Scientist dies three days before winning Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize Committee announced three winners of the coveted $1.5 million prize in medicine this morning. But one of them, unbeknownst to the committee, had died only three days earlier. The Nobel Committee decided that the deceased honoree, Ralph Steinman, will still receive the award, even though committee rules prohibit giving it out posthumously.

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Scientist dies three days before winning Nobel Prize

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