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BTW, Jack Steinberger is 98 today! :birthday:

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Oh, God! On LSD till the last day, I hope.

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Annual reminder that new winners are being announced, though they will inevitably fail to garner QOs at death.

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Just now, Ulitzer95 said:

Three co-recipients announced for the Chemistry prize.

 

One of them, John B. Goodenough, is 97 and therefore the oldest Nobel laureate ever.

 

I reckon he’s good enough for next year’s DL. :P

Wasn't another of the science winners (physics, I think) 95 last year?

 

Odds on us getting a centenarian as a recipient soon given this small pattern?

 

Mind, I'm still calling no QO given precedent.

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6 minutes ago, CastAway said:

Wasn't another of the science winners (physics, I think) 95 last year?

 

Odds on us getting a centenarian as a recipient soon given this small pattern?

 

Mind, I'm still calling no QO given precedent.

 

Correct. Arthur Ashkin was 96 when he was awarded it last year. He was supposedly too frail to go in person to collect his award.

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Nobel Prize laureates aged 85+:
(Age calculated at the beginning of 2020)


Physics:
1957: Tsung-Dao Lee, 93
1957: Chen Ning Yang, 97
1972: Leon Cooper, 89
1973: Leo Esaki, 94
1973: Ivar Giaever, 90
1974: Antony Hewish, 95
1975: Ben Mottelson, 93
1977: Philip Warren Anderson, 96

1978: Arno Penzias, 86

1979: Sheldon Lee Glashow, 87

1979: Steven Weinberg, 86

1984: Carlo Rubbia, 85
1987: Karl Alexander Müller, 92
1988: Jack Steinberger, 98
1990: Jerome Isaac Friedman, 89
1996: David M. Lee, 88

1997: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 86
1999: Martinus Veltman, 88
2000: Herbert Kroemer, 91
2002: Masatoshi Koshiba, 93

2005: John L. Hall, 85
2009: George Elwood Smith, 89
2013: Peter Higgs, 90

2013: François Englert, 87
2014: Isamu Akasaki, 90

2017: Rainer Weiss, 87

2018: Arthur Ashkin, 97

Chemistry:
1980: Paul Berg, 93

1980: Walter Gilbert, 87
1986: John Charles Polanyi, 90

1986: Dudley Herschbach, 87
1990: Elias James Corey, 91

1991: Richard Ernst, 86
1992: Rudolph Marcus, 96

1995: Paul Crutzen, 86

1996: Robert Curl, 86
2010: Akira Suzuki, 89
2013: Martin Karplus, 89

2019: John B. Goodenough, 97

Literature:

1986: Wole Soyinka, 85
2013: Alice Munro, 88

Peace:
1973: Henry Kissinger, 96
1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 88
1984: Desmond Tutu, 88
1990: Michail Gorbačëv, 88
2002: Jimmy Carter, 95

Medicine:
1962: James Dewey Watson, 91
1977: Roger Guillemin, 95
1977: Andrew Viktor Schally, 93
1978: Werner Arber, 90
1978: Hamilton Smith, 88
1981: Torsten Wiesel, 95

1982: Bengt Samuelsson, 85
1986: Stanley Cohen, 97
1992: Edmond Fischer, 99
2000: Eric Kandel, 90

2008: Luc Montagnier, 87

2012: John Gurdon, 86
2015: William C. Campbell, 89
2015: Tu Youyou, 89

Economics:
1987: Robert Solow, 95
1990: Harry Markowitz, 92

1990: William Sharpe, 85

1998: Amartya Sen, 86

1999: Robert Mundell, 87
2002: Vernon Smith, 92

2002: Daniel Kahneman, 85

2006: Edmund Phelps, 86
2005: Robert Aumann, 89

2009: Oliver Williamson, 87

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Toni Morrison is dead. And Zhores Alferov too. 

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Not long after selling her Ontario home, report of the death of Literature laureate Alice Munro:

However, having had another look, I'd guess this is probably a hoax. Most probably or even definitely.

 

Anyway, Twitter can be a bite in the arse.

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It's that guy who regularly does hoaxes for writers dying... he killed off Harper Lee early (and someone else as well. Don DeLillo?)

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4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Not long after selling her Ontario home, report of the death of Literature laureate Alice Munro:

However, having had another look, I'd guess this is probably a hoax. Most probably or even definitely.

 

Anyway, Twitter can be a bite in the arse.

 

Definitely a hoax. Her editor has confirmed on Twitter that she’s still alive.

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Betty Williams, a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, has died.  She was 76. She co-won the award with Mairead Corrigan for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People.

 

https://www.ufficiostampabasilicata.it/cronaca/la-basilicata-piange-betty-williams-premio-nobel-per-la-pace/

(Italian language obit)

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^^^DDP pick, although not from the Troubles theme team that used to pick her every year as they didn't enter in 2020

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6 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Betty Williams, a 1976 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, has died.  She was 76. She co-won the award with Mairead Corrigan for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People.

 

https://www.ufficiostampabasilicata.it/cronaca/la-basilicata-piange-betty-williams-premio-nobel-per-la-pace/

(Italian language obit)

Sign of how crazy things are at the moment that none of the big hitters (i.e the BBC, RTE) have reported this as of writing this comment.

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On ‎30‎/‎03‎/‎2020 at 12:09, Ulitzer95 said:

Philip Warren Anderson, American theoretical physicist and the Nobel laureate in Physics (co-recipient, 1977), dead at 96 according to several tweets.

Mentions that he was still going to work every day at 96, so must have gone quite suddenly.

Philip Anderson QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-8173677/Phillip-Anderson-Nobel-laureate-physics-dies-96.html

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20 minutes ago, chilean way said:

What is lailasnews?

That obituary looks less than serious.

 

Edit: Well, the media outfit is clickbait, but the tweets seem real.

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