Nobel Prize In Death

[Ulitzer95 11,087]

Obit for Berg as confirmation.

[arghton 6,124]

Yang Chen-Ning rumored to be critically ill on Chinese news and social medias.

[Ulitzer95 11,087]

On 17/02/2023 at 23:49, Ulitzer95 said:

Obit for Berg as confirmation.

Paul Berg, who was NOT picked in the DDP in this year, would have been a hit as he got a Telegraph obit.

C'est la vie.

At least Yang Chen-Ning is a unique pick this year!

[msc 17,763]

The conversation about the lack of obits for Nobel Prize winners lately, and the lack of Berg on the DDP, are interlinked of course.

[drol 10,067]

9 hours ago, arghton said:

Yang Chen-Ning rumored to be critically ill on Chinese news and social medias.

I wouldn't read too much into it.

 

They just say he needs round the clock care which is not uncommon for a 100 year old. Don't think his demise is imminent.

[Evil Grimace 317]

11 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Paul Berg, who was NOT picked in the DDP in this year, would have been a hit as he got a Telegraph obit.

C'est la vie.

At least Yang Chen-Ning is a unique pick this year!

 

10 hours ago, msc said:

The conversation about the lack of obits for Nobel Prize winners lately, and the lack of Berg on the DDP, are interlinked of course.

 

I am shocked that there was a QO for Paul Berg (died 15th February).  I didn't see this one (thanks @Ulitzer95!) but he got many others:

New York Times 21st February - the standard for Nobel laureates, especially if American

LA Times 22nd February

Washington Post 18th February

and from various scientific associations:

Royal Society of Chemistry 22nd February

American Chemical Society 22nd February

 

Given his accomplishments, it is heartening to see this many recognizing his work.  What usually happens is that their former university acknowledges them (as Stanford did) and the Nobel Prize Foundation confirms.  

 

Having been to Asilomar Beach (the namesake of the conferences he founded) and been in the field of synthetic biology, it is without a doubt that his work does make him the godfather of genetic engineering.

[drol 10,067]

Kenzaburo Oe dead at 88.

[YoungWillz 19,104]

4 hours ago, drol said:

Kenzaburo Oe dead at 88.

Kenzaburo Oe gets his QO for the unique pick on the DDP: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11853183/Novelist-Nobel-laureate-Kenzaburo-Oe-dies-aged-88.html

 

Or the BBC even: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64938314

[drol 10,067]

On 02/03/2023 at 10:43, arghton said:

Yang Chen-Ning rumored to be critically ill on Chinese news and social medias.

Yang Zhenning makes public appearance on video, denies he is ill.

[YoungWillz 19,104]

Robert Lucas, 1995 Economics Prize winner, reportedly dead aged 85: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/robert-lucas-economist-who-won-1995-nobel-prize-dies-at-85

 

A new approach to macroeconomics apparently. 

[gcreptile 10,236]

Yes, he is responsible for "microfoundations", meaning according to him, every macroeconomic model needs to built in such a way that every variable is perfectly explained through basic microeconomic axioms. It's basically the origin of "the government should be run like a household". A terrible ideologist.

[YoungWillz 19,104]

Harald zur Hausen, German virologist and Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for research on papilloma cells in cervical cancer, reportedly dead aged 87: https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2023/dkfz-pm-23-31-Nobel-laureate-Harald-zur-Hausen-has-passed-away.php

[drol 10,067]

Decrepit winner for Economy Harry Markowitz dead at 95.

[Drewsky1211 4,081]

John B. Goodenough dead at 100.

[drol 10,067]

Yang Zhenning now the oldest and earliest laureate!

[Gisooo 2,548]

American physician and pharmacologist, and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Ferid Murad (Wiki) dead at 86

[InquilineKea 68]

Update on James Watson

Also on Rudolph Marcus (easily the *healthiest* Nobel laureate): https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-07-21/caltech-nobel-laureate-rudy-marcus-turns-100-and-gets-back-to-work

 

[CastAway 475]

Amartya Sen reportedly dead:
 

 

[Death Impends 7,373]

6 minutes ago, CastAway said:

Amartya Sen reportedly dead:
 

 

 

If he's dead, was last picked on the DDP in 2015.

[YoungWillz 19,104]

5 minutes ago, CastAway said:

Amartya Sen reportedly dead:
 

 

I saw this and decided a four post Twitter account set up in May was probably one of those hoax thingies.

 

I remain of that opinion until told otherwise.

[Lafaucheuse 3,659]

13 minutes ago, CastAway said:

Amartya Sen reportedly dead:
 

 

Would be a great loss if true. Was about to put him in my 2024 list 

[drol 10,067]

Deccan Herald running with it.

[YoungWillz 19,104]

[Lafaucheuse 3,659]

Some user states he talked with his daughter and that he is perfectly fine. Seems like a hoax to me, the only source is that tweet from a fake account of the new Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin.

 

edit : her 3rd tweet on the platform, no reason to believe her 

[drol 10,067]

Stupid hoax if I ever saw one.