2005 (78) Anthony Hewish, physics 1974 (97) - Last laureate of tat year Toshihide Masukawa, physics 2008 (81) Robert Alexander Mundell, economic sciences 1999 (88) Steven Weinberg, physics 1979 (88) This makes a total of six deceased candidates - in the scoring period - and twelve in general: Most of them as expected in physics (4), followed by chemistry (3) and peace (2), and the tie for medicine and economic scienes (1 each). The writers are all still alive and well. Since every participant scored maximum once, there was not so many mathematics to do, just the awarded bonus points have to be added: The oldest laureate was Edmond Henry Fischer (101) and gives @MariNisia one point extra. The youngest – scoring – laureate was a close one, but F.W. de Klerk (85) brings 8 bonus points to @WEP. So the final scoreboard is: 1. @WEP - 5.645 points 2. @chilean way - 5.531 points 3. @Salmon Mousse - 3.836 points 4. @Bibliogryphon- 3.634 points 5. @MariNisia - 2.161 points 6. @TomTomTelekom - 1.826 points 7. @arghton / @Book/ @frleon - 0 points Congrats to all scorers and good luck for all, who have joined the Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2022/23! 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
