The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2022/2023

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5 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

Chemistry: Elias James Corey
Peace: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Literature: Wole Soyinka
Medicine: Harald zur Hausen
Physics: Tsung Dao Lee 
Economic Sciences: Vernon Lomax Smit

May I ask you to change some of your candidates?

 

According to the rules, each laureate can be chosen only once. Thank you!

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20 minutes ago, WEP said:

May I ask you to change some of your candidates?

 

According to the rules, each laureate can be chosen only once. Thank you!

 

Any particular one? I thought I double checked to make sure nobody else had used them.

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59 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

 

Any particular one? I thought I double checked to make sure nobody else had used them.

RoverAndOut has Corey, Lafaucheuse has Soyinka, MariNisia has Perez Esquivel and chilean way has Smith

[ladyfiona 2,027]

18 hours ago, WEP said:

RoverAndOut has Corey, Lafaucheuse has Soyinka, MariNisia has Perez Esquivel and chilean way has Smith

 

Edited original post to include replacements.

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On 01/12/2021 at 12:38, Toast said:

 Economics: Harry Max Markowitz

On 07/12/2021 at 10:31, TomTomTelekom said:

Peace: Muhammad Yunus

 

On 15/01/2022 at 15:38, ladyfiona said:

Chemistry: Dudely Robert Hershbach
Peace: Muhammad Yunus
Literature:  Abdulrazak Gurnah
Medicine: Harald zur Hausen
Physics: Tsung Dao Lee 
Economic Sciences: Harry Max Markowitz

 

Edit - Changed my choices as people previously picked others.

Two in, two more to change: I am very sorry, but Markowitz and Yunus were already chosen as well.

[ladyfiona 2,027]

 

Ok hang on. I even checked the bloody spreadsheet and did ctrl F to make sure they were not picked.

Schirin Ebadi, Paul Robert Milgrom should be good. I nearly got bitter and attempted to kill Obama but thought against it.

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Thanks for your patience, both candidates are in.

7 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

I nearly got bitter and attempted to kill Obama but thought against it.

Please wait before you do something like this until February 1st! I have not made my choices and Obama is still an option.

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The 2022/2023 Nobel Prize Dead Pool has started just now. 

 

Please keep an eye on the chart above in case I miss some hit.

 

Good luck to all contestants!

 

PS: Last year's competition will be evaluated in the next few days.

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According to some news wires, Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel laureate in Medicine/Physiology from France, who was honored for discovering the HI-Virus, has died aged 89:

https://www.francesoir.fr/societe-sante/leminent-professeur-luc-montagnier-sest-eteint-le-8-fevrier-2022

 

IF IT IS NOT A HOAX, he would be the first pick of our pool, who dies, earning Salmon Mousse 2.730 points!

[Lafaucheuse 3,642]

18 hours ago, WEP said:

According to some news wires, Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel laureate in Medicine/Physiology from France, who was honored for discovering the HI-Virus, has died aged 89:

https://www.francesoir.fr/societe-sante/leminent-professeur-luc-montagnier-sest-eteint-le-8-fevrier-2022

 

IF IT IS NOT A HOAX, he would be the first pick of our pool, who dies, earning Salmon Mousse 2.730 points!

just popped out, tons of qualifying obits and a breaking news from Le Monde here in France ! Sad news, RIP 

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Merci @Lafaucheuse!

 

So it is official: French virologist Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel laureate in Medicine/Physiology, honored for discovering the HI-Virus, has died aged 89:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nobel-laureate-luc-montagnier-dead/2022/02/10/e317c046-b6d5-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

 

The first pick of our pool, who dies, earning @Salmon Mousse 2.730 points!

 

Congrats!

Please select a new candidate for Medicine!

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2 minutes ago, WEP said:

Please select a new candidate for Medicine!

 

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

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As mentioned elsewhere, Sidney Altman dead.

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3 hours ago, MortalCaso said:

As mentioned elsewhere, Sidney Altman dead.

Thank you very much!

 

As far as I see, he would have been worth 3.530 points (as an Aoctogenarian chemistry laureate from the 1980s).

 

Since he was not chosen by anyone, there will be no score.

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As mentioned elsewhere, a hit for @chilean way with Ben Roy Mottelson dead.

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8 hours ago, MortalCaso said:

As mentioned elsewhere, a hit for @chilean way with Ben Roy Mottelson dead.

Yes, indeed. Congrats from the host.

 

Mottelson was a 95-year-old Danish nuklear physicist, who shared his 1975 Nobel Prize in physics with Leo Rainwater and Aage Bohr, the son of the better known Nils.
He scores 1.420 points for @chilean way, who I ask to choose a new candidate in physics.

 

Mottelson is currently the oldest hit in the contest, so there is one possible bonus point. But there is time left for one older to die.

 

Whoever will choose David Baltimore as a hit, will score bonus points too, since he is now the last surviving laureate from 1975.

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5 hours ago, WEP said:

Yes, indeed. Congrats from the host.

 

Mottelson was a 95-year-old Danish nuklear physicist, who shared his 1975 Nobel Prize in physics with Leo Rainwater and Aage Bohr, the son of the better known Nils.
He scores 1.420 points for @chilean way, who I ask to choose a new candidate in physics.

 

Mottelson is currently the oldest hit in the contest, so there is one possible bonus point. But there is time left for one older to die.

 

Whoever will choose David Baltimore as a hit, will score bonus points too, since he is now the last surviving laureate from 1975.

Thanks WEP, I choose Sheldon Lee Glashow.

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Robert Floyd Curl Jr., Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is a hit for @MortalCaso:

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/nobel-laureate-beloved-rice-professor-robert-curl-dead-88#:~:text=Nobel Prize-winning chemist Robert,He was 88.&text=Curl%2C University Professor Emeritus and the Kenneth S.

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2 hours ago, MariNisia said:

Robert Floyd Curl Jr., Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is a hit for @MortalCaso:

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/nobel-laureate-beloved-rice-professor-robert-curl-dead-88#:~:text=Nobel Prize-winning chemist Robert,He was 88.&text=Curl%2C University Professor Emeritus and the Kenneth S.

Thanks @MariNisia

 

One of the co-discoverers of the Fullernes, he was worth 3.630 points.

 

Congrats @MortalCaso. Please choose a new chemistry laureate.

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On 01/12/2021 at 18:33, MortalCaso said:

Chemistry:  Robert Floyd Curl jr. 

May I remind you to choose another chemistry laureate?

This year, dead ones can be replaced.

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Apologies! I'll go with: Alan Jay Heeger  

 

Thank you @WEP

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Northern Irish politician and 1998 Peace Prize laureate David Trimble has died aged 77.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/david-trimble-architect-of-n-ireland-peace-deal-dies-at-77/2022/07/25/daa913ac-0c52-11ed-88e8-c58dc3dbaee2_story.html

 

He was worth 5.640 points, but not selected.

 

 

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Former Soviet president and 1990 Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91.

 

He was a hit for @wannamaker, who now leads with 5.624 points.

Please choose a new peace laureate.

 

 

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13 minutes ago, WEP said:

Former Soviet president and 1990 Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91.

 

He was a hit for @wannamaker, who now leads with 5.624 points.

Please choose a new peace laureate.

 

 

 

I'll replace him with Mairead Corrigan

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Hit for @arghton if Edward C. Prescott is confirmed dead.