Waiting for the Call … Damn, now the site says the award will be at 11:30 Swedish time .. I am goin to bed. You can watch here:
In 2011 when the Nobel committee announced that half the prize for medicine and physiology would go to Canadian-born biologist Ralph Steinman …. Steinman had died three days earlier. ” Santo Fortunato, a physicist at Finland’s Aalto University, wrote an article in Nature complaining about the long wait for The Prize. “Before 1940, Nobels were awarded more than 20 years after the original discovery for only about 11 percent of physics, 15 percent of chemistry and 24 percent of physiology or medicine prizes. Since 1985, however, such lengthy delays have featured in 60 percent, 52 percent and 45 percent of these awards, respectively.” Steinman was na exception, the Nobel Committee said it had voted while he was still alive. However, Fortunato argues that prizewinners’ predicted may today may be dead by the time they are in line for getting a Nobel prize.
