The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2023/24

[ladyfiona 2,561]

Damn, I even ctrl F to find people to make sure nobody had picked them. Clearly I shouldn't have copied whole names and just surnames.

 

On 18/01/2023 at 20:03, Bibliogryphon said:

I have got James Watson

 

Physics: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Chemistry: Walter Gilbert

Medicine: Ferid Murad Replaced with Mario Capecchi

Literature: Louise Elisabeth Glück

Peace: Albert Arnold Gore jr. (Al Gore)

Economics: Eugene Francis Fama

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1 hour ago, ladyfiona said:

Damn, I even ctrl F to find people to make sure nobody had picked them. Clearly I shouldn't have copied whole names and just surnames.

 

 

Physics: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Chemistry: Walter Gilbert

Medicine: Ferid Murad

Literature: Louise Elisabeth Glück

Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi

Economics: Daniel Leigh McFadden

Well, @Funeralopolishas McFadden and @wannamakerhas Aung San Suu Kyi.

McFadden was listed as MacFadden...

 

For next year, I think of crossing the picked candidates in my list to make it easier.

[ladyfiona 2,561]

@WEP - Al Gore and Eugene Francis Fama been added as replacements.

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The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2023/24 has now officially started.

 

Good luck to all participants!

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1980 chemistry laureate Paul Berg has died at 96.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/02/nobel-paul-berg-obit.html

 

Congrats to @Hell for receiving 3.520 points.

Please choose a new chemistry laureate.

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1994 literature laureate Kenzaburō Oe has died at 88.

https://www.barrons.com/news/kenzaburo-oe-novelist-who-won-nobel-with-poetic-force-9119802e

 

19 bonus points for an Asian awarded alone. And the year 1994 is now extinct.

 

Congrats to @Hell for receiving 6.649 points.

Please choose a new literature laureate.

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American economist Robert E. Lucas, 1995 recipient of the award for economic sciences has died aged aged 85.

This makes the first points for me, 4.634 points. (A single economics laureate in his eighties awarded in the 1990s.)

 

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/wirtschaftswissen/robert-lucas-gestorben-der-mann-der-john-maynard-keynes-entthronte-18897033.html

 

George Akerlof now in for me.

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German Medicine laureate Harald zur Hausen, who discovered the HP-Virus, which causes Cervical cancer, has died aged 87:
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesundheit/zur-hausen-gestorben-100.html

He would have earned 2.732 possible points - if someone would have chosen him

[MariNisia 4,149]

On 01/12/2022 at 09:45, MariNisia said:

Economic Sciences: Harry Max Markowitz

 

Harry Max Markowitz is a hit for me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/obituaries/harry-m-markowitz-dead.html

 

Angus Stewart Deaton as my new candidate.

Thanks, @WEP.

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15 hours ago, MariNisia said:

 

Harry Max Markowitz is a hit for me:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/obituaries/harry-m-markowitz-dead.html

 

Angus Stewart Deaton as my new candidate.

Thanks, @WEP.

Thanks @MariNisia

 

Points for you and @theoldlady as well following John Goodenough's death at 100.

 

I will update the pool within the next fee days.

[theoldlady 2,283]

5 hours ago, WEP said:

Thanks @MariNisia

 

Points for you and @theoldlady as well following John Goodenough's death at 100.

 

I will update the pool within the next fee days.

Thanks for this. Please replace Goodenough with: Roald Hoffman — Chemistry — b. 1937. @WEP

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So here we are:

John B. Goodenough, German-born American 2019 chemistry laureate, has died aged 100. This makes 3.813 points for @theoldlady - congrats.
The bonus point for the oldest death of the contest can be awarded, since he was the oldest living laureate anyway.

 

Harry Max Markowitz, American 1990 laureate in economic sciences dies two days earlier aged 95. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1990/markowitz/facts/
This are 4.920 points for @MariNisia. Congrats as well.

 

What a day for this contest.

 

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Currently, @Hell is in lead with 10.169 points, followed by @MariNisia with 4.920 points and myself with 4.634 points. Fouth is @theoldlady with 3.813 points.

And still seven months to go.

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Ferid Murad, 1998 medicine laureate, has died aged 86:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/11/ferid-murad-nobel-prize-winner-in-medicine-for-cardiovascular-discovery-of-nitroglycerin/

 

2.630 points for @ladyfiona, who can choose another chemistry laureate. 

 

Congrats.

 

(He was awarded for the discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system, which led to the invention of the blue pill. Congrats again.)

[ladyfiona 2,561]

Replace with Mario Capecchi @WEP. Thanks.

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American poet and 2020 literature laureate Louise Glück is dead.

 

That means 6.939 points for @ladyfiona

 

Please choose another literature laureate - if possible. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/books/louise-gluck-dead.html

[ladyfiona 2,561]

@WEP - I will pick Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch.

 

Of all the dead pools to take the lead in it's this one, lol.

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42 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

@WEP - I will pick Swetlana Alexandrowna Alexijewitsch.

 

Of all the dead pools to take the lead in it's this one, lol.

Congrats @ladyfiona

 

Unfortunately, Svetlana Alexeievich is already my pick.

 

You can choose between Mo Yan, Herta Müller, Olga Tocarkzuk, Orhan Pamuk, Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick Modiano (who is the oldest of these laureates) and Abdulrrazak Gurnah.

(Jon Fosse can not be chosen ragarding to the rules.)

[ladyfiona 2,561]

Patrick Modiano it is then.

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Finnish for Finnish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari.

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/friedensnobelpreistraeger-ahtisaari-gestorben,TsprG3U

5.734 points for @arghton

 

Please choose a new peace laureate.

[arghton 6,644]

Oscar Arias Sánchez if he isn't picked yet

[theoldlady 2,283]

Please replace Henry Kissinger with: Mairead Corrigan        

Thank you! @WEP

[TQR 14,365]

"Poliical satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer

[msc 18,399]

11 minutes ago, TQR said:

"Poliical satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer

The legend Lehrer lives on. 

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4 hours ago, theoldlady said:

Please replace Henry Kissinger with: Mairead Corrigan        

Thank you! @WEP

Thanks @theoldlady

 

Kissinger was the second oldes livind Nobel laureate and worth 5.412 points.
(As a centenarian 1970s Peace Prize laureate born in Germany)