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Originally Posted by HarryT
If he were dead he couldn't have won it. Nobel Prizes can't be awarded posthumously.
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Can't be nominated posthumously, but if they die after nomination they can still get the award if they are dead, happened a few times.
Technically Steinman was nominated posthumously and won the price for medicine in 2011 (Died 3 days before the nomination, although this wasn't known to the committee at the time).