The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2024/25

[arghton 6,743]

Chemistry: Yuan Tseh Lee

Peace: Rigoberta Menchú Tum

Literature: Svetlana Alexievich

Medicine/Physiology: Bengt I. Samuelsson

Physics: George Elwood Smith

Economic Sciences: Bengt Holmström

 

[la culhida 4]

On 02/12/2023 at 11:40, la culhida said:

Chemistry : Gerhard Ertl 

Peace: Schirin Ebadi

Literature: Annie Ernaux

Medicine/Pysiology: Harold Eliot Varmus

Physics: Rainer Weiss

Economic Sciences: George Arthur Akerlof

Changing Chemistry to Richard Royce Schrock

[theoldlady 2,303]

@WEP

 

Economics:

Robert Merton Solow has passed away.

 

Please replace with: Eugene Francis Fama

 

Thank you!

 

[Book 3,556]

Economic Sciences: Robert Emerson Lucas  Jean Marcel Tirole   

Physics: Jerome Isaac Friedman

Medicine/Pysiology: William Cecil Campbell

Literature: Peter Handke 

Peace: Muhammad Yunus 

Chemistry: Walter Gilbert 

[WEP 893]

2 hours ago, Book said:

Economic Sciences: Robert Emerson Lucas  

Lucas has died, please choose a new candidate for economics.

 

Thanks

[Evil Grimace 359]

Thanks for running @WEP!

 

Physics: Giorgio Parisi

Chemistry: Jean-Marie Lehn

Medicine: David Baltimore

Literature: Bob Dylan

Peace: Mohamed ElBaradei

Economics: Angus Deaton

[Hell 1,334]

Physics: David Morries Lee

Chemistry: Hideki Shirakawa

Medicine: Satoshi Omura

Literature: Orhan Pahmuk

Peace: Jose Ramos-Horta

Economics: Peter Arthur Diamond

Edited January 30 by Hell
Fixed stolen picks

[WEP 893]

Last Call for Entries!

 

The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2024/25 will start on Thursday February 1st, 2024.

At the moment, we have 15 participants, including myself, who will join the game as last.

 

For everyone who will join the game, please note that you can only choose candidates, who are not already chosen by someone else.

 

@HellTwo of your candidates (Modiano/Literature and Campbell/Medicine) are unfortunately already chosen, please select new candidates. (Orhan Pahmuk and every writer younger than him can be chosen.)

 

Best of luck to all of us!

[WEP 893]

The Nobel Prize Dead Pool 2024/25 starts now.

 

Good luck to all participants!

[WEP 893]

The 2024/25 Nobel Prize contest has its first hit:

 

Roger Guillemin, 1977 Medicine laureate has died aged 100.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/science/roger-guillemin-dead.html

 

That's 2.410 points for @theoldlady. Please choose an new Medicine laureate.

 

[WEP 893]

11 minutes ago, WEP said:

The 2024/25 Nobel Prize contest has its first hit:

 

Roger Guillemin, 1977 Medicine laureate has died aged 100.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/science/roger-guillemin-dead.html

 

That's 2.410 points for @theoldlady. Please choose an new Medicine laureate.

 

His co-laureate Andew Victor Schally is now the last remaining 1977 laureate.

 

If he dies as well there will be bonus points @MariNisia.

[theoldlady 2,303]

24 minutes ago, WEP said:

The 2024/25 Nobel Prize contest has its first hit:

 

Roger Guillemin, 1977 Medicine laureate has died aged 100.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/science/roger-guillemin-dead.html

 

That's 2.410 points for @theoldlady. Please choose an new Medicine laureate.

 

Please add: 1989      Michael John Bishop      b. 1936

 

Thank you. 

[WEP 893]

German-born American physics laureate of 2000, Herbert Kroemer, has died aged 95:

https://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/nobel-laureate-herb-kroemer-1928-2024

 

Thats 1.722 points for @ladyfiona.

Please choose a new physics laureate.

[ladyfiona 2,586]

9 hours ago, WEP said:

German-born American physics laureate of 2000, Herbert Kroemer, has died aged 95:

https://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/nobel-laureate-herb-kroemer-1928-2024

 

Thats 1.722 points for @ladyfiona.

Please choose a new physics laureate.

 

François Englert please.

[WEP 893]

Daniel Kahneman has died:

https://fortune.com/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead-dies-psychologist-behavioral-economics-nobel/

 

Israeli-American economics laureate from 2002, who has just turned 90 a few days ago. That's 4.720 points @ladyfiona.

 

Congrats, please choose a new economics laureate.

[ladyfiona 2,586]

58 minutes ago, WEP said:

Daniel Kahneman has died:

https://fortune.com/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead-dies-psychologist-behavioral-economics-nobel/

 

Israeli-American economics laureate from 2002, who has just turned 90 a few days ago. That's 4.720 points @ladyfiona.

 

Congrats, please choose a new economics laureate.

 

Replace with Finn Erling Kydland.

[Thatcher 2,417]

Peter Higgs has died aged 94.

[MariNisia 4,198]

1 hour ago, Thatcher said:

Peter Higgs has died aged 94.

 

He is a hit for me.

@WEP... Robert Woodrow Wilson shall replace Peter Higgs. Thanks.

[WEP 893]

4 hours ago, MariNisia said:

 

He is a hit for me.

@WEP... Robert Woodrow Wilson shall replace Peter Higgs. Thanks.

That are 1.820 points for you.

 

Congrats 

[theoldlady 2,303]

@WEP Alice Munro is a hit for me. Literature.

 

Please replace with: 2012   Mò Yán b. 1955 

 

Thank you! 

[WEP 893]

15 hours ago, theoldlady said:

@WEP Alice Munro is a hit for me. Literature.

 

Please replace with: 2012   Mò Yán b. 1955 

 

Thank you! 

Its 6.829 points as she was a female nonagenarian literature laureate from the 2010s. Congrats 

[WEP 893]

Bengt Samuelsson has died.

2.529 points @arghton

 

Please choose a new Medicine laureate.

[arghton 6,743]

Peter Charles Doherty please

[theoldlady 2,303]

John Robin Warren AC (11 June 1937 – 23 July 2024) had died. He was an Australian pathologist, NobelLaureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall.^[1] The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)^[1] is the cause of most peptic ulcers.^[1]

He was unpicked in this round of the game.

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee died at 98 years:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-05/news-1vOScJzZCA8/p.html